the things i wish i were...

okay, so, this is a quick entry to say, man oh man, i wish i could do that!

i love all my blog friends, i love a range of blogs, all for their own reasons. this entry is about a specific type, the literary 'they should have a novel so i can read them in bed' type.

i read some people's blogs and am enraptured by their writing. i wish i could write like that. i wish my blog was funny like that. i wish i wish i wish.

i read brandon's stories (i'll link all of these later, but for now, they're all blogrolled) and sigh in envy. i read lee's outrageous tales and giggle with delight. i read claypot and cring with horror as she recounts stories about bat legs stuck on pillows and think to myself, boy i'm glad we lived in a big house in lusaka when we lived in zambia. i read finslippy, and, well, good god, how can you not love finslippy?!? and petite, and dooce, and and and and...

*sigh* so much goodness. so so much.

i want to write like that. witty entertaining stories. that's what i want my blog to be.

and here's the rub, it could be... i am actually a reasonable writer, and a relatively funny person. but writing like that takes energy and concentration for me. i have to be deliberate about it (well, not always, but as a general rule you understand), and the truth? the truth is, i'm a lazy sod. i don't have the energy to figure out how to write about the mundane things in my life in delightlfully witty ways that make people feel like they wish i'd written a book 'cause they just know they'd love it.

not sure what the point of this post was. it's just something that floats around in my head sometimes.