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No, I Didn't Just Have An Orgasm
But my neighbors definitely think so.
Slow and steady wins the race. Heard that one before? Yeah. Me too. My head nods for the evening started out that way with Linda Caroll’s piece, One Clap and Other Rude and Ridiculous Things Readers Do.
“To remain ignorant is a choice.”
“The people who write once a month aren’t in the same boat as the people writing multiple times a week.”
“Without customers, you have a hobby, not a business. In this case, the readers make or break the site. Whether they write or not.”
“Know what one clap is for? To acknowledge a lame comment, maybe. When you clap once, it’s like telling Medium um, yeah, don’t promote this one. It’s kind of an insult to the writer.”
These are just four of many nuggets that I highlighted throughout her piece. It’s a seven-minute read, but when you have over 11K followers, you must be worth it.
Jennifer Haubrich’s 6 Qualities in a Partner That Become Sexier Over Time, I read it early today, or technically yesterday now at this late hour. Apparently, it was something the Universe knew I was going to need later on in the day. And boy, did I use it. The bits that had me murmuring yes under my breath…
“A forgiving person might not forget, but they know how to move on. They are forward-focused. They have grace and offer mercy.”
“… to being rescued by a knight in shining armor at just the right moment. I find it sexy when my husband can fix my computer or my cellphone or get the pool pump to start working again.”
“There is nothing sexier than a rebel with a cause.”
“Someone who gets right to work trying to solve the problem is always sexier than someone who doesn’t.”
“Someone who calmly deals with problems is hot.”
Straight up, I highlighted the hell out of Jennifer’s piece. But I don’t want to give it all away here. Go over and check it out for yourself. After you’re done here, of course.
Kristi Keller is another writer who never fails to get my attention. Losing My Job Was Like Being Handed A Future on a Silver Platter. Another that the Universe laid out for me yesterday because she knew I was going to need it.
“Life has a way of kicking us in the pants to make us move. If you pay attention, it also has a way of slamming one door in your face so it can open up another, more fortuitous opportunity.”
“Having it taken away without choice was a clear indication that I’m not meant to be there anymore.”
“All you know is that the idea of the grind is no longer appealing.”
“Losing my job was like being handed my future on a silver platter.”
“Some of us may never move forward unless we’re pushed off the ledge and forced to fly. My ledge had become very comfortable.”
So much of what she had to say spoke to me so more, head nodding and more, yeps and yesses under my breath as I highlighted the hell out of her piece. She for yourself.
Kylie Craft out did herself with The Annoying Truth About Living In A Delusional World. I was kinda digging that alternate life she had established for herself. Hell, I could see myself living that life.
“I had a job that paid amazingly well…”
“I had curves, all my wrinkles disappeared, I could dance,…”
She even had ways of dealing with her work and kids that involved a fire station drop-off. But it was her last paragraph, and talk about saving the best for last, that had me yelling YES YES YES and laughing so hard that I coughed myself into an asthma attack which fortunately enough for me was when the cops showed up for the disturbing the peace call they got.
So no Mr. and Mrs. Nosey Neighbor. I wasn’t having better sex than you.
