I love New Year's resolutions. Unlike most people, I typically stick to them until about October when I start planning for next year's resolution (I couldn't possibly do two self-improvement tasks at once.)
My past resolutions have ranged from 'I will lose my college beer weight' to 'I will live without a microwave 5 nights per week.' This year's resolution to train for a half marathon was headily derailed by getting engaged in March and married in October (yay!) During the hours of wedding preparation I started to feel something--I was finally creating.
I have always been deemed the 'creative' person in my family, school groups, etc. AKA: I was always volunteered to make the poster. In college I believed I was setting myself up for a healthy career in graphic design, writing and a general creative free-for-all. I had dreams of writing copy for Wieden+Kennedy, and designing genius info graphics for President Obama. Welp. Being a graduate of 2009, the year everything sucked, it wasn't in the cards.
But don't feel sorry for me. I got a great starter-job working as a Marketing/Graphic Design person for a non-profit in Tacoma. I got to design whatever I wanted, then take it to committee where it would be painfully whittled down and reworked to resemble something your mother wouldn't even love. This is where I lost my creative mojo.
In general, I gave up. If I couldn't publish my best work, I wasn't going to create anything. I literally had my creative blood sucked out of my body (for those who know where I worked, this is a hilarious pun, for those who don't know where I worked, hopefully you can figure it out.)
I left that job creatively broken. And I haven't done anything to fix it, until now. This is my attempt to get it back. Not only to get it back, but to come back bigger and stronger. I want to be back more confident in my ability to create than ever before. I'm going to Julie/Julia the shit out of this.
I welcome your critiques, laughs at my failures, and high-fives when something works out. First day is coming up on Jan 1. Here we go.
