mamajoan

In a pathetic attempt to distract you from the fact that I never post here any more, I'm copy-pasting this meme from my Facebook. ;)

I've been tagged a whole bunch of times so I guess I gotta do it!

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.

(To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)

1. My most recent haircut was self-administered. And I think I did a darn good job for my first time. ;P

2. I am still addicted to Top Chef even though I think Hung's win last season was a complete travesty. (I'm also about three episodes behind on this season, so please, no spoilers!)

3. I refuse to be ashamed or embarrassed about the breast-feeding thing. I'm still nursing my almost-3-year-old and I don't care who knows it.

4. Now that I'm in my mid-30s and a mom, I keep wondering where are all those 18-year-olds who, if porn is to be believed, are dying to nail an "older" MILF like myself. Maybe I should get a pool so I can hire a pool boy? Maybe I should stop using porn as my guide to what people want? ;)

5. It bothers me when I get together with adults (like at chorus rehearsal or similar) and hear "How are the kids?" more often than "How are you?"

6. I want to play the piano more often, and get the kids interested in it and help them come to love it like I do. But it annoys me when all they want to do is bang on it.

7. I never thought I'd become as good a cook as I am. Not that I'm going to win any awards, but I can crank out some tasty stuff. And I can improvise successfully, which is awesome.

8. I am almost completely deaf in my right ear, since childhood (possibly since birth). Cause unknown.

9. I don't understand why men spit, especially in public.

10. No matter how hard I try, I can't seem to turn myself into the kind of person who keeps a clean/tidy home. I worry about the effect this will have on my kids. I feel that the degree of messiness in my home should bother me more than it does. What does bother me is when I see my kids step on, or over or around, things on the floor like they think it's normal. sigh.

11. When I really really want something, I try so hard to convince myself that I don't care whether I get it or not. But I never succeed in fooling myself like that.

12. I would like to be pregnant again and give birth again. I would like to breast-feed a baby again. But I don't actually want to have another baby, with all the sleep deprivation and bodily fluids and self-abnegation. Also I already feel enough population-control guilt over having had two kids; I don't think my conscience could handle a third. I don't think my conscience could handle being a surrogate mom either. So I will probably never be pregnant again and never give birth again. And that makes me really sad.

13. On the other hand, I hate nausea. And I seem to be conveniently forgetting that both my pregnancies were basically nonstop nausea for 18-20 weeks...yikes. I think I'd rather have almost anything -- pain, diarrhea, itchy, whatever -- than nausea.

14. It really sucked getting laid off last October. The more I think about it, the more I realize that it was my dream job against which all jobs past and future will be measured.

15. On the plus side, the subsequent interview process helped me realize that I'm so much more confident in myself professionally now. A few years ago I wasn't even sure technical writing was what I wanted to do when I grew up. Now not only is it what I want to do, but I even feel like I might be starting to grow up! OMG.

16. Whenever my married friends complain about their spouses, I feel all smug and superior. ;)

17. I wish I still had the time and energy to post on LJ as copiously as I used to. Primarily I think (thought) of LJ as a place to record all the things I don't want to forget, about parenting and life at this stage. Kind of like a baby book. All the funny things the kids say, the random minutiae of our daily lives, the milestones and progressions of their little lives. I feel like I'm missing something, future-me is missing something because I haven't been posting that stuff lately and it's already disappearing from memory.

18. In principle I believe it's wrong to judge other parents for making different parenting decisions than I make. In reality, though, I pass judgment like whoa. I try really hard to bite my tongue though.

19. I am basically a socialist at heart. I just don't think it's fair that Payton Manning (or insert other sports/entertainment figure here) makes tens of millions of dollars and I am barely scraping by. Sure, he's really really good at what he does. But I'm pretty good at what I do, and the disparity in income doesn't fit the disparity in ability or performance level.

20. I worry that I subtly/unconsciously treat my son like a boy and my daughter like a girl.

21. I do crosswords in pen. But I still prefer pencil for Sudoku.

22. I love baking my own bread and using it to make my kids' sandwiches for their lunchboxes. It makes me feel all domestic and shit, which is not a normal feeling for me.

23. Sometimes I think I share too much online. ;)

24. I never write fiction any more. I used to have so many ideas running around in my head, and now nothing. Did motherhood chase all the creativity out of me?

25. Deep down, I really, truly do believe that I'm smarter than you. ;)