I have seen this on quite a few blogs these past days, you take the first sentence of the first blog post of every month. The problem is that I tend to see my headline as the first sentence, so I try to make the headline exciting, and then follow it up with a very, very boring line. See for yourself:
January: As you probably have noticed I didn’t feel much like blogging these past, ahem, weeks.
Well, same old, same old. But I will get around to it someday.
February: It’s time for the just posts again.
Which means that I didn’t post anything for the first nine days of February, oops.
March: I think it was Terry Pratchett who said that if you read enough books you’ll eventually start writing because all the words filling up your brain will start seeping out.
That’s a good one, don’t you think?
April: Time for the Just Post Roundtables again!
See February.
May: The writer’s group I’m in has gone from writing really short pieces once a month to writing a story before each meeting.
This was an introduction to the first story I posted on my blog. The “Story of the Month”-category did not make a monthly appearance, though. I’m still trying, though. (I have to write another story until Thursday, stay tuned.)
June: First, thank you very much for your comments on my post about feeling fat.
Nice one, that.
July: I just spent fifteen minutes on my computer, changing the color scheme of my blog.
Changing my blog’s theme has been on my to-do-list for quite a long time because this one takes ages to load. Sorry about that.
August: Welcome again to the Just Posts.
See February, and April.
September: As I told you I ordered it the day that I sold my congas.
To understand this one you have to know that the headline was “I got my spinning wheel”. I’m still happy I traded the congas for it.
October: and I missed them both.
Again, this doesn’t make sense without the headline which read: “So, yesterday was Blog Action Day and Love Your Body Day”.
November: Again it’s the time of the month where we meet at our virtual round table and share what we found about social justice.
Just Posts again. That’s the fifth time in one year that I did the first post of the month on the tenth.
December: Sorry to let you hang for so long but just in the next 2 1/2 hours I should: take a shower, exercise, go grocery shopping, do taxes, write a real blog post, write a story for tonight’s writing group meeting, cook, and eat lunch.
This about sums up a) my life at the moment, and b) my enormous tendency to procrastinate and do things at the last minute. Needless to say that I didn’t accomplish all of this. I think I did taxes, took a shower, went grocery shopping, and ate lunch which my husband had cooked while almost keeling over because he was so unwell.
I really have high hopes for 2009. Who knows, maybe I’ll even get around to dusting the house once a week again. Or exercising. Or writing. I did quite well for the first few days this year, exercising, playing music, and doing housework but yesterday I hit a wall, and spent a lot of the day sitting around doing nothing. As I did today. when after a few hours of this I realized that, wham, it’s PMS-time again! Knocking me out for half the month. So I better get out of the house and get me some Vitamin B, and hope that will get me moving again.
