Well, Karen’s place is all packed up and we’re just waiting on the removalists to arrive. There were a few tears last night, leaving in any capacity brings its sorrows, but when it’s been your first home it’s always that bit harder. I’m sure I’ll be no different tonight as we pack up the last of the things at my place.
We’re both exhausted but really happy that the end is nigh, it’s been a very long month.
Catch you all on the other side đ
Namaste
Raven
A.L.A.S
 We’re taking a well deserved break this evening, thanks Dad for putting on a bbq for us. Both houses are ready for the removalists and mine just has a few cupboards to finish off later next week.
We still have quite a bit of shed stuff to move from my place but hopefully we will knock it over quickly.
Then the fun of cleaning my rental begins and getting Karen’s place ready for sale and unpacking all our stuff and dealing with the overgrown gardens and paddocks that have got away over Christmas and settling the animals into their new home and working out buses for Nick and finding work (for me) and returning to work for Kaz and shit, why did we do this?
Lol, oh well, as much as we are exhausted and there is so much more to do, I’m really glad we finally made the decision to move in together.
Can’t wait till Tuesday night, first one in our new home and as for the rest, I’m just taking it one day at a time and trying to enjoy the process.
Right now I’m doing just that. I’m sitting on the front steps, taking in the view of the Dial Range and enjoying the shade and the cool breeze.
Hope everyone is well wherever you are xx
Namaste,
Raven
A.L.A.S
Hi world,
I decided to participate in Blogging101 to kickstart my New Year and hopefully learn some useful tips to improve my blog. Day One has asked us to do an introduction for a new blog or expand a little on what we already have if we’ve been writing for a while.
I’ve been blogging off and on for a few years now, I think I’ve had about 5 different WordPress sites and a few other ones that I can’t remember now. Some of them have faded into the neverlands of “I can’t remember my password” and/or “my email address linked to that account”, others I just got bored with or didn’t like the way it was developing and being a rather anal/autistic/OCD type of person, it was easier to start a fresh blog than try to delete a year or two of posts that I don’t like or want to share anymore.
So why this blog?
In 2014 I challenged myself to do a Year of Gratitude on Facebook. I had a vague idea that I might one day turn the posts into a book but decided once it was over to upload them to my blog and share them with the Universe, just because I can.
I’m still in the process of editing the last few months and tidying up a few loose ends but the whole 12 months is up and available to read if you care to have a look.
As to where to next…..
Well, I’m not sure at this stage.
I signed up for Poetry101 a few weeks ago (loved it, give it a go!) and have signed up for Writing201Â in February. At the moment I think the main focus is just getting myself back into the habit of writing and that leads me to why I’m blogging rather than just writing in the closet.
One of the things I discovered about myself during my Year of Gratitude is that I have a really big problem motivating myself. Because I had committed publicly to posting every day for a year I found it a lot easier to push myself each day, out of my comfort zone, out of depression days, and up to the computer to write. When I finished the year I had no reason to write every day and very quickly I found that I wasn’t writing at all.
I love writing but some days I need a push and for me, the commitment of having an audience, (real or imagined) is enough to get me to the computer. Doing courses like this one helps as well and there are plenty of other sites that offer motivation to writers when they can’t find it themselves.
I’d like to develop this blog into a journal that reflects the lessons I learned from committing to a daily act of gratitude as well as anecdotes about life in general, my wife and kids, our farm, pets, autism, art, music, poetry, well just about anything really.
I’m hoping that by the end of this year, I will be fully committed to writing again and will have dragged out my old notebooks and started to seriously devote time to my novel writing.
In the meantime…..
We are about to move house onto ten and a half acres of pasture and bush, I’m exhausted from packing but there is still so much more to do so I better stop doing this and start doing that.
Chat to you all on the commons.
Namaste
Raven
A.L.A.S
“Sometimes, we get caught up in nostalgia, future fantasy, or both, and we donât embrace the ânow.â For this weekâs challenge, take a moment to notice your present, and share a photo of it”.
Written in response to The Daily Post – Photo Challenge –Â Now
Today started with more stress than I care to deal with so this challenge was timely and appreciated.
Combining Christmas and moving house is never an easy thing and although it has been going relatively smoothly, there have been moments when I’ve felt like pulling my hair out.
So…
I took a moment to stop.
To appreciate the now in my life.
To sit and watch the water as it sprayed amongst the ferns and watch the light dancing on the fronds.
I took a moment to recover, to appreciate, to enjoy and I am grateful for the reminder to live in the now.
Namaste
Raven
A.L.A.S
lifetimes of gratitude 