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Posted on February 21, 2021 by mohawkvalleygirl

All I have for my Saturday Evening Blog Post (You, know, like Saturday Evening Post, only I stuck in Blog) is a few pictures of a great big icicle hanging off my roof.

Steven noticed it earlier this week and warned me not to park my car directly underneath it. Naturally I wanted to take a picture but did not get a chance till much later.

I had gone out to meet my friend Kim and when I got home I paused for a few shots. I got one where you can see it is at least as long as a window.

iI suppose it does not make much of a blog post, but at least I find it more amusing than yet another post about Not Making a Blog Post Today. I hope at least for tomorrow I can make at least some semblance of a Post. As always, I hope you’ll stay tuned.

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I Still Call Myself a Blogger

Posted on September 16, 2020 by mohawkvalleygirl

Have I crashed and burned after my second 15K in a week? I fear ’tis true. I managed a Monstrous Monday Post two days ago, then went to bed after a couple of attempts last night. I added the pictures I took Sunday to my Media Library, but once again, words are not forthcoming.

So here I am, early Wednesday morning, making a quick silly post, so I can still call myself a daily blogger. Oh, I know, people can call themselves anything. It doesn’t mean other people will believe you. For example, I tried to change my name to Zsa-zsa back in 1989. It didn’t catch on. In the army, people called me Q, eventually Sgt. Q. In civilian life, not so much. Oh, and in the mid-80’s, I invited folks to call me Amaretto Vetrone. Few availed themselves of the invitation.

Well, I guess I’ve taken care of the silly part of the post.

I have been doing some small bits of writing these days. As I sit here pecking out these words, I think, “Hell yeah, I can write.” It’s like running, all you have to do is do it, but you have to do it. If you see what I mean.

Is A Lame Post Better Than No Post At All?

Posted on February 29, 2020 by mohawkvalleygirl

It is time for my Lame Post Friday post. We just got back from Salvatore’s Pizzeria and Restaurant in Herkimer, NY. What a yummy dinner! Now we are looking at Dateline: Secrets Uncovered on OWN. I do love true crime on a Friday.

But now I want to make a blog post. A shout out to Salvatore’s? A review of Dateline: Secrets Uncovered? Some half-baked philosophy on my love of true crime? None of these topics grab me at this time. What a stupid situation!

Lame Post Friday is usually the place for random observations and half-baked philosophy. The sad thing is that I have neither right now. Wait a minute! Is it not an observation that I have no observations? Discuss amongst yourselves. Will that not lead to some half-baked philosophy? Please share in comments!

OK, this whole post is yet another essay on Why I Can’t Make A Post Today. How disgraceful of me. Would it not be better for me to not post at all on such days? That is what I did on Wednesday. Therefore my lovely readers have some basis of comparison. Please, please, comment on which is better. I will endeavor to oblige.

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Just Write One Blog Post

Posted on January 10, 2020 by mohawkvalleygirl

OK, this is not quite the same thing as type-it-in-back-space-it-out. I just added a photo I took on a recent Mohawk Valley Adventure, typed in one sentence, and realized I could not go through with composing the entire post. At least I put a headline on it and saved what little I had as a draft, but what the hell, me?

This morning I wrote a little in the TV Journal, as I have been trying to do lately. A quick check showed me I have been steady since Dec. 26. I feel I must give myself a little credit for that at least.

Regarding my apparent inability to write before my shift starts and while on breaks at work, I said to myself, “Just write one sentence.” I repeated it in my head as I got ready and drove to work.

And I wrote one sentence! And then another one! They were not good sentences, unfortunately. Mostly I wrote about the fact that I was writing, expressing some surprise that I was doing so. Still, I wrote a couple of paragraphs.

I really do not know why I feel as if I am starting from several steps behind scratch. It is not as if I have gone any considerable length of time without writing at all, and I have not suffered any devastating mental or physical ailments.

