Wednesday 31 October 2012

Plenty of Loot

Not a bad night for Trick or Treating. The weather held up for just about the whole time out there, with the rain only starting to spit as we loaded up to go home.

Halloween is slowly making its way into the UK culture, albeit with some serious protests from various people in our neighbourhood. As dedicated Halloween aficionados, we don't pull any punches in this house. It's important to let people know if you're open for the business of Trick or Treat. A few hot tips for those not on the inside:

1. If you want people to come to your door, put on your porch light.
2. If you want to be popular around town, make at least a small effort with the decorations.
3. If you’ve got a jack-o-lantern on display, expect the doorbell to ring.
4. Don’t give out shit candy. Get the good stuff.

That's about all it really takes.

Although a Creepy Sounds of the Haunted House CD never hurts.

Tuesday 30 October 2012

Serious Spilkas

First blog of ever. Perched on the sofa with a cup of decaf just made. Now we shall see how to make things pretty and interesting.

I've been spending most of today with serious spilkas. While I'm happy to admit that it's all my own fault, I do wonder what life would be like without feeling constantly worked up or worried about something. I'm seriously desperate for the job thing to happen, and I can't remember being this excited about what I don't know in a very long time. I suspect that's part of the spilkas.

Ideally, this job thing will happen, and I can knock the last six+ years on the head and move forward into doing something that may just be a better fit, period. It's a weird feeling, because it's not like I don't LIKE doing what I'm doing; I do. But regardless of what goes on, or what doesn't, or things I do correctly, or things I don't, I don't honestly feel like I've actually learned anything new in years.

I read a great quote the other day, although no one seems to know who actually said it - 'Doing the same thing again and again while expecting different results -- THAT'S insanity.' That somehow feels like my life in a nutshell. While I continue to try to make what I do fun and interesting, I simply can't get my head around the fact that they aren't interested. AT ALL. And that's fine. Logically, I understand. But emotionally, I don't. I like to see how things start out, and how the process changes the raw materials, which then become the result of the initial idea, and hopefully the result is what was foreseen, or hoped for, or even better than what was hoped for. But instead, it feels like a terrible uphill struggle. And the uphill struggle is something I've done to myself.

I think that I finally understand that in order to be successful where I am, I'll have to actually change who I am. But in reality, it seems so much simpler to change what I do every day.

With this in mind, I'm now off to do a bunch of yoga pranayamas (kapalabhati, anyone?) and positive visualizations. It can't hurt, but it can help eliminate the spilkas. That will be a good starting point.