Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

- Gore Vidal

Nice… good words to live by. Also, probably a very good quote to base a blog off of. Kind of like how people always seem to say “No offense, but…” or “I don’t wanna say …” (and then say it right after; I admit, I’m totally guilty of this conversation faux pas.). If you preface your blog with that, it almost unconsciously gets rid of the pressure of trying to write something for the sake of getting readers. Of course, this is absolutely useless if that IS the goal of your blog. But for me, it works. It also doesn’t hurt that people don’t actually read my blog… how can I get performance anxiety if there’s no audience?! Speaking of which, the “imagine the audience is in their underwear” trick totally doesn’t work. If anything, it makes the audience seem even more confident and menacing! Not only are they here to watch me screw up, but I’m the only one NOT IN MY UNDERWEAR.

After a 4 month hiatus, I finally decided to start up my journal again, thanks to M.Ton. We were talking about some old conversations we had, and I could not for the life of me remember this specific conversation. But I DID write about it in my journal, and a quick cross-reference of the day with some expert ctrl+f-ing got me to the right entry. And while it is quite a time sink when I need to work to figure out what I’d actually done the week before, it’s totally worth it. Might even make for some fun reading material for me or my kids in the future (after some redacting and editing of course :D). So THANKS MICHELLE for pushing me back on track. You rock!

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