(AKA – Blogging about why I don’t always blog…)
Aye…woefully behind in blogging.
Holiday season sort of eats me up, spits me out, and then re-eats me again. And this year there seems to be a roll-over effect right on into Jan. I’m taking it as a good sign the economy is turning, at least a wee bit..hopefully for ALL of us! ::fingers crossed::
Then I wonder, ….does anyone even read my blog? If readers are like me, I have a long reading list of RSS blog feeds, full of really cool people I like, who inspire me, and want to follow….but little time to read & savor those blogs. I’ve had more than a couple people contact me, commenting that I never respond to *their* posts, …or not so subtley say “Well, if you read my blog, you’d know about this.” Guilty. I do read my blog list on occasion, but not as often as I’d like…. And social networking leaves me feeling like I’ll never in a million years be able to adequately keep up with everyone, in all the ways I can possibly be in contact with them, and all the interesting people that there even ARE! Communication abilities are light years advanced now….but I can still only read/type at “X” mph.
Too, I’ve come to realize that the word “busy” means different things to different people. I literally get up each morning at 6:00 a.m. and am on a fast-track pace all day (7 days a week), hustling usually till 7:00 p.m. doing all my-have-to-dos. Part of the job-description for a chief-cook-and-bottle-washer business owner. When you “do it all”, the buck stops with you and you literally have to “do it all”. As in “ALL”. This isn’t a complaint vent…just making excuses I guess, or giving a peek into my real life. But same-person who grouched about me not reading her blog, went on to tell me how busy her “busy” is and I realized I’d love to have her “busy”…sounded like a day of relaxation to me! LOL! It’s all relative.
I love it and wouldn’t trade being my “busy”…but it tends to shine a light on how short the days get when ambitions are big, ideas abundant….all but for the time to accomplish them all. I’m a virtual guru at the art of multi-tasking, it’s not that I don’t work efficiently…..but I’ve come to realize you can get so good at multi-tasking, but due to human physical, anatomical and molecular physiology constraints, you can not take on one more thing, even though you *think* you can. It’s both a curse and a blessing. Something has to get shelved. One of my shelvings tends to be active blogging.
Anyway, holidays over, so hopefully a return to a more normal scheduling, and blogging that is both interesting, useful, as well as reciprocal! ;) And as for more time….I DID afterall….paint that damn bench last year and place it invitingly so I can’t ignore it each day! It is inscribed with two of my favorite sayings on the butt slats:
Sit yassen i’ fae – “Sit with the faeries”, in Elvish.
And…..
Il dolce far niente – “The sweetness of doing nothing”, in Italian.
Must. Take. Own. Advice.
~Carol