A Festivus Party
Woman in the Middle | December 10, 2012One of the blogs I follow is called “The Waiting.” Emily statred the blog on WordPress to document her pregnancy. But MIss C (as she calls her adorable little girl in The Waiting) is now here and Emily blogs about other things as well. I enjoy her blog because she writes well (a must for me, I have discoverd) and I enjoy following the blogs of people who live in different parts of the country and are at different points in thier lives than I am.
Emily and another blogger friend came up with an idea to have an online “party” for us blogging folk that regularly follow their blogs. They called it a Festivus party. No, I do not know what that is and no, I have not googled it. I am just goiing with the flow! The interesting part of this party is that any blogger could sign up to give a Secret Santa “gift” and receive one from a fellow blogger. The gift can be anything we choose. What the heck, it is the holiday season, so I signed up. Apparently I was not the only one who thought this would be fun because over 60 other bloggers signed up as well.
I was assigned my fellow blogger to select a gift for, but I can’t say who it is as all of this is a secret! I read the rules that came with the email assigning me my blogger and it was no biggie. Come up with a gift I don’t even have to buy, describe it in 130 words or less. I checked ou the blog I was assigned, I went online, I selected something expensive and extravigent, and I wrote it up in less than 130 words. Then Emily posted a new post about the whole party, letting me and my fellow party goers know that our description of the gift we choose was a great opportunity to show off our blogging personalities. Oh….dear….lord….
I went back and read what I had written. Show off my personality???? Nope. Did not do that. While the gift was gosh darn wonderful the words I used to discribe it were oring! So I did what I always do when something rattles me. I ignored it for as long as possible. I reread it my gift description a couple of times and was reminded yet again that I can not write well just because I want to. I am afraid I am funny only when it happenes spontainiously, never because I want to be. Sigh.
So it was back to the drawng board for me! The new gift is less spectacular but my description is lot more me. I can’t share it right now because that would give away the surprise. But I will share it with you latter. I think the big reveal is on December 21st.
The Waiting – http://notthehardestpart.wordpress.com/
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