So.  It looks like it’s been a week since I last posted.  The not so ironic irony of this (we need to invent a word for the times we want to use the word irony for things that are not actually ironic but we wish they were and are too lazy to look up the actual word we mean) is that all week long I’ve been thinking to myself “when was the last time I posted?  I think it’s been a while.”

As it turns out it has been almost exactly one week since the last time I posted and I’m posting from almost the same place that I posted last week except this time I actually managed to find a seat in Seattle’s Best.

Today I decided to come in to downtown with Will and do the library/work in a coffee shop (aka read and comment on blogs)/poseur thing again because I had such a blast the last time I did it.  I am hoping that I will be able to make this a regular occurrence in my world.  I lack the desire to really explore the Starbucks near my apartment more than I have (aka looking through the windows as I walk by) but a once a week venture out of the house for the whole day could prove to be really really good for my soul.

Last week I went to Wendy’s.  This week I’m downtown on the PSU campus.  I went to the library (and returned my ginormous and heavy Julia Child cookbook) for an hour, had lunch and have just been hanging out in coffee shops since–while keeping an eye on our parking meter.  I thought about trekking down to Powell’s but I didn’t want to get caught up and forget to feed our meter.  The deal was that Will would agree to drive if I paid for parking and kept the meter fed while he was in class.  I happily agreed because it meant that I didn’t have to wait on or take the train down.

Not that I have anything against the train.  I really don’t.  I like public transit, but when you have the option to be driven in while chatting with your husband in the comfort of your own vehicle, it’s kind of hard to pass up.

So.  My lack of posting.  It isn’t because I don’t love you all.  It’s because I love you all TOO MUCH.

For serious.

I don’t remember off the top of my head how much I’ve talked recently about wanting to be a better blogger.  I know that I want to re-invigorate my posting mojo, but I also want to be a better blog reader.  That means, for me, actually leaving comments and communicating with the blog writers who post the things I so love to read.  And you know what?  Taking the time to leave comments?  It eats up a lot of my day.  I don’t want to be one of those “good post!” comment leavers who get mistaken for spam, but sometimes it takes a while for me to craft a comment that is both relevant to the topic at hand and does not devolve into an “I know your post was about you, but really it’s all about ME!” lengthy essay that is better put on my own blog than in the comments section of someone else’s site.

Also, apparently, I am an over exclamation pointer.  Which I just realized all by my own self today thank you very much.  I use so many exclamation points I’m starting to feel like one of Toy Story’s barbie dolls.  Ugh.  So I’m working on remedy-ing that.

But.  With the sheer number of blogs I read every day and the amount of effort I put in to relevant commenting, there just isn’t a whole lot of time left in my day to create my own blog posts.

So see? My lack of posting is because I love communicating with you! I’ve just been doing it on an individual basis instead of in a blanket “here’s what I’ve been up to lately” blog post.

Also: I’m working on some plans.  The plans are just in my head right now because I’m not ready to go forward with them yet.  But I have a question and seriously–even if you usually lurk, leave your answer in the comments because this inquiring mind wants to know!

If you get an idea for a project–a specific project on a specific topic for a specific area of your life–and the topic of the project and the experience of completing the project would be FANTASTIC blog fodder, is it better to integrate those blog posts into the blog you already have or is it better to start a second, topic/project-centric blog? Which do you like better?

On the one hand, I agree with the answer I got from Jen Garrett via Twitter when I posed the same question there a few days ago: stop blog proliferation!

But at the same time, this blog is kind of a menagerie of my daily life and I like the freedom I have to swing from topic to topic without concern for cohesion.  And I wouldn’t want these project posts to get buried under my usual nonsense.

So.  What would you rather see?  I value everyone’s opinion!