On Creativity

Lately, I've been super busy at work.  It's the really, really dull form of busy though.  The kind that forces me to read a computer screen for 8 straight hours a day, editing and formatting tech materials on a constant basis.  It's super boring and I'm getting super tired of it.  However, after work, the creative juices have been flowing.  I've been writing and scrapping and working on projects like there's no tomorrow.

That's the funny thing I've learned about myself.  Apparently, the more bored I get with one aspect of my life, the more excited I get with something else.  And in this instance, it's the writing and the scrapping. I suppose because I don't get to flex those creative muscles as much as I'd like to at work.  And those muscles really need a work out after a full day of editing, so by scrapbooking and writing, I'm working the muscles and getting stuff done.  It's actually quite good for me.  I've never been more tired than I am this week but even with all of that, I've managed to stay up until about 11 every night just working on fun things.

But with the complete and utter boredom at work and the madness of creativity at home, something's had to give. And that something is reading.  For the last year, I've been reading and average of 5 books per month.  This month I read 1.  I'm 20 pages into the second (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) but haven't picked it up in a week.  I think it has something to do with reading ALL day long, that has me avoiding it at night.  But hopefully, this too will pass. I have way too many books (bought 3 more this weekend) to be slacking like this.

But I also have a lot of scrapbooking supplies that need to be used.  Let's just hope I find a way to mix the creativity and the reading together and subtract just a little of that awful work editing.  Life would be fabulous!