Furiously Happy... is it more than a catch phase?

Have you read the book "Furiously Happy" by Jenny Lawson?

I just started it... working my way through the various audiobooks I have on my audible wish list. Short beyond short story... it is about depression and how the author manages her way out of downward spirals and anxiety with absurd humor and raw honesty. I'm only on chapter three and this woman is genuinely one of my heroes.

I started this year with excitement for working on this blog and getting my business in order and planning for the future. I don't lack the discipline, but sometimes life becomes overwhelming, chaotic and downright hectic and for me, discipline in keeping a personal routine seems like the first skill to fade. Isn't it some cliche that says, "life is what happens when you are busy making plans"? Well, the best of intentions got left on the back burner while I threw myself into work to avoid the chaos of a friendship on the rocks, the continuing aftermath of "the accident," figuring out how to mend my battle torn body (damn, it's been almost a year since my hysterectomy!), and, of course, trying to convince myself that I am indeed the heroine of my own life. Depression snuck in there. Hard. Anxiety didn't sneak. It slammed me like a freight train.

All of the sudden, it is mid-April! I don't understand how time manages to speed along when we aren't paying attention.

The sun is out. The rays feel warm through the windows of my car as I sit in the parking lot of this park. I am here to write. I brought my poetry journal, but it is a chilly sun, so alas, I am going to sit here in the warmth of my car (where I can also have my laptop plugged in) and tell you about a dream I had recently. A dream that sparked an idea. An idea that prompted a goal writing session.

Over the years, I have thought about how to create a community center of sorts. I had a dream, however unrealistic, that we bought an old school. Yes, a school, with a dozen or more classrooms, a gym, a theater and soccer field. In the dream, we built a pet community place. In some of the classrooms, we built places people could pay a membership fee and come in like a wifi cafe and work. We built a real coffee cafe too, so you could buy coffee and go sip with cats or dogs or even bunnies. In one of the rooms, we had a place we held classes for people and pets to do art together... for example, making paw paintings. In another room we had a place people to rent out (by weekend or month) that they could set up a pop-up booth. About 4 to a room. The gym was built into a giant indoor membership dog park. Cleaned daily, rentable for blocks of time. The soccer field was an outdoor dog park... same regulations... rentable blocks of time. We coordinated with shelters and pet resources to have adopt events and vaccine events.

Obviously, this was a utopian dream. Life is driven by money and that is not something abundantly available. I would need so many investors with deep pockets, and it would take YEARS to build. Am I saying it won't happen on some scale? No. I will make it happen, one day. On a smaller scale.

Step one.... brainstorm, write goals, create a plan.

So... over the next year I will be creating a plan. Working feverously on our debt. Because... damn medical debt and this car fiasco... drained any hope of savings lately.

I wish I could just go buy a property. Start small and build brick by heavy brick. The hoogdal community hall property went up for sale (in sedro woolley, for those not local). You do not understand how much I want that property. A 1916 old community schoolhouse with a small piece of land. It would be so amazing to be able to bring life back into that! Build a smaller dog park, like sniff spot where you could bring dogs for a private play time. Inside, though I have never seen it, we could create this amazing community area full of recourses, a place for my homebase (and others in the pet industry!). A tangible place to build a pet community.

So, if you have the ability... buy it! rent it to me... haha for a decent price 😘🧡

Anyhoo! back to reality. 🤪

I have a passion to write. Share my thoughts, dreams, tips, tricks, adventures and beautiful puppy dog eyes with you. I am working on a few different sections of my website. Creating engaging content for social media. Building a pet community in our community! Stick with me!

Have a pawsome day! 🐾

-Kim