I WILL get around to that name post, really

I should have a post up at Parenting some time tomorrow (Thursday) re: I Love You Baby Jesus But Your Birthday Decor Needed To Go Back To The Garage. For your information.

You people with blogs, do you ever come up with Topics? You know, like, actual things you want to write about? And then you sit down and write and produce a lovely post on said Topic and you publish it and you think, "There! That's done!" And then lots of people have something to say about it and you feel- well, I don't KNOW how you feel since I NEVER DO THIS. I have a handful of Topics floating around in my brain, but there's always something else I have to spew first. It's like I have this IDEA that my blog is going to be this place where I will write carefully constructed essays that sort of, you know, adhere to whatever storyline I've got going over here. But then I end up writing about stubbing my toe. Or something. 

FOR EXAMPLE. I have a half written post about choosing Molly's name. And Molly is how old now? MONTHS. I even had a DREAM the other night about choosing her name and I woke up with Renewed Bloggy Vim and Vigor, but I still didn't finish it. I wrote some random spacy "gee I'm a grown up!" drivel. Not that my name post would not ALSO be categorized as drivel, but that's missing the point. The point being that this place is sort of a dumping ground for my brain. I make a deposit and leave with some extra space for whatever irritating thing is going to happen tomorrow. Yay instant publishing!

(Can you tell that it's- wait, let me check- eleven o'clock at night, which is something like four hundred hours past my preferred bedtime and Phillip is engrossed in some new iPhone app and I didn't have anyone to talk to all day long except a nonverbal almost-20-month-old and a 4-month-old, who, while actually way more verbal than her brother, still has a long way to go before she masters the art of conversation?)

I'm tired. 

Phillip has just informed me that he needs his computer to look up some work stuff so I have to end this terribly fascinating rumination. And now you have the truly pathetic picture of life in the Cheung household at eleven o'clock at night- kids asleep, parents sitting up in bed fighting over who gets to play with what gadget. Sigh. At least this means I can fall asleep while playing Enigmo.

Comments

[Charlotte]

Yeah, um, I can't even get around to updating my newly minted blog. I write posts, save them and then wonder if anybody really cares, you know? I have a 'would I want to read this' attack, then I just shelf it. There are like a bagillion things that I think would be interesting, but then I realize that I'm a total dork and the entire internet will know that I am a total dork who spends a lot of time thinking about upholstery (but is not dorky enough to cure the blog of the ugly) and it will be high school all over again. The internet (and by internet I mean readers who search for 'domestic disturbance' and come across my drivel) will point and laugh at my unevenly puffed puff pastry and pro/con list about---wait for it---nailguns.

In short, yes, I totally kinda know where you're coming from. I have fantasies about being organized blogger lady who posts things that are relevant and tasteful, that appeal to and engage readers (and aren't solely composed of run-on sentences), but sometimes I just want to rant into empty space. On the bright side, at least your compromise involves actual writing since I'm still in the sulking phase.

[Christiana]

I so want to read that name post, so don't forget it alright? But seriously, I am amazed by you and your ability to post several times a week - I'm good if I get it up once a month.

Every once in awhile I get a topic, but I have like 2 readers, so it's not an issue to get comments and evaluate how I feel about them. :)

[lindsay]

I think the topic posts are awesome, but they tend to be more difficult to write as you kind of have to take a stance or spend every other sentence saying "to each their own" and "not that there is anything wrong with that". Also they are usually more revealing (scary) than daily drivel. But, they are waayy more rewarding long term as you can look back on it and be like, wow that was quite the Opinion I had that day. So, in short I encourage them.

..What I think would be cool is if we could bypass blogs and just attach mind reading machines to people's heads with LED screens on their foreheads revealing what was going through their brains. Now that would be cool. I bet some great topics would come up.

[Jess]

Sometimes I pick specific topics and write about them. And when I don't, I feel like I SHOULD HAVE. Ah, bloggy guilt.

[Tara]

Yeah, I have all these grand ideas that my blog will actually contain, you know, SUBSTANCE. Thoughtful posts on interesting topics. But then I realized that those kinds of posts take lots of forethought, and time, and brainpower. And frankly, I don't have those things in my current state of SAHMing an infant and a toddler, you know? It's so much easier to spew daily ramblings!

[el-e-e]

I think I said recently that I may never again post an entry that has any kind of "Story Arc." As if I ever USED to. HA! But then I remind myself it's a "log" (web-log), not a compilation of short stories. So I log my daily stuff, and I think that's fine. :) Yours is, too.

[Becky]

I know what you mean! Lately I've been recap-ing my trip to Vietnam and Cambodia & it's SO much harder to write a post about a specific topic than it is to just write free-form!

And it takes 5 times longer! :)

[Christina]

I swear you are the Seinfeld of bloggers - you can write about absolutely nothing and it's witty and funny and totally entertaining. I want to be you when I grow up. Never mind that I am older than you - details!

[Jen]

I always mean to post about Topics, but when I sit down, all my thoughts go out of my head and I put up another cute baby picture. At least I have that to fall back on now, it was harder before the baby was born.

[Manda]

DUDE, you ARE the Seinfeld of bloggers!! Hee!
Sometimes you do have Topics. Remember the whole "why I'm Catholic" series you did forever ago? I found that fascinating. That being said, I have a half-written post saved somewhere about the things I couldn't live without when i was pregnant. Yeah, THAT ENDED MONTHS AGO. Ah well. Sometime we must rant. Hey, let's trick someone into paying us for that!!!