Happy Friday!

Good morning all.

I'm sitting on my couch, wrapped up in a blanket, mac on my lap, watching the Today show, contemplating a cup of coffee. I love days off. I love having the time to contemplate my life or what I'm having for lunch. I love wearing my pajamas all day and snuggling with my cats. I love getting up early and being productive or sleeping late and accomplishing nothing.

I think I'm in the middle of consciousness shift. You know how you go through those times in your life when you can almost feel your brain realigning? When you discover that the things that were important yesterday are not what's important today? I think that's where I am. I feel like I'm seeng things differently now - the responsibilities that previously were a waste of my time are now a means to an end - something to be accepted and dealt with. That realization makes those things easier to do and makes me a happier person while I do them.

I believe I'm more focused now and I have a sense of purpose. The funny thing is - I'm still not sure exactly what that purpose is - but I'm sure now that I have one. And I'm determined to figure out what it is.

But first, I'll start with coffee.

Podcast Update

Okay - I'm a few days late on the podcast update. But I have made some progress. I got my intro music! I mixed together a little something on Garage Band. I'm pretty impressed with it. I do a little dance in my chair every time I hear it. I think I'm almost ready to go. I just need to come up with a name I like.

Coolest Street EVER!

I want to live here.

Can I have some cheese with my whine?

Here is it is. All my shinny new equipment just waiting for me to start recording.



I've got my copy of Podcasting for Dummies by Tee Morris and Evo Terra. I've got my glass of throat lubricating beverage. My levels are good (and how far have I come that I can say that and actually know what that means?!?!). But I can't seem to get started. I can't make myself record anything that will be released to the masses. I have stage fright!!!!

I'm such a weeny.

Okay. Tonight there will be podcast progress. And I will report back tomorrow on what I did.

And I will stop whining on my blog.

Well . . . that last one was probably a lie.

Man or Mouse?

I do not love podcasting today. Today I hate it. Today, podcasting can kiss my white beeeehind!

I'm frustrated and annoyed. I have two fairly good ideas that will not stand on their own but cannot fit together. I can't decide what to call it. I can't decide who to use for file hosting (Libsyn, MWS Media, or one of the many others). One of my ideas would be WAY better if I actually had interviews - but I can't figure out Skype (I feel sooooooo dumb) and interviews are scary! My new kitten is living in my recording space so I have no where to go. All of my equipment ranges from crappy to crappier. ARGH!

These are mostly excuses, I know. Today I am crippled by the fear that I have nothing interesting to say and no one will care. Who cares if no one reads a blog? But no one listening to podcast? That's just sad.

So, I guess the question is: Am I a (wo)man or a mouse? Am I going to suffocate under the pile of excuses I've created? Or am I going to actually find some guts and make a go of it?

I guess we'll just have to see.

I still love you.

Blog, I have not abandoned you.

Well . . . I have sort of. But that's only because I'm working on bigger and better things. I'm slowly but surely getting together an idea for a podcast and it's eating up every bit of my spare time. So, stay tuned and soon you'll be able to listen to me ramble on instead of reading it!

The Golden Compass