Category Archives: Blogging

Get Mortified

Blogging, Entertainment,

Last week I had to go into the office to train someone else to fill out the web forms I’ve been doing for the past six months or so. On the way I listened to WAMU and heard the creator of Get Mortified talk about his concept. Get Mortified is, in its own words,

“… a comic excavation of adolescent artifacts (journals, letters, poems, lyrics, home movies, stories and more) as shared by their original authors before total strangers.”

I got pretty excited about this – after all, I’ve been sharing my angst-filled adolescent journals online for a couple of years. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to see the show when it was in DC, but I suppose there is next time.

Hmm, I need to get back to the past and transcribe more teenaged entries. I kinda miss 17 year-old Cedar Waxwing.

In for the what?

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What’s that saying: In for the something out for the something else? Oh – In for the penny out for the pound? In for the penny in for the pound? That’s gotta be it!

Whatever it is, it is what I thought about when I chose to write this post right now instead of work on my work-for-pay stuff. I am monumentally behind in my “files” and have made some probably poor choices recently like the Hiptop Halloween Hunt yesterday and Costco the day before. While there are some valid reasons I’m behind, I really should be concentrating on those files rather than on writing novels and blog posts.

That said, I’m glad I’m back and doing some of this posting on a daily basis. I miss writing – copying text from PDF and Word files and pasting it into an HTML editor may sound like a blast, but it’s not as fun as you may think. It can be mind boggling tedius and it sapps the energy from my brain, making me want to do nothing but watch television at night.

So, to get back to the title of this post, I figured I’ve already gotten behind in my work, I might as well get this post for today done.

I wrote over 800 words on my NaNoWriMo novel this morning – I had no idea what I was going to write about until I actually started writing. Now I’m kind of excited to find out more about my characters and the plot. I’m pretty sure I know where it is going, but it keeps changing in my head.

The kids have today off and I was supposed to go to a free 508 conference in DC, but because I’m behind in work and because the kids are home, I figured I’d not go. I went last year and the section I attended was nothing more than a commercial for Adobe.

Ok, enough procrastinating. Off to copy and paste and format.

Blog Action Day

Blogging,

Coming in late in the game, but I noticed that today is Blog Action Day. I heard about it a week or so ago, and thought I’d add my voice to the cause when the day came, but didn’t know the exact day so I promptly forgot about it. Noticed that today was the day on a headline of an RSS I subscribe to.

I most certainly am no expert in the field. I used to be more concerned (even obsessed) about the environment:

  • I was a vegetarian for several years (with a few meat eating breaks here and there).
  • We recycled before curbside recycling came to our home in Alexandria Virginia.
  • We attended rallies for Earth Day etc.
  • I took an environmental awareness course for recertification credit in the late 1980’s.
  • When both children were infants we used cloth diapers instead of disposable.

Then something happened. I began to not care so much. I was caught up in motherhood and, while we continued recycling, the rest of the environmental issues took second place to our family comfort. I don’t keep the winter temperature below 70°. I blame it on my Raynaud’s. However we rarely use our air conditioner. It has to be sweltering before we turn it on (90° or more with humidity). So I figure we even it all out.

As for global warming, I admit that I didn’t believe in it until recently when something profound happened. Of course I don’t remember what it was – but something happened that I saw and made me believe that we were really experiencing global warming. Please note: I’ve not seen the whole of Al Gore’s film for another reason I cannot recall.

I’d like to say that I’m working from home in order to save the environment from yet another single passenger car from being on the road, but I’m actually working from home because I like to work in my jammies.

My kids accuse me of what I accused my parents – we’ve let them down and ruined the Earth for them. As a teen I thought big – globally. As a young adult I did the same. As a parent and middle-aged adult I think more locally. Perhaps as an elder I will think globally again.

This wasn’t so much of a post on the environment as a post on my response to it. So be it. My next car will be a hybrid though.