The problem with a public blog, is you can’t write all the stuff you might necessarily want to. You can’t, for example, talk openly about your thoughts about your ex-boyfriend and the recent breakup and how weird it feels to even say that.
It’s not like my mind is blank when I sit down to write, rather, it’s full of stuff that I just can’t write about publically. And so I have to take out the colander, strain, and set aside the good stuff.
What's left, then? Fatty drippings that are either tossed out (never poured down the drain!), or the makings of gravy. Now I have been known to refer to gravy as one of my favorite foods, and it instantly conjures up images of Grandma in the kitchen, mixing chicken stock with rue, flour, and a dose of her misguided attempts at singing opera. (I had to write the word "opera" three times before I could stop from typing "oprah.")
So the point I'm trying to make here is that the drippings ain't such a bad thing, if you mix 'em up just right. And who hasn't, at least once in their life, bypassed the sausage for a plate of biscuits and gravy? Exactly. You know what I'm talking about.
And now with gravy back at the top of my list, why don't I just dive in and talk about a few things that make me happy. Does that work for you? (By the way, suggested blog topics are always welcome.)
Things that make Melanie happy:
1. Gravy
2. Country Music - Extremely underrated music that will be an entire blog topic another day
3. Dark chocolate
4. Bulldogs - Very Important Note: NOT the UGA kind. Okay, well it that kind of dog, but I cannot mentally make the leap to accep that a dog I like is a mascot for a team I don't. There was a bulldog at Tucker Day today and I just fell in love with her. And my uncle has a bulldog named Roscoe who's pretty darn cool.
5. Pink dogwoods
6. Peppermint Mochas
7. Laying down to go to sleep when I'm very very tired
8. Hot showers
9. Long emails from a good friend
10. Facebook - another thing I can get on a soapbox about. Facebook is Not Evil, people!
11. I could put a whole bunch of ooey gooey romantic stuff here, but I won't. But those things do make me oretty happy.
12. When people comment on my blog, like Nathan. Thanks Nathan!
13. my Dad's weird noises
14. the prospect of new adventures
15. in-depth conversations with friends about the meaty stuff I can't talk about here
That's enough gravy for today. Thanks for eating.
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From the desk of Melanie Benedict
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6 comments:
Cool! We have many likes in common, among them...gravy and bulldogs! My favorite was always the Old English Bulldogs til I discovered the Boston Bull Terrier. I am absolutely with my big dog in a little dog body. :) Take care, Mel! (Remember when our families would meet at Va Beach at that same hotel and we'd go back and forth between the pool and the bay?)
Julie
Mmmmm. I love biscuits and gravy. And I'm a bulldog person too. They're so ugly, they're lovably cute. You know? Glad to see you blogging again. Love reading your stream-of-consciousness!
I didn't know you were back!!!! I so need some gravy today. I get your thoughts about public/private as well.....that's why you get the periodic long emails from me!
xoxo Cassandra
You can always let you feeling come out on the page. But, you just have to apply some creativity. And you can also us it for self reflection, that way it is not about "him" but about what you brought to the table (or not), what you learned, how it all effects your point of view. Good writing comes from being vulnerable. That's how we connect with you. Take a chance.
You can blog about what you are struggling with. Just have to be creative. And you can always approach it from what you learned from the experience, how it has changed your point of view. Allow some self reflection. None of that has to do with the guy. And good writing, of any kind, requires the writer to take a risk and to be vulnerable. Go ahead, be bold
Mmmmmmmmmmm!!! Gravy!!!!
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