Things weighing my mind....

Here are just a few things that are weighing on my mind....

• the staff cuts that our school board has decided on again...the loss of our middle school counselor...
• the possibility that she will be able to "bump" me and I'll lose my job...
• the 5K on the 9th that I'm not ready for yet...
• the 180 mile bike trek that I'll be doing in June that I'm hoping that I'll be ready for...
• the quarter coming to an end and my class finalizing things at the last minute...
• the cost of heating....$$$
• the master's program that I've been working toward...

Sometimes I just need to vent.  I know that my issues are so small compared to what others have to deal with, but these are my stressors.

Writing is hard!

Writing is hard. I spend the day, periodically of course, thinking about what I could write about, I then sit with my laptop open before me pondering what I could write about again, yet I can’t seem to come up with anything that excites me. When I do get ideas, I’m usually in a situation that I can’t jot it down or begin writing, then when the moment arrives that I can write down a few lines to remind me for later, or when I sit before my laptop to write, my mind goes blank. Is it because my goal is larger than I’m ready for? Are my expectations too high? I can’t seem to figure out what it is that’s holding me back, but still I’m sitting here in the wee hours of the morning venting about it.