Returning to blogging is harder than I thought. I used to pull threads together from the week and make something fun. I admit, I'm out of practice. It's like exercise or reading or any other good habit, I have to discipline myself to start.
So...let's get this party started.
Ten reasons why I've not blogged with any consistency for the past year...
10) Too busy exercising. (This is a humor blog).
9) Testing out the possibility of this thing called sleep.
8) learning how to play the drums quietly. Learning precussion is akin to learning the violin. No one wants to hear anything but the finished product, and no matter where or when you practice...someone wishes you weren't.
7) It's Monday when this is posting. I'll add Time Managment to the list.
6) Haven't watched anything trending on Netflix or a grown up movie really in years, tried and coudn't focus...realized my tastes have been stunted and blunted by 26 years of parenting, and are the intellectual equivalent of a happy meal.
5) Marie Kondo paralyzed me when she suggested throwing out books.
4) With ten kids home and 8 needing to do Zooms, on line learning and in some cases, homework, my computer is practicing self imposed social distancing.
3) Fell into the lucky habit of not needing to write for the blog, because I wrote for other places...but it made me lazy and now, there are all these intellectual dust bunnies to sweep away and I think they've evolved such that I may need to enter into negotiations for them to leave.
2) insert feeble excuse here.
1) Because I used to be a mommy blogger, it's harder to tell stories. My children aren't toddlers anymore, so the antics are theirs, not mine to tell. The medium age in the home is 23.3 and as such, there aren't the same kind of little moments that lend themselves to humor writing, and satire in 2020 is, let's face it, a tad difficult.
1 comment:
Wonderful! You had me at #10 and it just got better. I enjoy everything you write but I never tell you. Thank you! I used to be good about writing to a cloistered nun that I have know more than 20 years. But then, until yesterday I hadn't written to her since August 2018 though she would faithfully write me every other month. Yesterday I finally sat down for six hours and wrote an eight page letter and mailed it this morning. I miss writing to her and I want to get better. For a few years, my Lenten penance was to write to her every week from Ash Wednesday until Easter. She of course loved it. I need to keep that in mind for next Lent.
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