Completely ready to delete Twitter and Facebook accounts. Blog is next. I’d better go to bed. :)
Off the Beaten Plan
plan: to devise or project the realization or achievement of
I was just thinking, I wonder if it ever gets tiring to be Seth Godin, with everyone hanging on your every word and pretty much thinking that everything that comes out of your mouth is gold? Not that it’s always like that, but the guy does have a lot of thought-provoking things to say. I’ve yet to run into someone who thinks he’s full of crap. But does that get old?
Just thinking out loud.
And now that we’re talking about Mr. Godin, he had an interesting post today that flows along thoughts I’ve been having for some time (probably inspired by him):
When does your mind lose the ability to keep up? Then what happens? Is it already happening?
from Redoubling to system failure, by Seth Godin
Well for me, yeah. It’s completely happening. Not just online – my entire life is too much sometimes – but mostly online. Those people who can put out a blog post and sync its release on Facebook and Twitter using Hootsuite and keep up with every comment and be educated and have time for more research…I want to be like those people, but there’s just no way. Those people honestly have made blogging their life – that is their job, and so that makes sense.
Me, I’m a woman with a full time (plus some) job and two kids and a husband and a house and a cat even, and the fact that I can even half-ass manage those things and keep up some semblance of a blog and a Twitter and follow a few friends on Facebook – heck, I think that’s pretty amazing. But toss in that I also like to watch TV online, and sew a bit, and want to redo my kids’ bedrooms this summer, and maybe even lose some weight in all that…
You can see where it may be a bit overwhelming.
A person has to find their limit of things to focus on, and make those things the best. My things have to be Family, Work, and then Everything Else. It’s probably like that for a lot of people. So for all those Mother/Wife/Homemaker types that don’t make blogging a full time sport, how do we keep all the other clutter from taking over?
A girl has to give up something. Twitter, Facebook, Blog, Squidoo, RSS feeds, News, Television, Movies – it’s very hard to draw the line. I love all of them, but they can’t all have a place.
I think I have some thinking to do. :)
The Public Humiliation Diet: A How-To
Huh. You know, I’ve tried doing this kind of thing before. Here on my blog (maybe not this one, but one of them), throughout other sites, with other programs like Lose It! for the iPhone, but it hasn’t worked for me. The public humiliation bit is just humiliating, never really motivating.
I tend to like to keep things to myself, but then eventually I give those things up as well. It’s a tough sell.
It all boils down to determination. How bad do I want it? I guess not bad enough, because my pants size keeps going up, along with my weight I suppose. (I haven’t been on a scale in a year, probably.)
*sigh* It’s all very difficult. Nothing is very easy. (Now I sound like my 7-year-old…heh.)
LoseIt! logo from LoseIt.com
So I haven’t been a fan of LOST since the beginning. In fact, I watched the first season on DVD during the 2nd season, and then didn’t watch anything else until this February. At that time, I decided that I would catch up and watch the final season in a more timely manner. So, borrowing three seasons from a friend to supplement the two seasons my husband owns, I caught up.
And now it’s time for the very last episode. Today is the last bit of new LOST.
Since I don’t have cable, I obviously won’t be able to catch it at home in my broken chair. (My poor chair…) And I don’t want to wait until tomorrow, when I’ll be sharing an office with a die hard fan who had a party the night before and has had a whole evening to analyze it, etc.
So about 6 p.m. I’ll be hopping into the car and driving 45 minutes to my parents’ house to watch LOST with them on their TV. Now my parents aren’t fans – the only exposure they’ve had to LOST was in February when I was catching up.
So this should be fun. :)
What a Monday
I wanted to add a comment to a blog post I read and really enjoyed. But then I read the disclaimer that said (basically) if I didn’t say something meaningful, my comment would get deleted.
So I didn’t say that I think revenge stories that get revenge by being positive and constructive make the best stories. I didn’t share that I enjoyed what I read, or that it had meaning to me, because I felt as if I couldn’t just say, “Go, you!”
If you want to leave a comment that isn’t spam but isn’t constructive, I don’t mind. Just no hating here, please. :)
In other news, my Monday wasn’t great. I forgot a meeting (BAD, BAD Nicki!), endured some drama, and got a little overwhelmed and confused because of sheer quantity of information, but I survived. Now I’m watching some Avatar and not dwelling on the fact that my sweet, stubborn son took 1.5 hours to do his homework, or that he felt it was necessary to cut his own hair after his shower. Tsk.
What a Monday was published on May 24th, 2010, with the tags comments, random, revenge, under the Completely Off Topic category. There are currently no comments on this article so far.