I was over at Joe Felso posting comments to my heart's content about coffee, the addiction of coffee, the routine of coffee, the rationalization that the last thing we all need to do is CUT DOWN ON COFFEE, when it hit; aren't we all trying in some manner or another, to get down to a 'Half Cup' on everything?
Here is a list of items I'm trying to cut down to a Half-Cup:
1) superfluous commitments;
2) people who talk too much;
3) overcompensating
4) anxiety
5) rationalizing
6) takers….
Thursday, November 08, 2007
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-time spent blogging
-criticizing my kids
-people who don't give back (takers!)
-Smarties
-potato chips...
Sleep - it's the enemy! :)
I love your blog, Grumpy Bunny. Your questions are terrific, and make me think. Thanks! Finding great blogs is a little like Neil Young's search for a heart of gold.
Best wishes,
Jerry Waxler
Memory Writers Network
P.S. I am intrigued by your idea of a comment revolution. I love the idea of using my blog to have a conversation with my readers. And I have a question about it. I never know whether to answer by commenting in my own blog, or the commenter's blog, or send an email. Does your revolution come with instructions about where and how to answer people's comments?
Jerry
Memory Writers Network
Hi Jerry,
Thanks for the great posts. I really enjoy your blog too, and your style of writing. I'm also intrigued by the memoir process. I've spent years jabbing away at memoir writing, and have two collecting dust on the shelf at the moment.
Oh, the revolution? I'm not sure I was onto a revolution, I was just having one of those moments where you can't stop writing, and it happened on someone else's blog. When I caught myself, I started to wonder how Joe Felso would feel about the whole thing, so I came back to my own blog to finish....
I never know either, whether to respond to comments on my blog or someone else's. I love finding comments on my blog. Is there such a thing as blog etiquette? Sometimes, if I have the time, I do both, respond here and then go over to their blog and post too. For instance, I'm going to finish this post and then go over to your blog...what happens when I get there though, I'm not sure.
Hi Mary! I'm back. Knowing D on Joe Felso, he's pleased his writing moved you to respond as you did. He's a cool guy.
I like your half cup list. It would make a great poem!
I love the concept of cutting back to "half-cup" - my list looks very much like yours - learning I don't need so much, and also that I won't take so much crap from other people... or myself! Great post!
For me it's not so much cutting down as adding, though cutting down on blogging and anxiety and depression would be good, but I'd like to double up on exercise (actually 2x0=0, right? so that wouldn't work.) OK, add exercise, kindness, neatness, creative fiction writing and publishing and bunch of stuff I stuck as a compulsive list on the side of my blog to remind me. Oh, and cut down on compulsive list-making.
i love lists. oh, do i love lists.
Christine is right, I did appreciate your comments, and I'm intrigued by the metaphoric implications of half-a-cup. I'm late joining this comment stream, but here's my list of other things I need half-a-cup of...
--wasted effort (that might bloom elsewhere)
--self-recrimination
--overbooking my time
I need a cup and a half of
--keeping up with faraway friends
--quiet with my family
--stimulating blogs like yours.
-D
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