On Selective Reading Time:

I have been cleaning house, reorganizing, and making room. And in doing so I have un-followed some people’s blogs. I feel bad about this.

I don’t know why I should, but I do. I will still be looking in on most of these blogs I just won’t be reading them within twenty-four hours of their posting anymore.

I will say that a few have lost my faithful viewing. Either they post far too infrequently to hold my interest or I grew bored with what they had to say. This is not to say that they are boring just that I have moved on.

Know that I am keeping up with the average of fifty blogs in my following bin and I also have a hundred or so bookmarked in a folder and I pop in on them when I have the time. This is added to by the blogs I am reading their backlog of stories and stuff.

What I realized was that I hardly ever read a book anymore. The same book has sat on my nightstand for over a month. My current read used to follow me around to be glanced at every chance I got. But as my blog list grew I have been becoming a desk potato. I walk around with blood shot eyes from computer screen strain. It was time to be kind to myself.

I was using my knitting and exercise bike as an excuse to read on for hours each day. But we knew it couldn’t last. I was running out of clean clothes and I had stopped doing my daily walk.

I love you guys in Blogland. It’s a wrench to pull myself away. But I have to do other things in my life too. So, I will still check in on you from time to time, just not as often as I once did. You didn’t do anything wrong to drive me away I just got tired of looking at the dishes and laundry pile up around me while I sat around reading your blogs. It could only last so long.

See you later. Lady Euphoria

On So Much to Read, So Little Time:

After talking about Edgar Allan Poe yesterday I got to thinking that I haven’t updated you on my reading for a while. This is mostly because I have been reading for my writing class.

Magazines and periodicals from cover to cover. Things like The Writer, Writer’s Journal, Writer’s Digest, Writer’s Market and the like. Then there are all the magazines I’ve been reading to find out if my writing style and interests would fit if I wanted to try to submit an article.

On the book front I finished ‘Ring World‘ by Larry Niven a good sci-fi I can see more men liking it then women though but don‘t let that stop you. I read ‘Knit Aid’ by Vickie Howell which is a fun read even if you are not having knitting troubles, ‘The Tiger Rising‘ by Kate DiCamillo which is a kids book my daughter gave me. And I started Real Vampires Have Curves by Gerry Bartlett, I am also still working my way through ‘The Dead Sea Scrolls.’

This is on top of my reading regular blogs that I like, my regular magazine reading and just articles of interest on the web. Then there is my writing at least two thousand words a day then editing the previous days writings. I won’t even get into my reading of catalogs, patterns and poems or the things I re-read yearly also.

I like to read. What can I say? If you are reading me you probably like to read too. I hope to have more reading of interest in the future.