Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Living My Life Offline

My dear sweet readers... you know I love you like family, right? In fact- some of you are actually blood-relatives, or I've known you so long your last name might as well be Penzo (although, thank your lucky stars it's NOT! lol).

And you know I enjoy bringing you something hilarious, informative, entertaining and uplifting to read Monday thru Friday, right?

OK. I'm glad you know this, because I don't want you to freak out if you notice me pulling away from certain social media sites here and there from now on. This includes Twitter and Facebook, and possibly even the comment section of your blog (even though I'm still reading, I swear!).

The reason? Well... I've gotten a bit of a life, you know, and that requires me to pull away from the computer. And thanks to a post from Amber "Bam" Cabral (if you're not reading her blog, you're a loser) I got this boost to, you know, just do what I have to do and walk away from distractions that are killing my chances at success because of my addiction to procrastinating.

My K-Bear Baby is about to go to High School, my alma mater, actually, and I've made a commitment as a parent to become heavily involved in her HS education. Especially because this school can be a huge slap of reality in a kid's face- it takes tons of hard work to maintain straight A's at Brooklyn Tech, and what may have come easy to her in grade school will not at Tech. I should know... *hides HS transcript from readers*

My Princess N Baby, the other evil genius in the family, needs more activities in her life to harness her creativity and propensity to be an athlete, and I need to be there for that, too. Did y'all see the CUTEST pic of her on her skateboard? NO? Lookie here:



That's my baby!

I'm taking a huge step in my "Pursuit of the Pulitzer" goal by participating in that reading this Sunday, and I want to roll with it and get more aggressive about publishing my stories. I can't do that if I'm on Twitter complaining about the temperature of my office and telling everybody what I had for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Plus lets not forget all the business ventures I'm dabbling in, including Monday Musings, in order to be able to work from home and hand my boss that resignation letter I composed last year. Yup- I wrote that shit already because it's not a matter of IF but rather a matter of WHEN, and that, of course, depends on already having a lucrative Plan B and C and D.

And I may have other things going on that keep me busy and away from the computer sometimes. But that's neither here nor there so SHUT THE FUCK UP!

All of that to say that while Monday thru Friday will be business as usual here at The Jaded NYer, Raquel may be ghost from other online realms for extended periods of time because she's busy living her life. Her AND The Voices. (PS- Clementine says, "hi")

But I still love you. I promise.

*smooches...looking forward to the newness of Spring and all that it brings*
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shit... did I just fucking RHYME?? Ugh... I make myself sick sometimes... CRAP! I did it again!!!!!!!

11 comments:

12kyle said...

maybe it's just me...

but...

N's skateboard looks JUST like the one that i had stolen from me in '84!! where did she get that from? i'm not sayin that you're a thief but...

i'm sorry...did you say that you were going somewhere? lol

clnmike said...

Lol, you got to handle your business, I can dig it.

The Jaded NYer said...

@12kyle- you are a STRAIGHT FOOL!! You know you are older than dirt and any skateboard you may or may not have owned as a kid would have disintegrated by now! HMPH!! lol

@clnmike- thanks... I just like to do these preemptive, "I'm kinda busy" posts so I don't get the "Where are you?" emails :D

Tiffany S. Jones said...

First of all, you've named your voices? And how many are there? You are a Gemini so two of them are a given, but there are others? I thought there were only two of you in there.
I understand the break, at least you explain yours, I just don't damn show up!
We understand that you got a lotta stuff going on and that's cool, handle your biz, just don't show up at K and N's school to jack any lil' boys up.
It'd be kinda hard to blog from Riker's, would it not?

The Jaded NYer said...

@smarty jones- you must have ESP... the voices post is in drafts, but I can edit it and post it tomorrow instead of what's already scheduled. Stay tuned!

The F_Uitlist said...

We all have to withdraw from these things at points in our life. I am excited though I will miss your rants on twitter.

Those lovely girls need you so off you go. Catch you on Monday nights :)

Kelly said...

Never ever name your voices. Then you have to admit to just how many there really are. I prefer to remain blissfully ignorant, convincing myself that there aren't that many ... just one or two, doing a whole hell of a lot of impersonations. Ha ha ha!

Though Clementine is a great name. My friend just had her baby (remember the pregnant one at the bachelorette party?) a little over a month ago. A little girl named Lucie Clementine. She's as ridiculously cute as her name.

12kyle said...

You are 4 yrs younger than me!

And you never said where she got the skateboard from!

*calling the police*

The Jaded NYer said...

@the f$%k it list- I knew the blog fam would understand!

@kelly- too late; they all have names. It's okay, though, they're a funny bunch, and without them there'd be no blog! lol

@12kyle- you WOULDN'T dare!!

"nuh-uh, officer, this here is my baby's skateboard! Kyle is just hatin' 'cause he wants one!"

Kofi Bofah said...

Cool - some people take this computer thing too far, though.

Amber "Bam" Cabral said...

Aww sugar face, I am so late noticing you linked me :)... I read the blog before and the 2 after and totally missed this one.

Glad that PRO post got you moving forreal...

Blogging and commenting can be a bit much. I too have reduced to doing it for a certain amount of time daily... Some stuff just gotta get better!

xoxo..

B.