Celebrate the Small Things- July 5th

Happy Friday!  Time to celebrate the small things with Viklit and all the other awesome bloggers out there!  Click on the link to join us!

I Entered Write Club!  I spoke recently about my struggles with brevity and how difficult it is for me to create good stories with few words.  Well, the 500 word cutoff for Write Club entries intimidated the hell out of me!  So I did what all well-meaning but ultimately short-sighted people do: I procrastinated.  Day after day I'd sit down at my computer with every intention of finally writing the damned thing and day after day I'd find some other way to spend that time.  I even tried publicly declaring my intention to enter by posting about it.  Even with that, I put it off.  Till pretty much the zero hour.
BUT- I did finish it and I DID send it in!  YAY!  Now, I have no idea if I'll be chosen to enter the face offs.  But honestly, that doesn't matter as much as defeating my own personal demons on this one.  Cause I came kind-of close to just giving up before I'd even written the thing.  And the fact that I didn't, the fact that I struggled through it and the fact that I ultimately prevailed against my own fear- well, that deserves a celebration!

I hit 500 Blog Posts!  This is old news by now as I've already talked about it at length, but it's still a really big deal and deserves comment on this list.  Cause like many other bloggers, I struggled to find my voice on this blog.  I was a lost soul with zero followers for a long, long time and I nearly gave up more than once.  But I didn't- I kept blogging.  And thanks to Blog Hops like this one I have finally connected with the community I so sorely lacked all those years.  So, YAY for me for not giving up and a super YAY to all you wonderful people for reading!  You rock!

Long Weekend  On the docket: viewing both Man of Steel (I know, we're so late) AND Despicable Me 2 (*squee!!!!*), spending some quality time with the puppy, catching up on some reading, making some tasty baked goods and meals, eating ice cream (of course) and just generally not being at work OR a wedding for more than a day.  Oh, such bliss!

I hope you all had a wonderful 4th (even if you're outside the US, I hope your day was wonderful) and wish you a great weekend!  And now, keep hopping!

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1. Suzanne Furness The Word is. . .	2. Julie Flanders	3. tara tyler
4. J. A. Ward Writes	5. Lara Lacombe - Romance With an Edge	6. Life, yoga and other adventures
7. Charity Pence	8. Ink in the Book	9. My Baffling Brain
10. Scribbles From Jenn	11. Tyreans Writing Spot	12. Writing Off the Edge
13. Father Dragon Writes	14. Lexa Cain	15. Michelle @ Writer~In~Transit
16. The Write Game	17. Writers Mark	18. Entertaining Interests
19. Reading, Writing and Everything in Between	20. Effectively Human	21. Jen Naumann Author
22. Mary Pax	23. Diana Wilder - About myself, by myself. . .	24. Pasha, From Animal Shelter to A Sheltered Life
25. S. K. Anthony	26. Agenthood and Submissionville	27. Defending The Pen
28. Queendsheena	29. Bouquet of Books	30. Kidbits
31. A Good One	32. Black Coffee and Cigarettes	33. Mark Noce Stories
34. Putting Pen to Paper	35. Writers Block	36. Rebeccah Writes
37. Sisu Diaries	38. Debs Writing Room	39. Melanies Blog
40. Espirational	41. melanie schulz	42. The Prosers
43. Shah Wharton's WordsinSync	44. Intentional Insights by S. Kelley Harrell	45. Creating Wordlenik
46. Cathy Keaton Writes, or Tries To	47. Simply Sarah	48. Today, I think. . .
49. Felicity Burnett (WR)	50. Janice Heck, My Time to Write	51. The Sock Zone
52. Brandy's Bustlings	53. M. J. Fifield	54. Constantine
55. Nana Prah's Blog	56. BaMes Live	57. The Journey South
58. The Reluctant Author	59. Thoughts and Ideas from Deanie Humphrys-Dunne	60. Laugh Quotes
61. Shayla's TeaGarden	62. The Beveled Edge	63. Rossandra White
64. Writing's Not For Weenies	65. Vidya Sury, Going A-Musing, Collecting Smiles	66. Writeful Melodies
67. Sarah McCabe- Falling Toward Mythopoesis	68. Meredith's Musings	69. Sarah J. Clift
70. Fiction and Film	71. Patricia's Place	72. Write About Nothing
73. Scribbling In The Storage Room	74. Writing and Photo Prompts from Life	75. Georgia Lyn Hunter