Humor Me

NO this isn't a SPT post. I decided to be a rebel and not do it anymore this month The theme gets me down. I find that instead of embracing the ugly bits when I examine them deeper I just feel bad. So I'll just ignore them for now thank you! No this post is about the everyday, ordinary, boring or embarrassing bits. I see memes on lots of blogs. Different ones with different themes. List your four favorite movies, books etc... And then there's the favorite corners of my home pictures. Beautiful corners and interesting well thought out lists no doubt. I have found blogging to be entertaining and inspirational but also at times intimidating. Sometimes I read other blogger's memes and come away feeling like my world is very small.  I haven't traveled Europe. I haven't lived in four different states much less abroad. I don't home school and I let my children watch TV. I can't paint or knit and I don't much enjoy cooking. I feel like a part of a wonderful community at times and others I feel like I don't belong. Like the new kid on the playground hoping to make friends with the popular group. Don't get me wrong overall I find it very rewarding to visit other blogs and almost always find something to smile or laugh about or find a great book I would have never known about otherwise. I see projects I want to try and find words that touch my heart and move me deeply. Are others out there intimidated at times. Do you feel like you just don't measure up some days? I'm sure I am not the only one. I want to know about some of the things that you find less than interesting or flattering. Tell the truth, maybe you watched Napoleon Dynamite and even considered buying the "vote for Pedro tshirt". I'm not saying I watched it, just heard about it...yea that's it I heard about it.. from my son. Heard about it. You think I would watch such a mindless movie? No way! Do you look at the trashy tabloids in the grocery store line but would never actually buy one. Not that I would ever do such, just wondering if you have. Are you growing penicillin in the back of your fridge. Do you have dust bunnies bigger than your cat? Did you feed your kid cake for breakfast? OK, I admitted I've watched Austin Powers too many times to count. You can too. Blog one time about the real you some interesting or maybe embarrassing little tidbit we wouldn't expect. And if you won't blog about it at least leave me a little comment to make me feel better. No one will know, not that many people read my blog anyway. I'm the new kid among the popular girls.

**Edited to add: OK I am not the only one with this idea. I just found this. Randi posted about this yesterday and called it get real Monday. I love the picture of her laundry stacked up as high as her. I can sooo relate.  I said I would never post a picture of my messy house but you know what they say about saying "never". In the spirit of being real. Here you have it apparently I'm a day late. That is not at all unusual just another reality!

Those clothes have been folded on the coffee table for at least 3 days. Those holes in the wall were left when I took the shelves down that you see in the picture with Santa. I took this picture 5 minutes ago not 2 months ago. Why is Santa still on my counter? I guess cause he didn't take himself back to the North Pole.

More folded laundry. This time on the kitchen table. Put here for my son to put away. The mess that is my kitchen this afternoon and my unmade bed at nearly 3pm. (I do usually make the bed everyday but my husband was still in it when I got up this morning and I never made it back in there to make it up). And these next pictures I refuse to take credit for. They are Casey's room. And the sad thing is.... this is fairly clean for him!

I guess this did turn out to be a SPT of the ugly bits after all!

Comments

[ivy]

I feel like that all. the. time.
I never feel as spectacular as everyone else in the blogiverse. I have to reassure myself with the fact that people in the real world think I'm spectacular :)

[beki]

I'd like to think that most people present their 'best' self on their blogs, and their lives aren't as perfect as they seem. I have plenty of bad habits- too many to list. I'm sure you'll find expired food in my fridge and pantry, I have piles of dirty clothes in my bathroom, I detest cleaning the bathroom (which is probably why my mother-in-law has been coming over to clean while I'm at work) yeah, I work and my kids are in daycare, which seems to put me in the minority. My whole family watches LOTS of TV and we eat frozen entrees more than I'd like to admit. Make you feel any better? LOL!

[Kristy]

Great post!Here goes.I also have only lived in one area,Josie often eats party cake the morning after and right at this minute I have a moulding fennel in my fridge!Phew that feels better!I do like to think that my blog is real aswell though!

[Min]

Oh, I just love the update with "Get Real" photos! And I have to tell you that I just laughed out loud at the picture of the holes in your wall. Why, you ask? Well, because I've had very similar holes in my entryway for (ummm...errr...can't believe I'm about to admit this...) 5 YEARS!!! What makes it even funnier (to me, at least) is that I *just* filled them in this afternoon to paint this weekend. Otherwise I'd be happy to take a picture to show you that I'm another imperfect blogger who often feels intimated by everyone else - you included, Autum! :) Isn't it funny how we see ourselves so differently than other people see us?

[DebR]

Hhhmmm....well, over the course of my blogging the past year I've already admitted to enjoying crappy movies, reading trashy books, LOVING cake for breakfast (the only reason worth mentioning birthdays once you're past 21, IMO), having a potty mouth, hating exercise, being a big grouch if I don't have my morning coffee, and naming my numerous dust bunnies and calling them pets. (The ones under the 'puter desk are Ralph and Julio.)

