So yeah it’s a mess in here…

October 19, 2010

Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now

You know when your friend comes over and you’re still in your yoga pants (the ones you walk the dog in, not the ones you actually exercise in; those haven’t been out of your drawer in weeks) and your hair is in some weird Pebbles top-knot because you haven’t showered and you’re all like, No! Come in! Absolutely not a problem! Sit! Tea? as you shove aside teetering piles of unprocessed mail and middle school permission slips, trying to find 3 square inches where she might safely put down her cup?

The social media version of that happened to me today. My new writer friend, Jane Roper, blogged last week on Babble about my Armageddon Mama piece for Brain,Child, which was awesomesauce all in and of itself.

Then today, Lisa Belkin, who writes the doubly awesomesauced Motherlode blog for the Times, wrote about my piece and Jane’s piece. Literary life literally couldn’t get any better, right?

Except, of course, this here blog, which is an un-updated mess, and this here Web site, which has spiders and snakes and crickets walking about. I hadn’t even had time to post the actual story yet. [That part, at least, I remedied.] What can I tell you—I can write, I can edit, I can Facebook, Tweet and blog, but I can’t do them all at once, and honestly, I only do one of them really well. I’ll leave it to you to decide which that is. (Okay, maybe two. Definitely no more than that.)

If you’ll forgive me, I’m off to comb the Flintstones bump-it out of my hair in case anyone else drops by.