Blogs are for People Who Have Time

Yes, now I see the downfall of setting up a blog and telling people to follow it. I actually have to sit and write things on a semi-regular basis. Crap.

At first I was all about the blog. I thought of clever titles for various posts. I imagined putting up sweet photos. Utilizing special fonts. Relishing comments from loved ones. I even sat through Julie & Julia thinking "my blog will be way better than her blog."

One important difference between me and Julie: she had no life. Nothing but a piddly job and a perfectly loving, supportive, handsome husband and cat. No obligations to do anything aside from get to her cubicle and then go home again. Hello? Do people like this exist? Who doesn't have 700 things to do all the time. People in movies. That's who.

Its just that right now it feels like Me vs. The Blog.

What will win out? My crazy, busy, disorganized nature or the call to document detail, emotion, decisions, mistakes, thoughts and the general mayhem that I suspect will ensue on this hair-brained journey?

And now I shall attempt to justify my slow-to-blogness:

• My boss is out of town and I'm both him and myself at work (insert giddy, unhinged laugher.)
• I started painting my house last weekend and only just finished last night. Hello furniture in all the wrong rooms and nary a clear space to lay my laptop!
• We're running a program I've been planning for months this weekend AND hosting a Board Meeting at the same time. Because of bullet #1, I'll be representing my department to the billionaire business moguls who grace us with their presence once quarterly ("our 2009 financials show the following..." PUKE.)
• I've been trying to be a committed runner with my friend Emily. We hit the treadmills every couple of days...only for 30 minutes, but it takes more than an hour of travel (round-trip) to access said treadmills and this accounts for many formerly-free evening hours.
• I'm trying to stop being a self-involved ass of a girl and have vowed to stay in touch better with the people I love, priority one going to family. Talking to these people is great, but we have a lot to say and this also takes time. Hello, when am I supposed to watch TV?

Well hello shame, I didn't think I'd run into you here. "Look at me, I have friends and am getting in shape and have a job I love that keeps me hopping, a huge hilarious trip on the horizon and I love my family and friends. Life is soooo hard."

Needless to say, that was more revelation that I was aiming for when I started this post. Yick. I wonder if that'll happen a lot.

Well, for better or worse, I've got another post for this bad boy. Next post will be completely free of introspection, self-pity or reflection, I promise!