{"id":175,"date":"2010-05-16T23:59:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T03:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=175"},"modified":"2010-05-17T00:00:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T04:00:22","slug":"why-haven%e2%80%99t-i-written-a-blog-entry-since-february-23-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Why haven\u2019t I written a blog entry since February 23, 2010?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Why haven\u2019t I written a blog entry since <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">February 23, 2010? <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>I\u2019ve been reading.\u00a0 All the Mary Janice Davidson, \u201cUndead\u201d books.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ve been reading.\u00a0 Books for a workshop I participated in.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ve been reading.\u00a0 Books.<\/li>\n<li>I didn\u2019t receive the fellowship I applied for.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ve been eating.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ve been washing clothes.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ve been going to garage sales.<\/li>\n<li>I haven\u2019t been going to the casino.<\/li>\n<li>My allergies make my eyes water.<\/li>\n<li>My allergies make me sneeze.<\/li>\n<li>Too much rain.\u00a0 Too cold.<\/li>\n<li>Too much wine.<\/li>\n<li>Not enough wine.<\/li>\n<li>Love:\u00a0 what do I know about it?<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ve been watching movies.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ve been watching television.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ve been watching American Idol.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been watching Dancing with the Stars.<\/li>\n<li>I have high blood pressure.<\/li>\n<li>I have high cholesterol.<\/li>\n<li>My good friend lives 45 miles from my house.<\/li>\n<li>I have four grandsons; two grandsons are two years old.<\/li>\n<li>Facebook.<\/li>\n<li>I can\u2019t write while I\u2019m on the treadmill.<\/li>\n<li>I like to feel guilty.<\/li>\n<li>The Goodwill has blue or red or green or yellow tag sales.<\/li>\n<li>I have an Ash tree in front of my house.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m trying to stop smoking.<\/li>\n<li>I went shopping in Des Moines.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ve been washing my hair.<\/li>\n<li>I can\u2019t write and dance at the same time.<\/li>\n<li>I haven\u2019t been dancing.<\/li>\n<li>I moved to the suburbs.<\/li>\n<li>I spilled black shoe polish on my carpet.<\/li>\n<li>I have too many dishes.<\/li>\n<li>Lori and I revised \u201cChinese Black White Women Got the Beat\u201d and performed it for the fifth time.<\/li>\n<li>I went to a Phil Vassar concert.<\/li>\n<li>A new roof.<\/li>\n<li>New siding.<\/li>\n<li>Condo insurance went up.<\/li>\n<li>Can\u2019t sleep.<\/li>\n<li>I have nothing to say.<\/li>\n<li>I talk to myself.<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t know what to write about.<\/li>\n<li>I wrote, revised, and submitted a poem to an upcoming anthology.<\/li>\n<li>E-mail.<\/li>\n<li>Waiting for the phone to ring.<\/li>\n<li>I have to get away from my work computer at lunch time.<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t have a laptop computer.<\/li>\n<li>Weekends are too short.<\/li>\n<li>Because.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t been writing, ask yourself why?\u00a0 Send me your list.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sherry Quan Lee<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, May 16, 2010,\u00a0 10:26 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Why haven\u2019t I written a blog entry since February 23, 2010? \u00a0 I\u2019ve been reading.\u00a0 All the Mary Janice Davidson, \u201cUndead\u201d books. I\u2019ve been reading.\u00a0 Books for a workshop I participated in. I\u2019ve been reading.\u00a0 Books. I didn\u2019t receive the fellowship I applied for. I\u2019ve been eating. 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