You ever feel like you just don't have anything to write about on your blog? No? Your world is filled with happenings of interest for all? Well, that's great. You're awesome! (major sarcasm there)
I, however, come to read others' blogs every day and am just amazed at some of the great topics people write about or how they can take one incident or moment of their day and turn it into a complete post. Many of these posts even have photos capturing the moment. I usually end up forgetting our camera whenever we go somewhere cool. (Although, we went to the zoo the weekend we found out we are having a baby and I took the camera. I got busy and kept forgetting to take the camera to work or loading them at night, so here we are, almost three weeks later and no zoo post.) One might conclude that really, I'm just lazy and too afraid that my readers will think I can't write worth crap. And let's face it, I can't really. That's why I design.
But I look back over my week and try to decide if anything is worth writing about, like the fact that apparently being pregnant means I have to eat once an hour! That's right, can't seem to keep enough food through my esophagus to please my stomach, BUT I can not eat too much at once or I fear it will come back up. That hasn't happened yet, and (Lord help) I hope it doesn't! It also means I just want to SLEEP. ALOT. MOST OF THE DAY. AND I NEVER WANT TO GET OUT OF BED IN THE MORNING. Oh wait, that last part might not have anything to do with pregnancy.
What else happened this week? Well, on my weekly run to the newly planted garden with my 2-gallon watering can, I discovered that the rose bushes behind the garden did not die from the blistering sun and lack of rain known as last summer. Also, some hostas that we planted last summer are coming back! This makes me happy. Last year, we spent an entire weekend overhauling the front corner of our yard because it looked like the Amazon had exploded in that spot. So much work, so much sweat... then we plant all kinds of stuff and a drought comes. So everything died, shattering all hopes of ever having a green thumb. Well, this year, I am determined to make things grow. We planted everything with a few sprinkles of slow time-release plant food, plus I'm out there with Miracle Grow and water once a week. These babies had BETTER grow or I may never plant anything ever again. It's too much work not to see any results. But I am willing to work for results, so we'll see.
At work, our photo database has decided to go crazy, losing it's connection with 1,500 images. So my boss and I are having to go into the program and reconnect each image with the original on the server. It's a little time-consuming, and only one of us can work on it at a time (thus, I'm writing a blog and she's relinking photos - for now).
On a side note, The Office is coming on tonight, and my favorite summer show, "So You Think You Can Dance?", begins in less than one month!
Also, this is semi-old news, but apparently New Kids on the Block are making a come back. So here's some memories, just for the heck of it (and for laughs! Check out that kickin' choreography!).
That's all I've got. I hope you don't regret reading this too much!
15 comments:
Nah. Sometimes posts about nothing are just as fun to read as posts about crazy stuff.
I CANNOT WAIT for SYTYCD! It's almost worth saying goodbye to The Office.
You are a very good writer, Meaghan!! And this post was just fabulous. Cheers for the update.
I am awesome. Thanks, but I think the sarcasm was really unnecessary.
And I seriously bet your life is more interesting than mine (sans the fury of baby fists post). Try making yourself write something every day for a week, month or whatever. You start getting in the habit of looking at things in a way that would make an interesting post. Not that you were asking me for advice.
And you're on the opposite path of Kim at this point in the gestation. She wouldn't eat much of anything for the first three months and lost almost 20 lbs. When she finally went in for delivery at the end, she had just made it back to her pre-pregnancy weight. She never got sick. She just lost her appetite for three months and then it went back to normal except for a huge desire to decimate every grocery store's selection of fruit.
Mickey also hates you now for your enthusiastic use of chemical fertilizers. Remember, negligence is good for the earth.
I've been feeling this way EXACTLY lately. Nothing to write about. You'd think I could find something interesting in NY! But tomorrow I'm doing something very New Yorkish...shopping!
At least you just have boredom and not searing hatred. Boring posts are better than the rage filled rants against my job that I would likely post if I were to give in to the peer pressure and start my own blog.
Jacob knows me all too well. Actually, I'm jealous of your garden, but you should totally be composting food scraps and yard waste instead of using Miracle Gro. And growing vegetables. Free food! Zuchini is supposed to be super easy. Consider yourself scorned.
And dig Donny's Public Enemy t-shirt. I'm sure Chuck D wears a NKOTB shirt in concert.
Courtney: Nice to have a fellow SYTYCD watcher!
Nicole: You're always so encouraging :)
Jacob: I commend you for finding something to write about every day. And I can't believe Kim lost so much weight! When we saw her at the baby shower, she sure did look good. Yeah, sometimes I'm queasy and don't feel like eating, but it's the only thing that makes me feel better. Other times, I can't get enough food. But I'm trying to eat healthy food so I don't blow up like the New Year's blimp!
Stephanie: You HAVE to write about your shopping spree in NY.
Julie: I really do like my job, but I'm not going to complain on here about anything because I'd be afraid they'd find it. But you really should start a blog!
Mickey: Yeah, yeah, I'm a loser. I tell you what, you and Jacob LOVE to make people feel inferior or "negligent." Well, I've got news for ya, we ALL make waste. Just teasin'! I mean, we do all make waste, but I don't want you to think I'm actually pissed. Good points, and if I can find something that is not bad for the environment, I'll use that instead of Miracle Grow (I think if we composted food scraps and yard waste, we'd just end up growing grass in our garden). And I'm starting with flowers and working my way to food. If I can't keep a flower alive, I've got no business trying to grow food. My thumb isn't so green.
I've considered a vegetable garden. But I'm not going to expend that much energy until I prove my skills (or Meaghan's, as the case may be) on a smaller scale -- i.e. the little flower garden in the corner of the yard. If I get that serious about gardening, I probably will hook up a rain barrel to our gutters. Maybe a compost pile too, if I can find an inconspicuous spot in the yard where the dogs won't dig into it.
On the point of being a boring blogger: what can I say, Meaghan? We're made for each other. My only hope for an interesting post is writing about random thoughts or dumb things Ted Turner says -- not my own life and certainly not my job.
Meaghan: I don't know what you were thinking, but the negligence line was directed at me and Mickey. I get to say my yard-care practices are enviromental because doing nothing is quite enviromental, but it's really because I'm cheap and lazy.
I did find organic Mircacle Grow at Wal-Mart (shut up. I have no other local shopping choice for that sort of stuff). I bought a bag to see how it'd work on my sunflowers this year.
And Mickey's right, zucchini is about as hard to grow as weeds. If you can't grow zucchini, you can't grow anything. The real question is what you'll do with all those green squash. One plant would cover two families of four.
Habeneros are equally productive, but I can't use them. One pepper ruined an entire pot of chili making it inedibly hot.
Sometimes you are just going out to get Egg McMuffins and life will flip out on you, Spike Lee will be yelling at you and you get your own blood pressure up waiting in a line. Sometimes all there is though, is Egg McMuffins and when that happens enjoy the Egg McMuffins, because really Egg McMuffins are awesome! Plus I think you just did some False Modesty, because I have read ONE post of yours and it worked well- even though it was just you bitching about not having an interesting life... What ever! I can tell you kind of rock!
Bill: Meaghan doesn't just "kind of rock" and you should expect her to drive to your house and kick your ass for suggesting that she's anything less than full rock.
Bill: Jacob is right... well, not really, but it made me laugh! Thanks for reading and I'll be sure to check out your neck of the woods!
Wow, Bill really enjoys his Egg McMuffins.
You're starting to bore me with all of the not-writing. I guess you were right after all.
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