My Top 9 Excuses For Not Being Around Much Lately (Part 3…)

Allrighty then…

I know you have been waiting for it.   The characters have been developed.  The plot has thickened, and here we are at the climax and conclusion of my dramatic list of excuses for neglecting my blog.  If you missed Part 1 or Part 2, take a moment to get up to speed.  If you have been hanging on the edge of your laptop, here it is. There is even a moral to the story.  I don’t disappoint.

Excuse #3: I got stuck in my car for 10,000 miles.  Really!  Summer kind of exhausted me. I was all purposeful and committed about it at the beginning and even dedicated the first run of the day exclusively to me—10 miles round trip to the gym. Yeah!  Starting at 8:00 a.m. each morning, it was clearly going to be all about me, until 9:00 a.m. when it became all about THEM and I had to drive 10 miles to ballet camp, 10 miles back.  Then, 10 miles to drop boy off with friends, and 10 miles to homestead.  Then, 10 miles to skateboard the skate park and 10 miles back.  Then, 10 miles to ballet camp and 10 miles back.  10 miles for errands.   10 miles for family “fun.”  I  literally 10-miled my way to 10,000 miles in 10 weeks and now my car which is less than 1 year old has this many miles on it.

I think I should look for a house that is 5 miles away from everything.

Excuse #2: My daughter, the ballet dancer danced in a cave on Maui…

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and atop the Haleakala Crater…

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and in a clearing in the forest…

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and on a bluff in Cambria…

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She wouldn’t stop asking me to take pictures of her dancing in precarious places.  Because of that I got in a fight with my hubby on the last night of our really awesome trip to Maui because we almost missed the sunset AND our special romantic date due to me taking pictures like this…

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and this…

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Then the kids had to stay with us while we watched the sunset which sort of spoiled the whole “romantic date” thing.

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But just like the Christmas card on the mountain incident, you can’t stay mad for too long because it’s so friggin’ beautiful that it makes you want to simultaneously cry and quit your life in California so you can move to Maui, even though you know deep down that that is really unpractical and stupid.  I mean, how could you make a living in Maui and what would you do to fight the island fever?

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But, he was still mad and is now holding a grudge and added a rule to his list of “Rules my Wife Must Follow if She Wants Presents” which is  “Rule # 45: Wife can’t take pictures of daughter doing ballet in precarious places when she is supposed to be on a date with husband at sunset”. I clearly have more rules, but that’s okay.

Excuse #1: But the number one reason I haven’t been around much lately is because I got buried in SPAM and I couldn’t get out!  (This is the life lesson).

The moral of my three part story is this… If you have a blog (and this applies metaphorically to life.  Just replace the word “blog” with “life” as you read further), don’t dare neglect said blog. Post regularly because if you don’t, you will be swallowed in SPAM of the worst kind.  It will creep into the darkest corners of your blog and take over one malicious, salacious comment at a time and keep you from finding the real thoughtful and heartfelt comments from valued and appreciated readers.  It will make you dislike your very own blog because the thought of having to deal with all that SPAM is overwhelming so you might as well give into the countless excuses that take you away from your blog so you don’t have to deal with it.

So, if I missed a comment you posted because I accidently deleted it in a SPAM deleting rage, please accept my most heartfelt apologies because it probably got absorbed into the ginormous web of SPAM that took me 10 days to clear from my system.

Ahhhhh!   It’s good to be back.