Hiatus Is The New Sabbatical

What’s the worst thing that could happen to a bloggy? It gets run over by an 18-wheeler only to wake up from a coma 10 months later, in traction, every bone in its bloggy broken, and come to find out, the whole world is now made of tapioca pudding. How is poor bloggy supposed to acclimate to an alternate universe such as that? He can’t! But still, that’s not the worst that could happen.

No, the worst thing for bloggy is abandonment. And I promise you, dear bloggy, I have not abandoned you. I’ve just been tired and busy and tired and tired. As excuses go, raising three kids under five years old is a pretty good one.

My wife’s first day back to work after maternity leave was today. And it was Sukkot so the two older kiddos were home from daycare. It’s actually a Jewish Early Education Center but it’s just easier to write “daycare.” Easier, sure, but also kind of a demeaning generalization for what it actually is. The place is great.

Anyway, it was my first day at home as the solo parent of three and … actually, it wasn’t that bad. Whoa! Plot twist! I’ll bet you thought I was going to bemoan the madness. Sure, there were a few moments where I was putting out 10 fires at a time but if nothing else, the pressure made it interesting!

Best part of the day? We went to the park. Skye met another girl and they became besties. Well, besties for the brief hour they played together. She didn’t get digits or anything because a) the girl was two years older than her and b) 4 year olds don’t have phones… yet.

Those are two of my three babies. Not pictured is the girl Skye met because that would be weird. I don’t often (ever, really), post pics of my kids here on the bloggy because… I dunno. Isn’t that what you’re supposed to do? Try and keep your babies off the internet as much as possible? Yeah but see here’s the thing about that. I’ve been thinking about this and well, they’re going to be posting pics of themselves someday. There’s no avoiding it. How many kids these days get to middle school and don’t post their entire lives on every social media platform available? Not many, that’s how many.

Ugh why do I feel so guilty about this now? I don’t know but I’m replacing the pic. Please hold.

The Photo Trick

Alrighty here’s the thing. There was a beautiful picture in place above. It showed my daughter and her brother racing down two slides at the park. I replaced it with a much worse picture of me, drinking a mon-alcoholic mojito. Skye took that pic when we went out to lunch a couple weeks back, right before we saw Abominable. and it was literally one of the best drinks I’ve ever had.

Getting back to the question at hand: To post pics of your children or not to post pics your children. Or do I try to figure out how to blur their faces with large, obnoxious smiley emoticons? Dude, I don’t know. I suppose we’ll revisit this at another time. Or not. Either way.

Where Is Bloggy?

So I mentioned I was busy, right? Well in between all that parenting mumbo jumbo (which I’m actually not even very good at), I’m plowing away at Book 2 of my Lost Identity series. I just finished a short story in that same universe. It’s called Ghost Walls and that’s probably a bloggy for another time. I’m not going to start talking about Ghost Walls three quarters of the way through a nonsense post. But c’mon… it’s Ghost Walls! What’s not to like?

I’m also in the middle of Act III of Cymbeline. I really like this one. The more I do of these Shakespeare reads… I’m reluctant to say they’re getting easier. But they are. So yay.

I started a bloggy post last week. It’s a review of another animated movie. This one came out a little under a decade ago. Maybe I’ll get around to finishing that review and posting it later this week.

“Yeah and if a frog had wings he wouldn’t bump his ass when he hops.”

Tia Carrere, ladies and gentlemen! Party time! Excellent!

Nope, Not Gonna Edit

I definitely should go back and either delete this entire post or at least edit it into a halfway coherent single topic. But the former would only keep the bloggy stagnant for longer and the latter would require way too much work. And like I think I probably said. I’m pretty tired, yo.

Ghost Walls! Yeah, stay tuned for that one.