It's Thursday and I feel like I should be posting something but I've been working almost straight on since last Thursday, so I didn't have a weekend to tidy out my brain and focus. I actually have two posts that I started but I haven't finished them, though I did indulge in some foolishness.
Today I mostly caught up on the hideous amorphous beast that ate my house this week. Then, I was bored but too tired to think very hard and I though of Pinterest. I've been curious about it for some time. I checked it several months ago and thought, "Invited?" I have to be invited? well screw that...but I decided to check again because I was curious...and I like stuff...and I can't fit anymore stuff in my house....so maybe I could store stuff there. So I went back. And I still had to be invited but I could beg to be invited like a total dorky drip who wants to go to the popular girls big party in 7th grade. Being familiar with being a dorky drip of a seventh grader I got down on my knees and cried and offered to do their algebra homework for the rest of the year and promised my firstborn child...(which Ha Ha..jokes on them if they touch that one) but anyway....
They said, Sure! You can come. If you're one of those Hip Popular kids on Facebook or Twitter.
well....The last place I want to be is hanging out with that wild bunch on Facebook. I have to consider my reputation if I want to get into that exclusive nursing home I'm shooting for someday, so...
I did something I always said I would never do. I reached out and took a hit of Twitter. I'm not following anyone and I'm not asking anyone to follow me right now. As my very first tweet said:
I'm only here for the Pinterest.
Which brings to mind another question.
If a Tweet Twits in an empty web and no one reads it, does it make a Twitter at all?
( I don't want to repeat the debacle of joining Google Plus and then being completely stumped with what to do with it but not wanting to delete it either. A few nice people connected to me there but I haven't done anything with it yet. If you are one of them please don't let it hurt your feelings. I have absolutely no one and nothing in my circles or otherwise). Anyway..
Then I skipped back over to Pinterest where they made me follow some total strangers before I could pin anything and I don't want to look because I don't know those people and God knows what they might be pinning in there! Then I made some boards and skipped to the Internet where I found and pinned a picture of the Smoky Mountains a Swiss Mountain Dog puppy and Mother Teresa.
You know, because I can only fit one Swissy in my house, there certainly isn't room for a mountain and getting Mother Teresa might be awkward.
I'd like to pin all my favorite books but I'm way too tired to look them up right now because Allison introduced me to finding and listing books on Goodreads awhile back and it has consumed the other 5 minutes of free time I have every week, though I love it. I guess I'll pin them eventually unless I forget my new password.
I have always rocked gently in the cocoon of my anti social media arrogance. Like that same dorky girl who starts wearing combat boots and dies her hair blue and gets a lip piercing in high school. I'm feeling so social now! Do you suppose it will make up for hiding from my new neighbors for the past two days? My favorite neighbors from the past 14 years next door moved away. I was just getting used to them ; ) They aren't officially moved in yet, just working on the house. Eventually I might show up with a plate of cookies and thrust them at them when they open the door and then run like hell. Life would be so much easier if I could just leave people little happy faces in the real world. Wait. I guess I can. It's called a smile.
FINE! I'll work on it. Who knows, maybe they're Pinteresting.
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I can breathe easy now - you must be my dorky twin, I revel in the fact that I may not be the only one who has no idea how to tweet (twit), pin or stumble. Although you're now one or two steps ahead of me. I sometimes feel like I'm 107 years old and then some :-)
ReplyDeleteI have no idea what I'm doing! I just sign up, look around and then forget my password ; )
DeleteGood choice joining Pinterest, it can get ker-azy over there!
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to finding lots of cute kitty pictures!!
Delete**SNORT** it is only fitting that i, too, this week ventured over to pinterest and discovered that i needed a social network of sorts to use them and had to tell them to kiss off because i won't do it. i can't even remember the passwords i have and i won't succumb to facebook. i am thinking of having a shirt made that says "i'm not antisocial, just anti social network."
ReplyDeletego to gawkeverse.com instead. you don't need an account to browse. and if you want an accoun, i think they just save your favorites to a page and you don't have to post anywhere. recipes, crafts, ridiculous house inspiration (as in, gorgeous homes that even if i could afford them my kids and pets (and possibly me) would destroy in short time). and, wedding gawking if you're thinking of getting married again. no offense to the seamonkey, cuz i'm totally kidding. oddly, i still like to look at that stuff. is that weird? it's probably just to avoid housework.
Don't I know it! I forgot my password to playlist.com and they won't send me a new one : ( You should come hang out with me on Goodreads. Succumb to the peer pressure!! Oh, and guess who was casually thumbing through the wedding planning guide sent out in our newspaper? Of course I have the excuse that I have two more daughters to marry off ; )
DeleteI'm on Facebook. I even joined Twitter a few months ago because the publishers who send me books to review wanted me to tweet the links. I always said I'd NEVER be on Twitter, but I also said I'd never blog, and anyone who knows me at all knows my principles never hold up to a gentle breeze, let alone a stiff wind, so... curiously, I'm not on Pinterest. Never gonna happen. Maybe. Love seeing you on Goodreads.
ReplyDeleteYou know you want to pin something Allison. Chili recipes? Colorful toenail polish? Margarita glasses? ; )
DeleteUgh just reading all of this is making me tired of Pineterst all over again. I got "invited" and "accepted" and then I pinned some stuff and then I was like this is kind of a waste of my time and now my boards are all still half empty.
ReplyDeleteI know. I'm thinking, "when do I have time to do all this and what am I going to do with it? But all the same I found it appealing to gather my favorite things in one place. I'm worried it might be a new OCD symptom ; )
DeleteCrap... and I can't even manage to make it through my blog reading at a decent hour! I don't need anything else that keeps me on the computer, more than I'm on it now.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine my husband finding me on the computer in the middle of the night desperately searching for just the right orange tabby cat before I can sleep ; )
DeleteI must be the most stupid woman on the planet, but I can't figure it out. Someone sent me an invite, so I accepted...but NOW WHAT?
ReplyDeleteYou pin stuff? and then what? It's fun, but still..SO LITTLE TIME IN MY LIFE.
but I do love it. Esp. looking at other's pin boards, kinda like going through the closets: sick fun like that.
Exactly! It's kind of fun but what is it for? I never considered the nosy aspect of it. Hmm, now that might be kind of fun ; )
DeleteYou are light years ahead of me. I'm on Twitter and Pinterest too, but I have no idea what they are for.
ReplyDeleteNot too far ahead. I pinned some more stuff I like but I'm not sure anyone really cares what I like ; )
ReplyDeleteI forgot how funny you are. Haven't been here in a while. Now I'll put you in my reader so I never miss a post. Don't really get pinterest. I have an account but who really gives a crap what crap I like? (says the girl with the blog)
ReplyDeleteThanks Sarah : )
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