Last Post (for at least a very long time)

First, let me say thank you all for reading, whether it be just this once, or since the inception (which would be nobody, except for Generic Spammer - a belated thank you, Generic Spammer, for commenting on my original blogposts). My writing here has run its course. My original idea was to be all political and socially edgy and shit and suddenly I find I can't talk about my husband's nuts or how thoroughly annoyed I am by people with Support the Troops stickers on their cars. Which leaves me stuck with complaining about the new dishwasher and discussing the relative merits of morning and afternoon kindergarten. Dammit! I don't want to suck.

I realized the other night, as I washed, rinsed, repeated, that when I have moments alone I don't plot and invent people for fiction any more. Instead I find myself trying to compose humor into a story about a late-morning visit to the yarn store. After I replayed in my mind the sight of the enormous swaying breasticals of the kooky yarn lady and Pooey trying to stick a Hershey's miniature into her Giant Schnauzer's asshole, I realized my creativity was being sapped by my blog. Sometimes my life just isn't that entertaining, and my brain was suffering the strain of trying to make it so. After the revelation I mentally put the yarn lady and her breasticals on the soap dish and instead worked on a little scene in which a woman and man argue about the best way to landscape their yard while their grown children suffer from lack of adult-parent attention. It's a killer story, and as soon as I hit publish here I'm going to work on the opening scene in which the husband and wife wake up to find all their early spring lilacs tipped over to the point of snapping from a freak snow storm.

I'm sorry to those of you I know personally that use my blog to keep track of me and my kidlets. For you, I invite you to email me. Please? And if you're just visiting for a good, regular read, there are several blogs over on the sidebar that offer much more than I can these days (I'm not going to quit reading them - they're a bunch of clever, interesting and inspirational writers). In the event I find I'm working on some fiction and I need some input, I'll post it here with a little personal update.

Huh - what a terribly fractured farewell... oh well. That's it.

Love,
Mignon