I want to be the girl who knows who published with who and who is repped by who and what are they working on now even though no one else knows...
I want to visit everyone's blogs!
I want to chat with all of you like we're old friends so I can actually get to know you.
I want to be the mom who has snacks for my kids waiting when they get home from school and cooks delicious meals every night and eats healthy (not just MOST of the time) and works out every day and irons her husband's shirts once in a while instead of just tossing them in the dryer for 5 minutes, or telling him he knows how to freaking iron a shirt... ;-O
I want to be the writer who takes her time with every project to make it something special.
I want to be the one who comes up with the idea that makes everyone slap their heads and think - why didn't I think of that??
(It's a selfish one, I know, but don't even tell me you've never finished a book someone else wrote and had this thought)
I want to be known for being nice.
I want to wear my converse all year long without my feet freezing.
I want to never say no when someone asks me to read their book. And I wish that I could turn all crits around in three days or less. I wish I owned a hard copy of all of my friends' books (but they're REALLY freaking prolific)
I want to spend hours a day writing and hours a day on twitter and facebook keeping up with my peoples and keep my house perfect and sew all the beautiful things I see in my head, and it's just never going to happen.
And I'm WAY too hard on myself - just like most of us tend to be at times.
Now that my kids are in school, I'm finding a better balance, but I will never be able to do all the things I wish that I could do, and I'm finally starting to be okay with that.
A little.
~ Jolene
I'M GIVING AWAY BOOKS HERE
AND HERE!!
AND - I wrote a short story w/ one of my fav boys EVER - messy, awkward-adorable-professor type ;-) JUST came out :-D ALL I WANT, which you can see HERE.
12 comments:
Don't we all! I've come to realize it's simply not possible to be perfect...really good, or hell, even great. So I'll settle for me and hope everyone's okay with that. LOL
You sound just like me! I think we need clones....
I totally feel your pain. We all want to be many things.
I personally think it's awesome to want all that stuff. It shows you're a motivated person and a person who values energy and all that. But yeah, we all have to be okay with not being able to do EVERYthing we want, at least not all at the same time. ;)
I want but am content :) haha first line made me laugh, all my friends turn to me when an unknown song comes on or what band is touring :)
This sounds like me! I want so much too, but I think trying my best and taking things one day at a time is about all I can do, lol!
Great post. I love it.
And turn around crits in 3 days? I think shooting for a week would be a great time. Three weeks more like average.
I think this list can apply to us all in one form or another during certain (or maybe all) times in our lives.
For what it is worth, I think you are doing fabulous...well on at least the writing end that I can see. And hey, you family looks pretty darn cute and happy in that picture so I would say you are doing well with them too. ;)
Of course there are things in life that I want. I'm still at that age where I think *Oh I'm young I'm soooo going to conquer the world and blah blah blah*
There's something kind of magical about the naivety that comes with being my aga :P
I so wish I could do it all. And I am not okay with not doing it all right now. But I'm trying. ;)
We all tend to want so much more of ourselves than we can possibly give, huh?
You ARE known for being nice! Sooooooo nice. And from my perspective, you've got an amazing balance... I don't know how you do it all... Maybe I need to follow you around for a day and take notes so I can apply to my life... ;)
And LOVE the picture... Cute hubby and kids and you're SO gorgeous... <3
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