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I am quite sick to death of logging in to OS, coming to my blog and seeing that wretched Geritol bottle planted there. It’s always the first thing my eye lands on and it’s been there so long, I want to scream. So, even though I have nothing really spectacular to write, I feel compelled to write something, anything, just to move that Geritol image further on down the page.

The sloth-like slowness of OS has kept me away from its welcoming pages for a while now. I’ve never been long on patience and I find that now that I’m working again, my patience quotient is growing exponentially smaller and smaller. It’s all I can do to make myself sit still and wait for a page to load on OS and I’ll admit I haven’t done much of it for a while. I pop in at least once or twice a day and try to read and comment, but as you all know, it’s been trying, to say the least.

I do miss my “writing buddies” terribly, though. And I miss writing. I think all of my energies have been going into sales, sales, SALES! I come home at night and turn my brain off and it pretty much stays off until the next morning when that stupid alarm blasts me out of bed. I’ve written a couple of things, but they are languishing on my laptop unfinished. I keep thinking I’ll get back to them, but nooooo. When I do manage to get an OS page to load so I can read some of the fabulous writing that has been going on around here, my fingers get itchy and my brain starts to churn, but that’s about as far as it goes lately. I have to say, though, that I’ve turned out some fairly insightful comments over the last few weeks. Perhaps that’s my calling for now – insightful comments on other people’s work.

I’ve also spent very limited time on Facebook (yes, I know, it’s the bane of our existence, but still…) In other words, my social networking energies have all been swallowed up at work. LinkedIn and InHouston and Career Builder get all my attention now – challenging, but not nearly as fun or mind-expanding as my time on OS. Funny thing, though – all the time I put in on different writing sites over the past several years has greatly improved the quality of my marketing letters/emails. Why, I can dash off a letter in the blink of an eye and send it out knowing it will hit its target almost every time. I just have to be careful not to get too wordy. Short and concise but attention-grabbing is the key now.

I think I had all but forgotten how much I enjoy meeting new people every day, talking, talking, talking and turning a chance encounter into a business opportunity. How did I forget all this? Well, I know how and I know why. I think that very well may be the subject of my next post.

Ah-ha! I knew if I just started pounding away on the keys, something would come to me. And there it is. I’ll be back soon to write that other post. Thanks for bearing with me while I figured this one out (not to mention helping me get rid of that unsightly Geritol bottle.)