I’m one of those folks who, when hit with an idea for a blog post but no time to write, opens up WordPress, types a title of a post that summarizes my idea, and then I go about my business.
The concept being that I will return to that post soon thereafter and develop a kick ass, highly publishable, multi-tweetable post.
Well, I just decided to scan through my 26 draft posts {since April} to try and get some posts queued up and ready to go over the next few weeks. Here are a few of the blog post titles I found:
Facebook is funny.
Oooh, this sounds provocative. So..what’s funny about it, Gigi? That some people are still addictively playing Mafia Wars a year since you last checked? That some people post more pictures of their 40 year old selves partying than they do their own kids? That you have barely been on Facebook since you started blogging? WHAT IS SO DAMN FUNNY?
What is my daughter laughing about in her sleep?
Apparently, I thought one slumbered chuckle at 10 p.m. was enough to write a blog post about. Well what was she laughing about? Did she find a new place to stash the trash she picks out of the upstairs garbage can and thinks I’ll never discover it? Was she just fake sleep-laughing? Oh hell. Maybe she was laughing at Facebook, because God knows, it’s funny.
My pre-kid life.
Come on. We know what this was going to be. An old forty-something waxing nostalgic about downtown living, peaceful dinners, sleeping in on weekends and how somewhere deep down, my soul was empty inside without children. While it might have been empty, it was also RESTED and didn’t YELL SO MUCH!
Seeing your kid do what he loves.
Ah yes, a rare sappy and inspirational post about the pride swelling up in me as Boy Wonder does what he loves: arm farts. Running around naked, then stopping to stick his butt out and shake it like a Chippendale dancer. Burping. Staring catatonically at video games. Shoving as much food in his mouth as he possibly can. Not washing his hands after using the restroom.Shoving shit covered underwear in his drawer.
Kids are like seeds.
No way. You feed them, you water them, they grow. They die if you expose them to too much sun. They thrive in dirt. What the hell else is there to say?
He is hoarding his tool.
A dramatic tale of my husband denying me his manhood? Maybe, except men don’t do that. It was about a commercial grade kitchen spatula. Snort.
I think I’ve pretty much covered the high points of these in 500 words or less. No need to waste a full blog post on any of them. Time to hit delete.
So…what do you have in YOUR blog post wasteland?
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Hehe. I do that too! The last one I deleted without publishing was a rant about mr. grooms morning time management skills.
Rachel´s last [type] ..Weekend Recap
LOL! Facebook?! I deleted my account ages ago…
Have a great day – see you on Friday!
BLOGitse´s last [type] ..women
Well, I never thought to go back and look at those drafts!! I’ll have to see what kind of story I can make with those.
Stopped here from Leanne’s place – From Chaos Comes Happiness.
Sheesh – at least you have ideas! I have one big, fat empty drafts pile. Woe is me.
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I do that too. But I don’t have as many cool and exciting things to talk about as you do. I definately think you should have written a post on him hoarding his tool. (yeah, the manly tool) I would have been laughing my butt off
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Well considering my ‘wasteland’ is my brain, it’s not easy to keep track. Like ever. ‘Tis why most of my stuff is random.
about this tool, though. Um. Just um.
MommaKiss´s last [type] ..Blinking Cursor
I have decided that my brain has become nothing more than a folder in which to store future possible blog posts. There are multiple things that happen in an otherwise regular day-in-the-life that make that bloggy place in my brain scream, “POST! POST!”. But by the time I get there, I got nothin’.
I loved how you took your “nothin’s” and turned them into somethin’!
Sherri´s last [type] ..Sympathy with a Side of Ignorance
guilty as charged! It is funny to go back and look at your idea list and say “what the hell was i thinking – how was i supposed to write about that??” lol.
My biggest problem is i get my best ideas while driving so i can’t do anything with them. Then I forget by the time i can get to a pen and paper or my pc. I really need a Droid phone app that records my voice as text and saves it somewhere.
Lots, since I am convinced I have ADD. I have several titles and started post and a folder full of a gillion scraps of paper plus little notes I find elsewhere like in books, makeup cases and in my car.
That’s why my posts aren’t always timely-I might not be in the mood to write about what just happened.
AmyBlam´s last [type] ..Friday Flip-Offs 7-2
how do you even have the time to “have” a blog post wasteland?? I have no wasteland because I don’t have the time. I barely have a moment to blog each day!
Vanquishing the Vampire Cult!
