annieology

Now that I’m not avoiding my housekeeping duties I have all this time to write. Ironically I have nothing to say.  I have joined many writing networks, and occasionally someone will contact me asking me to write something for them.  Most recently I was contacted by someone who had been the subject of a  “Sincerely Annie” post.

Longtime readers will recognize my “Sincerely Annie” posts as those where I mock a business with whom I’ve dealt recently.

Dear Courtyard,

Thank you for giving away the suite I reserved and putting a family of seven in a room with one bed.  Brilliant.  Co-sleeping is something we should have tried years ago.  It’s not at all creepy for my sixteen year old to have to share a bed with his parents.   Thanks for trying to talk me out of a room with two beds with the “really big price difference” remark.  You have no idea if $53 is a “really big’ deal to me.  Don’t assume that just because I have six children with five different fathers that I’m also cheap.  Just easy, but not at all cheap.

Sincerely,

Annie

After receiving the request for a paid post, which I filled out (tihi) I remembered that I had already done that  free post for them.  Maybe, they’ll use the search function on the side bar….but I hope not.  I could use the $50 to get an extra bed next time we stay at the Courtyard.

Of course the dream is to write in obscurity forever, then have my writings compiled into a book that is made into a movie where Jennifer Aniston gets to play me and realize that pretending to have six kids is good enough for her.  That’s the dream.  And by Jennifer Aniston, I mean Scarlett Johansson because she is a lot younger than Jen and I.  And we could really see how good of an actress Scarlett is when she had to be me, the right wing conservative.

This, my friends, is why me writing a book is preposterous.  I can’t stay on topic long enough to write a cohesive blog post.  You’d preview my first chapter on your Kindle, buy it,  then realize that I’m actually just a crazy person who knows how to self publish.

I know blogging has become it’s own genre.  As, I’m sure you have all experienced, just because someone is brilliant in one genre, does not make them brilliant in another.  I’ve heard brilliant speeches, then picked up a book by the same person, and wanted to scratch my eyeballs out.  There are people out there who are brilliant in another genre, and their blog sucks, but because everyone has a blog, everyone has to have a blog.   Trust me when I say this, you don’t have to have a blog.  Just because you get a zillion hits a day doesn’t make your blog good, you may just rock in another genre. A bad blog just detracts from your brilliance.  If you are a speaker, vlog.

I’m not saying I’m the most brilliant blogger on the planet, I have a faithful base, and it grows every month.  So, I keep blogging.  I’ll keep taking requests from companies wishing my brilliance upon their audience, paid or otherwise.  And if someone would like to compile it all into a book and get Scarlett on board with the movie.  I’m OK with that too.

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