It's between doing actual stuff and blogging, so lucky for you I decided to blog! Ha!
My video blog was so MANIC I'm actually a bit embarrassed. I am not a public speaker, so the prospect of a) posting a video of ME and b) not preparing any answers so the questions and c) ONE TAKE IN MY CAR WHEN I'M TWO HOURS PAST MY LUNCHTIME. So ... yeah. I would redo, but I don't think it would be any better. I swear I'm not that manic in real life. Well, maybe I am. Becky? MamaFuss?
But I had no idea what to say about the question about three things about me. It is true that five minutes into a conversation with me, you're likely to know my deepest, strangest and most mortifying secrets. Nothing is off-limits in my conversations and I apologize in advance. But here are a few things that may or may not come up in New Orleans:
1) I can never remember to turn off my flat iron, and if I do remember, I still don't remember that I did turn it off so I get worried. I've turned around from trips to Orlando to go home and turn off my flat iron. I've been late to work because I turned around. I've sent my neighbor over to my house after I got to work on numerous occasions. If I leave before my husband, I text him to check (honestly, you'd think he would automatically check). I think this is because my old iron had an auto-off.
2) I have the same issue driving other vehicles, because my car has auto-lights.
3) I watched very little tv growing up. I don't remember anything other that PBS (Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow, Mister Rogers) until the early 90s when my brother was young. Then I've got Saved By The Bell, California Dreamin', Rugrats and all the early 90s Nickalodeon shows. I never watched Friends when it was a weekly show. I started watching it in reruns in college. Of course, now I'm addicted to tv, but I have a guilt about it because I watched so little tv before, that I have a hard time adding new shows to my watching repertoire.
4) I cannot sleep on airplanes. So I will be tired.
5) I have seen my children for approximately one hour total all week, so I have serious mom guilt about going to NOLA this weekend. This will not keep me from coming and enjoying myself at all, but they keep asking me to take them to daycare. I cannot take them because I have my company car so no carseats and they seem so heartbroken. I'm having a harder time than usual.
6) I do not have a lot of the issues that most people appear to have. I do not get up with the children often. They sleep pretty well and I don't wake up for much of anything, so I almost always get a full night's sleep. If I don't, it's usually my own body's fault. My kids are generally healthy - H has never had an ear infection, and other than a couple rounds of Albuteral when he was under a year, one time of the flu (we all got it last Christmas) and a few colds he's rarely sick. S had two ear infections, gets mild fevers occasionally that don't get worse but never even gets colds. They are very well behaved (in public). They stick with us and listen and I get other-mom guilt toward OTHER moms because I don't have to deal with all the stuff they do. Why should I complain? I'm never up 8 times in a night. I'm never cleaning up vomit and I'm never dealing with a lot of craziness. I think my threshold for dealing with these things is a lot lower because I never have to.
7) I am so jealous of the people already in New Orleans.
2 comments:
You are not manic. I am the manic one, which is why we get along so well. When you get excited sometimes your voice goes up an octive, which *I*want find adorable.
You are not manic. She seemed a little nervous in the vlog, but cute, as you are in person. :)
And i just wrote a novel in your comments regarding youthful TV watching, have now deleted it and will post to my OWN blog since you probably don't want my drivel posted here. :)
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