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Hannah Murphy’s Guide to Sane Living



Me too. 

“We” are in the process of finding and purchasing a washing machine. 

This should be a simple business transaction but it is not.  There are “umpteen”  different “conversations” related to the process.  There are  wash cycles and rinse cycles and Earth friendly laundry considerations. Then there are the consumer reports and the on line research.  The expense of the machine and the soul search of why the previous washing machine broke invades our dinner converstation..

Do we buy the cheap machine that we can take home today?

Or do we wait the 12 days that it will take to order the more expensive machine?

I’m not kidding.

This lovely 3 day weekend was spent looking for a washing machine.

I’m beginning to think a rock, a river bank, and clothes line in the snow would be easier.
All of this just gets up to what machine to buy.
After “we” find the machine,  there’s the negociations  trying to get the machine  to the house and of who will install the thing. when it gets there.

I’m just not that handy and to have it delivered out into the country means delivery fees and waiting  all day long for them to get there.

Meanwhile the laundry mountain grows and there’s the question of who get’s to do it and where.  The laundrymat has 15 dryers but only two work.
Enjoy the single life of laundry. 

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From

Hannah Murphy’s Rules For  Sane Living
“The sane man or woman lives with their roomate and visits their  wife or husband inorder to keep the “love” alive”.  Your spouse may from Heaven but your roommate comes from necessity.  There is an element of business about the transaction.  You can throw them out or leave without a law firm and their mothers getting involved.

(True, there are the rare occassions involving small claims court or Judge Judy but  it’s nothing compare to the expectations marriage and who does the laundry.  )
Good luck with your adventure.   
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Attention:

This Wednesday.

OneHourTheater’s   live  broadcast of ?

   

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Hello. This is just one person’s opinion…

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Hello!

Learned the hard way that post cards are more of a visual grab amongst all the other visual data that we see. Things like color, shape, and type face can cause a person to stop. Like a display of  book covers. Something just causes you to say, “Hey now, what was that I just saw out of the corner of my eye?’ I’m gonna go back and take another look.”

You don’t have to have lots of information on it you just have to have that one word, phrase, of image that causes a person to take action. It can be the oddest thing. Like a gecko.

Or the Twitter avi for One Hour Theater

The image causes a person to pick the post card up and then read the short blurb on the back.  A really catchy or inventive image will cause that same person to keep said post card. Put it on the fridge or inspiration board. 

I like the colors. They’re bright but not “slap your face” catchy. I like the shape but you might have some confusion with a sale on clothes. The thing is that there’s alot to process in that quick image. Sometime that will get a person’s attention and sometimes so much info will cause the person to filter it out as just TMI to deal with at the time.

My understanding is that you’re a mom. Put a couple of versions of your post card where they can find them and then look to see what catches their eye. No matter what age, we’re all kids when it comes to that “flash image” that draws our attention.

I hope that you aren’t offended by this abrupt comment. It’s why I put it on my blog and not on the comments. It’s just that I had to do my own print adverts way back and found alot of this out the hard and sometimes expensive way.

Regards,

Ann

PS Will you be doing a cost analysis for the post card? I’m curious if this method of advert works.

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Imitation is the sincerest form of what??

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Found a copy of one of the wordpress archived 12 dog and a blog posts on this site

http://albatross18.net/outsparkgame/76/dec-2009-pg-4/comment-page-1/#comment-734

Not sure if I should be angry or resigned to it.

 



Yeah ha. How’s the weather???

 

It’s been snowing.

(On Christmas day!)

 
I don’t think that we’ve had snow in December in more than 10 years.

The last time it snowed in December I took it as a sign to look up a long lost friend.

I was younger then and believed in Fate.

Now I’m older.

Not sure if I believe in the weather being a “sign from Devine Providence” that I should “Do something.”

As I wrote,

“Now I’m older.”

 But.

It is about time that I catch up.

(Someone has come here from my other blog. )

“Hello.”

“How’s it going?”

Ann

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PS.

Happy New Year.

Who are you?

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Well it’s been a while…

Hello.

This fall is really flighing by.

Boat out of the water, mast down, and ready to work.

Life is pretty good.

Ann

Very hard work.

I’m about to head back outside to work in the yard. It’s summer and very hot here. It’s very hard work. But as difficult as it is, the work is nothing like the hard work of becoming a writer.

For a long time I wrote everyday. There was no real goal other than to write in the moment of that day. I didn’t write it with the intention of becoming famous. I didn’t write with the intention of getting rich. I was just trying to get into words the thoughts and ideas as clear as possible. Didn’t even realize anyone was reading what I wrote until much later. Slowly after alot of work, I began to find my “voice”. It’s still difficult to write some days but I can alway count on that “voice” to pull me through.

I’m going to post something here about “writer’s voice”. It’s that ability to communicate in a style unique to the person. I’m doing it for a reason. I’m very keen on writer’s having ownership of their words. If they’re writing from their heart the words will ring true and so will their unique “voice”. True, there is a kind of collective subconscious that can have writer’s sound similar. As much as we like to think what we are traveling is “virgin territory” when we write a sentence, it’s possible that someone we don’t know may have had the same idea. This similarity in thought and idea is a consensus but it’s not the same as copying another writer’s style.

I have had problems in the past with someone copying my style and quoting without credit. This was sad. I was writing about people who were friends and relatives in some of my posts. Not only was copying my words putting this copycat in danger of taking credit for other’s lives but worse it was robbing them of the chance to form their own writer’s style. It might have been more difficult but I think that they’d been an excellent writer if they had done the work. It’s a shame that they didn’t.

It’s not easy to write. It’s much more difficult than weeding the flower beds in the middle of a hot July day. Sure I could get someone else to weed my garden or write my stories for me but it wouldn’t be the same out come. You can get someone else to do the work and then call it your own but when you do this you are robbing yourself of your “voice”. You will be denied that feeling you get when you read the a poem or a story and know that those are your words. They didn’t exist in just that way before you wrote them. There is a thrill when someone reads what you write and tells you, “I get it.” Whether you clear the flower bed or you are writing a short story, after all that hard work comes the feeling of a job well done.

If you are truly going to become a writer? You have to do the work.

Hugs,
Author Ann

Writer of the original 12 dogs and a blog ebay.

Note. Unless cited The words for this blog and the ebay blog are original to this writer. Among characters created? Intern Jack, Auntie Slacker, Hannah Murphy, …
The Hannah Murphy character was a turning point. I needed a character to quote but not run into copyright violations. So I made up Hannah Murphy and her quotes.

LOL Please do the work and don’t “poach”. Let me know if you quote what I write. I’ll cite your blog on my blogs. Just don’t quote my hard work as your own.

Regards

Ann