Ah, the old conundrum... feel like blogging, nothing to say. At least no topic pops into my mind. Been feeling a bit blah the past few days and I'm trying to figure out why. Haven't put my finger on it yet. Something's bugging me, but it hasn't had the decency to really register fully in my brain yet.

Not sure what will give me clarity either... so if you see me around, looking mopey, well, now you won't know why, since I don't know why either.

But one thing that IS bugging me that I am aware of is this... holiday commercials on TV already. I'm all for being jolly, but I prefer to limit said holiday jolly-ness to the window between Thanksgiving and New Year's, thankyouverymuch. IT'S STARTING TOO EARLY. Didn't the advertisers get the memo????

I don't mean this in a bah, humbug sort of way. Au contraire. I am coming from a "could this holiday get any more commercial than it already is?" sort of place. After next week, this will all be a moot point, really, won't it? But for now, and for the past week at least, this has been annoying me mightily.

I'm also going to go on the record and say that I really have been a crappy designer lately. No, I don't mean designing crap. I mean doing a crappy job of being a designer. I think maybe my mojo is on hiatus. I can design in small bursts. Very small bursts. But then I find myself wanting to play "Mental Blocks" on Facebook instead (it's similar to this game). I could sit and play it for hours, and lately I have been. In the evenings. When I should be designing.

I'm not sure what is making me practice this avoidance behavior. Maybe I'm tired of giving my "free" time to something that has become a second job for me. Maybe I'm just being lazy. I don't know. So I am trying not to force myself to mosey on over to Photoshop unless I want to, because I'm certain that the results wouldn't be worth the time I spend on them. Not that playing Mental Blocks is a good way to spend time. But I do it while I watch TV.

So I'm a multi-tasking time-waster of the first order.

And now you know.