Strangely enough, I seem to be in a similar position as I was a little over a year ago: eager to quit my “day job” so that I can freelance full time. Only this time, the job in question is a part-time position that was never intended to be long term. And when I left my job in marketing a year ago, I never would have dreamed that I would be where I am today in my writing career.
Not surprisingly, life hasn’t really slowed down very much so far this year. Though our home improvement efforts have been relegated to an occasional weekend project, I am busy as ever with new creative endeavors. A few weeks ago, I decided it was time to give kareneisenbraun.com an overhaul. I’m tired of the design and wanted something with more conventional navigation. I also wanted to shift the focus of the site more towards health and wellness, since that is currently the focus of my writing.
Though I didn’t make any official New Year’s Resolutions, I have been looking forward to the new year so that I can get into an actual work routine now that the wedding, home buying, major home renovations, and holidays are behind us. The last half of 2009 was crazy busy for us, and my work days have been pretty unstructured and abnormal for a while.
Aside from carpet in every room (yes, every room — kitchen and bathroom included) and hundreds of nails in every surface (even window frames and door jambs), our new home is filled with the results of some strange decisions. (When my father-in-law first toured it, he said, “You can just tell some old fart lived here and did all this work himself even though he didn’t really know what he was doing.”) Of course we were already aware of many of the home’s oddities when we bought it, but others are revealing themselves to us as we renovate. By now, we have quit asking “why” the former owners did what they did and have learned to just take it all in stride.
I have a confession to make: a teeny part of me is glad that Ryan is out of town this week. Yes, it sucks that we just got married and he is off inspecting levees in western Kansas and I am at home with just the cat for company, but I get to work/write/blog as much as I want without feeling guilty for neglecting my spouse.
An offbeat wedding wouldn’t be complete without an atypical honeymoon, which is exactly what Ryan and I experienced earlier this week. Due to several factors (we paid for most of the wedding ourselves, we just took a week-long rock-climbing trip to Colorado in August, and Ryan has an upcoming business trip for which he needed to prepare), we decided to keep our trip low-key and took a three-day excursion to Horseshoe Canyon Ranch, our favorite rock-climbing destination in Arkansas.
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