Closing Time (For Upgrades)

There is no time like the present for improvement, and I’m taking that adage (written completely by me) to heart.

As such, I’ll be putting this blog on hiatus for a bit because (dun dun dun) I’ve bought a personal site, and it’ll take some time to get ‘er up to speed with everything that I’d like to see in it. Over at the spiffy www.michaelbadejo.com, I will continue blogging and a whole lot more. Heads up: it’s still a construction site — Hello New World!

This blog has been a great experiment to see what works for my voice, what doesn’t, and getting some immediate lessons out of the way. While I definitely haven’t been able to write here as often as I’d like to, it’s kind of been a good thing — it means I’ve been busy.

Work, freelancing, and expanding your horizons comes at the cost of the most valuable commodity there is — time. I took a bit of a detour to see how I react out of my natural element, and it’s been a great personal learning experience.  Although that detour is over, I have taken invaluable lessons from it and thread it through other aspects of my day-to-day walkabout. That’s not to say I’m done with expanding horizons — if anything, I’ve just started.

Although I’ll be gone for a bit, it’s for the best. It’ll be a richer experience once I come back, and I think both writer and reader will be better off for it. Hope you’re there to see just where I go next.

Before I sign off, one last thing: you totally have the right to call me a big fat phony. I did not end up running the half Manitoba Marathon — a long winter and building up my skills in other areas took up the time needed to become my idea of marathon-ready. Full disclosure: main reason I wanted to do the marathon was  to improve my general health, and I did so in other methods. The ~25 pounds or so lost that was mentioned in that post? It’s gone up to ~50. In this case, the ends justify the means.

With so many things in life, there’s always more than one path to your goals. I took a different one than I envisioned originally — I never pictured myself as a habitual gym goer for instance, but here I am — and I’m generally okay with it. Just one of those things you pick up as you stretch yourself. Word to the wise — I have several more goals in store, and published writing is part of that . As varied and scary as all of them are, there’s nothing like the chase to get them.

Until it’s showtime once more, I think I’ve said what I need to say. As a timeless poet, one N. Muntz, so often recants:

Smell ya later.

– Mike

P.S. This is the most LiveJournal-y feeling post I have ever and will ever write. Scout’s honor. And the title of this post *is* supposed to invoke the 1998 Semisonic song of the same name — kudos to you if it did.