Off The Grid

Have you ever wondered where you've gone?

Don't look at me like that, you know what I mean.  You're in the swing of things and really enjoying doing something then BAM! you stop doing it for whatever reason.  You sit back and ponder what happened but you really don't know, you just know that it happened.

What I do know is my last blog post was back in July, which really isn't that bad from a certain point of view but I feel like it's been forever.  Don't get me wrong, I've had many things to write about the past few months but just didn't have the ambition to do it, for whatever reason.

I could have written about my summer camp experience where I spent four days and three nights with Minion #1 and 26 other Webelos Scouts that I had no affiliation to and how on the third day I made them line up with a pair of clean socks and gotchies in their hands and marched them down to the showers because if they didn't shower 1.  I was going to pass out from the stench and 2.  Their parents would kill me.  Do you know how hard it is getting 27 nine - ten year olds to shower in the woods?  Even with hot running water?  What's even more amazing was how some parents actually didn't pack soap or shampoo for their son knowing full well they were going to be in the wilderness for an extended period of time.

Maybe I should have told you about my own family camping trip to Vermont where is rained non stop and we were sleeping in flooded tents.  It was the most miserable camping trip I have ever taken and as you know I have camped A LOT.  The ironic and even scary part was when we were huddled under the tarp and C.C.R.'s Have You Ever Seen The Rain came on Pandora on my iPhone.  Fuck off C.C.R. I saw the rain and it sucked.

Hell, I could have told you about my battle with Minion #3 getting him to stop walking around with his hands down the back of pants.  That was fun telling my kid to stop grabbing his butt while we were in the mall but then again I guess it's a guy thing.

Yeah I could have told you about a bunch of things that happened over the past few months but the reality is my ambition was crushed.  I can't tell you why or how it was crushed but it was.  Don't get me wrong it was kind of nice being off the grid and not having the pressure of thinking of a blog post to write but I missed it.  I've said it before, this is like therapy for me and you the faceless readers are my therapists, just free.

I have come the the conclusion that no matter what someone says, I need to keep writing my blog.  I am truly amazed at how many people enjoy reading it and how much I really do enjoy writing it, after all I am a published author (I'm pretty sure I mentioned that before).  So, I'm back bitches!

Thanksgiving is coming up and this will be the first year in a long time where it is just going to be myself, the Trophy and the three Minions.  I'm looking forward to not having a crowded house and nice simple dinner.  However after Thanksgiving begins the craziness of what we know as Christmas and well that fucking Elf is coming back and getting that stuck up, pompous, Elf on a Shelf blogger another bazillion page views, but I have something for the Elf and her...just you wait.

I've Been A Bad, Bad Blogger

Part of the unwritten Blogger Code is that blogging is a two way street, as a blogger you write and enjoy having people read what you write and then there is the opposite lane where you are supposed to read what other bloggers write.  I have been heading down a one way street on this and for that I apologize.

I haven't kept up on the reading part of the fictitious code, I have been writing but I haven't been reading as much as I should and I feel bad about it.  I subscribe to some awesome blogs (hence why I subscribe to them) and I genuinely enjoy reading them...when I have time.  There lies the catch.  I can write a blog post in twenty minutes flat and honestly I have many posts pre-written and waiting in the hopper so it's been easy for me to spit out a new blog post, but as for reading them, I just haven't had time.  I can make a million excuses why I haven't had time but you've heard them all so I will just leave it at I haven't had time.

With that said I want to give a shout out to some of the bloggers I follow regularly and really, REALLY enjoy reading.  If you haven't checked them out yet, what the hell are you waiting for?

A Beer for the Shower
Don't Chew On The Dinner Table!
Ken-inatractor
Mod Mom Beyond IndieDom
The Incoherent Ramblings Of A Moose
The Insomniac's Dream
The Six-Fingered Monkey (even though he is a complete douche)
workingdan

So go an check these funny ass mo-fos out and follow them on Twitter and like them on Facebook, they are all attention whores so they will love you long time.  Not that I had my confession and thankfully there was no priest involved this time it's time to tell you how awesome I am...again.

I've been presented with some more blogger awards from Sleepy Bard at the Insomniac's Dream and for that I am appreciative but I haven't posted them...yet.  You see I am waiting for Dan to get back on the grid to make our acceptance speeches, but rest assured the time will come. 

However what I wanted to make mention of is Aiming Low has featured me a guest blogger for the third time now, they must like me or something!  For those who don't know what Aiming Low is, it is a community of bloggers who are "Perfectly Mediocre", it says so right on their page.  Don't believe me, well here's proof...

Yup that's me in the middle, under Your Awesomeness.

I'm pretty proud of this accomplishment and I hope their readers enjoy what I write about.  This time around was an unpublished piece of work, so head on over THERE and read it!  While over there let me direct you to the two other posts they featured:

Did You Spray In There?
Advent-ageous

In closing, I apologize to the blogs that I follow that I haven't read them lately but times are a changing and it is slowing down for me outside of the blogosphere.