Comment of the Week Award
A blogless, but otherwise highly intelligent person, emailed me this week to point out that not only was I muddling one week with another, but additionally, I was muddling one blog with several others. I plead guilty on both counts. However, it did prompt another stunningly brilliant idea! Why not give the award on each blog? Far less confusing, well for me at least.
Hence this post is repeated on “alien” and “Sandwich” but with different awardees.
{Don’t want you to have to wade through this more than once, just skip to the end.}
Another brilliant person “mit blog” castigated me [in the nicest possible way!] for my neglect of the “Hub,” which once again I need to 'fes up to,' as we Americans are wont to say. I'm lucky if I mange to read through the first two or three postings in the list and since my intelligence quotient is at an all time low, I rarely comment either. Ooo the irony.
Since I am now on a confessional streak, I would also admit that I have spent time on the “photo blogs” for several reasons. Firstly I like “piccies.” I am a very visual person.
Secondly, it is far easier to choose a “picture” and post it, than it is to write intelligently. Whilst I continue to take daily notes on our doings, it is hard work to channel that material into something worth reading. There again, if your enjoy reading schedules and lists who am I to criticize. Just think of it as my attempt at quality control.
The photo blogs also have the advantage of a thoroughly international flavour. This means that I can convince myself that instead of embalming my brain, I am really learning to be a linguist. This is sure to come in handy in the future when I travel round the world. I shall be able to say 'post comment, email, URL, spam filter, preview and post,' in every language in the world.
In my defense, all I can say is that I promise to try to do better soonishly.
I still struggle to juggle!
[Inspired by "Scribbit."]
This week it goes to “Autism in a Word” at “RhemasHope” for her comment on the “Special Exposure /Wordless Wednesday” post where she made this comment:-
‘This is so interesting to me. When I was a child I read the book “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” in one afternoon. I then decided to “go mute” as Maya Angelou had done. Like your son, it only lasted a few days. It was just too hard. (I think of my brief selective mutism often – now that I have a nonverbal child.)
I find your children amazing and inspiring (what a genius communication system!), and I am so glad they are “a bit more verbal” now. Gives me hope.’
Because ‘hope’ is what we’re all about.
Cheers dears
September 13th, 2008 at 1:54 am
I’ve got 300+ unread blog feeds in my reader because my brain is too mushy to read and comprehend.
September 13th, 2008 at 5:15 am
I can’t even shut up when I’m sleeping…
September 13th, 2008 at 5:32 am
I’ve been falling far behind (in reading as well as posting) since going back to school. I think we all go thru cycles. No need to apologize.
I have liked the pics (my fav was the reflection in the kitchen window).
Joe
September 13th, 2008 at 6:09 am
To your hub complainer… The internet is for entertainment and education. As long as people can vanish forever in a blink of an eye, a push of a button… it’s no more real than an online video game… not reality.
When RL is put aside for the internet… the internet needs to go.
The internet became more real than RL here, which is one of the numerous reasons my blog after 18mths went… yes, I feel out of the loop at times… but, that feeling fades more and more each day.
RL comes first.
So Madz, do you post your lists in your journalling?? I keep them separate… that way I’m not depressed and realize how little I got done if I read back through the pages.
S.
September 13th, 2008 at 6:59 am
you know, due to your self proclaimed lack of commenting on others blogs, it just makes it that much more cool for us to receive a comment from you! (like hearing from a celebrity of the blog world!) I think I personally comment too much and nobody cares! Hee hee!
September 13th, 2008 at 7:50 am
Good grief, Maddy, I didn’t realize you had so many blogs you are posting at. I feel pressed for time to post at my one, let alone keeping up with everyone else’s! No worries, Dear.
September 13th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Maddy, You didn’t mean to say that I can post a photo but I can’t write intelligently did you? I admit I prefer posting pix much more than I like writing about stuff…
Thanks very much for the cartoon you sent me in e-mail!
September 13th, 2008 at 10:04 am
yes, thanks for the cartoons! I had a jolly good chuckle!
September 13th, 2008 at 10:08 am
yeah, seriously – I had no idea, this is the only blog of yours that I knew about
September 13th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Maddy, I can’t stop thinking about that communication system with arrows and a key chart on the refrigerator. So resourceful, creative and clever!
Thanks for the award, and thanks for the hope. =)
December 19th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
The good resource should be brought in bookmarks