Okay. Done? Okaaaaaaaay, we’re all waiting.
Now. Moving on. I am damned envious of you people that have full-time jobs, full-time lives, full-time brains full of words to spill forward onto the cyberpage.
Yes. I am envious of those of you who somehow manage to have a fresh, exciting post every. Stinkin’. Day.
How do you do it? I want to call so many of you out right now. Those of you that constantly amaze me with your ability to dig up an old memory, or a recent experience, or absolutely nothing, and post it on a regular basis.
My brain has shut down. Maybe it’s the new school year, and the fact that I now have to get up at 5 a.m. and be on the road by 6:30 in order to get Mr. Cool & Miss Priss to school on time. Maybe it’s the fact that nothing interesting is going on. Maybe, as I approach the one-year anniversary of this exercise, I’m just out of ideas. Try as I might, I just can’t do it.
It doesn’t help that I have affiliated my meager site with a couple of new blogrings, Southern Blogs* and Blogging Chicks*. I figured since I was southern, and a chick, it made perfect sense. So how do I repay them for their generosity?
I shut down and post a video from The Man Show.
So many of the blogs I read (and omigod how many do I read anyway?) are just so well-done, so put-together, so darned up-to-date. I need to know where you find that spark of creativity on a regular basis.
I’m willing to listen. Just tell me how to contact the devil himself and work out that whole soul-negotiation thingie.
*When you get a chance, go take a look at their blogrolls. There’s some great stuff over there.
August 14, 2006 at 12:44 pm
hey, i love reading whatever you come up with! keep it up.
August 14, 2006 at 12:54 pm
It’s okay…we all go through dry spells. I’m sure that all sorts of crazy, exciting, interesting things will be happening to you this week and you will have lots to write about!
August 14, 2006 at 2:14 pm
Hey, I don’t get it – you do update fairly regularly, don’t you? But I feel your pain. I don’t update very regularly, too. It’s that sometimes we all need to take some time out from everything, including blogging.
PS:and what school? We have 3, yes, three more weeks going without school.
August 14, 2006 at 2:31 pm
Oh, those look like fabulous blogrings, I’ll have to start surfing through them. Though, lord needs the last thing I need are MORE BLOGS to read!!
August 14, 2006 at 3:00 pm
I keep finding more and more great blogs to read. It’s sickening. Soon I won’t be doing any work. I’ll just have to tell my boss, “Not until I finish reading this latest post.” 😛
August 14, 2006 at 4:01 pm
Szelso fa (sorry, I don’t have all the fancy curlic), there’s a difference between posting and posting WELL ;)!!!
August 14, 2006 at 5:07 pm
I think you’re selling yourself short: your blog is an absolute delight that’s every bit as enjoyable and memorable as anything else I’ve come across in the blogosphere.
It’s OK for us to self-doubt every once in a while. But it’s also OK for us to say that you’re a great writer in your own right.
Anyone who writes what you wrote on your son’s 14th birthday is a force to be reckoned with.
August 14, 2006 at 5:11 pm
Girlfriend just stop that fretting now…K? 😉 I definitely plan to check out that southern blog thing you mentioned….cool!
August 14, 2006 at 5:40 pm
I simply must attend to the southern blogs being a misplaced southern diva high up here in the mountains. I don’t think it’s that easy to come up with blog material either!
August 14, 2006 at 6:23 pm
If I didn’t have a lot of stuff collected, I wouldn’t have a fresh post everyday. Most of the time, I rely on emails I get from others…LOL
August 14, 2006 at 7:22 pm
It helps if you’re schizophrenic, paranoid, neurotic AND menstruating!
I have a nervous breakdown about twice a year and swear I will NEVER blog again….not only that but I’m never going to be on the internet again! It usually lasts about a week.
August 14, 2006 at 7:29 pm
Cyndy, good news! You don’t have to live in the south — you just have to have a southern state of mind!!! Easy enough?
August 14, 2006 at 7:59 pm
I HAVE THE ANSWAR!S!!!
LOWAR YOUR EXPECTATIONS!
TYPE IN ALL CRAPS!
EXCESSIVE USE OF EXLAXCLAIMATION!S! POINTS! YELPS!!!
Or just Hong Fu someone. I bet you could do a seriously mean Hong Fu ‘nerd.
PS I’m not menstruating
PPS At least I think I’m not
PPPS Yep, pretty sure of it…
August 14, 2006 at 8:16 pm
I love your stuff girl! Don’t be so hard on yourself. You’re real and fun and spontaneous! (I’m sure I spelled that wrong)
I wish I could do all the cool deep writing some of my buddies do…and those big words! I have moved my hubby’s Thesaurus here just to keep up with some of them!
I’ve got the brain fog too….
August 14, 2006 at 8:41 pm
Totally apply for immigration. not only do you get to send all of your c.utter to be warehoused with them, but you also get to be frustrated at least weekly and have a challenge you can totally write about.
Also, sometimes nothing is everything– ie Seinfeld 🙂
Maybe you should try to solicit some ideas and it will help you out. I know I don’t post every day.
August 14, 2006 at 8:42 pm
c,utter=clutter 🙂
August 14, 2006 at 9:06 pm
I go through phases where I’m blogging like crazy. These also tend to be times when I am also writing like crazy. However, my run is about to dry up on the account I now have a potentially serious deadline issue. So blogging will take a back seat. I liked the video. I sent a couple of friends over to see it. I love that stuff. BTW, I rarely feel like I’m clever on my blog posts and am amazed that people actuall read it.
August 14, 2006 at 9:19 pm
Don’t lose your confidence. Even Shakespear had dry spell, so they say.
August 15, 2006 at 3:49 am
Of course I agree with you – blogging is not about quantity 🙂 I often set up a certain standard and if I assume my next post would go below the limit I don’t post at all…
August 15, 2006 at 9:55 am
I’m having a dry spell of my own right now. I think it’s only natural to have down times now and again, due to whatever factors: life, ennui, emotion, lack of all of the above. 🙂
When I am in the mode, though, it’s not so difficult because I’ve journaled every day of my life for as long as I can remember. So the blog is just an extension of that, and that’s where every post starts, no matter how it may finally end.
I think it also helped when I stopped feeling like I had to KEEP UP with some sort of illusory tap dance of my own mind’s creation.
But it’s not about me, is it? You? You’ll be fine and wonderful as you always are, and all the moreso as soon as you stop worrying about US so much. 😉
August 15, 2006 at 10:20 am
WN – what’s wrong with videos from the man show????
You’re doing fine!
August 15, 2006 at 3:53 pm
Thanks for the plug for blogging chicks. I liked the video.
August 15, 2006 at 9:12 pm
Try using some of your drive time to think of old memories. Some days I have tons of ideas and I just write down the topic and put it in my “rainy day blog post” list. Lately, my dating life has turned into a daily drama giving me plenty of ridiculousness to write about. Sigh!
Ohh and thanks for the links to Southern Blogs and Blogging Chicks. I qualify for both and plan on signing up too!