Journal Of A Madwoman | DearDiary.Net

Errands run, lunch consumed, my knee bounces in agitation, my head swirls with half formed thoughts. It must be Monday.

I am trying to use my nervous energy in constructive ways, but piles of laundry taunt me from the bedroom floor, piles of papers wave at me from the countertop, piles of blankets and pillows harumph in disgust on the couch, waiting their turn to be folded neatly and put behind the chair. All of these conspire to make me feel like I would be better off to read a book, or write, or draw or sew or crochet a stitch or two.... but even those things sound like too much work.

Eventually I will overcome my inertia and get going. You wait and see...

My new year's journal sits quietly at my elbow, waiting for January 1st to roll around. Though actually I won't be writing in there until Sunday because I don't write on the Shabbath.

I have this irrational fantasy that THIS year I will be writing wondrously scintillating essays in there that will be eagerly pursued by scholars eons from now. But then I snap out of it and have to put away my delusions of grandeur in favor of the more rational possibility that I will continue to scribble away like the madwoman that I have become.

It's a promising looking little thing. Homey and unpretentious. Here, have a look....

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I realize it's pretty lame, writing in an online diary about preparations to write in a really real journal. . . . In fact, you could make any number of derogatory observations about my behavior today. I would be forced to concede your points. I can barely make sense of me myself the day.

Ach well, mayhap I'm sliding into another dimension. One where the madwomen are the sane ones, and all the so called "sane" people talk gibberish to themselves on the light rail.

A dirty sock from the laundry pile, just crawled in here and nipped my ankle. I'd better throw it in the washing machine.

I will try to get my wits about me before I write tomorrow. I'll get a basket and go wit picking. . .

Comments (14)

Supertrooper (Legacy)

you make me smile my friend .

wit picking ...I like that !
Hugs
Linda xx

monstergue (Legacy)

Man, those dirty socks can be vicious, can't they? I use the fire place poker to keep them at bay

Pragmatist (Legacy)

You should tie a pretty bow on the handle of that wit-picking basket. If you can wait until Wednesday, I have some pretty ribbon you can have.

Shalom

bookworm (Legacy)

I do agree. This journal looks like a wonderfully comforting place to come and write your thoughts. Who cares what you write, just do it. ;-)

InStitches (Legacy)

Just make sure it is not Griffen nipping at your ankle when you head to the wash. When ones wits are not about them it is easy to confuse socks and cats. :)

Sweetsummerbreeze (Legacy)

Your are quite funny my friend. I admire you for being about to keep a written journal and an online journal. I'm not good at writing things down that is why I have an online journal.

ImNotLisa (Legacy)

Oh man! Is that what happens when you let the laundry pile up? I am in so much trouble!!

Dustbunny3 (Legacy)

Energy to spare ?? Well I busted a track out to the main road and worked on shoveling deck and walk , heavy wet snow about 10" . Took a short nap only to find Daisy dinking with the Shovel on the deck and out to put stop to that. The Mailman will not drop mail on the HWY if he gets snow on his shoes . Not like the mailmen I knew. Then we had had a guy with a grader plow all the roads in this complex ! yep you got it piled up three foot drifts on everybodys drive way that I had spent time clearing . So now you have a MAD MAN to go along with the day.

ichandra (Legacy)

oh mon amie that is a gorgeous journal why not have two journals that will be a beautiful keepsake
I enjoyed your comment on my holy night post you said I can hear the scrunching of snow under your feet as you return renewed beautiful and very sweet
good for you mon amie you shut her down in cyberland for christmas day you know I am so media insensitive I just dont pay attention and it wasnt until this evening that I heard the cnn broadcast of the tsunami and on christmas day
and you know mon amie I have been exploring christmas in my journal and the only valid part of christmas is the religious solemn christs mass which is beautiful but it is based on tragedy all this other planetary media hype is not christmas
have fun writing in that gorgeous journal
love ichandra

sezrah (Legacy)

what a delightful journal it is too, may it serve you well

sez

Calantha (Legacy)

What I have up right now is Maiandra GD, what do you have here? Is it the same?

Calantha (Legacy)

More on the font thing - I wish Dear Diary had a dropdown of fonts and sizes to choose from that Dear Diary readers could at least see and that you could pick as easily as backgrounds and buttons.

Aside from that, I (almost) always list about three font choices like font face="Maiandra GD, Tahoma, Arial, sans serif" - that way if the browser someone has doesn't support the first one, it will go down my list, instead of whatever default they have. I have heard that in other countries, it's good to list 'sans serif' so that their browsers will choose whatever it has that's closest since they have even more limited fonts in certain locations. It is a royal pain. When in school doing websites, I always tested my sites on a couple different computers and also in different browsers - Netscape shows things different than Explorer and AOL and WebTV are a whole other world. Luckily most people now have much better computers than a few years back so more is supported.

Okay, sorry, thought this was my soapbox for a moment . . . *smile*

Oh and speaking of soap . . . Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!

idioglossia (Legacy)

i started a new manual journal just last night! coincidence, what
i hope you find it a comforting place in which to write, i love online journals but deep down there is this part of me that feels there can be no replacement for the scratching of pen on paper and your own handwriting

ciao for now
idioglossia

AQuietEvening (Legacy)

I too have an online journal and a paper journal. Is there something strange about that??? LOL. I received a beautiful journal for Christmas. It's a leather cover with a removable insert... so you can purchase new inserts... I was going to wait to start writing in it until the 1st, but it kept calling my name...so I had to write in it last night.

~QE