But if it'll make you feel better I suppose I could try to think of more bad habits to confess. I have plenty and I seem to have no shame about sharing them with the world!! :-D

[la vie en rose]

i love this. i will admit to being very intimidated by other people's art. i don't, and never have, considered myself an artist...so, when i see all these spectacular mixed media artists and scrapebookers out there my head just spins.

i'm a movie junky...i love people magazine...i let me son watch tv...in fact we watched madagazcar not once, but twice last night...i'm hung up on grey's anatomy...i have a crush on patrick dempsey

oh...and you might enjoy this

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/ndsound.php/

i know i do...

[Toni]

Ok Autum, here is a partial list:

*I Love Napoleon Dynamite, and I would absolutely wear a Vote for Pedro t-shirt.

*I ALWAYS have a science experiment growing somewhere in the fridge.

*My laundry/storage room is a HUGE MESS, piles of stuff that have not been put away for months...(I'm serious!)

*If I could sell dust, I'd a billionaire.

I could go on...and on, and on.
Don't be discouraged, we are all REAL people with not so pretty stuff, wheather we show it or not. Just be YOU and make no apologies..you are sweet as can be! xox.

[rebecca]

this post brought such a smile to my face! so i'm not the only one with these dirty secrets???? you are definitely NOT alone!

[Erin]

Oh my gosh. I've been thinking of this kind of thing too. In fact, last week, I took a picture of my office, which is just piled with stuff, and was going to post it and write about it. You are so not alone!

OK, I loved (and actually OWN) Napoleon D. I can quote from it.

--My husband and I often joke that the dust bunnies are my "babies" and I cannot bear to get rid of them!

--My mother-in-law is coming tomorrow. I just put away some clothes from our laundry room that have been hanging there from her visit in December.

--I love to cook but hate to clean up. Sometimes, I just don't. Either my husband will follow behind and do the job for me, or those dishes will be there the next day!

--When my son started crawling, my mom informed me that she used to mop her kitchen floor with bleach water once a day when my brother and I were young. IS SHE KIDDING? Bleach my floor?!? Huh?

Thank you for such a fun and honest post! : )

[joanna]

Well, girl, you've already seen pictures of my messy kitchen and my nasty junk drawer. I have no secrets. I'm a total slob, most of the time, unless someone is coming over. AND...I'm not in the popular blogging crowd either, but I don't really care. My high school clique days are over, thank goodness!

[Tanya nichols]

Ewww boy chonies(aka underwear)... of course I feel less than actually most of the time I smile and look at people and wonder why i even left my house. Amen high school is over, or over for me at least. I loooove blogging and actually was feeling a tad uncreative myself but visiting blogs actually helps me stay busy i describe it as an online quilting bee. I would never attempt to do half of what I do if it were not for the inspiration that I find here as well as the friendship. So my darling friend I have to say Chin Up Darlin, the sunset isnt settin on this blog for some time ...parrrrdner...Ok the cowboy thing...was that tooo much..ya maybe so Ill end with Vote for pedro...Cause ya gotta have skills..

[Jenny]

Hey? Is that a real bunny on your table next to the stack of towels? Seriously--what gets me about the whole house cleaning thang is that it takes a huge chunk of time to get things wiped down, put away, etc--but in seconds the entire place can look like a disaster zone! My biggest pet peeve is hair on the floor--my daughter has very long hair and I spend ALOT of time vacumning it up....UGH!

[Dana]

I know exactly how you feel. I am so jealous sometimes when I go to other blogs. I want so badly to be a work at home mom. But until my "I wanna's" go away I guess I will be stuck in the 9-5 world. It's not fair!!!!!!!LOL

[mijk]

* I had to eat pizza yesterday because I forgot to shop groceries
* My son is watching tv i his pj's right now (it's past noon here)
*I can't remember the last movie I have seen or been to a theater or doing anything else remotely cultural..
*I want my books and movies to have happy endings instead of literatural correct ones
*I'm 30 and spend more than half of my life with the same man. (he is nice though)
*I was vacuuming the car because we bought a new one and I realised the last time I did that I was pregnant (the daughter is 14 months.) Luckily enough my husband had some damage a couple of months ago and the company that did the paintjob actually vacuumed (almost worth touching a wall).
*My fridge smells but I'm ignoring it.
*When I start a good clean my son asked if we're getting visitors

[Leanne]

You have just made my day! I am now going to go back to my own little pathetic blog and do exactly what you have suggested. And honey, my kids are in their pjs, watching the 3rd Spongebob video of the day (I won't admit how many times they were repeated, just that it's the third DIFFERENT video), my cat has not been fed since yesterday morning and I'm seriously thinking of calling in dead tonight when dinner beckons to be cooked. It's 12:30 pm and no chance that the afternoon is going to be any better than the am was...
Thanks for the smiles!

[patricia]

omg! i cannot believe this post -- thank you, thank you, thank you so much for writing it -- i couldn't have said it better and haven't had the balls too but hallelujah for you & hey there ivy!...reminds me of the 80's when i was so NOT yuppy, as a friend used to say we're REAL people...let's hear it for get real monday and tuesday and wednesday and...