Recipe for lemonade

Okay. So I've come up with a plan. Okay, maybe not a full out plan-plan. But I've got the sketches going.

First thing was to admit to myself that I was drowning and overwhelmed. To make it official (and real to myself), I also made that admission to my school advisor so that the school & my professors would know what was going on for me. Step one. Check. Step two. Check, check. These were the hardest steps to make. I've been struggling since the summer, and then REEALLY struggling for the past month. Losing Bijou was the final straw. If I didn't have school and assignments, it might never have come to light just how minimally functional I was/am. I think step one is huge. I'm glad I took it.
Next was landing an awesome life coach-in-training who has agreed to work with me for the next six months. Ms. S will be my guide for the start of this journey. Step three. Check.

Step four.... well, step four is where I'm at now. I've decided that I need to get my physical health back in order to kick start my emotional and mental recovery. And to prove it, I've start a new blog. In it, I'll detail more about this new journey. I will continue to run this blog more as my creative outlet ... which is what it was intended to be anyway.

So there you have it, guys. I'm going to end it with a quote:

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."-Aldous Huxley

I'm getting a lot of lemons...

I'm sorry for the protracted silence.  A lot has happened since.  Bijou is gone.  I am trying hard not to tailspin into grief and depression.

I need to wrap my head around this situation. More to follow...