Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
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So that’s it. This is the part where I usually reminisce about some St Paddy’s Day memory (like my lucious leprechaun polyester suit or the St Paddy’s Day celebrations in New Orleans), but truth be told, I find myself just staring at the blank screen with an enormous amount of writer’s block. Every morning, it’s the same. Get up, look at the screen, get discouraged, close the screen.
In case you haven’t guessed, I’ve been feeling less inclined towards the personal posts on the blog lately. Interviews, product reviews, random ‘kids say the darndest things’ posts, I feel like they give me something to write about, but I had intended for this blog to be a personal one, and preferably with a sense of humor. Perhaps that’s the problem.
There’s so much going on over in the House of Riley and most/all of it is too personal to broadcast to the world wide web.
There’s also all the work I’ve been doing with my non-blog writing. I’ve been trying to get more paid writing gigs and when you’re writing for work, writing for fun has less fun in it. They warned me this would happen. (They talk a lot, don’t they?)
Then there was the Twilight Saga incident of last week, during which I just HAD to find out what would happen with Edward and his Bella, love. Sigh. I never did read my book club book, but I realized that Husband had invited someone over for dinner the night of book club (tonight), so I won’t be attending anyway.
This past weekend also marked the one year anniversary of the death of my grandmother. It came and went without much ado, but I wonder if it emotionally drained me involuntarily.
I find I just don’t want to think about anything these days. Is that possible? To just turn your brain off for a while – a long while – and stop thinking? I bet there are a number of insults I could throw in at this moment, directed mainly at Mariah Carey and/or fans of Jean Claude Van Damme movies, but even that is too much effort. So you tell me: have any of you ever just wanted to turn your brain off and how did it go? Because I’ve already read the Twilight Saga and watched Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. I clearly need something stronger. Any suggestions? Reality TV? 90210 marathon? Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals? Hmmm. I think I’ll stick with the Monty Python Philosopher’ Song.
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If we were at a pub together, we could totally raise these not-quite-traditional Irish toasts together, and there would be much laughter and forgetting:
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There. All better now?
The weirdest thing that my husband had me do to numb up is play video games. I broke my toe one time, and it seriously worked better than drugs for helping me forget about the pain–no joke. He even bought me a nintendo DS game to help deal with the pain of two months of pre-term labor :o)
Good luck with everything.
I totally know where you’re coming from!! I go through cycles and the one that seems to last the longest is the not wanting to do anything one. What is the weather like where you are? I know that the weather warming up has helped motivate me lately. People always tell me when I’m in my slump to get up, get out, get moving! It never works for me but maybe it would for you. What works for me is to ride it out. And spend too much time reading blogs.
Yeah, I can relate. I just joined facebook, and I’m blaming that for my lack of ideas for my blog. I am also hoping to get into the more lucrative side of writing again, but so far haven’t done it. Sigh. Who has time? Between french class and teaching and staring at the computer screen, I’m swamped.
But if you were here, or better if I was there (better beer selection in the US), I would totally drink a pint with you for St Patrick’s Day, even though I’m not Irish and suspect you aren’t either.
How long have you been blogging? After four years I find myself repeating on holidays. I posted a St. Patrick’s buffet taken from past Irish posts, but I did add a new picture. The ferry boat to Logan airport was decorated for Paddy’s Day. Guess who took pictures?
I think you nailed the ‘writing for work/writing for fun’ conundrum. I have been so busy writing for clients, that I just don’t feel like writing for fun at the end of the day. The fingers can only tap on the keyboard for so many hours a day.
i tend to find reading young adult fiction. have you tried the diaries of Georgia Nicholson? (starting with Angus, thongs, and full frontal snogging) If you don’t think too hard, it’s highly enjoyable