How can I get my kid away from these highschool Twilight wannabees. But she took all the fun out of it by ditching them on her own before I finished it.
Motpg´s last [type] ..Meet My Summer Vacation
I must admit I might do a couple posts ahead here and there, but rarely just add a title and then leave it to ponder. This is a great idea actually. And I think facebook could become book worthy. It is an annoying, yet addictive world that I have yet to fully understand.
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You are so funny! I love these … each of them … and would read each one and probably laugh loudly at all of them (the hoarding his tool cracked me up, big time!) I think I do the very same thing (jot down little subjects for blog posts) … right now I have the following AWESOME topics pending: Citrus Gum and Mr. Willie (that caught your interest already, right?), Favorite Movie quotes (that’s a dud, I admit it), To shake or not to shake (shake what, you ask? Well…you’ll have to wait for the post!) and A letter to a Birdie (yes, seriously). Hmmmm …. lots to ponder, huh? Great post, Gigi! Super fun!
Haha, you are a laugh riot! Snort. Mine are not nearly so funny (plus maybe I will one day… well, we’ll see
Christin@Pregnant with power tools´s last [type] ..Tripod Lamps
This is the kind of stuff that makes your blog so enjoyable. I’m giving you another accolade for your wall of fame. Congrats on winning the Sunshine Award!
http://crassconstruction.blogspot.com/2010/07/todays-linky-suddenly-susan-and-sunhine.html
LOL love this, Gigi! That facebook thing really crack me up! I too have some post drafts that just sit there, reminds me I need to go clean ‘em up
So funny. Arm farts are something every kid loves.
Kludgy, you have a very funny blog. I need to visit more often.
What is it about parenting and involuntary yelling? I yell all the time now and I’m not even Italian…
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I found you via Cheryl T -crass construction. I wish I had thought of the soundbite, Blog Post Wasteland! Really fun post!
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Ooh, I’ve got some good ones. My favorites that will never see the light of day: “The Quarter Life Crisis” which was bout the six months I spent as a party girl, and “I Want To Live Forever,” which was whining about the inevitability of death. Debbie Downer material for sure!
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Ah, this was greatness! How funny. And yes, I do that too. The best are the ones I jot down after an adult beverage. Suddenly what sounded soooo cool and great the night before just, well, isn’t.
Molly´s last [type] ..We are a family that does stuff
I hate that I have to go looking. I wish WP kept all the drafts on your first page.
liz´s last [type] ..Too Much of a Good Thing-
LOVE IT!! I so do that!!! Hubby got me a little voice recorder for my b-day since I kept running off to jot (type!) out notes for post ideas! It’s been very useful!
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I came over from Lady Bloggers because this post title intrigued me. I admit that I have 14 draft posts (most of which will make it to the big time someday, maybe) and 4 trashed post which probably will never see the light of day again. I had not realized others do the same!
Ah, guilty as charged. I’ve got half drafted blog posts, but they’re usually rants that don’t have any intention of publishing for the eyes of the general public…LOL
Funny post today, glad I stopped by from the Lady Bloggers, going to bookmark you!
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I’m so glad that someone else sees all the hilarity there is to see with Facebook…I’ve been waiting far too long for others to acknowledge this!
Popped in from Lady Bloggers! There’s so much in my wasteland….
Blond Duck´s last [type] ..Dallas Jean Lee knows the secret to a good stew
*snort!*
Ok, I shouldn’t fine the bit about the spatula as funny as I do, but I really really do.
Also, I must have been a yeller my whole life, because when I thought about the yelling I do, it’s actually not changed much.
It is possible that perhaps I have always been a wee bit on the excitable side.
Pretend to be shocked.
Lori @ In Pursuit of Martha Points´s last [type] ..Oh- the wrongness-
Perhaps I should just embrace my yelling as an unchangeable character trait, as you suggest? I like that idea.
Argh! The drafts I have that are piling into mountains!
Great idea. Some things are meant to be short stories, some a paragraph, and even yet, some haikus.
I love night giggles. I always wonder what’s going through those fantastic little minds. I remember when things were all candy colored and rainbows. My daughter once came bawling about a nightmare she had, “I dreamt you had a lot of candy, but it wasn’t for me!” She could barely get her words out it upset her so much. Oh, to have her problems!
P.s. did I tell you I’d be all over your blog or what?! I have to get back to work!!!! I can get on individual blogs, but not anyone on blogger or other hosted sites. Bah, Humbug!
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