My SMB contribution for December was SUUUUPER late. I mean, way super duper late. Like, over 3 weeks late.
We are supposed to submit our posts by midnight of the last day of the previous month. I, Master Procrastinator that I am, usually get mine put together and hit "submit" somewhere around the 11 PM mark of the due date. This isn't *entirely* out of laziness -- I weirdly work better on a deadline -- and I'm such a perfectionist, that if I write it sooner, then I just tweak it and revisit it and obsess over it until the due date.... whereas this way, I just have to get it out and send it off.
Moreover (confession time.): I most often really, really, reeeeeaaaaally struggle to come up with a topic or theme to write about! Usually satisfied once it's on paper, but man... dreaming up where to start doesn't come easily for me.
For this month, I submitted my post on the 22nd. Yes, of December. For December. That is, it was 22 days late. Why they didn't boot me, I have no idea, but whatever. Thankfully this was my first offense.
And I think it shows... This post just feels to me like kind of a flop.
In hindsight, I don't know if my "meh" feelings about this piece are in regards to the piece itself - or because of the circumstances I now know, which are that 2 days after writing this, we would begin to see overt signs of a miscarriage. I suffered with a lot of anxiety (more than my own usual.) in the months of November and December, and now I look back and see I just wasn't myself, in lots of ways.
More on that later (maybe), but for now --- here's what I came up with for December. It doesn't reflect in text any of that (it's a shallow humor piece, after all) ---- but in my mind, when I read it, I remember how I was feeling writing it.
http://www.scottsdalemomsblog.com/2014/12/24/10-ways-you-know-its-the-holidays/
(PS -- my original title said "almost Christmas", but the P-C Fairy made some edits, not to my total surprise.)
Moreover (confession time.): I most often really, really, reeeeeaaaaally struggle to come up with a topic or theme to write about! Usually satisfied once it's on paper, but man... dreaming up where to start doesn't come easily for me.
For this month, I submitted my post on the 22nd. Yes, of December. For December. That is, it was 22 days late. Why they didn't boot me, I have no idea, but whatever. Thankfully this was my first offense.
And I think it shows... This post just feels to me like kind of a flop.
In hindsight, I don't know if my "meh" feelings about this piece are in regards to the piece itself - or because of the circumstances I now know, which are that 2 days after writing this, we would begin to see overt signs of a miscarriage. I suffered with a lot of anxiety (more than my own usual.) in the months of November and December, and now I look back and see I just wasn't myself, in lots of ways.
More on that later (maybe), but for now --- here's what I came up with for December. It doesn't reflect in text any of that (it's a shallow humor piece, after all) ---- but in my mind, when I read it, I remember how I was feeling writing it.
http://www.scottsdalemomsblog.com/2014/12/24/10-ways-you-know-its-the-holidays/
(PS -- my original title said "almost Christmas", but the P-C Fairy made some edits, not to my total surprise.)
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10) You stroll each of Target’s home decor aisles, repeating: “Would she like that? Would she like that?? ……Would IIIII like that?????”
9) You bake cookies for the neighbors. And then bake more to actually take to the neighbors.
8) The fur-lined parkas come out in droves. (It is sub-70, after all.)
7) You spend hundreds of dollars at Costco, yet purchase not one food item. #garlandfordays!
6) You step on an ornament hook and almost-just-almost wish it had been a Lego.
5) Your toddler thinks “pie” is synonymous with “breakfast.” As in: “Who ordered this oatmeal? Take back these pancakes. I shall only eat pie.”
4) You make fudge for the neighbors. And then decide it required too much work to be given away…
3) The $150 for an indoor tree which you will keep for mere weeks suddenly looks like a “Great Deal.”
2) You suffer from Acute Hyperaddressmatosis of the Phalanges: A seasonal condition in which one’s dominant hand suffers transient but intense cramping and deformity secondary to lengthy sessions of card addressing.
1) You visit Amazon.com so often that it requests to become your home page, and your friendly neighborhood UPS guy (Mike) earns himself one of those holiday cards. #hiagain
