good advice from a girlfriend!

so i came in just as ariel was about to shut down from posting on her journal blog, and she asked if i wanted her to leave the computer on so i could write a post here. (she knows i'm shooting to break last year's record of 36 posts in one year.)

and i said, "i don't know ... i do want to break my record, but i don't want to do it with goofy junk entries. it's not a huge ambition of mine to be super-brilliant ever time i write here or anything -- i just think i should actually have something to write about or else i might as well just whip out five one-sentence posts that say, 'here's the next one,' and 'here's the one after that,' and 'yep, another one done,' until i'm at the 37-post mark. it feels kind of cheaty."

ariel being a very wise young lady, but innocently not knowing it, said, "omg. that's a great idea! i can totally hit 300 posts in no time if i do that!"

(confession: the way she tossed out that 300-post number didn't do any good to my struggling-to-make-it-to-37-posts-for-the-year ego, and i was suddenly really tempted to just do it.)

i got ahold of myself though, and told her, "well, i'm glad you like it, but like i said, it feels kind of cheaty to me."

but aers just asked, "why? i mean if it's silly and fun, that's like 90% of my whole reason for blogging in the first place. i don't see how doing something silly and fun would ever be cheaty ... isn't it kind of the bestest way to be?"

holy crap, right? she's such a crazy smart girl without even trying sometimes.

i mean, it all comes down to showing up and doing what you're here for, right?

i'm still not going to just string together a bunch of short nonsense posts.

but it does suddenly feel like making my goal will be a lot easier!