It's hard to imagine that more than a year passed since my last journal entry. You might have noticed that I revived my dA account with some fresh submissions. There's more to follow! I finally traded my Fujifilm S5700 in for something more substantial. The new Canon is a dream! I've also re-installed Photoshop and Gimp. The creativity still shines dimly, but we're making progress.

Despite the rustiness, I've created my first Infographic. (Go look in the gallery. It's big, bright and orange, you cant miss it.) The idea came to me when I entered www.mydigitallife.co.za's first ever Twitter competition, with the lovey prize of a Vodafone Smart Tab.  I'm in the process now of creating a Infographic Resume. It's friggen awesome!! Will upload it to my gallery and online portfolio once I'm done.

In other news:

After much deliberation, I'm determined now (more than ever) to launch my freelance career.

I've lasted long enough in the corporate world to realize it's not for me, it'll never make me happy, and I cant see myself slaving away to the man for the rest of my life. I've attempted this freelance thing before. As some of  you might recall, being unemployed for 8 months during 2010 forced me to look for alternative (read: "online")  means of income. And I didn't fair too badly. But knowing what I know now, I'm convinced that I  can make success of it.

The preparation is bringing back that creative itchiness that I so desperately miss. I'm constantly coming up with new marketing methods, creative ads and the like. My site is even  getting a make over, and moving to decent hosting.

Go looky - www.shackledmuse.info (But don't judge yet, the changes are still small)

During the past 19 months, I've told myself numerous times that I'm going to resign (from my current day job.) I get so worked up about the injustice, unfairness, politics and backstabbing in the office environment, that I swear to myself "end of this month I'm f**king handing in my resignation," only for month end to stroll by without seeing me handing my resignation in.

Now, I'm doing it calmly, and it feels GREAT.

My announcement to the Universe is this: End of April I will hand my resignation in for the end of May. (a month's notice, because it's the right thing to do.)

June, will be the "official" start of my freelancing journey (I'm saying "official" in bunny ears because I'm already  freelancing now, so to speak. I wake up at 4H30 most mornings and go to bed after 12AM most nights, but from June i'll be working full time, and hopefully resume my normal sleeping patterns...)

I think it's fitting that my 29th birthday falls on the 30th May; so after more than 10 years in the corporate world, I can finally wave it goodbye. (Good god, I'm turning 29... What a scary thought...)

Universe, you heard me loud and clear, right? We're doing this, you and me!




Oh, and this is REALLY important!

You've heard about The Secret but you don't know what it's about; or you feel it's a bunch of crap? Well, yeah, the Secret is the commercialized product that a select few uses to make money out of gullible people. So don't rush off to go buy the book just yet. (just my personal opinion)

But do read up about the Law Of Attraction. (LOA is at the core of all the Secret's Secrets.) A good place to start would be Melody's Fletcher www.deliberatereceiving.com blog. Go, educate yourself about it. Now. It'll will change your reality.

It changed my world, and as some of you know (also, judging by many a previous journal and poetry entry on this site and LiveJournal) I thought I was a lost cause and a sad little heap of depression.