There is a saying that "man makes plans and God laughs". In all the plans I had to start my blog yesterday, my computer froze up for the first time in the five years I've had it. I finally got it un-froze but my relaxed day long plan for setting up just the right words for the first blog got hurriedly put together way later in the day than planned.
Then I planned to add to my blog each day. It is now 10pm. I forgot all about it til now. DUH.
But anyway, here I am ready to tell you about an article I just finished for the Memphis Commercial Appeal. It's supposed to be max 500 words and it's a little over 700 right now so I've gotta work on cutting it down so they'll consider running it. I'm not a regular contributor to the paper but they have a section that says they'll print personal stories if you submit them, if they like them, and if they are no longer than 500 words. I would have cut it down last night but again, the computer had been frozen for most of the day and all my good intentions didn't get started until way later than I had planned.
My life doesn't usually go like this. The article I am writing about concerns a trip to Europe that my husband and I took. It was planned a whole year in advance (which saved us money and helped me organize everything we wanted to do). I'm a big planner type person and always have plans B, and C as backups so having my computer froze was really plan A and I had no plan B or C.
But anyway, I'm sorta back on track now and having explained myself somewhat I'll start in tomorrow telling you more about that European trip. I want to get that story rolling so that if they publish the article there will be some more good and unique information for those who want to hear more.
Later Gaters.
