Someone once said, “A writer’s finished product always resembles her own life more closely than those of anyone else’s; we leave our fingerprints on every page and move on to the next with nothing more than a memory of our past…”
Well my fingerprints are left on my laptop and my uncompleted product(s) have been erased from my hard drive. Basically, I lost everything…my stories, my music, my photos and it seems my life. I try to look on the bright side (as I always do) and that side is at least I have my memories or what is left of them.
Every time I leave my home, I pack my whole life in a suitcase mostly because I never know what to expect. Sometimes I think that I just might not come home. Other times, I just want to be prepared. Over the past 3 weeks, I have been to 3 different continents and spent over 45 hours flying. Boy, my arms are tired…My travels have allowed me to meet some really AMAZING people and visit the most AMAZING countries. I would show you photos of my trips, but I have lost most of them to the cyber gods.
Even though I love to travel, I have decided to spend Christmas and New Years home alone. Reason being, I think everyone should spend a holiday alone at least once in their lifetime. I am mostly doing it because I am broke as a joke. My family wants me to go to Atlanta, GA to visit my oldest brother and oldest sister’s family, but I just got back from the Griswold Family Vacation in London, England and I am not up for another, unless we are going to Walley World!!!
Granted it was an AWESOME vacation: I became a Godmother to both of my nieces, I got to spend Thanksgiving with my family and we have not done that in over 3 years, I saw Journey to the West in London with my sister and brother, visited the Tate Museum and other historical landmarks, I became a vegetarian, I spent all of my “emergency cash” savings, got dissed by someone who I thought loved me, bought new boots to mend my broken heart (your loss JD) spent endless hours having intellectual conversations with the people who I love the most, I cried a lot, drank a lot, walked a lot, played a lot, danced a lot, laughed a lot and did not sleep at all. In addition, I have made new memories that photos will never be able to capture and words will never be able to describe!!!
This Christmas, I know I will miss my family dearly and I will probably sit in my pink princess palace, playing Atari awaiting Santa’s arrival. (Yes, I still have my Atari.) And on New Years Eve, which is the most played out holiday ever, (I always spend a fortune to dress up and look pretty just for a kiss at midnight and guess what; I am probably the only 32 year old that has never been kissed on NYE!!!) I will play dress up, sip mass amounts of champagne, watch the ball drop and then make out with the porcelain loo. I will ring in the New Year starting fresh by making and sticking to my resolution(s) and begin packing up my life once again for my endless weekend journeys until summer begins. The count down is on. It is approximately 120 days until I can unpack my life…
