I realized today that if I spent as much time actually posting on my blog as I do pondering about what I should do with it, it would be far more interesting for you readers.
I sit around and think, "do I have time for a blog? do I have anything left to say about cycling? if not, do any of my wonderful IA readers care about non-cycling related content? do I want to talk about my writing? should I make the blog into more of a work-generator and offer helpful advice and tips to potential clients? should I just shut the thing down and end the torture? but I would miss the connection to the friends I've made here, but do I really enjoy blogging?..." and so on and so on. I still don't really have the answers to most of those questions except the last one which is a resounding YES.
So I'm just going to shut up now about all my dithering about this place and just write. I'm fairly certain that that would be more entertaining for all of us. Frankly I'm starting to annoy even myself.
Okay, let's see. I'm currently doing the single-mom thing as my husband is away on a snowboarding trip in Quebec. He left on Thursday and comes back tomorrow night. I'm exhausted but I'm fairly sure I've rung up enough wife points to send myself away to a lovely spa for a weekend in the near future. Today was my son's first day taking the school bus. We just moved him into junior kindergarten after the Christmas holiday so he started there last week but this was his first week for the bus. I was on pins and needles all day worrying about weather or not he'd make it home but he did! When I sent him off this morning all I could think was that that was an awfully big bus for such a little boy. But he did it and he was very proud of himself!
I've finished the first draft of my novel, Georgia, and am currently working on the first of what I am sure will be many edits. In the near future I may post part of the first chapter here and see if I can get some feedback from you guys. I've joined a local writer's group and I'll be going to my first meeting with them next week. I have to read my stuff out loud - something I've never done - and I'm terrified! I'm convinced that I'll finish the chapter and sit down to a roomful of silence before someone will pipe up and say, "um, Sara, this group is for good writers..."
It's good to be back guys and I promise that I'm going to stop talking about what to do with the blog and just blog. We'll see what happens ;)
Nakigrl - you mentioned in the comments of my last post that you wanted to talk to me about some writing-related questions. Feel free to shoot me an email any time.
Sara, this is brilliant! It is making me think about how many things I am procrastinating because I can't decide - my bedroom that needs a redo, but I can't decide just what damn color to paint the walls... my no-longer-new office that still has a bare wall because whatever I put there has to be perfect... and many more important things that I just can't **** or get off the pot and do. I'm inspired.
But the best and most brilliant part of all this is that YOU'RE BACK!
Posted by: Barbara | January 12, 2009 at 09:22 PM
Actually...you can use this place as 'practice'...just write about anything...working on your skills, and all the while entertaining us out here in blog-O-land.
For example, todays tidbit about your sons first bus ride is great! Takes me WAAAYYY back to when I was a wee lad, walking down a lonely country road with my brothers to our bus stop (grew up in a small Wyoming town).
Welcome BACK!
Posted by: Matt | January 13, 2009 at 09:43 AM
Loved it Sara! Just write about what's going on in your life, it's okay if it's not about cycling! Love the story about your son.
I'm waiting for the Tour Down Under to start, BUT I'm really stoked about ToC and FLOYD's comeback! Jelly Belly doesn't know yet if they get a slot at the ToC, but that would make a perfect race!!!
And really, our regular lives are the stuff we live each day. Yesterday I got pulled into a drama-fest, that I didn't want to be part of...after all we had work to do! That "supervisor stuff" is annoying....I'm glad I don't have many to supervise except myself!!
Posted by: Theresa | January 13, 2009 at 12:46 PM
I've missed coming here everyday....love you guys!
Posted by: Theresa | January 13, 2009 at 12:47 PM
Ahhh, someone opened the window and let in the air of SPRING. Thank you Sara. All I ever wanted to do was hear you think (on cyber paper) and read what other's thought about what you wrote and their little experiences. I have soooo missed the daily or even semi daily interaction of our group. I kinda like the fact that you haven't written for a while 'cause now we are (realistically or not) just us IAers. You know that illusion of a private conversation. Certainly some will come upon us when Googling a hot cyclist you just happen to mention, but for the moment, it's just us.
Man, I didn't realize how nice this would feel.
Posted by: cat | January 13, 2009 at 09:50 PM