If I Told You I Wanted To Be A Comedy Writer Would You Laugh At Me?

I think I am getting to grips with this system now and am free to witter at will.

So, you ask, why have a weblog now?

Well one I was feeling left out.  I have to tip my hat to Marjory as I love her weblog. In fact let's have a really sycophantic moment.  My sixth form years were about as much fun as a dose of food poisoning on the whole but I would go through it all again as one of the saving graces was meeting Marjory, possibly one of the wittiest and certainly cleverest people I know. Instead of my inane waffle taking up her comment space I thought I'd better give it a place of its all.

Secondly, after speaking to my life coach Suzy Greaves of The Big Leap this week I had (another) seeing the light moments.  I have been seeing a lot of lights lately, in a non-migraine way.

To bring those who don't know up to date, last year I won a competition with Handbag. The prize was a years life coaching with Big Leap and also a fund to go towards helping me achieve some goals.  The fund was wisely spent on a personal trainer which I am sure I will be writing a lot about. The life coaching has been astounding.

I will admit to fears at first that life coaching may be like an episode of an American talkshow, all happy clappy and whooping.  It didn't take long (about 5 minutes into my first conversation with Suzy) that life coaching wasn't like that at all. Yes it includes encouragement and direction but in such a subtle fashion that the day you wake up and think 'I want to do this, that or the other', it is like a light being turned on and the earth moves.

Over the past few months (I have had my life coach for five months) I feel like a lot of mind clutter has been removed. I am looking at my work and life in a very different manner. This in turn leads to feeling relaxed, then excited, then petrified, excited again...

Day to day I am working as a freelance PR, mainly in motorsport, which I enjoy enormously mainly due to the talented people I am privileged to work with. However, there are other parts of life digging me in the ribs shouting 'do this, do this' which I will be giving oxygen to.

I adore music. My stomach jumps somersaults at the thought of going the Download Festival this June and meeting up with 'my tribe'. This week I had the most marvellous time (drooling) at Il Divo whom I'll be seeing again July.  When you get those butterflies you know you have found a passion. And if we are talking passion - comedy.

I thought it was quite normal to listen, read and watch comedy at least two hours each day - doesn't everyone do that? Supposedly not. Comedy, writing and entertainment are the things which make me go weak at the knees (ooh, and Daniel Craig) could there possibly be a place in that world for me?

I have a life coach and thick skin, so bring it on. It is an area I shall be investigating in the future and what better place to share the ups, downs and sideway glances than here on my blog.

Please do not ask me to tell you a joke. This is my major fear of putting my head above the parapet and saying 'I want to write, I to write about entertainment, I want to write comedy'. I worry it may sounds smug. I worry I will fall flat on my face (without the aide of a banana skin as that would be funny)

So if you are coming along to this blog for gossip well hah! I cannot predict what these pages will include but it won't be delving too far into my private affairs (ooh, that makes me sound so interesting, what a con!) or my friend's personal lives (unless it is really juicy and/or perverse). I make no excuses for poor grammar and spelling! The entries will be as eclectic as my tastes and will oscillate with the phases of the moon and my hormones.