Silver Lining

It's time I took this blogging thing a bit more seriously.

And as luck would have it, I find myself right now with a great deal more time on my hands. I'm time-rich and cash-poor - the ideal place from which to start a long and rewarding relationship with blogging.

I was made redundant very abruptly three weeks ago - August 26 to be exact. Yes it was a huge shock. Didn't see it coming, no warning, no announcements, nothing. Just "thanks, but goodbye". All very weird and honestly, I guess I'm still working through it now. The therapeutic benefits of blogging are about to be tested.

I haven't felt like writing about it til now, and really, I've been too busy.

For about a week it looked like I was going to get another job virtually straight away - I would have started today. But I changed my mind and turned them down. A friend said I was just on the rebound - like a boyfriend! Good analogy.

Anyway plenty of time over the next days, weeks, months for my dissection of this "turning point". Stick with me, I fear it's going to be quite a long ride, maybe a little bumpy, but if nothing else it will make me sit down and write every day.

That's the goal, to write every day. Not much. Just enough to keep the brain lining up the words in my head and the fingers tapping them out. Long enough to make myself think about what it is I'm actually doing with all this time, and come away at the end of every 24-hour block knowing I've at least achieved one of the things I set out to do today.

I might not go to the gym. I might not email my mother or call my grandmother. I might not cook my husband a meal. But I will write something. Every day. Right here.

This is my silver lining.