Some of you have asked me why I haven’t blogged in two months. Here’s 10 excuses–I mean reasons:
10.) The dog ate my laptop.
I was jumping on the trampoline with my laptop (because I take it everywhere) and then I came inside. But I left the laptop outside (because I don’t really take it everywhere) and the dog chewed it up.
Oh, wait. That wasn’t me. That was my son. And it wasn’t a laptop. It was an SP. Or DS. Or PSP. Or whatever portable video game system/demonic device the kids are playing these days.
But still. I couldn’t blog.
9.) I was farthering my education by taking an editing class.
And I learned that there is a difference between (not among) farther and further (go figure) and that the correct spelling for website is Web site, even though I will continue to write website, because Web site just looks wrong, and wrong is well, not write. I mean right.
(And yeah, I know. It is furthering my education. So, don’t send me emails. But leave comments. Comments are good.)
8.) After I stopped posting regularly on my blog, it was easy to continue to not post. And then to continue to not post some more.
7.) My sister wasn’t posting on her blog. And if she didn’t have to write, then neither did I.
6.) I wanted to see how much spam I could accumulate in two months. Final spam count: 73. I had 73 spam comments in my in-box! My sister only had two. Two! And I had 73! I must be the more popular blogger.
Or my sister had her spam filter set to automatically delete spam comments after a certain amount of time. Whatever.
5.) I was doing other stuff.
Since I first started Life in the Highlands, I have been sucked into that time wasting vortex that is blogging, and I haven’t been doing other things. And so I needed to get other things done. And, I don’t have the capacity to blog while I am doing other things. So, I can either blog and get nothing else done, or get other stuff done, and not blog.
What a conundrum.
4.) It was (and still is) impossible to always write something funny. And if I couldn’t write something funny, I felt like I shouldn’t write anything at all.
3.) Blogging wasn’t (and still isn’t) paying the bills.
So far, my blog hasn’t helped to get any of my books published. Or sell any of my published books.
And, I don’t make any money off adds on my blog.
Of course, I don’t have any adds on my blog.
And I haven’t written any books.
Which could explain why I haven’t had one published.
And why they don’t sell very well.
That’s probably why I’m not making any money.
Probably.
2.) I can’t dictate when the muse strikes.
And she decided to strike (as in “go on strike”) for the past two months. So, to all (both) of my wonderful, awesome, loyal readers, my recommendation is that you get updates to my blog by email or in an RSS feed reader . Then you will be instantly alerted whenever I have posted something new. Which will probably continue to be erratic. I mean spontaneous.
And the number one reason why I haven’t blogged in two months:
The blog makes me look fat.
Finally, I would like to say thank you to everyone who encouraged me to keep blogging.
And thank you to those who asked (on their own blogs and on mine) where I was.
And thank you to those (okay, my brother) who sent me emails (okay, one email) that said “I check almost every day… And I know you must be busy… Or maybe you were captured? Abducted by aliens? Moved to Washington DC to become the president’s top speech writer… The dog ate your computers? But… When are you writing a new blog post???”
To my brother:
Right now.
So glad you are back!!
I was so excited when my RSS reader popped up and said you had posted something (okay I was excited right after I double checked to make sure it hadn’t gone all wonky).
Hmmm…. I wonder what your editing class would say about my writing and/or the use of the world wonky.
You NEED to keep writing!!!
Look who’s returned from the land of the living! Because it’s true – a person only has so much time, and blogging is kind of a time hog.
But you’re back, and you’re on my sidebar, so I shouldn’t miss anything!
(And I’m with you on the funny thing, because I find if it isn’t funny it usually falls into the pathetic-life category for me. And that’s always so much fun to read…)