Happy Birthday to Me?

Today is my birthday, I’m 29 again.  My lovely daughter made me a cake, and it had two candles on it.  They said “29”.  How did I get so lucky to have such a wonderful daughter?

          The day had a rocky start, but all in all was good.  I did find out today that I will be losing 3/4 of my VA benefits for school in the spring.  I am so grateful that I was given a heads up so that I can start addressing the problem now.  It is a frustrating situation; money will be tighter than ever, unless I do something drastic.  OK, you got me; I’ve got a drastic plan.

          I’m a writer.  I should be writing.  I have more ideas bouncing around in my head than I know what to do with.  A couple of them are so simple; I need to do them before someone else comes up with the idea.  Maybe I will get published.  I will never know if I don’t try. 

          I had a horrible writer’s block on a paper.  Actually, it wasn’t so much a writer’s block as a motivation and time block.  I finally broke the barrier, and finished it.  After class today, I have a few revisions to make, but all in all, it is a decent paper.

          I’m researching a big one right now, one that may get me a trip to Rome.  I have my work cut out for me.  I have a proposal to get done by next Friday, a research project to get started on, and another one to finish.  I have so much writing to do; I just hope I can get it all done.  Oh and there’s the paper due next Thursday, and the presentation next month, and the other term paper I haven’t even started to research yet.  Oh yeah, and a mid-term next week as well.  You know what though, that overwhelmed out of my mind feeling is gone.  I made it over the Chaucer paper hurtle.  I’m on a roll now. I can’t think of a better birthday present for myself than that.