Shhhhhhhhhhh!
What's the big deal you ask? (Yes, I am putting words in your mouth. I've been known to enjoy conversation with myself more than with other people. Don't judge.)
Try explaining structured To-Do lists, or God-forbid organizational strategies to a family who's more accustomed to terms like "Y'onto?" (Do you want to?) or "That dog don't hunt" (That doesn't make sense), and you may begin to understand my involuntary looks over my shoulder as I write this post.
To tell the truth, I'm still getting used to this whole "organizational" thing anyhow.
To tell the real truth, if myself 2 years ago saw myself today, my 2-year-former self would force my current self into a bathroom stall, dunk him in the toilet, and steal his lunch money to pay for the social skills he's gonna need in the future (the future in two years? Wait, what? I'm confused ....).
N-E-wayz ..... (Look! I used text-speak! That means I'm cool, right? .... right?)
To illustrate my new-found obsession with lists, I've created a "Table of Contents" if you will (you will, right?) to give you a little taste of what's to come.
C'mon, you know you're excited about a list of posts intended to show you the ongoings of a complete stranger you've never met in your entire life.
Thought so.
Now, what I thought was interesting about this Table of Contents was the story it told in itself. It pretty much is a high-level overview of my life in the past 3 years.
I wonder if you'll be able to read between the lines.
Enough of my yackin'. What you say about gettin' to that Table of Contents I've been talking about.
Y'onto?
Table of Contents
1. Graduating
College
2. Getting
the First Job
3. Moving
Back To A Small Town
4. Teaching
Experience
5. Getting
the Second Job
6. Moving
To a Big Town
7. I
Will Never Donate to a Non-Profit Again
8. Getting
the Third Job
9. Friends
and Family
10. Doing
What You Love
11. ExtrovertàIntrovertàExtrovert
12. Making
a Better Work Environment (Talk!)
13. Missing
Out On Family
14. Growing
in a Marriage
15. Troubles
With Church
16. Balancing
Life
17. Self
Help Books I’ve Read and What I’ve Learned
18. Productivity
Tips
19. Personal
Finance
20. Troublesome
Coworkers (You Know You’ve Got ‘Em)
21. Women
vs. Men Decision Making
22. First
Time Home Buyers
23. Losing
Weight
You only read the first three. Go back and read the rest.
I'll wait.
...
So, wadh'ya think? Any guesses on what happened in the space in-between the numbers?
Oh my! That's a big list for a 20 something. I'm guessing, Josh, that you just lost weight and bought a house. Any one of these topics can keep you busy on Blogger!
ReplyDeleteAre you teaching, or?
I guess I'll have to read the posts that go with your list.
Thanks for the visit to sixtyfivewhatnow. It will be a pleasure for me to get to know you.
Thanks also for stopping by my blog. A good way to get people to visit is to intrigue them with flattering comments! I envy you having a blog list. But then I have made over a thousand posts...so rarely know what I will write about until I sit down. You have intrigued me.
ReplyDeleteRosaria -- Absolutely love the guesses!
ReplyDeleteI think this is a prime example of me being smarter than myself, as reading between the lines is sometimes MUCH more interesting than what you finally find out.
We'll see....
Tabor -- You are intrigued? Mwuahahahaha! That's the hardest part to accomplish.
Don't worry, you won't be disappointed.
Hmmm. I think I waited long enough to find the list of blogging tips I sent you when you first started blogging (haven't found it yet), that I don't think you need it!
ReplyDeleteYou are right back into blogging like a duck after a drought. Good work, Josh. :)
(Obviously, you didn't forget everything. I think one of the things I told you was to visit other blogs and leave interesting comments to build readership. I see you are doing that and it's working.)