Birthdays, A to Z Challenge and Other Things

Here we are at the end of March and I am not sure how we got here so fast.  It feels like this year so far has flown by and I don't know what I have done with my time at all in the last three months. Scary, scary.

Tomorrow is a very important day, it is both the start of the A to Z Challenge and my 35th birthday.  I am probably more excited about the challenge this year than my birthday as I decided to read a book and review it for ever letter of the alphabet.  I am not quite done yet but well over half my posts are finished and scheduled which is the best position I have ever been in at this point in the challenge so I look forward to getting to relax and read lots of other blogs this year.

My birthday I have mixed emotions about, I am not ready to turn 35, there are things I wanted to have done by now that I have not and I am really not okay with that.  There's been a whole lot of what am I doing with my life going on in the last few days.  The last year has been a rough one and very little work has been done on me as so much time and energy has been spent on others.

So I want to spend the journey to becoming 36 getting back to focusing on my goals and getting to where I want to be in life.  I am going to compile a list of goals that I want to have achieved by my next birthday and I will hit you all with it on one of those random Sundays in April when there are no A to Z posts.

In the mean time here is a picture from ComiCon to brighten your day:

Comments

  1. Barbara In CaneyheadMarch 31, 2016 at 4:34 PM

    What a cute photo! I suppose I haven't really thought about goals for myself in years and years. Maybe I'm just not a deep person. Maybe I just take life as it comes? Maybe I've built my life around others?
    Revisit the Tender Years with me during the #AtoZChallenge at Life & Faith in Caneyhead!

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  2. LA NickersApril 1, 2016 at 10:30 AM

    Happy birthday! Happy A-Z too!
    I've been 39 MANY times. It's not so bad, once you get a little practice at it. ;-)

    Thanks for visiting Working in Words.

    http://heartofareadywriter.blogspot.com/2016/04/artistic-gods-character-from-to-z.html

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  3. CatApril 2, 2016 at 8:17 PM

    Happy belated birthday! I just turned 33 the 23rd of February and definitely wasn't ready!

    http://www.alittleevil.net

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