🎣 Odds and ends
I don't know what to blog about today - Wednesday's blaugust post was late because I spent the whole day hanging out with people - I don't regret that. I intended to post twice yesterday instead, but I stayed late climbing so I'll just have to deal with missing a day. This blog will be a summary of lose ends.
I find I get very little engagement on my blog if I publish posts in the morning my time (GMT) - so I try and post in the afternoon. I like writing in the morning though - it's peaceful.
I talked to my friend about writing and she suggested I write fiction, which I haven't thought about doing for a long time. She talked about how she likes to read Latin American authors, and how magic realism is a very common genre in Latin American writing - I felt very inspired as those were my favourite kind of books to read.
I particularly liked Phillip Ridley's books as a kid. His children's books are weird, scary and magical, about kids who live in gritty urban landscapes sprinkled with magic and peril. These are the covers I remember, so fun and enticing:
Recently, I've been calling my boyfriend by my ex-boyfriend's name - not to his face, but when referring to him in conversation with other people.
It happened once before but that was when I'd just started taking antidepressants and I'd been drinking, so I put it down to that. But it's happened twice more recently.
It's very embarrassing. I can honestly say I don't think about my ex-boyfriend much, and I don't miss him - I have a lot of regrets about our relationship, but mainly to do with how I didn't communicate my needs.
I wish I could guarantee I'd never do it again, it makes me feel like I'm losing my mind. How do I stop??