Thought I'd give you all a break from my life's tragedy! The first of the first happened this morning, my cell phone was shut off. I'm expecting the water to be shut off tomorrow. I did get a few orders on etsy after paying over 400.00 to get it back on, but only around 200.00 or so so far. I offered a 20% discount over the weekend. I'm still hoping for Valentines orders to come rolling in, but at this point, I'm so far in a hole, it would take a miracle to climb out of it. I'm also expecting a visit from my landlord. Bring on the tears and begging and promising! So, that is why I haven't updated the blog. Nothing too incredibly positive to talk about as of late.
I did get a hairbrain idea though. I've decided to write a novel. Doesn't that just sound so cliche'? I do, however, have an amazing story though. Not mine, really, even though people have told me I should write a book, but the parts that would make it most interesting I don't want anyone to know about! I thought I would start it with me, just as a current reference point though. The story would really be about the early beginnings of my family here in California and quite like the Kennedy's we seem to have had our share of tragedy in our generations. The idea came because my father had given me his grandmothers ring a number of years ago while I was living in New York and I put it on recently. I'm not sure why, maybe to get strength from it somehow, to feel like she was with me, fighting. I never met her, my greatgrandmother. She died giving birth to my grandfather at the age of 36. Sad story, really. I have known about it since I was a child, but as I passed that age, I thought about it more and more. I'm named after her and so is my daughter. Her name was Nano Hurley. Nano Hurley Martin I should say and mine and Briannes middles names are Nano. It's not just her ring I have, since I was a child I've owned the braid that was cut off of her on her death bed. Seemed morbid to me then and probably does to you now, but I'm so honored to have it now. She was a beautiful woman that was living in San Francisco as a single woman until she had to return to Central California to raise her younger siblings (all eight of them!)
So the story will go on after hers and on to her sons and his death (car accident in Tracy, California at the age of 24). I think everyone has stories to tell, I just have the frame of mind to start writing it all down. I'll keep you posted. Even if nothing ever happens with it, it will be a nice thing for Brianne to have to hand down to her children. Usually the fathers stories are told, rarely the mothers. There is a book to be written about Briannes father too, maybe that will be my next great novel!
Listen, we have to find inspiration anywhere we can, if you don't do something, then you're doing nothing! So do something.
I found a friend in writing and hope there too!
xoxo C
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