Listen to me bitch a while, will ya?
I had some small hope today that I might feel well enough to get something done but I was wrong. I managed to get groceries (Hot Pockets, yogurt and bread — no chance in hell that I’m making soup this week) and I managed to do some laundry (primarily my bedding that was peed upon by a sick five year old last night) and I managed to spend $80 at a toy store while only intending to buy a Baby Bjorn Little Potty (the coolest potties out there) as a birthday present for my two year old. I knew the toy store extravaganza was inevitable, though. It’s the very coolest toy store in my city and I am helpless against it. They have every cool toy you could ever imagine and I will be their willing victim for many years to come.
I did manage to spend an impressive amount of ass-time today — that would be time spent sitting on my ass. Mostly I tried to finish the book I’m reading that seems like it will never end (a good book, but sorely in need of an editor) and looking for blogs written by mothers living in my city. I’ve determined that blog stalking will be my latest attempt to make friends in my city, particularly since nothing else I try seems to work. I figure that I’ll read their blogs for a while, decide if they’re cool enough for me, leave a comment or two that will inspire them to check out my blog, then voila, instant friendship. Or something like that.
And of course, when I say that I will decide if they are cool enough for me, what I really mean is decide how well they will fit into my socially inept, dorky, painfully shy, yet smart-and-interesting-once-you-get-to-know-me aesthetic. So far, it’s not looking promising. For example, I’m pretty sure that I won’t have much in common with someone who, in her three sentence profile, describes herself as 1) obsessed with handbags, 2) a shopoholic, and 3) a mother. I am 1) irritated by handbags, 2) irritated by shopping, 3) a mother. I’m also pretty sure the Mormon Mary Kay Republican mother and I will not have much to discuss, nor will the ones who seem inoffensive enough until they devote long and extremely off-putting posts to their Love of The Lord. Now I don’t have anything against Christians, in fact I read blogs by several people who identify as such and who even take the time to write posts about their own spiritual philosophies. Spiritual philosophies, I can get behind, even if I don’t agree with them in the remotest. But posts about the Blessings of The Lord and all that He Blesseth and What The Fuck Ever…yeah, not so much for me.
I also don’t appreciate blogs where the sole source of “humor” is how very hilariously gender-stereotypical are the blogger’s husband/male children/female children/self. Nothing says haw-haw-hilarious like a five year old girl who spends hours in front of the mirror (already!!) or a three year old boy who has three little girlfriends (think he’s knocked any of them up yet?!?!) HAW HAW.
Can you tell I’m in an irritable mood right now? Hell, I’ve been irritable this entire week. I am like the princess and the pea except instead of a pea underneath my layers of mattresses, it’s a ball of snot that has become petrified in my sinuses. I am trying to have some perspective though. I generally manage to bite my tongue before biting someone’s head off (and, happily enough, I am most successful in this venture when it comes to my children — who are also sick and certainly don’t deserve my attitude).
I have blogrolled a few promising bloggers though. At the very moment I don’t think that any of them have promise, but I am trying to keep an open mind and not let my bad attitude combined with my defensiveness in the face of potentially reaching out to actual humans ruin this whole effort before I can really start it. I mean, really. I read over some of my own posts with an eye for how I might take them if I stumbled across my own blog in this search for local bloggers and frankly, I wasn’t impressed. And surely that’s wrong! So I am willing to consider that other bloggers might not express their full coolness in each and every post and that it might take a while longer to make a full assessment of worthiness.
March 30th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
I know you state you’re irritable in this post, but can I say that you were also terribly funny? Well, you were. And are. Have a good rest of the day! Whoops - night.