Need a Mental Shakeup?

One of the books I've been reading for work recently is CTRL-Shift, a collection of improv games for working life. I've had it for a while and flipped through it often, but there hasn't seemed like a good time to try any of the suggestions in it -- not enough time or other resources, usually.

Today, though, felt like a "stuck" day, and I was in a terrible mood, so I tried the acronym game. This involves nothing more elaborate than writing down acronyms that one encounters in daily life and thinking up new meanings for them.

I don't know how "useful" it was, but the exercise in silliness broke up some of the clouds on my mood.

Pointless Musing

It has now been two years since I posted that it had been a year since I posted anything, so I guess they do just leave these blogs hanging out there in the void for what might as well be forever.

Which is not to say that I don't think about coming back to blogging once a week or so, it's just that I can't find any sort of focus. There's a million things I could talk about, but none of them are much that I think other people would be interested in reading.

What's going on right now? So glad you asked.

• Oldest child will be a teenager in just a few more days. I am coping. 
• I feel trapped in my job, and I can't figure out how to get out of it. 
• I am working on the fairy novel again, some more, and determined to finish it this summer. 
• I started a bullet journal, like everybody else in the country. I now have even more pens than ever before.
• I started meditating. 
• I haven't had any significant time to just be in my home in weeks, and I think it's taking a toll on my emotional state. 

Judging from my Pinterest boards, what I most want at this point in my life is a clean house, time to write in my journal, and a horse.