A couple of weeks ago, I noticed an incoming link to this blog where a blogger mentioned being happy because my post frequency was “back to normal”. Well, that lasted for about a week. I realize I haven’t devoted much time to this blog in the past month or two, and to be honest, I was hoping for some kind of writing revelation to occur. Unfortunately, it isn’t happening and I’m finding myself bored with my post drafts. So incredibly bored.
I’m not going to write about taking a blog break…it’s just that, I’m sitting here- my writing deadlines have all been met, my sick baby is sleeping, I’ve fed my Us Weekly addiction, but I just don’t have it in me to write anything at this place. And it’s not that I don’t have the material, because this week has been chock full.
(Such as, I’m now 34. This is my last year included in the 25-34 box, people.)
(Or how a stranger told my husband that I am a dead ringer for Sarah Palin. While I was standing at the polling booth! Wearing an Obama shirt! Which, apparently, is called passive electioneering and is illegal! Take THAT, rule-abiding self!)
(By the way, the short phrases ending with exclamation points?! BORING.)
(THE ALL-CAPS? ONCE AGAIN, BORING MYSELF TO TEARS.)
((((Not to mention the overuse of parentheticals.))))
GAH GAH GAH. Am I the only blogger who feels this way? Obviously I am, since all of you are NaBloPoMo-ing it like crazed over-achievers. Way to make me feel like a total turd.
ali
November 10, 2008 at 7:47 ami think November, for me, will be a “let’s see how infrequently ali can post this month” month.
because i’m boring myself to tears these days too.
(ps. you are so much hotter than Sarah Palin. just saying ;) )
Bumbling
November 10, 2008 at 2:21 pmHey, it’s YOUR blog. If you dont have anything you want to post, then that’s fine. I think your problem may be that you have so much other writing assignments going on that involve deadlines and stress, that you can’t view your blog as a release. Its become yet another place where you have to fufill other peoples expectations.
My advice…take a blogging vacation till early next year. When you come back you’ll have plenty to blog about.
Most importantly – we still love you.
suz
November 10, 2008 at 6:50 pmMy frequency has gone down too..
My vote for your next blog post: what-all you did, saw, and ESPECIALLY ate and drank in my beloved Charleston! I must live vicariously. I haven’t been down since July..am HOPING to make it this weekend, but my workload is growing dangerously close to weekend-trip-prohibitive.
Julie
November 10, 2008 at 8:25 pmSarah Palin? That’s just nuts. I thought you looked like Rosemarie DeWitt in Rachel Getting Married. Bad, bad movie but Rosemarie/Rachel sure is pretty.
Sparrow
November 11, 2008 at 10:18 amYeah, I get the same way with my site all the time. Highs and lows, inspiration and boredom, all that. I find that when I let myself truly believe that I *don’t* have to keep up the site regularly, I get an urge to post. Weird.
And, no. I don’t see the Sarah Palin thing either.
Kerri Anne
November 11, 2008 at 12:46 pmI have never felt better about not posting for thirty days straight than I have thus far this month.
Taking pictures of my shoes for thirty days straight? Now that’s something I can handle.
WonderSpot
November 11, 2008 at 3:16 pmNot the only one, for sure. I’m not even trying a post a day, or whatever that is. And I don’t have a sick kid to help take some of the “blame.” There seems to be an epidemic of writer’s block going around. I could make a killing by finding a vaccination for that.
Kristabella
November 13, 2008 at 6:08 pmSeeing as I’m commenting on this post like a week late, no you’re not the only one. I’m not into writing or reading. I keep thinking I’m going to come out of the funk and yet, I have not.
Sarah
November 17, 2008 at 12:51 pmMe too! I’ve considered just ceasing to blog, but then I realize that I like my every once in a while posts…so it’s worth keeping up…but life changes, interests change…it happens.