Katie Kay Holmes

I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving.

So much for the holiday – today turned out to be one of my busiest days ever. I’m finding lately that in being involved in so many projects in different spheres that I am spreading myself thin, or maybe it is just the surface that is becoming thin and the core itself is solid.

My daytime job as an advertising copywriter is busy enough to keep most people satisfied, and admittedly I could come home each night and kick back, watch tv and just blob out like so many other americans. That was my style for quite a while but nowadays it hardly ever happens – I just don’t find it refreshing or rewarding anymore.

Increasingly of late, I have been putting my hand up for new projects, both online and offline, with the ambition that someday I can leave my regular 9-to-5 and work solely from home. I certainly won’t miss the downtown L.A traffic, for one thing.

I read an enormous amount daily, with the vast majority of it being online. News feeds, ezines and of course my share of blogs and emails. Sometimes I get information overload but I have learnt to read and mentally sift: take everything in but let the irrelevant drop out, and just work with the juicy bits.

Sadly I no longer have time for novels anymore. However, I do find enough “fiction” in a lot of the stuff I read online that keeps me amused and entertained that novels hardly seem important at this stage. My old habit was to watch tv til 10pm then hit the sack with a good old tearjerker or romantic tome. These days I get just as much enjoyment from staying up a bit later and cruising the blogs; heck, I even get to post my own comments now   Grisham, King and Collins never took any notice of the things I said when reading their books.

Not being a “webmaster” as such, I find myself limited to commenting and posting on exisitng sites, which in itself is fine. Yes I managed to get this blog up and running, although wordpress makes it fairly easy to get going, and all the plugins let you personalize it just the way you like. Quite amazing how simply you can add a widget to display all your archived posts, for example.

Ok, bedtime. I have amazing things to write about tomorrow at work *cough* and am excited to get back on here. It’s quite addictive really – I wish I had discovered blogging earlier. Or maybe now is just the right time.

Goodnight.

Katie Kay.