Saturday, July 5, 2014

October 3rd, 2011

October 3rd, 2011
12:47pm

Hey Sweets!
Wow, I am definitely making a dent in this book.  I know you're not proud of your nb but I will read it and if I have a question about something (like if you never finished a story) I will ask you what you meant or whatever and you can tell me in the next one. I am actually excited for my next nb attempt, I want either a photojournal theme or newsletter.  I haven't decided yet.  I think I'm gonna go with newsletter or photojournal so maybe I will need a sketchbook so my art won't bleed through as easily.  If I get a big one I can put lots of things on one page so I can put an entire entry on one page, oooh I like that idea!  But I want to go through all our old entries and poems and see if there is anything worth using first.  I am hoping this will keep me busy enough during the winter months so I don't have to shoot anyone from having to stay inside and be subjected to gross disgusting weather lol.

So, let's see here.  I left off on Tuesday so, Wednesday.  Ugh.  I had sort of a breakdown.  I tried keeping myself busy but ultimately I ended up driving myself crazy.  I had convinced myself that Barry was okay with not seeing me and that somehow meant that we were slipping away from each other.  I think because that's what started happening with Ryan, just heard from each other less and less.  But, I knew it was a crazy thought.  He had a lot of things going on -- like having to rest because of his health issues + being stressed about his dad having to go back to the hospital + work + just a lot of shit.  I thought that if I was okay with not hearing from him as much it meant that I was letting him go.  So I freaked out and just starting crying and then I realized it's just because I miss him so much. So I gave myself permission to turn my phone off and not worry about the situation for a night.  I had dinner with my parents and then went for a drive and listened to Twilight (book on cd).  And I was proud of myself.  I managed to talk myself down from a freak out, clear my head, and leave my phone turned off for the entire evening.  And the next day I told Barry about what happened.  I told him that I didn't want him to feel bad or guilty and there's nothing he can do about the situation, it just is what it is.  I think he was just stunned that I figured out how to calm myself down.  He said he was okay with things he can't change because he has to be, doesn't mean he's happy about it.  I said I know, there is a difference between being okay with something because you have to be and because you want to be.  I managed to calm myself down because I knew it was the first one.
Man, I feel like I want to get started on my next nb right now instead of wait until I'm done with this.  I think I know what I'm gonna do.  I am going to start to start going through all my poetry books and see what I can photocopy. Maybe not photocopy but just use, I dunno.  I think I have some stuff to figure out and things to practice before I do anything though.

Love,
Me

1:44pm

*left off on Thursday -- Sunday*

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