It's My Blogiversary!

Woo-woo to blogging for one year! I sure have enjoyed myself. Most of what I write is pure silliness, but it's fun for me. I like to write. I like me. I like to write about me. So, blogging pretty much makes sense, you see.

I began this little blog on May 18, 2009. I'm almost at 100 posts now! Some months I've written a lot, other months I've really slacked. There are several posts that I've written that have yet to be published. I'm saving some for a rainy day. There are others that may never be seen by readers eyes. That's the fun of blogging. I can write what I want, when I want, and I get to decide what's published and what's not. I get to be the blogging boss and it's fun to be boss.

Thanks to my small group of readers. I like you. I like that you still come back to my blog and read. It sure does make me smile.

I'm an Old-fashioned Girl That Appreciates Old-Fashioned Courtesy

In my next relationship, I want to make a "no texting" rule. No texting at all? No. That's not what I'm saying, but I don't want to start out a relationship through texting. I don't want to be asked out by a text. I don't want to "get to know each other" through texts. I sure as heck don't want a relationship to end through a text. (Sidenote: I have in fact been dumped via text before. Yeah. That's not cowardly or disrespectful at all. I felt like the episode of Sex and the City when Carrie was dumped on a Post-It.)

I could be wrong, but I think the "no texting" rule would be the best way to avoid miscommunication in a relationship. Texting can cause fights and misunderstandings between couples. Misunderstanding of words or misinterpreted tones can happen so easily. Unless you know someone well, it's hard to get a sense of another person's tone through a text. Jokes or sarcasm aren't always easily translated and detected if you don't know the person well, or if, say, you just don't get sarcasm.

I enjoy texting. I do it quite often. It's a quick way to interact with friends, especially if you have a quick question and don't need to have a whole phone conversation about it. That's a different story. Those texts are meant to be fast and informal. They're completely different than texts being exchanged with someone that you are interested in pursuing in a relationship. Being asked out through a text is almost like running through the McDonald's drive-thru for a burger. Sure, you might be excited about it and it might satisfy you for a bit, but that kind of guy isn't going to be the best, healthiest, most satisfying choice in the end. Anyone can send a text. Texting is a quick way to say what needs to be said and then get out. They're not getting sucked in to what could be a lengthy phone conversation. It's a fast and informal way to connect.

What happened to picking up a phone, dialing a number, and asking someone out. I find it almost insulting. I just feel like texting is almost being over-done. It's become too easy to "say" something to someone without having to actually say it. It's way easier to "hide" behind a text or an email and say what you want to say without it getting too lengthy or complicated. Writing out your message doesn't always bring about that uncomfortable explanation or feelings you can get when you're having to deliver a message face-to-face or over the phone. It's different when you can hear the tone of a voice, sense the awkward silences, feel the pauses, hear the nervous laughter, detect the anger...

I feel that it's more gutsy and requires more effort to make that phone call. If someone wants to pursue me, I feel that I'm worth the effort to make the call. Plus, if you don't text someone all day long, finally speaking on the phone and hearing his voice just might be that much better and sincere and honest. Phone calls. Just do it.

Greg Behrendt, best-selling co-author of He's Just Not That Into You says, "In the buffet of communication, text messaging should be a side dish, not the entree."

Shake it

Within the walls of a kindergarten classroom, bathroom accidents are just going to happen. For some reason now that the end of the school year is upon us, accidents are becoming more prevalent. I don't understand it either. I'm just going to blame it on my stellar teaching and the fact that the children are so engrossed in my lessons that they'd rather mess themselves than get up to go to the bathroom. Yeah...I'm sure that's what it is.

Today, one of my boys came out of the classroom bathroom with a perplexed look on his face. I was concerned that maybe his bathroom experience did not end in a very pleasant manner (i.e.- there might just be a little something left behind in his pants). I called him over to me and began to ask the standard kindergarten bathroom questions:

Me: "Did you wash your hands?"

Student: "Yeah."

Me: "Did you wipe?"

Student: "No. I shook it off."

Me: "Ohhhhh." [as I muffle a laugh and quickly exit scene]

Silly Bandz

Silly Bandz have recently become the latest accessory trend among kids. I would say the popularity of Silly Bandz is pretty close with my generations slap bracelets. In case you're not down with these bands, let me give you a quick description. They are thin, rubberband-style bracelets. They look like a rubberband when worn on your wrist, but when removed, they take on their stamped shape (animal, letter, instrument, etc.)

If I were to buy a pack of Silly Bandz, I'd want the Outer Space pack:

One Lost Sole

Today I was driving down Scottsville Road and noticed a tennis shoe in the middle of the road. It's not often that I see things like a shoe on the road. They just don't belong there. It's like opening up my fridge and seeing an untouched chocolate pie. It's just not natural. The few times that I have seen a random shoe on the road, I begin to wonder about how that lone shoe ended up there...

Possible shoe-loss scenarios:

1. Did a runner run out of their shoe and just decide to not go back to retrieve it?

2. Maybe a fight broke out in a car while driving down the road. One of the passengers takes off their shoe and throws it at another passenger. It sails past the passenger's head and flies out the open car window.

3. The chicken dropped it when it was crossing the road? (Yeah, that one was pretty stupid, but I had to.)

What scenarios do you have?

I mean, really. Have you ever seen a lost pair of shoes on the road? I haven't. If I did, and they were nice and fashionable, I'd sure pull my car over and run across the lanes of traffic to snatch them up. It's always just been one shoe though. One lonely, lost sole.

Funky Fresh Cowboy Rainboots

I wish I had a pair of cowboy boots. I also wish I had a pair of rainboots. Put 'em both together, and what do you get? Voila! Cowboy rainboots. I kinda like these. I kinda want to get a pair. Yes, the design makes them a bit funky, but we all know that funky can be fresh. I mean, aren't rainboots supposed to be a little strange looking?

During the recent flooding, I sure did want a pair of cowboy rainboots. It rained so hard and so much that I would have settled for basic yellow galoshes. I would have even settled for a pair of Napoleon Dynamite Moon boots. Tennis shoes are no fun when they get wet. The wetness stays trapped inside your socks and makes you all cranky and your shoes go "squeaky-squeaky" on tile floors. Flip-flops are just a hazard when they make contact with wet surfaces. I've hit too many puddles while wearing flip-flops, so I can testify to the hazardous fact. For real.

I Heart Corgis.

I sure would like a baby Corgi like this little guy.