So, I Have This Friend….
in Giggles on May 6, 2013
So, I have this friend who is a professional blogger. In fact, she is so amazing that she blogs on TWO sites. She has three kids, a husband, a house, she speaks at conferences all over the country and has about a million other things to do, and yet she manages to keep up with BOTH blog sites. She also has perfect hair. I hate her. That’s not true. I don’t hate her. I actually love her…I’m just really envious of her, and of her incredibly sensational time management skills.
Here I sit, with my ONE site and I cannot muddle through putting up a couple of posts a week. Cry. Oh, but wait! I have brilliant excuses! For the faithful five people that read this blog, y’all know that last Fall I went back to school. That, in itself is a brilliant excuse NOT to be able to keep up with my blog. I forgot that I am no longer in my twenties, regardless of how much I protest each and every new birthday that creeps up on me. University life was created for the young in body, not the young at heart. There is a substantial difference in those two. I have found through the course of the last two semesters that I am a terrific perfectionist. This was sssooo NOT the case during my last attempt at college. Striving for the Dean’s List, leaves little room for anything else during my waking hours.
While that may seem like a good excuse to me for abandoning my posts, I realize that for my readers, those are fairly empty letters merely falling into random orders on the page. So, I’ll give my brilliant excuse another shot: Two more broken bones. Although this time, it was NOT my Glow Worm. It happened to be my daughter. A broken wrist and a broken ankle…within weeks of each other. I now have my own parking parking spot at the orthopedic’s office and social service worker following me around. We are looking into buying a cow, evidently my kids are little low on calcium. However, in my defense, the ankle-thing happened at school, and I wasn’t even around for the wrist. That was a result of a cartwheel gone bad.
Infestation. This one tends to take up a great deal of my time as I am in constant turmoil over the fact that I am neither Farm Folk nor whole-hog white trash. I’ve staked my claim on being a Redneck, and I’m proud of that of that part of me. I am not dirty nor do I live in the country which are the only two reasons (in my mind) for which vermin come to visit your backyard. Apparently I was wrong. You see, I have palm trees in my backyard (vermin LOVE palm trees). AND, my house backs up to an easement…AND there’s undeveloped land around my house AND I live in TEXAS. Bottom line: we have critters down here. Every now and again, you will end up with one or two that want to come and say ‘hello’. I am NOT a friendly neighbor. I’ve been saying ‘hello’ to these little critters with a pellet gun. I’m the welcoming committee. POW!
How’s this one, for a Brilliant Excuse? I have a cavity. How pathetic is that? I had a dentist appointment in SEPTEMBER. September, Y’all, it’s May. Can you believe that? But, I had a Western Civilization exam that day, and evidently a dentist appointment was NOT a great reason to miss a test, so I canceled my appointment. Well, I never rescheduled. Now, I’ve got this tooth that is bugging me. It’s been bugging me since February. Most people would go in, and get it checked out. I am not ‘most people’. I am a 2-Xanax-kind-of-gal-for-a-cleaning type of patient. For a cavity, they will probably need to call the Houston Zoo and borrow something from the elephant trainers in order to keep me calm and relaxed and make sure that the dentist keeps all of her fingers. I have the first of two appointments this Wednesday…stay tuned to see how that shakes out.
Life takes over and things get busy. It is hard to keep up, but I am no different than any of y’all out there. But, as Summertime approaches, I will write more, with the hopes that my Faithful Five will read what I post. I have some trips planned for the Summer…and seriously, who doesn’t want to read about “What I Did On My Summer Vacation”? Just as a little teaser…come back tomorrow, and I’ll share with you about the trip Jeff and I took this past December when I was asked to deplane. Going places with me is very seldom boring.
Here’s hoping your excuses are JUST as brilliant!
-Dallas