Roughly two years ago I had a one of those nights where my brain refused to let my body sleep. At the time I was working for a great company named Medios. My boss and I had been discussing the future of the company and similar grown-up things the day before. Coming from a background in writing, I started dreaming up a grand scheme involving a writing department that would allow us to charge for any writing outside of our normal PR and advertising retainers.

I hopped out of bed, grabbed a notebook and a pencil and started devising business world domination through copywriting. Late night thoughts tend to be a little grandiose. Of course I had no idea at the time that my late night plan would take a slight detour through the corporate world and eventually bring me back to the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do (for an income, I mean. I want to do a lot of things.)

Today I write my first blog entry in a while on this blog, not as an employee with a dream, but as an owner with a lot of work to do. My baby has grown into a toddler who tends to run around and pee on things. Like any parent I need to grow with my kid, I need to learn a special kind of patience, I need to be responsible and wise and open to criticism. I don’t expect it to be easy, but I know that this is where I need to be.

2011 has given me the space to grow into a person that I can actually live with. It has given me a push to follow a dream, courage to let love in and just the right amount of levelheadedness to take care of myself. It also left me with just a smidgeon of crazy to remind me that beauty can take me by surprise at any second.

I’m off to New Zealand in less than a week. I don’t know if I’ll blog from there or not, so this might be Wordsmyth’s farewell to 2011. Thank you, 2011. You were a bit of a dick at times, I won’t lie, but all in all I like you. I’ll leave you with one of my favourites of the year.

Merry Christmas!