In the meantime, I see I have surpassed 200 words with this nonsense. I shall close with the picture I opened the unfinished blog post with. Call it a Preview of Coming Attractions, if you like.

Did the troll put a hex on me, do you suppose?

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Maybe I Am The Peanut Gallery

Once again my plan of writing my blog post in advance did not work out. Some fellow writers will understand and sympathathize with my apparent inability to write, others, including a good number of non-writers, will scoff and tell me to get up off my lazy duff and WRITE, damn you! Sometimes I find my own self in the latter category.

I have a few Mohawk Valley Adventures to write posts about. Unfortunately, before writing any this evening, Steven and I got out and about and ended up at Applebee’s for Winesday. After splitting a bottle of Chardonnay, I feel disinclined for further activities. What a bum am I!

With a new year and new decade (and, please, do not any of you be didactic and tell me the new decade technically begins in 2021), I have been trying to write more. Full Disclosure: I have not met with much success in this endeavour. Any suggestions from my lovely readers? Further Disclosure: my first impulse was to type “from the peanut gallery,” but I was afraid people would take it amiss.

So I guess that is two questions I have: Are there any suggestions to increase my writing output? And: Does anybody reading this mind being referred to as the peanut gallery? Please submit any answers as comments below. I warn you, if nobody expresses an opinion, I will feel free to refer to my readers as The Peanut Gallery forevermore.

Merry Christmas Anyways

I wonder if anybody has noticed that I have not posted since Sunday. I have no valid excuse. I have a few lame ones but I am loathe to share them, largely because my mother reads this blog and I don’t want her to worry. Ooh, too late now, unless I delete this paragraph.

I can’t do that. I haven’t posted for three days; I can’t get the type-it-in-backspace-it-out disease now.

However, it seems I can possibly get the hit-Save-but-don’t-Publish-it disease. I confess to having a few atrophied partial posts floating in my Drafts. Every so often I pull one out and try to finish it. No luck so far.

So basically, what I am offering today is Yet Another Post About Being Unable To Make A Decent Blog Post. Could that possibly be worth a three day wait? You tell me.

The main reason I have not been able to post is my ongoing struggles with depression. I dislike mentioning it, because I do not want to be whining, especially as I feel my problems are far less than what others deal with. Incidentally, the latter reflection makes me feel even worse. What an ungrateful wretch am I!

However, perhaps other readers also suffer from depression, and they might like to feel that they are not alone. They may even get a frisson of superiority if they are dealing with their problems with greater aplomb than I can muster. Remember: no life is wasted, because one can always stand as a bad example.

In summary: I have not been posting lately, because I have felt paralyzed by my depression. However, it is nothing for anybody to worry about, should anybody feel so inclined. This will probably just morph over into a common or garden post-Christmas letdown. I have survived those before.

On the brighter side (see, I can usually find one of those), once I hit Publish, I have finally made a blog post. Phew! I was getting worried that not posting was going to become a habit.

Fun Sunday after Run on Saturday

So now it is Sunday, and I am having quite an enjoyable day. I went running this morning, most unusual behavior for me on the day after I ran a 5K. I ran neither very fast nor very long, but I enjoyed it.

Later this afternoon, my husband, Steven, and I went to Fratello’s Pizzeria in Frankfort, NY, for a drink and a snack. I am hoping to write an article about them for Mohawk Valley Living magazine. We had a fun time and enjoyed our food and Chardonnay.

Now we are sitting at home, bra off (me), sweats on (both of us ), watching It’s a Wonderful Life (Steven’s idea) and having another glass of Chardonnay. And I realize the necessity of making a blog post (by my rules, made up by me, applying to me).

Where we had a nice snack.

I guess I don’t have a whole lot else to say. Maybe a word or two about the early Christmas present I received today from aforementioned husband Steven.

The new view if me at leisure.

Aren’t they awesome? Steven purchased them for me yesterday at a drug store while I was running the Reindeer Run 5K and gave them to me today. Isn’t he wonderful?

