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My own personal blogging first aid kit

The Blog Herald wrote about a Blogging First Aid Kit, including some carpal tunnel exercises and a couple of yoga moves. Berocca scored a blogosphere victory by providing people with their own kit, in which Berocca featured prominently. All well and good, but if today's Monday, and I'm going to be blogging for approximately 30 more hours this week here's what needs to be in my Blogging First Aid Kit.

Magic mushrooms
Eventually you get to the point where your creative juices run dry. In these situations, there's no choice but to go psychedelic, which is why here at Shiny Towers we have recently introduced Shiny Mushroom Friday.

A puppy to kick
When the CMS loses your post for the third time in an hour, and you can't get an image to resize properly, bad things happen. Kicking puppies is about as bad as it gets.

A sub-editor
I can spell check my own work, right up until Shiny Mushroom Friday. After that, spellcheck becomes null and void.

An Apple announcement
Like it or not, Apple sets the world on fire. There's no other tech company we write about with such frequency - there's no other CEO who has been the feature of an international health scandal this week. Forget sex. It's Apple rumours that sell.

Clairvoyance skillz
If I could just see into the future, I'd be able to write all this stuff in advance, buy stock options in some canny places and spend the rest of the week watching Jeremy Kyle.

Flowers
What can I say? Flowers on the desk = higher productivity. I'm just that kind of girl.

Prohibition
I say, bring back prohibition. The world would be a better place, or at least I'd be richer and my liver would be happier. And just think - we'd all get to dress like flappers. Awesomeness.

So, come on then. What have I missed? Or is berocca all you need to get by?

Susi Weaser is the editor of Shiny Shiny. She'll be here all week.

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