Of Spooky Serendipity January 2, 2008
Posted by Jen in : Journal, Novel , trackbackYou may find this hard to believe, but I’ve actually written some words in between the bursts of festive jollification. I’ve writted and writted and writted.
I’ve also done some stamping about and moaning.
‘What’s the point of writing anyway? Come 3rd January I’ll be boring myself to death, working in a crappy building society. It’s going to be rubbish, especially when I tell customers they can only give me money in multiples of ten cos I can’t count properly except on my fingers. I don’t want to go to horrid work. I don’t I don’t I don’t! I’m nearly at 80% - just another couple of weeks and I’d be finished. Waaaaaaaaaaaah.’
Lovely bf was, as always, most helpful in his wise words.
‘You’d better get on with it then, hadn’t you? You have to go to work or we will be poor and be forced to eat Safeway Saver food which is not right for the Posh Island Princess.’
New Year Resolution number 1: Scowl grumpily and think more mean thoughts about lovely bf.
On New Year’s Eve, just half an hour after my tearful tirade, the temp agency called. My three-month building society sentence had been cancelled - they’d just forgotten to mention it.
I am poor. I have no money and no work in the pipeline. But. I’ve been given the chance to get this thing finished and you know what? I’m bloody well going to do it. And you know what else? It’s going to snow tomorrow.
2008 appears to be rather spiffy and whizzy. Thank goodness for that eh?
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Happy New Year, Jen. Sounds as though your year will be off to a great start - well, in writing terms (shame about all that cheapo food you will be forced to down though…were you thinking of dieting in January?!). Hope you are able to crack on and finish the ‘Novel with no name’…and give it a title!
Happy New Year honey!
I am adoping the ‘everything happens for a reason’ stand for everything that happens this year. Everything!
You may have no money, you may be starving, dressed in rags and working by candlelight, wearing fingerless gloves, but you have time to write … I think I’m with lovely bf on this one. Grab it by the horns (the writing and not lovely bf) and write write write.
I am so excited for you! I’m not sure why, but I really am.
Go you.
x
Yippee!!! I’d rather be poor than working any day. Nothing like finding out that your xmas holidays have been extended…and so impressed that you’ve been writing over the break and have nearly finished! And enjoy the snow.
Yay for the cosmo hearing what you needed and giving it to you.
Have fun finishing your novel!
If this isn’t a message from the universe, I don’t know what is. Stick at it - you’re so nearly there!
Every cloud has a silver lining and all that so get stuck in while those creative juices are flowing and you’re on a roll. Good luck!
Yay, that’s definitely a nudge from the cosmos. Go for it, Jen, and get that novel finished and sent out. Good luck!
Hannah - you’re quite right, cheapy food = nice quick diet. Bleurgh.
Caroline - I’m quite excited too, in a manic sort of way. I’m a little concerned that I should be more worried about the poverty situation but I’m just thrilled to have these extra few weeks.
Yvonne - ooh, it’s weird you being ‘you’. Crumbs, I do hope the snow comes. I am quite pathetic but it really would make the extra bit of Christmas real, wouldn’t it?
K Imaginelli - I hope the cosmos wasn’t listening when I was saying all the rude stuff!
KW - hello my bumpified lovely! Happy New Year! You know, it really like feel like divine intervention. Marvellous, really.
CC - I’m ignoring the potential ‘every silver lining has a cloud’ aspect that I may adopt once I’m eating fluff and Marmite. But hey ho. And thanks for the luck
Maddie - Ta! I like the cosmos when it’s working properly, don’t you? I feel really enthused for all of us actually. Hurrah!
It’s fate then. You’d better get on with it. Who knows you might also be fated to receive food parcels and cheques from mysterious benefactors too. That’s what I’m hoping for for myself at any rate
Definitely meant to be. I hope you are good at cooking jacket potatoes…
Breezy - cheques from mysterious benefactors would be tooo fabulous. If I find any, I’ll send them your way so you don’t have to come back to work in Blighty.
Cathy - believe it or not, that’s exactly what I’m cooking right now!
In The Great Big Scheme of Things, someone is trying to tell you something. You’re almost there. Write like the wind oh Jen one. You’re almost there. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, you’re a writer waiting to happen!
And own brand food is so much healthier doncha know:-)
xx
Go Jen! 2008 is going to be your year - I can feel it in my water!
Mya x
80%? ‘Tis but a trifle. Go. GO! NOW! Then hie you to the Writers Handbook to begin the shuffle round the agents! Oh yeah, and happy New Year…
Happy New Year honey!! I don’t know why but I have a funny feeling that this is going to be your year and that your going to shine!!
Get writing!!
C x
Lane - I really feel as if I am almost there - it’s quite a peculiar feeling! God, I hate to admit it but I did hear a report a few months ago about Own Brand being healthier. Eek. It was on Radio 4 too so it must be true.
