a) Yay Mavs! Yay Dirk Nowitzki! Yay commentators who say hilarious things like: “Sometimes something is so wrong it’s right!”
b) Speaking of hilarious things people say, my coworker Erin, who recently got back from a trip to Texas, had me LOL-ing (I’m so down with the 2000s) when she recounted this scenario: She’s walking through the Memphis airport on layover. The intercom blares something about boarding for LaGuardia. She passes two ladies, one of whom turns to her friend and says, “Is LaGuardia even a country?”
c) And suddenly I’ve got a hankering to watch this for about the 3,000th time since 2007.
c) And suddenly I’ve got a hankering to watch this for about the 3,000th time since 2007.
d) Possibly it’s committing blog suicide to, within my own blog, encourage you to read a different blog. But I’m sorry, Jon Acuff – of Stuff Christians Like acclaim – is just too funny. He’s also one of my heroes. (In the company of Jack Sparrow and MacGuyver, so I’m not sure how he’d actually feel about making my hero list. Then again, I’ve never met Jon Acuff. Maybe he’d feel honored. Maybe he likes eyeliner and duct tape, too.) Anyway, his SCL post today made me LTIC. (Laugh til I cried. Wait, you mean that’s not on the teen-approved text-speak list?) Also, I’m reading his book Quitter. Big thumbs up.
e) Okay, down to the point of this post: Blog Scheduling.
Here’s the thing: Despite my part-time Type A personality (Yes, I organized my walk-in the other night. Yes, I enjoyed it.) more and more my Type B side is rearing its flighty head. And that makes it very hard for me to stick to an actual blog schedule like all the Seth Godins of the world tell us too.
Sidenote: I have never been able to tell whether I’m Type A or Type B. Seriously. Same with the whole extravert/introvert thing. I’m an inxtravert, I think. (Take that, Mr. Keirsey.) So, recently as part of WIP research, I was actually reading a Wikipedia entry on Type A vs. Type B and learned, happily, there’s such a thing as Type AB. Finally. I’ve found myself.
So yeah, the blog. I started blogging because writing experts told me I need to. (Though, Ryan Howard disagrees. Reference, anyone?) But I’ve never been able to settle on a schedule, a running thread or, frankly, any semblance of order.
BUT.
Sometimes a person just has to buck up and do the right thing. Like when I finally quit wearing, nay, threw away, the pair of jeans I wore on a missions trip to Mexico and loved, loved, loved – concrete stains and all – because of the memories. But if I can say a sentimental goodbye to my missions trip jeans, surely I can commit to a blog schedule.
So here goes: Henceforth, Mondays will be “fun days” with probably very little point but hopefully very many giggles. ‘Cause we all need a dose of random to start out the week. Fridays will be “devo days” because, honestly and slightly selfishly, I want to get better at listening to God and, ahem, actually applying what I’m hearing/learning/reading. Writing is how I process. And if it can encourage someone else, all the better. All posts will still probably have a writing bent. ‘Cause, dude, the writer side of me – just like my love for flannel sheets and should’ve-been-born-five-decades-earlier taste in movies – is unsquelchable.
So there you go. We’ve got a schedule. I’ve made a commitment. I should probably reward myself with a Diet Coke with Lime.
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Ha! I LTIC’d again when I read the piece about LaGuardia. I laughed because I mean, really people? I cried because I think about the fact that those gals our a glimpse of our future. Sad.
I’m still loling over LaGuardia! That’s good stuff! 🙂
I will be here each and every Monday and Friday, M-Tagg!! Hope you enjoyed that Diet Coke with Lime.
Hehe, Anonymous aka Erin, I think! And Jessica, I know, hilarious, right? 🙂
And Beth, I did so enjoy my can of Diet Coke with Lime. As I always do! And yay, I’m glad you’ll read each Monday and Friday. Speaking of which, I’m heading over to your blog now…:)
Love this post. And I can say I’ve never seen the teen beauty contestant before, but that was so sad…in a rotf kind of way. And the people at Memphis International Airport…you’re liable to hear anything there!
Look forward to Mondays and Fridays!
Thanks, Pat! About the teen video…as much as I LTIC (seriously, if I write that enough, people will start using it, right?) every time I see the video, I have to admit if I was put on the spot and asked why 1/5 of Americans can’t find the U.S. on a map, I’d probably fumble with my answer too…mostly ’cause of the hilariousness of the question. Seriously, 1/5? They had to have been including babies in that poll!
Love the new blog!
Thanks, Michelle!