New Bloggy Attitude

You'd think that keeping up a blog would be easy for me. After all, I'm a writer. I write 80K word novels for a living. What's so hard about writing the occasional 250 word blog post?

As it turns out... all kinds of things.

I saw this on the back of a car, and thought it was hysterical.
My apologies for the slightly crude nature of the joke,
but some days, this is exactly how I feel!

Blogging is deceptive. It seems like it should be easy-peezy, but when you commit to a blog, it brings an unexpected pressure. What will I write about? What will my theme be? What if I don't have anything meaningful to say? What if people don't like it? Why isn't anyone leaving comments???

Obviously, the pressure to deliver got to be too much for me, which is why this is the first time I've posted since back in May. But tonight (at 4AM Pacific Time) I had a mini-epiphany.

I don't need to be scintillating.

Amazing, huh? All this pressure to deliver... It all came from me. So you know what? I'm releasing myself. I'm still going to blog, but I'm giving myself permission to use this particular piece of cyber real estate to be free. I might write about my latest attempt to lose weight, or the new TV season, or my new novel, or how frustrating it is when you get to the post office with your items all ready to go and the person ahead of you is carrying an open, unlabeled box with items still hanging out of it. But the point is, I'm just going to be me.

So, if you want posts that are a little more hefty in the "meaningful content" department, visit Inkwell Inspirations where I blog with 11 other amazing women. But, if you just want to hang out and experience my ramblings, come here. It'll be like joining me for coffee and gabbing about whatever comes to mind. Of course, I don't drink coffee, so imagine that I've got an iced tea.

Ahhh... I feel better already!

Lost: 316

Lost is getting soooo good! If you didn't see last night's episode, STOP right now. There are SPOILERS AHEAD! Here's what I'm thinking about tonight's episode, titled "316"...

What's happening to all the island kids? Kate had no intention of going back to that island, but then she turned up at Jack's house. When he asked "Where's Aaron?" she said she'd go with him as long as he never asked that question again. And then there's Sun, who has to go back to the island if there's even a chance Jin's alive. Uh, Sun, what about your little girl? Guess she doesn't need parents...

What happened to Ben's face? Jack had to go retrieve Locke's body because Ben got beaten up somewhere between the church and the airport. My guess is that the beating had something to do with getting Sayid on the plane.

The similarities... According to Eloise, the conditions on the plane had to be as close as possible to the original. this could explain why Sayid was in police custody (like Kate was the first time), Hurley had a guitar (like Charlie had) and Locke is in a coffin in the cargo hold (like Jack's father was - in fact, he's wearing Jack's father's shoes). So Jack, Kate, Sun, Hurley, Sayid, Ben, Locke, are all on the plane...

But what about Desmond? Eloise told him the island wasn't through with him. But he's not on the plane, and he doesn't plan on going back. But he wasn't on the plane before. He ended up on the island because of a ship wreck. Hmmm, Desmond, Penny and baby Charlie are living on a boat now. Is it possible they might sail into this open time/space window? We already know Charles Widmore ends up living on the island. Could it be that baby Charlie lands on the island during a time shift? And could Desmond and Penny end up being the Adam and Eve skeletons the castaways found during season one? Hmmm....

Your turn! What do you think?

Random Grammy Ramblings

I was completely zonked by the time the Grammys were over Sunday night, and yesterday I already had a guest scheduled, so here are my slightly tardy Grammy ramblings:

Robert Plant, yes, sometimes the mic is too low, but just how tall do you think you are?

Kid Rock, I like some of your songs, but you are NOT my rock 'n' roll Jesus. Just to be clear.

Note to Adele: Please spit out your gum before you go on stage to accept your award. Thanks.

M.I.A. - Props for performing on the day your baby is due, but did you have to wear the ugliest maternity outfit ever?

Blink 182, thanks for letting us know you're back. Sorry to tell you, I didn't know you'd gone anywhere.

Justin Timberlake... Dude, is there anything you can't do? Loved your set with Rev. Al Green.

Queen Latifah and Morgan Freeman, I've got one word for both of you: More!

And finally, to Katy Perry... we know you kissed a girl. We know you liked it. Enough already. From your entrance in the middle of the descending banana to those half-hearted dance moves (and I use the word dance lightly) the whole thing was a hot mess. Time to move on.

So what about you, friends? Any highlights or low lights still fresh in your mind? Discuss...