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Parents strongly cautioned
November 11, 2007
I never cared much about family members stumbling upon this website. It wasn’t made particularly to keep anyone in touch with my life, nor was it a big secret that would shut everything down if discovered. With my site address plastered on the five o’clock news a few days ago, however, even my preteen cousins texted me to let me know that they’re occasionally stopping by.
And also that drug dealers are pushing “pop rock-esque” strawberry meth. Warn your children. (Thanks, Emily.)
This leaves me in a curious place. I was never too raunchy of a person to begin with, but I do feel the need to, uh, abridge, at least some topics, like, for instance, the things I would have liked to do with my insanely gorgeous Shakespeare professor after office hours sophomore year.
Like scrutinize the gender hierarchy in The Taming of the Shrew. (Hey, Mom.)
I’m not exactly sure where I’m going with this. It’s been a slow morning. The Steelers are currently losing to the Browns and I’ve been compiling a list of things that I want to write about that I’ve avoided in the past.
Hopefully both will turn out to be winners.
Here are a some pictures to provide closure:
November 11th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
I feel deprived of an insanely hot professor.
I look forward to your list. :)
November 11th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Having to censor myself is precisely the reason why I’m wary of having people I know offline that aren’t my closest friends reading my blog. Not that I have any big secrets, I’m not even that interesting….but still!
November 11th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Sounds like ITS A DOG DAY. HAHA.
And the Steelers won! Good times.
I still fantasize about a Philosophy prof.
Hey, I saw you on TV. Great job representin’.
November 11th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
the cup pictures make me want to be at home! drinking hot chocolate! or eating my moms tortilla soup! i know what you mean about family. i found out my brother reads my blog. i realized i wrote abou wanting to do somethng with someone from my chem class. i felt very uncomfortable.
November 11th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
I finaly watched you on tv! wow you are a celebrity now. Can I have your autograph?
I only told one person in my real life about my blog. 1. I think I would be mortified if anyone i knew went there. It is one thing to cry about crap in my life to the internet, it is entirely different for people in my life to know I’m crying. that made no sense. sorry. cap’t and coke during the game, made me nutsy.
November 11th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
My sister’s a regular, but we were close enough growing up that there isn’t much I could say that would be shocking to her. My folks know about Uncle Crappy as well, but I don’t think they read it much — my mother has even told me she’s a little scared to look.
And that works for me.
November 11th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
You were on tv? That is kind of awesome.
November 11th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
Once upon a time, I had a website that parents, family, friends, and even pastors would visit. Never again! It was way too much drama. Like the time I blogged about the rainy morning giving me the rainy day blues and I received a phone call from my pastor that had been tipped off by a friend telling me he could set me up for counseling to help me with my depression.
Since then, no one knows about my site other than somewhere I have one.
November 11th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
I guess I don’t really care if my family reads my blog. In fact I’d sort of encourage it so they can keep up with things I’m doing.
Took me several tries to finally see the clip, looks good. =)
November 11th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
This is random, I know, but bell pepper rings have always struck me as the vegetarian equivalent to showing off the jaw bone of the 7 foot shark that you caught. It tastes better though.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:47 am
Hey,
Thanks for the comment on beer.pizza.tech. Cool blog! P.S. Steelers barely escaped today.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:25 am
Madison - That’s intense.
Gwyn - That’s hilarious.
November 12th, 2007 at 3:54 am
I let my friends know about my blog about two years ago, and some of them read for a couple of months, but they don’t read anymore. Every once in a while my mom will say “this is going in your blog, right?” but she never reads. I think she’s afraid.
November 12th, 2007 at 11:57 am
I worry about the same thing, although my blog is pretty PG. I worry about offending someone or coming across as crass. From what I’ve read, you seem fine and fun! Congrats on the soon to be new puppy! And being on the news!
November 12th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
The Steelers won! That must mean good things for you in the near future!:)
Is that second picture from the Strip?
November 12th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Yes ma’am.
November 12th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
People know I have a blog, but they also know that I’m so boring in real life that my writing can’t be all that interesting. Now my parents… they will *never* get the URL, not while I have breath in my body.
K.
November 12th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
My mom knows I have my webthingy, and stops by every once in a while to check it out. Sometimes I post the ridiculous things that she says ["Mom, the internet needs to know that you just said that."] and sometimes she gives me ideas of what to put up. I’ve never been one for juicy life details on the interweb — I’m just not that interesting, most of the time — and I tell my Mom way more than she wants to know anyway… so I guess we’re cool.
I’m more wary of the Google-savy potential employers than my mother, though…