Hmmmm…

So where do I start?  Last year our local Chapters store up and moved out of their beautiful stand-alone store into… wait for it… the MALL!

I don’t like the mall… no, I despise the mall!  The floor doesn’t agree with my back issues and the parking over there is awful (understatement) so I haven’t been to Chapters for close to a year and a half.  Last Friday afternoon I had to go to the mall because the ring I spoke about in an earlier post has lost a stone so I needed to venture to Charmed Aroma to try to find out what else I could do because they sent me a dainty ring in replacement of a classic ring… nothing remotely close.  I will digress at this point… I have loved Charmed Aroma and their candles are beautiful to burn BUT they don’t stand behind their products… so hint to everyone, do not use a Charmed Aroma ring to show commitment to anyone because they don’t care apparently!

Anyway, I figured since I was there I would check out the new store and see what was so great about the location by comparison to the previous… well, what I can say is whatever.  The old store was two levels, carpet and cherry wood and just a nice place to be.  The new store… it’s a store.  It’s all one level, hardwood floors, not a lot of wood.  Just a plain old store.  I went and picked up a copy of Writer’s Digest since I haven’t had one since the last time I would have got this summer at the trailer.  I was just sitting and flipping through it and I wondered why I picked it up!

It is talking about Openings, repeatedly, as well as picking up where you left off when you’ve had to set your work aside, the first 100 words and dealing with the blank page, among other things.  I realized that, for the most part, I am well past most of that.  It was the first time as a writer that I have had those thoughts.  I don’t know what that means because I will be the first person to say that we never stop learning.  Maybe it’s my mindset today!

I have to say that I am in love.  My entire life is changing every single day and I am learning new things about relationships.  At one time I thought I would make a great expert on relationships and love and here I am learning new things.  I am seeing the formation of my own love story!

As I type this, the cubic zirconias in the ring on my left hand catches and refracts the light and it looks like it could glow in the dark.

Today is a day that I am asking myself where life goes from here… I look deep into my faith and know that I have to continue having that faith and waiting patiently… patience is very difficult!

Though I don’t know where life is really going, I can have hope and I can be in love and I can bask in that.  I can try to continue to be patient and, with a little more hope, I can start writing something new!  I might just have to go open up my Prompts book and see what silly starter I can come up with!