Status Update - Hilary With One L

*this is a transcription of a blog post idea that I had while driving. i decided to use my voice memo feature on my phone and just spew it out. side note: i canNOT believe that’s what my voice sounds like!*

I don’t know why I didn’t think of this before. I should have just stared dictating a long time ago. So for the blog, I was thinking about doing a post called status update. I plan to get back to writing my usual, thought provoking/self deprecating/recipe laden/craft-tastic/day-in-the-life type of posts for sure, but in the interim, I thought it would be funny to just write out what my status updates have been and would be.

See the thing is, I Don’t really do status updates on Facebook. Have you see that funny e-card online about Facebook status updates?

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Yeah, that’s pretty much how I feel about it. The blog I did before about am i taking a picture to put it on Facebook or am i taking a picture to really enjoy the moment, Facebook status updates kind of remind me of that. And I’m only talking about me, Hilary with One L, putting up status updates. I mean, by all means, keep yours coming. That’s why I get on Facebook in the first place; to see what’s going on with you!

I personally think I put things up that are relevant or funny or you know, nothing that’s too personal that I wouldn’t want to follow up about. I wouldn’t post things about my parents health or the death of a family member or solicit prayers for something. I don’t like that kind of thing. It’s not in my personality to do that face-to-face, so it’s definitely not going to happen in social media.

I think status updates, at least for me, should be funny. I’m not a comedian — I leave that to the professionals like Na’im Lynn and Kevin Hart, but I think I’m kind of witty. So that status update about being at the gym the other day, I wrote, “@ the gym for my first workout in 4 months. 1st song on shuffle– “Time got the Percolator/ Eurythmics mash-up. Oh snap! It’s about to get real up in here! Let’s go!” There’s something to be said about the endorphins released during a work out and your mood. I was feeling like I could have party marched all around that gym, taken Zumba, done a few laps in the pool and picked up a game of three on three. I’m leaving the gym now, coming off of the same feeling and I feel really good.

I’m thinking about that status update. . .I keep thinking about fracking, for some reason. That word is in my head. And because I can’t get it out of my head, it’s the kind of thing worthy of a status update. And Homeland. I’m so obsessed with Homeland right now. What I would have done is put “Abu Nazir!” as my status update, or Homeland S2 Ep6. ABU NAZIR! Mind is blown!” as my status update.

So maybe instead of doing a post about or actually breathing into, not breathing into. . .what am I talking about?

Here it is. Instead of taking the route of a former FB friend who cataloged every inhalation, exhalation, eye blink and nose wipe, I’d rather do a blog post of non-sequitors, like a stream of consciousness, which would have been status updates if I took the time to put them on Facebook.

Does that even make any sense whatsoever?

Yeah.

I really need to get back to writing, but as usually, I’ve got a crap ton of things to do. I really want to write. I’ve got a bunch of ideas floating in the pipeline and not enough time to sit down and just get it on paper. I’m doing a mental headslap right now for not thinking to use this voice memo app to record my ideas before now. This way, I can just transcribe it later.

Don’t you hate that? Like when you think of something and don’t have a chance to get it down. The next thing you know, you’re grasping at that memory as is dissipates before your eyes like Marty McFly at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance. Awww, Marty. . .I love that movie.

But, back to the status updates. I’m going to give it a whirl and see what I can come up with. I read in Real Simple magazine a while back about how this author used to set these really high goals for herself and would get so frustrated when she got nothing done. After a while, she decided that she would just carve out 15 minutes to write. 15 minutes, that was it. Over time, this method worked for her and as result, she has since written and published 10 novels. And it all started with 15 minutes. The journey of 1000 steps, right?

I can carve out fifteen minutes. I can come up with 15 status updates that might be the opening line to the next American classic.

01/07/13 Woulda Been Status Updates

— Ooh! Listening to Mariah Carey’s Vision of Love on the radio and instantly transported back to 1991.

— Just got an emil from Mo’s Brownie leader requesting a parental consent form to sell cookies. Isn’t that kind of implied by the fact that I signed her up. Brownies/Girl Scouts = Cookies.

— Having buyer’s remorse about this shirt I bought from J.Crew. I wish I had really looked at myself in it before I took the tags off. I look like a square with a peter pan collar. #fashionfail

— Homeland is off the chain!

— Just met the sweetest girl at Loft. We talked natural hair care for 30 minutes and she gave me some new tips and tricks to try out. I know I’m not pioneer of the natural movement, but things have surely changed since I did my first big chop.

— Mmmm. . .Starbucks. . . must. . .resist. . .temptation . . .

— I really need a better camera on my phone. Or maybe I just need a better phone. Or maybe the camera phone and the mirror need to come to an agreement about how I really look.

— Meatless Monday means I have to put on my thinking cap for dinner. I’m so hungry and all I want is a nice, big prime rib.

— Oooh, gift card I didn’t know was in my wallet.

*author’s note:

I’ll admit it. This is not my best work, but I felt like if I didn’t get something down, my holiday hiatus was going to extend indefinitely!

IN: ON: January 8, 2013 BY: Hilary 0 COMMENT