Updates, Welcomes and Trying Again

            Well hello, Blogosphere. It is nice to see you again. It has been some time. If my last post is any indication, I have been in a dark place. For most of last year, I was in that dark place on and off. I had some amazing times in 2017; for example, I traveled to Scandinavia for almost 2 weeks. But I also had some terrible times. I went through 3 different jobs and money got tight for a while. My credit card bills went up even though my income went down. Then I lost a job with no warning and things went spiraling. December was ok thanks to some freelancing work and my lack of job allowed me to spend the holidays with family. But January was blacker still than the previous year had been. There was a death in the family, and I was completely unemployed. Thankfully, things picked up in February. Now I have an uphill battle ahead of me but I am tackling it one day at a time. I have found employment, albeit part time. I am still bartending, but in a new realm for me. I am now working in a wine bar. I am learning about different wines which is always fun. The clientele is a step up from some of my previous jobs, and the atmosphere is great. While we are a wine bar, we aren’t snooty and the place has a laid back kind of vibe. It is the perfect place to relax and have a couple drinks. I am still looking for other bartending jobs as well as pursuing a potential career. I have decided to try and break in to the literary world. I think that I would make an excellent literary agent one day, and am starting at the bottom. My limited office skills have prevented me from being a candidate for an assistant position so now I am setting my sights on an internship. I have always been a quick learner, and I am quite intelligent. I know that if I can just get myself in the door, that things will happen for me. Don’t get me wrong, I am anticipating a great deal of hard work on the horizon, but I am my father’s daughter and hard work does not intimidate me. So with effort, perseverance, and a little help from the universe I am going to make it into this world. Part of being in the literary world, I believe, is to hone my writing skills. So I think this is the perfect opportunity to break out my old blog. I still won’t have a focus in my posts because I believe in sharing information from a plethora of areas. This post, for example, will be more like a journal entry or a letter to a friend. Yes, I like that. I am writing a letter to you: my readers. Perhaps my next posts will tell you about my travels. I have fallen in love with traveling and hope to someday be able to do more of it. Eric is pursuing his own lines within his career and whichever career sets off first is the one we will follow. If he gets a job in another country, then we will move. If I get a good job in another city, then we will go there. If we both find success in New York, then we will find a way to make it work and be happy. Soon I will write a post all about my love and hate of New York City because it is truly an amazing place. And yet I am not altogether happy here. Perhaps that is just something I need to work on though. I am putting in many efforts to turn my life around. As I said, I have an uphill battle ahead. Part of that is my career but part is also working on improving myself. Not that there is anything wrong with me. However, I am unhappy, and that is a personal issue. So I am working to make myself a better person in order to find happiness. I am going to try and do yoga, write more often, and eat better. I am the heaviest I have ever been and that needs to change. Not only because I am unhappy with my appearance but now that I am 30 I believe that I need to be healthier. I am not going on a diet, but I am making a life change. This is not the first time I have tried to do this. I have been trying different diet and exercise tricks for many years. This time, however, I am going to work hard to make it stick. I want to enrich my life physically, mentally, spiritually and more. Eric bought me a guitar for my birthday so I am going to learn to play. I am going to focus on my health and develop my spiritual issues as well. And I am going to try and get a better career. I know that I have taken on a lot at once. But I think that it is all for the best. So I say to you, my readers, once again come along with me on my life journey. I cannot make you any promises that I will stick with this blog or that I will succeed in anything. But I can promise to try, and I can promise that it will be interesting as long as it lasts.