Excuses, quotes and memes

My excuses for not posting in nearly a week are as follows:

“I ran out of gas. I had a flat tire. I didn’t have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn’t come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts. IT WASN’T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD.”

OK, those are Jake Blues excuses for not showing up at his wedding – my excuses are a bit more mundane.

1. Work. Lots and lots of work – which is good when you’ve just started your own business!
2. Enjoying the perfect peace that is created when the three year old who lives above you and his mum are in another country.
3. Enchanted Arms on the XBox 360.

However, work is slow today (waiting on client feedback), the kid upstairs is back – complete with running wild and earsplitting, rage-fuelled, screaming tantrums – and the TV and XBox are turned off.

And what do I have to say for myself? Not much. So please enjoy this meme that Trixfiend tagged me for!

The rules:

• Write your own six word memoir.
• Post it to your blog – with a representative photo if you like.
• Link to the person who tagged you in your post (and to this original post so we can see where the meme travels).
• Tag five more blogs in your post.
• Leave comments on those same five blogs with an invitation to play.

My contribution:

Simple things make me happy.

And now for the tagging!

• Curlywurlygurly – You can use your favourite writing implement – or procrastinate – you choose!
• Renee – I hope your computer cooperates!
• Still Baking – because I know you think memes are fun.
• Nate – I think yours will be very interesting and have a kick-ass photo.
• BretCB – I just want to know what your memoir is because I’m nosy like that.

If you don’t want to participate – that’s OK too.