Springtime Promises

Hi all. It’s time to confess that I’m having some trouble. See, I love to write. I love the trans community. I love doing what I can to help the people in, or affected by, that community. And, of course, I love to write about the trans community in the hopes of helping the people in that community, or touched by that community. Makes sense, right? Unfortunately I have this problem. It’s called I’m ridiculously busy, and lately, I’m ridiculously unmotivated, and the bottom line is that my poor little blog suffers on the back burner with my laundry and homework. This is a problem for me, because this is what I live to do!

It’s springtime now, which is clearly a time for renewal and growth and change and rebirth. I am trying to reflect the energy I see all around me in myself and in my life. One of the things I want to change, of course, is the fact that I keep skipping updates on this blog! To that end, I am making you a springtime promise. I intend to update this blog every Sunday or Monday—at LEAST. I need a new motivator, so this is what’s happening; every time I don’t update by Monday night, I owe you five dollars. Every time I do update but it’s a really bad post, I owe you two dollars. Sound good?

I can’t actually send five dollars to everyone who happens across this blog. So, I’m going to track how much money I owe ‘you,’ and at the end of the year, I will be donating that much money to a queer charity. At the moment, I am thinking True Colors, simply because I have always enjoyed volunteering for this organization. Additionally, Connecticut’s Imperial Sovereign Court (more on them later) is donating all the funds they raise this year to True Colors, and I would like to do what I can to help out.

So. That’s how it’s going to work. I skip, five bucks. I suck, two bucks. BUT. YOU HAVE TO CALL ME ON IT. So, if it’s Tuesday morning and my last post is from eight days ago, you’ve got to comment on that last post and remind me that I owe you five bucks. If I post something really awful or lacking in substance, you can call me on it, and I’ll tack two bucks onto the total. Just don’t tell me every single one of my posts sucks or I’ll be very sad :-P I’ll try and figure out how to keep a running total in the margins.

That’s my deal for you, dear readers. Take it or leave it!