Hedgewizard - Mmmmm, trifle. The thought of the agent hokey cokey is rather disconbobulating, to say the least. And yes, Happy New Year!
Carol - I’m writing, I’m writing! Keep your funny feelings crossed for me
Yay Jen, that’s definitely a silver lining! You’ll be romping to the finish line in no time!
Hope it’s a fab 2008!
Happy New Year to you, your lovely bf and your family, Jen. Thinking of you today, back at work. Hope you’ve got an exciting scooby snack for breatk time. I would highly recommend hula hoops and curly wurlies.
H
xx
Hurrah, a reprieve! Now stop reading this immediately and go write more words
Romping, you say, Ms Diamond? Honestly, what sort of girl do you take me for?!
Hullaballoo - Happy New to you, your babies and that Mr Bobo! No work, no Scooby snacks. Hula Hoops sound good though. With a glass of wine. I knew there was a reason I preferred working at home…
Zinnia - I’m not even reading my blog comme - ah. Rumbled. D’oh.
Make the most of not working (I wish I wasn’t) and enjoy your writing. Sounds like it’s going well. So lovely to find another Jersey girl out there (dare I call myself ‘girl’ - of course I do). There seem to be so few of us around. Or is that just me being my usual oblivious self again?
Ooh, Debs, us Jersey girls have got to stick together! There really are only a few of us. I really am a proper one too - originally a Grihault (eek!). The only other bean I’ve met in Blogland is Cathy who escaped and is now in the process of returning to the rock. And yes, let’s be ‘girls’. Wimmin is way too grown up!
It’s a new year….it’s a sign….
Go with the flow, Jen!
Yes Sir, Mr Bedshaped Sir. Actually, going with the flow is harder than it sounds, isn’t it? But yes, I truly feel that’s it’s a sign and intend to make the most of it.
Argh… the best decisions are the ones made for you.
The hidden hand of Force Majeure is not to be denied.
My suggestions are:
1. Pamper first, write second - just because you’ve got the time doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll have the inclination unless you look after the inner Jen.
2. Tag Hullaballoo to provide a list of her top Charity shopping tips (she is a diva of thrift)
3. Do not tell yourself that you are “unemployed” … you are a full time writer.
4. Use your Posh Island Princess fairy story - you are now clearly on a quest to slay the book dragon
5. And finally … allow yourself to get in touch with the tingly excitement - you’ve nearly finished spinning your yarn, your wee bookish baby. Writing pregnancy is about to end and these are just the final labour pains.
Happy New Year
Bobo x♥x
Hurrah ~ tins of value beans aside, what a great start to the New Year ~ now if only I could persuade the universe to nix my job for me!
I happen to like value beans so does that make me a writer too!!!
Fate has smiled on you so grab her with both hands and don’t let go till you have finished your novel.
A very Happy New Year guarateed.
Oooh, which crappy bs were you working for then? I used to work for one of those; but I decided that £328 a month (yes, a month), wasn’t worth the abuse. Writing is definitely a much more productive way to spend your time; I know not many writers make it big, but you name me one famous/wealthy building society clerk…
Crumbs Monsieur Bobo, you do talk an awful lot of sense. And Ms Hullaballoo a diva of thrift? Now that has made me almost have an idea…
Kate - I’m not entirely convinced that being sacked before I began is positive but hey ho.
Sheepish - you are a writer, with or without your beans. You have sheep too, which makes you almost famous.
Leigh - I didn’t even get to start so I won’t tell you that it was Bradford & Bingley
Gawd, did you really get abuse? Sounds as if I had a lucky escape as my chief job was going to be soothing grumpified customers. We’d never be notorious for our clerkiness, you’re absolutely right. Phew.
Oooh - totally sounds like fate to me! Good luck! Keep going!
Nez
Thrift diva extraordinaire at your service, my dear. I dress mostly from charity shops.
I was just thinking about you when I dug out a few of my old sets of tarot cards to see if any of them spoke to me.
I have a really colourful set of Inner Child cards, full of fairy tales and folk tales, which the boys love.
What does the inner, special, creative, spontaneous Jen need right now? Sounds like there may be some magic around somewhere, if you look carefully.
Today my mum taught me how to light a fire, so bring light into the murky, mizzy, dark, coldness of this time of year. I wish you the same light of inspiration.
Nez - I’m going, I’m going!
Hullaballoo - ooh, tarot? I’ve got some cards somewhere but never quite managed to get into it. I have some Psycards that are rather marvellous. I tend to keep my mad hippy tendencies to myself. Shhh. Our little secret, yes? But if you fancy doing a reading at any time…
I’ll be keeping an eye out for that magic… we all have some lurking…