So my friend James jsut showed me this postcard. It said:

When will you ever have more time than you do right now? 

It hit me where I live. She does that. So, like I like to do, a list of ten things I love that I am doing. 

1. I’ve been dating. I’ve been loving. I’ve been flirting. I’ve been falling in love.   I’ve been free. In no particular order. In the realm of love and romance, I am the happiest I have been in a while. It’s a really nice time for me. The hardest thing about dating right now if having the time. Somehow, I make it work. 

2. I have not been working as much as I’d like to be. It’s been a really tight month, money wise. In fact, I am the most concerned about money that I have been since I first started gripping back in 2003.  I am open to new income streams and magic. I am tightening my spending, budgeting my gourmet coffee intake and, eating at home as often as possible. 

3. I am looking to find what the voice of my blog really is about. I want to direct it into a laser like focus.  I would love input and suggestions on this. The minis sagas have been a nice fiction aspect, but is that all I want it to be?  

4. I am sure you have noticed, if you read this blog that I have been doing these mini sagas. It has bee a great way for me to exercise some of my limitless creative energy. It is also a way for me to get away with not posting my more philosophical or well thought out blog posts.  There are really cool stories emerging there.  50 words a day, for 365 days. I’m on 39. 

5.  I got me a new camera. It’s not a really nice digital slr, but it has a solid lens and i like some of the functionality of it.  I also got me a flikr account. I’m gonna upgrade to pro in a minute, so I can post more. But I am looking for a voice in my photography as well.  I know enough really great event photographers. I know some really great headshot and portrait photographers. I want to do something different. I have been enjoying the panoramic feature of my camera, but that is even a little limiting. It’s a fun area to explore. Flikr username: Spaceman23

6. My writing partner Duke and I have been writing a spec episode for the Nickelodeon cartoon show, The Mighty B! It’s coming out great. We have a good writing relationship. I love what we come up with together. I’m funny. Who knew? 

7. Speaking of writing. I just got a new screenwriting program,  I went for Screenwriter as opposed to Final Draft. My last version on FD wasn’t the best. But, heres the thing: I need someone with a version of Final Draft on their mac to export some files for me into a format that Screenwriter can import. My old version of final draft crashes on my intel mac.  Any writers out there up for helping? I feel crippled on some of my old projects. 

8. It looks like I am working for a few days in Vegas at the end of the month (next week). Anybody have some fun ideas? 

9. My birthday is the week after that! And since it falls on a wednesday, I want to have a party at the Edison.  Right after that, we are going down to Mexico for Fuente. My dear friend Zak hooked me up with a ticket. I love my friends.  My birthday falls right around Natalie, Merlin, Roxy and Serha, Katie, Alan Finn and a few others. Fuente is gonna be a blast!

10.  I’ve just noticed this thing about myself that I do. When I don’t have something cool that I am doing with my life, I don’t want to share. But then, when I don’t share, nothing more shows up for me. I only want to talk about the good stuff.

Here’s the truth: The last few weeks have been challenging. I have put on a front of everything being really great, and in many ways, it has been. But the reality is that I have been struggling. Money has been really tight. I’ve been far too close to zero lately. I’ve been late on bills.  No work has been on the horizon. The town has been dead for the movie biz.  I’m scared about the economy and how it will directly affect me. I’m seeing that it has. I keep hoping I’m going to be saved from all of it, by obama, or by tapout finally paying me, or by some miracle. I’m hoping. 

And I’m also saying that all of that is turning around. Right now. New work is flowing toward me. New directions are opening up. It’s going to be a great year for my career!

Okay, that’s me being back. Glad to open up to you again, internets.

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