The harrowing stretch of having an impossible workload over the last couple of months seems to be winding down and tomorrow, the wife and I are flying off to Alaska to visit with family and celebrate our 1st anniversary. The plan is to get away from the hectic life, go hiking, check out the wildlife and enjoy the Alaskan summer lifestyle for a week.
My plan? My plan is to sneak in as much writing and design work for my own site that I can without getting thrown into glacier-bordered waters. I know I should probably leave the laptop behind and embrace this time off, but I can’t. While I have neglected my friends, family and even personal health recently… I’ve neglected my creative impulses even longer. It always starts to haunt me when I stop working.
The first couple of days are fine. There’s the travel time and the initial period where I catch up on sleep and hang out with family or friends catching up on everything. By day 2 or 3 though, I start to develop a little itch. The beautiful scenery begins putting story ideas in my head. When there’s down-time, my eyes start to wander over to the nearest computer and my fingers start auto-writing with an invisible pencil.
In order to keep from getting neurotic and cranky, I’ll have to find time to take a little time off from my time off to do some writing and design. As bad as it may sound, it’s what I love to do. So I’ll have to rely on Monica’s patience and some early mornings, but over the next week or two there should be some changes for the couple of folks who follow this blog.