Nobody Praises a Newsletter
Except for one guy
It’s been 11 days since I wrote to you. Probably because it’s hard to come up with worthwhile things to make you not regret subscribing. Newslettering is tedious at best, trying to figure out how to entertain and provide value for people while tooting your own horn on the down-low.
But all it takes is ONE person to change how you feel about shameless self-promotion. That person this week was James Garside. He tweeted about my newsletter out in public so I know he must mean it. Nobody goes public unless they mean it, so thank you James! Feel free to leave your Substack link in the comments so I (and others) can subscribe to you.
James really did change the way I feel about sending these newsletters.
Isn’t it funny how Tedium rhymes with Medium? I know that made at least three of you laugh.
One thing that broke my tedium in the past week is my brand new puppy. I waited for two whole months to be able to adopt during lockdown, and finally my little destiny came to me. I couldn’t be happier to have forgotten about writing in exchange for slobber and razor-sharp teeth ripping holes in my clothing.
This is not your run of the mill story. There were a lot of “fate” occurrences in my adoption process.
Committing to a Partner for Life on the First Date
As shitty luck would have it, in the same week I got my puppy I was also called back to work for June 1. This did not make me happy at all. I’m not quite finished walking around in man-sweatpants with my belly hanging out over the waistband yet.
How it Feels Being Called Back to Work After 2.5 Months of Isolation
Did you hear the news? My own sister threatened to sue me after reading one of my stories. Have you ever written about your dysfunctional family and then gotten a wet noodle lashing from one of your siblings?
When Your Angry Sister Finds a Family Story You’ve Written
I’ll leave you all with this. You know those “10 Things Nobody Knows About You” Facebook surveys? No, I don’t participate in them because nobody cares. But I do have one thing that nobody in my current life knows about me.
I had read something by the epic travel writer, Ryan Frawley, that reminded me I have in fact experienced some pretty cool things. Who gets to say they’ve been accepted and rejected for a major TV show….twice?
I Was Cast and Rejected for House Hunters International. Twice.
That’s it for this edition. I need to stop now because Grammarly is flashing a little red number 4 at me. I can only assume that the color red means I’ve done 4 things wrong in this newsletter, and I hate being wrong so I’ll sign off now.
Thank you all for reading!
Kristi
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