Cheat Day

I cheated myself
Like I knew I would
I told you I was trouble
You know that I'm no good -Amy Winehouse

I recently quit my full-time job and my part-time job is finished until the fall. I'm also out of school until the end of August. I've decided to take this time off to recommit to writing and my business. I challenged myself to publish a blog post daily in July. Before writing this, I had only told a few people of my intentions because, you know, accountability. I don't always want it.

I tried working on a couple of pieces today. And, honestly, I got nothing. Well, almost nothing. And now it's 1:30 a.m. There's an owl yelling outside trying to outtalk the crickets. And there are some unidentifiable creatures--maybe waterfowl, maybe alien invaders giving their two cents. The animal kingdom has more to say than I do right now.

Tonight my love and I did an activity in which we identified our top values. I'll write about it at some point but I'm making today (or tonight) a cheat day. I will post because a challenge is a challenge and I do so love a good challenge but it ain't gonna be good.

After the values activity, Honey challenged me to write an 11-word poem about values. Here goes:

My value
Is that I value
The value
Of my values

I hope he didn't mean 11 distinct words. Have you ever written a word so much that it doesn't look right? I've got to get to bed. I'll do better tomorrow.

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