I'm A Bad Santa

Well, I broke my streak last night, I fell asleep instead of finishing up my post.

It happens.  I fall asleep a lot.  At the end of the night.  TV on.  A little Pinterest skimming or YouTube browsing.  Blog hopping.  I drift off.

Sometimes I drift mid conversation.  Chicklet especially loves that.

Today's blog prompt over at NaBloPoMo is "have you ever given a gift that wasn't well received?"

The short answer is yes.

The long answer is yes, all the time!

I am guilty of giving "bad" gifts all the time.

It's not that I hate the person or have bad taste.  It's not that I'm a big jerk, although I get accused of that often.

Sometimes it's because I wait too long to go what I need to do.  I guess that's the nice way to say I'm lazy.

Sometimes it's because I live a little too much inside my head.  The gift seems like a great idea to me, and I'll have a big pile of reasons why but it doesn't translate.  It can be that it is something significant to me or something that I believe will be significant to the receiver, but in reality it isn't.  It's just a miss.  Sometimes I think it's part of a shared memory or inside joke or an inside moment, but in reality it is something just being a big deal inside my own mind.

None of that probably makes sense outside of my head, but it's the longer answer to, yeah, I give lousy gifts all the time, even though I have good intentions and my heart in the right place.

What's the worst gift you ever gave?

Reader/Writer Notes

Today's first post is a sort of notes for readers post.

First, welcome my Daddy to the world of blogging.  Go check him out at Scuttlebutt-Jim .

He jumped on the blog wagon because I challenged him to do the NaBloPoMo with me in September.  Remember, the NaBloPoMo is simply a split off of the NaNoWriMo and BlogHer that encourages and challenges you to blog daily for one month.  It runs every month and offers up a prompt 6 days a week.  On that 7th day, you're actually on your own.  You can follow the prompt or write whatever you like.  It's simple to register over at NaBloPoMo and then leave your blog on the blog roll.  It's a great way to find new blogs to read and a great way to get some new readers.

The NaNoWriMo is fast approaching and I'd love to see you join the challenge with me.  It's a short novel in one month.  You will write 50,000 words in the month of November.  Work on your character sketches and out lines now.  Break it down into 30 steps and then check one off every day of November and bam! by December 1st, you've written a whole novel.  Yup.  It really is that easy. 

I'll be back with today's actual post for the challenge later.  First I have some very important, the kids are all at school, grown up stuff to do, like have coffee with one of my Peeps!  A girls got to have priorities.  Can I get an Amen Sister?

See YOU later!