Embracing the Journey

So my friends, this is the week everything changed. I worked my last shift employed by the NHS, do I regret it?

No.

Yes the future is uncertain but I feel free, I feel like a great burden has been lifted from my shoulders, an enveloping cloud has dispersed and I know despite the uncertainty of my future it was 100% the right choice.

Now I might change my mind by the end of the month when that guaranteed salary doesn't hit my bank balance and I'm sure my bank manager will be sweating by then but even this thought is not enough to take the smile off my face (at least not yet).

I am free to make my own good and bad decisions, I choose how I spend my time. Today for instance, I spent it creating, (yes and swearing a smidge, mainly at my own ineptitude in trying to learn how to make shadow boxes). But even in this there is a silver lining with the amount of times I walked up and down those stairs from my laptop to my Cricut machine and back again, surely I should be a svelte size 8 by now (okay... maybe at least a bit fitter?)

Yes I can hear you all shouting at me why don't I just take my laptop upstairs with me...if you could see the current state of my craft room you would understand...another thing on the ever increasing to do list.

I also made a new product for my craft business and made a new loaf cat...these are now my new addiction. I have my first craft stall for my craft business on Monday and as I am pretty much a one woman army I need to get cracking on this.

This week has not been plain sailing so far, I still don't know if my voice will be back enough in time for auditions on the weekend for my favourite Disney musical and a dream role, but I know the dreams of MJ (at least in the thespian world are just that) and not that I stand any chance of getting a part, but you know me, I am ever hopeful and even if I am doing an audition in interpretive dance instead of singing or singing with that sexy husky voice with no sound in my upper register that they didn't know they absolutely 100% needed in this show I will try, because that is me, because one day, just one day might be my day and what is it they say God loves a trier?! (well he must absolutely adore me lol).

So I will let you know at the end of it all if I am a plate or a spoon (probably end up as a plate with the amount of crap I eat haha).

You might also notice from my shiny new website that I now call myself a business entrepreneur (well what else do you call someone who has multiple businesses on the go that doesn't border on rude or just plain calling them nuts?)

I am still a nurse but I am also more than this, who am I?

I am craftbox creations UK's chief designer

I am Dreamweaver Books helping others weave dreams in children's minds one book at a time.

I am M J Fletcher - author, writer and blogger

I am embracing the journey and living the right life for me.

This is who I am, I am me, I stepped out of the shadows and it is the best thing I have ever done.

Until next time x

MJ