That's not quite the title I envisoned when I was a little girl in the 60's dreaming of growing up to write a blog which would be shared via Al Gore's invention of the internet but it's what I find myself doing today. Thank you, Gina Trimarco (marketing goddess, you should read her blog http://ginatrimarco.blogspot.com/). You laid down the triple dog dare that my redneck self could never resist.
A word about my style - I do jump around a lot but stick with me. I enjoy the tangents far more than "the subject at hand." It gets me in trouble at work but it serves me well everywhere else.
I've been considering starting my own blog forever (ok, only since before the term even existed if you believe everything you read on the web; and if you're one of those people you need to leave now because you will only get hurt here). I've been encouraged to write by Gina and many others so blame them. And I suppose I should finally do something related to that English degree I earned 26 years ago. Disclaimer: my knowledge of grammar, style, etc. have been completely warped with the advent of texting. If you're one of the grammar police this is not the blog for you.
So I sat down to do this 2 hours ago and got sucked into cyber space. First I got lost signing into my google account & spent time agonizing over the profile & biography section. I thought I was on the this site but it was the google profile. So I put a lot of time & effort into something that no one would see. In between setting up profiles, I started trading one liners with Gina on Facebook. And I discovered dance music is not optimal writing music for me so I switched to my blues channel although for the life of me I don't understand why James Taylor's You've Got a Friend is playing. Excuse me while I fix that and find some Solomon Burke or BB King...I'm back now & The Subdudes are singing; all is well. I love how Pandora apologizes when you tell it not to include a song - it actually says it's sorry and will never play that song again on that channel. If only life were that easy & polite.
And I now find that I have used all of my free time just getting started. It's already time to get dressed, take my daughter shopping then get ready for an improv rehearsal that someone named Gina scheduled for a Sunday afternoon when I usually relax & spend time with my loving, picture perfect, well behaved family. But now that I've gotten over this first hurdle, I will be back soon and rambling on a regular basis.
Oh, and btw even though I started out wanting to kick Gina's a** for challenging me to do this, now I'm just gonna kick it!
Love it, love it, love it!!! And wow, was it just last January that you started with Carolina Improv Company. What a difference a year makes. Congrats on the blog. I look forward to you TRYING to kick my ass. BTW, you really started it by challenging me to do stand up with you. Writing on regular basis is the first step to doing that stand up thing. Bring it on!
ReplyDeleteI guess I did start it. We have 209 days left. And thanks again for everything! It's another Festivus miracle.
ReplyDeletekeep it going Lynne - now write about what's crazy and funny about your life. Enquiring minds want to know.
ReplyDeleteso let me get this straight.... you just wrote a blog telling people that you are writing a blog? Then told us what was playing on Pandora and that it was time for you to get dressed... you know its coming........... wait for it......... WGARA. Oh wait, I just read your profile. You should instruct people to read that first, things are much more clear now. I thought this was a "how to" blog. I will follow your suggestion of not using your blog to guide my life. Today, I will not listen to Pandora and I will not get dressed.
ReplyDeleteOh Lynne, I forgot to tell you, you can screen your comments before they post to prevent spammers or inappropriate remarks ... just in case you don't like the mysterious "Michael's" comments. :-)
ReplyDeleteI'll do that although I'm leaving Michael's comment. I know exactly who he is!
ReplyDeleteYou CAN write out the word ASS, Lynne. I think someone who is NOT a responsible adult would. Just sayin'.
ReplyDeleteWhat's mysterious? I'm the guy watching football naked on the couch.... I'll give you all time to go scrub that visual out of your heads.
ReplyDeleteDear Mysterious Michael,
ReplyDeleteYou are partly responsible for my blog - I had been successfully shamed from posting mundane things on facebook. Thank you for the suggestion to direct readers to the bio first. I'll attempt to edit my page & move that up. And thanks for the visual too.....who dat?!