Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Sex, money and rock 'n' roll!

Hellooooooo! I'm back ... again! What a weird and wonderful couple of months it's been. Lots of fun, lots of de-cluttering and a little bit of drama. I can't believe how completely crap I've been when it's come to blogging though. Every day has been packed to the gunnels with exciting, boring, fun, tedious and exotic things I had to do, which somehow made it impossible to write. So much so, that I started not to think of myself as a writer ... which was a bit sad. So, I made a new resolution to properly schedule time to write. Not a New Year's Resolution, as I never bloody keep those, but maybe a Nearly Halloween Resolution. Hmmm, we'll see. But I digress. I am scheduling writing time and top of my list is blogging.


The Write On, Mamas! at Lit Crawl 2012
The slight problem, well, not exactly a problem, but one of the reasons why I haven't been writing is that my AMAZING writing group, the Write On, Mamas! has just launched its brand spanky new, incredibly wonderful website, and I am in charge of editing it and general maintenance. The only incy-wincy teensy-weensy issue there is our new site is Wordpress and I knew sod-all about how to work in effing Wordpress. All I knew was that Blogger and Wordpress don't play nice together. In fact, they're a little like my hormonal teenagers - sometimes sweetness and light and at others nasty, horrid vermin. So, another bloody steep learning curve ... and now that I'm the big five-oh, I really thought I wouldn't have to do that learning thing anymore. Drat and double drat.

Then we launched an Indigogo campaign to raise money for our fabby Anthology project and I somehow got roped into helping with the video as my son did the filming and editing. If any of you have any spare cash fluttering around your undies, and you fancy giving it to a bunch of VERY talented writers, please click here. You can even have some of us Mamas invade your home and perform at your request. Although no requests for pole-dancing in g-strings please. Strictly reading. However, we just successfully performed our "Your Mom had sex" theme at San Francisco's Lit Crawl to a packed house, so we are happy to be a bit risqué.

We even passed out these condoms, which went down well with passers-by. Oh, maybe I should re-phrase that! My piece started: "I opened my underwear drawer and recoiled in shock." I may upload the full script and video soon.

And if that isn't enough, my fellow bloggers in The Kindness Project decided that, instead of posting every 2nd Wednesday, we would have our very own site and blog about kindness all the time. Please go and take a look. I will let you know when I am posting, but all the contributors are inspirational. We shall be doing lots of exciting things in the future so watch this space.

I've also been to see a ton of bands, including America, The Tubes, Ed Sheeran (at last) who was playing free in San Francisco with Philip Phillips and Alanis Morrisette. I'm seeing Bob Dylan this week with Mark Knopfler, Muse in January and Ed Sheeran again in February.

Ok, so that's some of what I've been up to recently. What about you? What have I missed?

12 comments:

  1. So like you've been having too my fun! Handing out condoms... hmmm sound like a touch of 50 shades to me :-)

    Good luck with all your projects

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    1. OK, truth time: the lone Papa in the Write On, Mamas handed out most of the condoms. But Claire definitely helped snag (not shag) a few passersby and gave them free rubbers.

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    2. LOL Steven, but don't forget the bar. We got at least half a dozen from there!

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  2. Those projects have certainly kept you busy! And the Tubes are still around? Who knew!

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  3. Sounds like an interesting time away indeed. Yeah that's all I know too, wordpress and blogger don't get along.

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    1. Interesting and busy but I have missed blogging. Coming to visit you as soon as the bloody phones at work stop ringing.

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  4. Yay! I am glad to hear The Kindness Project has its own website. I will be a frequent visitor (participant).

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    1. Oh great. So pleased you are part of this fabulous project. Thanks for commenting.

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  5. Yay! You're back! Do the Blog Off with me? I'll link to you and you link to me and it's only 100 words (or more) for the duration of the Indiegogo campaign!

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    1. Blog Off? Are you mad? This is the first post I've written in a month. How on earth could I do one a day?!

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