I have been toying with this idea for some time now and thought it would be time to blog about it (if not obvious, I am really good at thinking about doing stuff!).
A good percentage of my time on the internet is spent reading other people’s blogs (OPB). I find inspiration and utter entertainment reading your words. I write in my blog only to be included in the club, otherwise, I would be just as happy lurking and devouring your words.
So, I thought I would give myself a meme called “Posts that made me….” and share with you a few posts that have affected me in some way. Of course, these are not the ONLY posts; in fact, the difficulty with this meme is that I need to narrow down my selection.
To conclude, whenever I am bored with my own words, you will see this semi-random (?!) post. Enjoy.
Post(s) that made me laugh this week:
I have a confession to share with both of you; I really hate Halloween. I am not talking about my Baby Goats and Halloween. It is awesome to watch them get dressed and overloaded on all things sugar. But, as an adult I have no idea what it is about wearing a costume that totally frightens me. In fact, I hate it so much that my “go-to” costume when I am forced to wear one is to attach a whole bunch of watches to my belt and when people ask me what I am, I simply tell them that I am a “Waist of Time.” Get it?!
I know there is a deep psychology to it that probably isn’t worth going into to, or vice versa, that there is no psychology to it and I am merely an idiot, but I don’t like the idea of being masked or pretending I am something that I am not. It could also be related to the fact that I cannot stand playing practical jokes on people.
But that doesn’t stop me from reading about other people’s adventures in playing dress-up:
For two different versions of the same Halloween party coupled with a ton of photos, check out Life’s Short and Terri Terri, Quite Contrary. How they managed to get 6 hot chicks into a bar together is beyond me!
For a spin on the traditional and ubiquitous memes, read Avery Gray’s take on it. I am reading this at exactly 2:57AM after the Red Sox won the World Series and I almost peed! She has a bullet point about the “comedian” Carrot Top and it made me think of the last time I was in Vegas, I saw his steroid-induced, can’t-put-my-arms-down-because-my-lats-are-too-big body fly through Caesar’s Palace. What a freak show (Carrot Top, not Avery..well maybe Avery too. I will get back to you on that)!
Post that made me think this week:
When my brain is craving the occasional jolt that can only come from actually USING IT, then I serve myself well to visit him. This blog deals with the issue of gullibility and anti-gullibility. I have only recently discovered him and am grateful for both the words on his blog as well as the thoughtful comments he leaves on mine. This post was particularly of interest to me and I feel it will be for all true skeptics. People have leveled the charge against me that since I don’t fully understand all scientific principals, like electricity, nor can I see electricity, that I have a similar “faith” in electricity that religious people have in their gods. Of course, this is not true and this post reminds me of that fact.
Post that made me cry this week:
They may have given the world the crazy antics of Benny Hill, but last week, this Brit gave me moments of tearful reflection as he shared with us the first post he ever wrote. He wrote this painful message in response to the death of a friend’s child. But tears of sadness were quickly replaced by tears of hope as Big Dan goes on to tell us what he is intending to do about it. Read it here. His name may be boring, but what he is doing is far from it. Good luck Dan. You are a hero!
Post that made me smarter this week:
I am a recent convert to the very latest in geek-chic (actually, I am a few years late) approach to personal productivity called Getting Things Done, or GTD. I have taken a bazillion “time management” courses and all of them completely ignore the what the hell do I do today question. They all have this over-simplified, top-down approach to getting things done. GTD, to me, is a revolutionary concept that clearly addresses those issues.
To understand some of this, you need to know that I literally (pun intended) am the most disorganized person on the planet. My job and borderline crisis state at home demand that I stay on top of myriad issues, projects and other minutiae. I cringe at the sight of “to do” lists that all but fall at the wayside as soon as the first interruption comes along and all your to do’s get pushed to tomorrow.
GTD is the first system that makes sense intuitively and exploits some of my fundamental flaws and makes them into a positive attribute to the getting things done.
Like most people, I am stuck in the “paralysis of analysis” phase; the thinking-about-the-beginningto-think-about the-research-to-begin phase. So I spend a lot of time reading other GTD’ers as they go through their process.
I stumbled upon this blog that essentially tell you how to “Get GTD Done.” It is well written and serves to motivate me, yet again, to GET THINGS DONE!
So go, get away from here and read some real blogs! You can come back later to thank me.
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