July 20, 2004

  • Everything Gets In My Way


    "Everything gets in my way," grumbled Ms. Six, sotto voce, pushing past me on some expedition of her own during our standard school/work-night melée of dinner/bath/housework/conturbations of the soul.


    That comment stopped me dead for a few milliseconds, while the dishwater dripped unheeded off my hands on the floor and Ms. Three vied patiently but without success for attention regarding her bathroom needs.


    That's it.  That's precisely it.  Everything gets in my way.  Just to choose a random moment in a standard day: my responsibilities for sustained and forward-looking project management get in the way of my boss's desire for instant ad hoc meetings about some unrelated topic, which get in the way of my moonlighting as a senior volunteer administrator at my eldest's school, which gets in the way of my remembering to do things like leave the carseat at preschool for my husband's later use in retrieving the youngest, and his resulting irritated phone call gets in the way of adequate project management.  All of which gets in the way of sneaking off for a moment's private writing time.


    Well.


    My two months' absence from the Xangaverse were initially a relief, in that I didn't feel obligated to "do the rounds" in order to feel properly deserving of your remarks chez moi.  But as the days melded into weeks, I was appalled to find that despite the heavy demand that I would have claimed Xanga made on my time, I seemed to have no "extra" time as a result of abandoning it.  Everything got in the way, you see.  And I was always itching to write a blog about this, that or the other, even though I dutifully worked, and mothered, and did dishes instead.


    Enough, say I.


    I'm not back, really.  But I'm not gone either.  I'm just closing my eyes and pretending things aren't in the way of this happy habit.


    Hi, everyone.

Comments (21)

  • Can I just say that I'm really, really, REALLY glad to see you post?

  • 1 what a pleasant surprise this is.

    2 don't you just hate ad-hoc runaway meetings that go on forever?

    3 i've learned i work best if i can xanga in small doses throughout the day. xanga is my yoga. xanga is power nap.

    4 welcome back. you've been dearly missed.

  • I've really missed you.  I smiled a huge smile when I saw that you blogged.  You can skip reading my site.  Nothing very exciting happens there.  lol, just plugging away at school. 

  • Life, she gets in my way every single day.

    My transgressions in the time-management department of my life notwithstanding, I find the longer I go without posting, the more the things I desperately want/need/must post about build up and roar inside my head...like the ocean, only more insistent, if that's at all possible.

    I haven't even read your comments...I saw your name and flew this way, hoping for so much as a hi from thee....and how rewarded I be.

  • Forget the 'rounds.' Just post. I'm sure none of us would mind. 

  • No need to do the rounds. Keep posting when you feel like it. I'll visit.

  • dude, I SED forget the rounds, damnit ! It's all behind me, now, anyway. Good to have you (not quite) back.

  • Everything gets in my way too! Good to see you stopping by.

  • Glad to see you writing again... and please, just do what you need. 

    And yes, Six is right... Everything does get in the way. 

  • Wonderful!  I checked your site everyday even though you were officially on hiatus.  It was getting discouraging to always see the same blog title pop up over and over again, but I kept up hope.  Alas, not in vain.  :)

    I've always liked the phrase, "stop the world, I want to get off"  Can't remember what it is from, song, play, movie...but, every once in awhile I feel like life gets in the way of my life, the carousel keeps spinning so fast that I have to hang on with both hands when, what I really want to do is sit on the bench under the oak tree that I can see in the distant view as it spins by.

  • Hi, darlin'

  • I'm not really doing the rounds. Not really.

    I so hear you. You need to do what you NEED to do. Hey, you gave not blogging a good try!

  • you can still write, sans the quid pro quo visits.... i like what you got to say.

  • I have 157 subscribers.  Only 20 or less comment regularly... the rest know they don't have to feel obligated.  I write for me - when I get around to it, I read them.  So it's not a biggie when I don't see comments... I know they're there.  Why not think about it that way over here?

    You needn't feel pressure.  Write for you.  It's creative outlet, and therapeutic, on top of that.  Besides, time is like money... the more you work at making, the less there is.

  • just happy to see you in the xanga-hallways again.

  • My thoughts were on you and your vacant site (and general internet vacancy) just this morning. I have a way of conjuring people with my thoughts, you see. I do it at work pretty often, and I see here I have done it again.

  • Well...  looks like I won the pool.

  • The Way is clear when We clear the way.....Yipppeeee! you're back!

    Blessings Abound

  • yes, you and I will HAVE to have a long talk about the ways of this crazy mixed-up world.

  • Hi!  Happy to see you back...or at least, not gone any more....

  • Glad to see you back.  Enjoy your visits.. When it isnt fun, dont do it.

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