Like An F-16 Out Of Galena...

I find myself spending more time on things that distract me from what I'd rather be doing. This is perhaps the most generic and overly commonplace way that I've ever started a Blog entry with, but then again I can't start every one off with a literary Big Bang such as overtly plagerizing the Declaration of Independence in an attempt to aid a friend in achieving a sense of renewal. I also find myself desiring to construct sentences that don't resemble paragraphs.

So, here we are.

It used to be easy for me to sneak a few extra bits of creativity out in any given day, whether these bits resulted in a new comic (and yes, I am aware I'm 4 days behind on that), a short story, a Photoshop worthy of the name or even a witty and informative Blog entry. It also used to be easy for me to construct sentences that didn't require the use of four or more commas.

But, I digress.

As time has been slipping through my fingers lately, I find myself filled with a strong desire to reclaim this lost time. I feel like I am nothing without my creative side and I'll be damned if I'm going to let it languish any further than it has.

In the old Blog, I found myself talking a lot more about what I didn't do instead of what I was actually doing (and in some cases, doing extremely well). I think a lot of that was due to having been in relationships and situations of my own where I compromised myself down to a shadow of my former self.

This is a lot of the reason why I decided to create this forum for airing my issues, for ventilating my frustrations, for bringing them into the public doman without throwing a monkey wrench in the upward motivations that one should embrace in such a fun and hilarious endeavour as the QTV website. I am serious when I say that writing in the old Blog was pretty painful at times, especially since I had a lot to say yet didn't want to be such a buzz-kill.

The next month is really going to be a busy one. I am in the process of making some really major life changes and while I'm very optimistic of the outcome, it's going to take a lot out of me. Perhaps I will elaborate further as events transpire, but for now I'm doing just *that* much better than I was doing yesterday and that's a damn good start.

Time to kick the tires and light the fires. The Phoenix shall rise again.