Humble Bragging & Brain Power Lagging

While it’s been fun to focus on my new YouTube channel for the last few weeks— and I plan on continuing to post videos regularly— I miss writing! A month has passed since my last blog post. Whoops. But between editing the first draft of my book, making and editing video, reading books to further educate myself on racial injustices, gettin’ real real about postpartum weight loss, and keeping my two babies entertained and fed during a global pandemic…well, I managed to slack on the whole blogging thing.

Was that a humble brag about all I’ve been doing? Does a duck with one leg swim in a circle?

But I’m back! Heyooo! I’m even typing on my brand new fancy rose gold MacBook Air that my husband + parents gifted me for my 32nd birthday (coming up in t-minus 7 days)! It’s strange not to feel caked-on crumbs and unidentified liquid beneath my fingers. I’m gross.

What’s Been on My Mind

I wanted to write a new post about the should-be-indisputable statement that Black Lives Matter, but instead I point you toward the post I wrote in the wake of the Charlottesville Unite the Right march three years ago, and to the YouTube video I made in response to more recent events.

There’s just been so much to digest in our world lately that, to be honest, I’ve had a hard time formulating my many thoughts into something concentrated enough for a blog post. Just when I think our world can’t become more divided, it does. Just when I think the pandemic is slowing, our tiny island gets five new cases. Just when I’ve finished a full month of no sweets, my husband makes chocolate chip banana bread. RUDE.

When There’s Too Much to Say and Not Enough Words

The fact that my fingers just revealed my frustration with racism and a pandemic alongside too-tempting banana bread in the same paragraph goes to show that my brain is not currently suited to write a themed blog post. I want to give you something substantial— something conceptual— but I blame overstimulation and Jo’s nighttime appetite for my inability to land on a topic.

So this is my topic. This was the post. Can you relate? Our brains are funny things. We can have enough opinions, experiences, and perspectives to fill a blog consistently for nine years (hi), then all of those thoughts compile in a single moment that renders us useless. I wonder if this is some sort of physiological defense mechanism to keep our wires from frying. I’m not sure.

But I trust that sooner than later, my circuits will resume activity, and at that point I can put together a coherent blog post that actually says something…which this one doesn’t.

What to Do While My Brain Reboots

Thanks for your patience. While you wait with bated breath for my next post, watch 13th on Netflix, read Me and White Supremacy, give a stranger a compliment, and try making your own pizza at home by heating your oven to 550 degrees then pressing broil once you put the pie in for exactly four minutes. You’ll love it. I love you. Talk soon.