I always say there is no point at getting anything done on a Sunday. At least I am making some semblance of a blog post. I hope to see you all again on Monstrous Monday!

Who Wants to Read a Blog about How Sick I Am?

At the risk of trying my readers’ patience, I took another blogger’s sick day yesterday. In my defense, I can’t so easily take a day or partial day off work so stuck it out for the full eight hours. Something had to give. It was the blog. And the episodes of Dateline on OWN I went to bed rather than watch (and I LOVE Dateline!). So now I am up at 4 a.m. (OK, I am usually up by 4, 4:30 at the latest), typing away.

And feeling rather ill-used about the sore throat (new symptom) and continued headache. I would not be surprised if I picked up some virus in addition to my sinus infection and will feel terrible for the foreseeable future. Or maybe it was a virus to begin with and I am building up my system’s tolerance for antibiotics to no purpose.

While at work, I alternated between thinking I would go home and straight to bed, and telling myself, “No! Don’t give in to it! Go running! Write your post cards and walk to the post office!” Oh, how terrible do I feel about not writing my weekly post cards yet? Quite terrible. Anyways, it will come as no surprise that I did, in fact, give in to it.

I don’t now how much longer this illness will last, but it is making my blog damn boring, as well as making it difficult for me to accomplish any other writing. Hands up, everybody who, when you are sick, want nothing better than to lounge around on bed or couch and wish you didn’t feel so rotten. Oh, I suppose you probably don’t (you know who you are).

However, I see I am over 250 words. Time to get ready to face the day. My goal for today is not to spend any time resting my head in my hands and not to complain to any of my co-workers. It’s good to set goals.

These Things Happen

It wasn’t that I am a bad blogger this time (although I may be a bad blogger; let us leave that discussion for another time). Yesterday was really, truly a Blogger’s Sick Day. After having a marvelous evening and getting home a little before midnight (an unprecedentedly late bedtime for me) (at least in recent memory; never mind my misspent youth), I woke with a truly dreadful headache.

I had not overindulged in the wine at our after theatre dinner and hoped the headache would respond to treatment. After all, it was Saturday! I wanted adventures! I tried hydration, aspirin, my heated face thing, naps, a hot shower, and an ice pack (I did not use heat and ice at the same time. I wonder if that would work).

I thought the second nap had helped, so we went out to get some food. Partway through our late lunch (which really tasted good), it became clear that I was not better, and nothing was going to help. I guess it was a migraine. Sometimes putting a label on something can help you bear the pain.

Back home, I could not even watch a movie through the nausea. In my defense, it was a tense, disturbing movie, which can be wildly entertaining, but my stomach couldn’t take it.

So here I am, up before 6 on a Sunday, typing in a whiny excuse about why I didn’t make a Saturday post. These things happen. I hope later on to blog abput a better Sunday.

Why I Did Not Make a Post

This is going to be a short, self-indulgent post wherein I apologize for not making a post yesterday. I left in the morning to spend a wonderful day with family. I returned early enough to make a blog post, but first I went out on the deck to enjoy a glass of wine and some time with my husband.

Lounging in a comfy chair, watching the changing light in the sky, all I wanted to do was just stay there and relax. And all I wanted to do after that was lounge in my bed reading a book till it was time to go to sleep. The thought of picking up my Tablet and venturing online was not a pleasant one, and no threat of guilt the next day could sway me.

In point of fact, I could have made a blog post in the morning; I had time to do so. However, I was enjoying a leisurely morning. Eventually I went for a short run. I thought about making a Running Commentary post, but instead put on a fashion show for my husband. Well, I had to figure out my outfit for the day! What better way than to pose in front of Steven, both getting his input and testing which clothes are most comfortable?

So the post did not get made, and now I am over 200 words explaining why not. I’ll try for a better post later on today, but as usual, no promises.

Mohawk Valley Girl