Random order here….
1) Based on the freaky dream last night of sitting watching trailers of fictitious and strange Hugh Jackman movies – I must have a thing for him and remind myself to not eat Liquorice Allsorts and drink Scotch at the same time.
2) Housework escapes me.
3) Feeding my kids sometimes also escapes me.
4) I am not really a people person. In real life…I tend to get a bit edgy and snarky. Sorry. I noticed this in my handling of confusion regarding the soccer game event thingie on Saturday and my lack of owning a schedule or getting a clear time or overview from any of the other mom’s and the coach. I was snarky. Sports things escape me (sense the pattern here!?). I am not a group person or a joiner. The cushion of the internet makes life a lot easier for me. Real life is harder. Talking to other mom’s is hard for me. Doing the whole mom organize your kids life is hard for me.
I should live in the woods and home school my kids. No offense to home home schoolers…I an in awe of them.
5) I may be smarter than I think I am. Or I am really good at not only fooling others, but myself. Example. My husband is a clever man. Strangely he values my opinion and advice on topics that tend to be a bit ‘big’ for me. He has me participate in design and development meetings. People LISTEN to me!
I swear, there was a moment on Friday during a meeting where I had a total disconnect between what was coming out of my mouth and what was in my head. In my head I had been doing that multitasking mom thing…half listening and half thinking of what I had to do next in the day, and I think, my grocery list too. But apparently..I was listening enough and understanding enough to actually speak words that made sense and didn’t make all the clever techie design people either roll their eyes or fall about in hysterics.
Go figure.
The evisceration of Dana over on BlogHer this weekend reminded me of the whole ‘comfort’ level thing.
While Crunchy Husband and I will cover almost any topic under the sun…politics, religion, science and all the offshoots of said areas with glee and gusto…and will discuss and debate these issues with close friends too with as much glee and gusto…I tend to suddenly clam up online. Even in the ‘safety’ of my blog, I tend to veer from speaking about my views on politics or world issues.
I am not sure why. I love a good debate. I love the passion that arises from a good debate. I have been on forums where we all let loose and loved every minute of it and tend to not take it personally either.
I also will take a trouncing….if someone can out debate me on an issue…YOU win! I will stew and sulk..but I am ok with it.
So why…why can I not do this on my websites? What stops me. What holds me back?
One thing is that the blogosphere is dominated by US politics. The areas I am hanging in anyway. I feel a bit intrusive to chuck my Canadian two cents in. I sadly do not pay enough attention to my OWN politics..apart from the civic stuff…that gets my goat big time.
I also feel that I am not really up on how it all works. But. How else do we learn? How else do we expand our horizons? We have to push ourselves into new territory….as frightening as it is….
And really, my own blog should be the perfect platform…should it not?
I gotta work on that.
Anyway, I gotta get back to kitty litter cleaning and laundry doing…
Go Moms Go!
Gwen says
I have got to tell you I love a bit of snark in a person. Add that to sarcasm and you are my new best friend. I also stay out of the US politics. I am so sick of hearing about the Presidential race that I can’t even explain how much it annoys me.
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SQT says
I don’t talk politics much. What irritates me is that there seems to be a sense of entitlement among certain political groups (not naming names) to spew any kind of vitriol they want, but if you disagree you’re the devil. I don’t particularly feel the need to jump into that mess.