All posts by Dona

The Dog in the Manger

Reading

I never really liked Aesop. His fables left me feeling guilty. But I read them anyway and noted the morals at the end of each tale.

So, I’ve been sitting on a book that I knew, deep down, I was not going to read in time for book group. I bought it for myself before Christmas and Dean gave me a copy for Christmas. I sold a copy to the woman who is hosting the book group. I was going to return it anyway. Who needs two copies of the same book?

Then I found out that Catherine was 157 on the waiting list at the library. 157? This must be a good book. I’m on page twenty-something. I’ve brought it to wrestling matches and it remained unread in my bag. I’ve picked it up at night and it lost to whatever was on TV.

So I called Catherine tonight and offered it to her. She stopped by and now I have none.

Kind of funny — I had two copies — suggested we read it for book group and now don’t have a copy and am not going to have read it.

In a way I am upset and wonder if I’ll run out and buy it tomorrow. In another way, I’m relieved. Just another thing I don’t have to do.

Random sleep deprived thoughts

Musings, , ,

So last night, when I couldn’t sleep (son sick — you don’t want to know the details) I made a long list in my head of things about which I wanted to blog but by the time I awoke I only remembered that I wanted to talk about the cats and their alpha – beta-ness. Also I wanted to talk about community. I also started pulling a Weird Al and began a parody of a song which involved cats, houses and blogs.

Who knows when or if these posts will come to light — but stay tuned.

Ohhhh! Snow!

Soon, I promise…

Writing

In the not too distant past if I didn’t get a chance to write I’d be nearly frantic. I’d write in my blog even if I had work to do and not feel guilty that I spent time writing instead of making money, but recently I’ve been given more work and now have things like deadlines and charge quotas to make. I’m also now responsible for training people to do what I taught myself to do. Many of the people I’m training are out of the area so I’m getting used to talking on the phone more (something I generally dread).

And then there’s twitter and Facebook. It’s easier to post a quick sentence or two about your day or moment or an experience than it is to write a blog post about it.

It’s not that I don’t have a bunch of things to write about — and I will write about them soon. Just not today.

I’ve also not kept up with your blogs and I’m sorry about that. I’ve scanned most of them, and will get back to comment soon.

I should be happy about this — I know three people who have lost their jobs since summer and here I am, getting more work than I can handle.

I’m not unhappy. Just uninspired, I suppose.

Until we meet again…