I haven't blogged since last Thursday because New Year's weekend was crazy, and work is busy now, too. One of my coworkers is gone on vacation all week. I'm stuck doing all of her work plus mine because for some reason no one else knows how to do it. So this week will be rough.. Especially since builders are picking up the pace on getting new homes up after the Christmas lull.
Now I'm on lunch break. If anyone asks me to do anything I will point to the remnants of my meal and say 'Lunch.' Too rude? Too forward? I don't think so. I'll be perfectly sociable after my hour is up.
I'm getting sick again. I've been sick on and off for about over a month now. I took some amoxycillin and it got better, but then I was stupid and stopped taking it after I felt better. It came back. Not fun... So I'm going to take the rest of it until the whole bottle is gone. I hope I'll have enough.
I think my wife and I are going to join the church we've been visiting. We've been in Houston for like... 6 or 7 months (?) now and we've tried several different churches. We like the one we're at now. It's your classic mega church; complete with a Starbucks and Chic-fila in the foyer. In fact, the foyer is bigger than most churches I've seen. What matters most is our small group. The bigger a church is, the better the variety of people will be. There are a lot of people there in our exact same situation and age group. So, it's great!
So, why am I spending a good bit of my lunch hour writing a blog? I don't really know... I think it's just to tell a story, share a thought, and hope someone will read it. I suppose I'm practicing my writing style, because deep down I dream of being a professional writer. For most of my life, I have spent more than an hour a day reading. That much reading must get me thinking about writing. Like when you're appreciating a good meal and think to yourself "I could cook this" or hear a good song and think "I could perform this."
The truth is, I CAN cook and I CAN make good music, and I can do a lot of things with a good bit of skill, but I have never been brave enough to test my writing ability. I always start something and find that it's just not good enough for me. If it's not up to my standards, why would someone else like it?
So.. I blog as an experiment... I blog to get used to writing. Now, if only opinionated critics would read it and rip me a new one.
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Sorry, I'm not in the mood to rip any new ones.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for your note. I actually did think of you when I wrote the "no one reads this" statement--I'm a little ashamed to say that it was a bit of a passive-aggressive move to try and prod someone into saying something. I like two-way communication.
About the writing with another person--what I really meant was that I want to write, and I want them to write, and I want us to read and critique each others' poems and offer suggestions and such. A workshop environment, rather than a collaboration.
Anyway, thank you for subscribing to my blog, and especially for noting and for saying you like my writing. Always nice to hear. :) How was your new years? Any interesting resolutions?