Blocked

Things I have not been doing over the last couple of weeks:

1. Winning the lottery.
2. Selling my house.
3. Vacationing in Mexico. Or anywhere.
4. Going to law school.
5. Making babies.
6. Cutting the grass.
7. Getting exercise.
8. Blogging.

Things I HAVE been doing over the last couple of weeks:

1. Doing my taxes.
2. Cleaning my house.
3. Spending a small fortune taking the kids to the Baltimore Aquarium with my SIL and nieces.
4. Thinking about law school.
5. Practicing making babies.
6. Paying the HS kid down the street to cut the grass.
7. Enjoying the sunshine and nice weather by firing up the grill.
8. Meeting up with a bunch of bloggers/twitterers for ice cream/coffee in Rockville.
9. Trying to start blog posts and staring at the Compose New Post: The Fish Pond screen as it mocked me and my very little brain.

I've had the worst case of writer's block I've ever had, and really had no good ideas. None. Managed to get a post up at DC Metro Moms so I don't get fired, but really, it's not my best work. It's been horrible. So when I'm sitting here at my laptop (which is new, btw, I don't think I mentioned it but my old one got the swine flu and we couldn't heal it, and we don't have my old system disks to wipe the hard drive and start over thanks to a husband who's a bit snobby about his computers, so I bought a new one. Dude, I got a dell, and it's awesome.) and the screen is mocking me and I can't think of anything to write and my baby appears at the kitchen gate with his backpack on and says "Go, Mom! Wet's go!" I easily closed the screen and went with him on a grand excursion to the front yard. And BigDaddyFish got out our massive collection of Thomas trains because Nemo kept seeing our roundhouse, which won't fit into the rubbermaid bins we store those suckers in, and telling BDF "Need mowre twacks." So we've played trains. And I went to my cousin's bridal shower in Pennsylvania. I spent a lot of time on facebook. I've even chosen to do laundry and clean my house rather than blog because I just didn't have anything to say.

But now, thanks to a comment from BDF about the zen of waiting for a train, and my brain finally getting into gear about all kinds of deep topics like breastfeeding and libido, now I have stuff to write about. If only I could find the time - those Thomas trains don't play with themselves, you know.

Look, dolphins!

My trooper of a husband carried Nemo in the mei tai the whole day we were at the aquarium. Hours. It was dreadfully amusing to me each time he went to sit down with Nemo strapped on him like that, and the distinct grunting and hips thrust forward, leaning back thing he did when he was wearing Nemo on front as he napped was reminiscent of nothing so much as a woman in her ninth month of pregnancy. Priceless.

Peek a boo!

Aquariums - not just for fish anymore.

The tree in my front yard.

Feel free to give me topics to write about - anything you want to know?

Comments

[Agincourtdb]

I think you should write about zombies. Oh, wait, that's what *I'm* supposed to be doing...

[jen]

I just did a bullet point post because my brain is so fried from being gone this weekend. Bullet point posts save me from myself. LOL! I also keep a list of post ideas on the wall in front of my desk, in case all thinking comes to a standstill. Does it work? Eh...my last post for Rocky Mountain Moms was because I was sure I was about to get kicked off too! LOL! Ebb and flow, m'dear. The mojo will return.

[hokgardner]

Sounds like you've been doing far more important things than blogging.

I'm not posting because, while I have lots of posts buzzing around my brain, I just can't muster the energy required to type them.

The big, bad D word is stalking me.

[BananaBlueberry]

What makes you laugh out loud?

[Musings from me]

What's your law school plan? Soon or when kids are older. I took grad classes last year. Thought it was what I wanted to do but have since reconsidered. Now must rethink my "what will I do when I grow up?"