Creativity and a new year

Procrastination is a bitch. I've been putting off writing anything for quite a while. And it's not even because I've been busy. I've been on vacation at my sister's in Los Angeles for nearly a month and I've done jack shit with that time. There was an infinite number of projects I could've put some time into, but instead I've slept into the afternoon and watched an assload of TV. But you know what, it's been worth it.

I mean, I've been lazy in the past, but I've never enjoyed it as much as I have in this last month. I think a big part of that is the 50 inch plasma HDTV my sister has in her living room on which I've been playing video games, along with watching HD DirecTV. I dunno, it could be something else.

Although I have enjoyed the break, I have been getting this urge to be creative for the last week or so. I especially am anxious to get back behind the camera and direct another film. I had fun doing the last one, but I made a ton of mistakes that I'd like a chance at not making the next time around. There's a ton of other projects I've put aside for far too long that I want to get going including a short film, a novel, a web comic, and a few web coding projects. I'm not saying they'll all be great, but I still want to put all that I've got into all of the projects. After all, it's not always how much skill you have, rather it's how much work you put in.

Hopefully when I go back home at the end of the week I can get to work on at least a few of them. I'm going to miss being here in LA though. Not because of where I am -lord knows I hate this city- but because of who I am with. I've spent the last week with more friends and family than I have in quite a long time. I've made new friends -granted, many of them are children- but it's nice to know that from now on every time I come visit, I'll have friendly faces to see. It was nice to spend Christmas with a bunch of people, although the combination of too many tamales and too many shots of tequila made me sick and go to bed early. I didn't even get to open my favorite gift until New Years Eve.

Now that my time here is coming to an end after a fun and memorable holiday season I can look back and appreciate this vacation. It's was all mad possible by my sister, and for that I give her my heartfelt thanks. Sometimes, I think know I don't deserve the stuff she does for me, but someday I'll find a way to repay her for all that she's done for me. For starters, she gets first mention in my Oscar speech. ;)

Whew, it feels good to actually have gotten some of that out of my cabeza. Hopefully my next update will have some links and stuff to my recent creative work. See ya'll later.