In which Julie blogs and burns various foods

I started this post over a week ago and am just now finishing it . . .

I keep telling my mother, who I'm pretty sure is the only one reading my blog, that I've been too busy to blog. Which would be true if I hadn't spent yesterday morning reading other people's blogs, yesterday afternoon watching BBC's Sense and Sensibility, and yesterday evening re-watching it. (Kids were gone all day at a play date.) I should be too busy to blog because I've got Junior Church prep, a project list a page long, meals to make for two new moms, and homeschool planning to do, but who wants to do those things?

The truth is I have sat down several times within the last week to write amazingly insightful and humorous posts, but the problem is . . . well . . . blog envy. When I sit down at the computer, I always check my email first. Read. Reply. Read. Reply. Then, I check my favorite blogs, listed on my sidebar. There are only three, but after reading their amazingly insightful and humorous posts, I start checking out their favorite links of the day. Click. Read. Click. Read. And after reading blog after blog of really good stuff, what I wanted to say doesn't seem so amazing, insightful, or humorous. I sigh and go fix dinner which, by the way, by this point has burned because what I usually mean to be 10 minutes at the computer is more like an hour. Things I've burned in the recent past: hard-boiled eggs (there was not a single drop of water left in the pan); water (no, you can't burn water, but I did put a pot on to boil for potatoes that I let boil down to almost nothing and had to start over with a newly-filled pan);and a waffle (see Exhibits A and B below).



Just so you know, I'm working through my blogging and subsequent burning issues and hope to write more regularly soon. But for now, I've gotta run so I don't burn the Mushroom, Spinach and Goat Cheese Tart I'm making for tonight's chick flick viewing of Julie/Julia with the gals.