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Blows the dust off...
CoughCoughAcccCHOOO!

Hello? Hellleewwww.... is this thing on?

Yes yes I know. Where have I been?

I did trail off on the posting for a bit... my last rant in regards to the dreaded ‘croc’ phenomenon that seemed to take over the earth for a time. Hopefully the scourge has been chased back to the depths of hell where it belongs. However I won’t hold my breath for the one at least for the time being. It is winter after all so they could just be hibernating.

No... I hadn’t really gone anywhere. Sadly my life took a turn for the mundane. Not necessarily boring as I always seem to be off somewhere doing something as evidenced by the messages on my voice from various friends and family members giving me shit for never being home. Just not anything worth blogging about really.

I did have lots of thoughts and ponderances but one day I just decided I wanted to keep those to myself. I didn’t feel like sharing what I was thinking. I do that sometimes. Okay, I do that alot. And I know that’s not healthy for me because when I keep things to myself they tend to mutate and evolve into something something really weird and twisted and sometimes even ugly. But as soon as I open up and discuss its like it never was and I feel much better.

Sometimes I like to be selfish with my thoughts... and sometimes I just like to hold onto them until I can process them myself without outside intervention, then I let it out and open the floor to discussion once I have had time to examine it in private first.

So not only that... but I think my Sprog discovered my blog and that did a much quicker job of cutting off the flow of information much faster than any irrational fear of being psychoanalyzed by people who don’t know shit from shinola.

But lately I have missed writing on my Blawg and I think it was watching Diablo whats-her-face on Oprah, the former stripper who wrote Juno (fan-TAS-TIC movie by the way- go Ellen!), telling her story of how Juno came about. Apparently she was (probably still is) a blogger and one of her constant readers suggested she write a screen play. Which she did. Which he liked. And thus begat ‘Juno’.

And holy tropical storms Batman, I’m surprised we still have power the way the wind and rain is beating against my windows.

I can feel the hinges on my writing chops rusting up and that cannot be allowed to happen. I participated in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month- write a 50,000 word novel in one month) in November. Despite my most valiant efforts I didn’t make the 50,000 work mark, however I came up with a story I really like, reached a respectable 30,000 words and realized with a little discipline I can get back on track. I think I need to find a happy medium there though because last time I was writing on a regular basis I was whipping off 6-10 pages a night. But those were the days when my child went to bed at 9pm on my command. Now she’s a –gasp- teenager and things just aren’t that simple anymore. Be that as it may, I should still dedicate 2 or 3 nites a week to hitting the keyboard for something more productive than Scrabulous or Facebook stalking.

So I am back now I guess. I do find lots of thoughts hit me on the bus commute to and from work each day... gotta start remembering to write those down. If I can’t seem to churn out the great novel that will be the start of my elustrious career... heh... I will at least keep the wheels greased and moving along with a Blawg post now and again.