Not What I Wanted to Write.....

I had the best blog post planned for tonight. It was a string of text messages between Hubby and me during the four days I was gone last week. Nothing bad, not even R-rated, just funny.

But I don't know when to keep my mouth shut. When I stopped for the third time to comment on something he had texted to me, he said, "What are you doing?"

Stupid me. I told the truth.

"I'm putting our text messages in my blog."

"That's stupid," he said. "You don't need to be telling everything I write to you."

And I realized he was right. It really was an invasion of his privacy to repeat everything we had exchanged by text message, even if it WAS (mostly) innocent. I'm not sure I understand what the big deal is. If I had been with my sisters, I probably would have read every single message to them, especially the funny ones. I read most of them to Sweet Girl. But he has a right not to have everything he writes to me published on the internet. He may never send me another text message.

Is there a rule about sharing text messages? Has Emily Post addressed this issue?

So I told him I would not put our messages in my blog, and I put my phone away. Darn it, I was almost finished.

I saved them in a draft. I didn't say "Never."

Blog Topics......

It's one of those nights when I can think of lots of topics to write about, but I cannot string the necessary thoughts together to make something make sense. But I feel obligated to post something every night, even if it isn't Pulitzer Prize worthy. Like the rest of my posts are. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Topics that are running through my head:

• Sweet Girl's maybe wedding
• Cousins (had the topic but couldn't get the picture loaded)
• Relationships (other than Hubby) [Wait, that sounds wrong.....]
  
• Pet Peeves
• Frustration with things that don't work
• Ideas we could get from Big Love
• Baseball
  

Blog Fog.....

Usually I have a stash of blog topics in my head (or on my Blackberry) that I can pull out and write about on a night like tonight when nothing earth-shattering or even mildly interesting has happened in my world.

But tonight I'm drawing a blank. I have several topics in mind, but they are too detailed and time-consuming for this time of night. I should make a point to write my Tuesday blogs early in the evening, because that's my night for teaching online and I'm tired and just want to go to bed when it's done. But who am I kidding? The very last moments leading up to my 7:30 online session are usually spent scrambling for whatever lesson I'm teaching that night. I did manage to get tonight's lesson planned with enough time left over to wash the dishes before time to start.

I could bore you senseless with the details of my 30-minute elliptical session this morning AND a brisk (because I was with Hubby) 45-minute walk in the park this afternoon.

I could write about how I'm still struggling to get through the book Wicked even though it's like work to read, and I'm determined to finish it. I don't know why I'm determined; as far as I know, there will NOT be a test at the end.

I could regale you with stories about Gus and his shenanigans, but that would require pictures, and I'm too tired to search for cute pictures of Gus tonight. I have many of them.

I could tell you about the time when Sweet Girl was about 7 years old and we were riding bicycles on the dirt road where we lived then. She had a wreck and went sliding to the point that her ARMPIT was all scratched up.

But I think I'll just go to bed instead. Maybe I'll be slightly less foggy tomorrow night.