Tuesdays Are Good For All Sorts of Things! Even Tasty Bites!

28 February, 2012 9:20 PM

I’ve been using the MacJournal for some time now, and though I’ve never learned the application well enough to consider myself fully proficient in its functionality, I, at the very least, thought I had a grasp of its basics - funnily enough - it turns out - I don’t. I’ve had a few issues with it over the last couple of weeks that, if not trying my patience, have at least caused me some distress. I won’t go into them now because that’s not why I’m here - no, I’m here to say ‘Happy Tuesday’ to you all! (It’s probably just me I’m talking to - but I’m a willing recipient for a happy greeting - if indeed, the only one.) The main thing I’d like to mention is the HOTB (The hour of the blog), as its lateness disturbs be. I really do need to become more proficient about selecting a topic and directing my energies towards expressing it rather than this random, late night, blobbering - for it does not satisfy the ‘need’ to be doing this. Basically, what I’d like this to be is a ‘practice’ at writing by the act of writing - learning from my mistakes - but I need to concentrate my thoughts on one subject and let that serve for each nights writing. Okay - I’ve just hit on it (maybe); years ago, when I first met ‘TLOML’ (The Love of My Life), I introduced what I thought would be something fun (since we both liked (and like) to write); we would each take 5 or so slips of paper and write on them, a theme, a topic, or a phrase, which we would then mix up in a hat, as it were, draw from it a single slip , and then spend the next 2 (or was it 5? perhaps 10!?) minutes writing on that particular subject - an excellent exercise - but not performed frequently enough and eventually falling into disuse - pity, for it actually worked. I could do something of that nature here - perhaps create a jar in which I throw the ‘odd’ idea and when I am completely bereft of things to write about, reach into the proverbial cookie jar and pluck out an ort that could perhaps be turned into a tasty morceau. Who knows? It could be the start of a trend. Only time will tell. (cliches can be pretty much okay, eh!?)