In keeping with my self-imposed rules, I’m writing this #blogjune post in the explodedlibrary bunker rather than the main blog because it seems a better fit here. This is where I keep the offcuts I can’t completely delete as well as the place where I’m less self-conscious.
A post making excuses for not posting every day is not the sort of post I want in the main blog, but it may be ok here.
It’s not as if I was super sick. It was just a cold, but it was prolonged, very draining and somewhat gross. It's not as if I were in hospital, I could have posted on those days but chose not to. If I’m feeling sick enough to stay home from work, I believe I should rest myself from as many commitments as I’m able to. Besides, calling in sick during the day and blogging up a storm at night seems problematic. I doubt anyone at my work had even noticed, let alone said anything. But I’d rather err on the side of caution.
Tonight’s the night I wished I had written that crunching the gearbox post, because I feel even more that way now.
But this experience has been good for me. What I really need to practice is getting back onto the horse after I’ve fallen off. This is where I start to do that.
The next thing I need to do is start reading blogs again. When I stop blogging, I stop doing everything relating to blogging, including the reading. This isn’t ideal, it makes it more difficult to get going again and because I think that reading blogs is an integral part of writing blogs. This is why my next post, will be a little survey of what I’ve missed.
For me, the theme music of #blogjune is the Seeker Lover Keeper album. Seeker Lover Keeper is an Australian supergroup consisting of three of my favourite Australian female singer songwriters - Holly Throsby, Sarah Blasko and Sally Seltmann. I downloaded the album just as #blogjune was starting. Listening to it again tonight makes me feel that I am back.