Catching Idle Butterflies

Like I don�t waste enough time already?

Dang, if I’d have known all I had to do was complain about lack of comments to receive more comments I would have written yesterday’s entry much sooner!

I’m kidding. I told scarlett_o_h already that would get old quick both for me and for you. Besides, there’s much more to life than worrying over the little stuff. I wrote it mostly for therapeutic reasons, and all your comments only helped. Thanks for your understanding, for making me smile, and laugh.

On to other subjects.

zwisis commented how she’s worried over spending so much time blogging her other writing is suffering. I can so relate to that as it’s also been on my mind. I told hubby last night about my frustrations. Here I’m supposed to be rewriting a book and writing more monologues, yet instead I’m spending my time here.

Perhaps I’m addicted? Maybe, but like zwisis said, the instantaneous feedback and conversations with other writers fulfills a part of me, especially since most everyone else I know around me aren’t writers. Talking to them about it I only get blank stares in return.

Well, I did something yesterday that will take up even more time I should be spending writing. I set up a Myspace account. I don’t have much in it yet. Heck, setting up my profile overwhelmed me some!

I had to laugh, though. I signed up around lunchtime yesterday and asked Hubby to be my friend (he’s been on myspace for almost a year now). I said nothing to him, wanting to surprise him. I expected him to be pleased, but he told me three or four times last night and again this morning, “Thank you for being my friend.” I think he’s more than pleased. People do enjoy their spouses to participate in what they are doing. I had tried to get Dave to sign up with writing.com, because he’s been writing hilarious adventure stories about his monkey puppet he named Gristle for his nieces. He wasn’t remotely interested, content to post them on myspace instead. I signed up mostly because I want to be a part of his online life as well as his daily life. By how he reacted to me signing up, he wanted that as well.

Plus I talked to partyof5dj on the phone Tuesday, and he mentioned how he and many of you also are on myspace. In the next few days, keep a lookout for a request to be my friend.

If you don’t get one, I may not know you’re on myspace, but you can find me at http://www.myspace.com/pbthththth I chose “pbthththth” as my main page link because all the real words I wanted were taken. Even if you don’t have a myspace account, you can still visit my page. There ain’t much on it yet, though, so it’ll be a quick visit, I’m sure.

What I’ll end up doing with it, I have no idea. Long term, though, I could use it to advertise my writing – once I get published that is.

Speaking of publishing, I attempted to bribe karabu today. She and I have both been published in a small publication called “Drabble” put out every quarter or so. They’re 100 word stories (not one word more or less) based on a specified theme. You can find the specifics at http://www.samsdotpublishing.com/betweenkisses/main.htm If they like the story, they’ll not only publish it, but pay a whopping $1 per story and send a free copy of the publication. They have another one coming out, and neither one of us has any ideas yet. To help motivate us both I said whoever writes the first one, the other has to pay 500 GPs. I better get to it, not only because I don’t want to lose 500 GPs, but the deadline is March 31. Is it really March 1? Wow did February fly by.