Since I began blogging, I have noticed a few changes in my life. I have decided to come clean with you, my wonderful friends. I know admitting my problem is the first step in recovery.
1) I have the power of telepathy.
I have, with alarming frequency, received more and more emails and forgotten to respond because I think I have already. How? Let me give you an example.
After reading an email from a friend, I think, “Oh great, so-in-so wants to meet for lunch this week. We’ll have so much fun. I can’t wait.” Then I go off on my merry way and never respond.
In my mind, I must just assume I have the power to think something and have my thoughts automatically shared. If I have not responded to anyone lately, please understand I’m not really ignoring you. I’ve just gone crazy and become telepathic.
2) I’m becoming a bit of a hermit.
I spend my days hiding chauffeuring/feeding/cleaning up after my five sons. After that, every last minute of free time is spent online. Both these things are wonderful, but I fear I am slowly forgetting how to behave in an social setting with other adults.
Small talk? Only if I can chat about Guy Kawasaki, Twitter, RSS feeds and my deep and profound love of Stumbleupon. Other than that? I’m no good!
3) I am best friends with people who don’t know I exist.
I have long standing relationships with people who don’t know I exist. Take my BFF Dooce for example, she has no clue that we are so close. I am happy for her when she is feeling good and I worry about her when she gets depressed or suffers a loss.
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So there ya have it, my three new web-induced personality quirks. Hopefully this post won’t ever be used as example #1 of my mental decline!
xo, alli
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Are you kidding??? I have those EXACT same powers! The very same. And we have the web to thank. What did we DO before it existed????
I’ve gained the ability to somehow think of everything in terms of blogging. Example: in Joann’s and see a lady looking thru the scrapbook paper and I think, “she’s totally a blogger – maybe I should introduce myself and we could become BFFs!” OR I’m seeing the world as photos that I should post on my blog! Yikes!
I haven’t fallen prey to the telapathy issue yet, however BFFs with people who do not know I exist..check.
hehe
Conversations without mention of facebook, twitter, rss, etc. – not happening…check.
Family eating frozen dinners so I can spend more time online…check.
So in a nutshell – I am a nut.
Good news is that you are not alone, so perhaps when they have us all committed, we can get put together (maybe then our BFFs will know who we are)
~K
Yup, you totally just described me, best friend’s I’ve never met, I never get out to social settings. Hmm. Maybe I should work on that….
yep…no hiding from you. I am sitting here smirking, agreeing, but realizing I am one of those few complete extroverts who just doesn’t have time to blog, but now that I have started, just.can’t.stop. Soon, very soon, I may even tell the people I know in real life that I have this spot in an alternative universe. They don’t even know.
Coming to Blissdom…carpooling with the Nester…can’t wait.
Holy Cow that’s hysterical. I don’t know where some of you comedians get this material. Honestly, that is a riot!
And, now that I’m here, I want to ask you a question, do you mind sending folks (yourself included) to my 12 Days of Christmas give aways that I have in 3 different places.
http://www.momecentric.com
http://www.momisteaching.com
http://www.educationuncensored.com
Sounds familiar enough!
What about the ability to read amazing things and projects online and mentally commit yourself to so many things and projects that absolutely nothing productive gets done? That is my ability – I have collected “projects” and I swear one day I will get trapped below my computer, 2 baskets of yarn, 2 boxes of fabric, a tub of buttons, a stack of cardstock and a few tubes of glitter… and have absolutely nothing to show for it!
Oh thank gawd! I thought I was the only freak. I am right there with you, dear. Oh, and you do know you’re my bff? Right? You’ve got my Christmas card in the mail?
Oh, my gosh Alli. You have some of my abilities. For example, I bet you didn’t know just how close you and I are…Also I think of Pioneer Woman as a friend and I am sure she has no idea I exist at all. She probably never will with all the posts to her site.
Now I keep thinking about ideas for a blog I don’t even have! Photos, titles and everything…..I think I will probably jump on the bandwagon well after all the cool kids have made blogging so totally awesome. Twitch, twitch it feels like junior high school all over again but without the stirrup pants and the big hair. (yes, Mrs. Fussypants, I was calling you a cool kid! Please don’t shove me into a locker, or the boys locker room.)
I am so bad about the telepathy email. I am positive I respond to people (because in my head I wrote back) but I later realize I never did.
I’ve actually had telepathy since I got married…I assume that everything I know, my husband knows. I get so frustrated when I have to tell him verbally too!
I just discovered this whole blogging thing earlier this year, and wow has my circle of friends expanded. But, sadly, most of them wouldn’t recognize me if they saw me in real life.
I find myself tihnking about various bloggers, praying for situations in their lives, and having withdrawls when I can’t check in to see how things are going for them. It’s such a weird, but neat thing.
My kids now think every picture I take will end up on my blog, and they frequently beg me to make them a subject of a post.
And they say the art of communication is gone. It is not gone…it has just moved to a new level….one in which there is no need for words, written or otherwise…brain waves…that is the communication of the future. Those of us who understand have just arrived sooner than the others. Brain Power Chicks-BPC-perhaps we should have our own club. I will go get the foil to make our hats {it will enhance the signals}. No need to tell me when you will be here….I will just know.
Apparently I think I have telepathy, too. Not only do I think I replied to e-mails that I didn’t, I do the same with commenting on blogs, too. I assume that people automatically know that I read and how I feel. Sigh…not the best way to keep friends, I’ll admit.
But I also have the same trait you do with being friends with people who don’t know me. Or even those I only know online. I feel a little, uh, pathetic when describing to people I’m talking to in real-life, “Oh, my friend so-and-so does this particular thing! What friend? Oh, she’s a friend from online. I know her through her blog. I mean, we’ve only met once, but we’re great friends. Hey, where are you going?”
All I know is that you are on the Enterprise which makes you my new idol…can you get me a Tribble?…never mind….I’ll just photoshop us playing with them…
I’m all over 1,2 and 3…except you know that you and I are bff’s right? I mean, that’s old news…right? really? lunch? meet halfway? m’kay?
Maybe a year or two ago you would have had me on some of these. But I have since taken several large steps back from internet obsession and it seems to be a somewhat healthier level. I mean, I have friends and get together with them in real life, I go to bed at night and read real live books and I don’t dream (very often) about blog people. Last night being an exception. I dreamed I was visiting Ree’s ranch… but it was nothing like Ree’s ranch. It was like a hutterite colony with a bazillion cousins living in a small village on their rance with a small town shopping center in the middle of it all. Other than that… I feel like the internet doesn’t own me as it once did.
WE are AL BFFS!
{high fives all around!}
I feel your pain! ha. The email is my crazy problem. At least you might have friends in real life who know what Twitter is! I can’t say that I do:-) So I’m a real GEEK when out of my jammies and in the “real” world! ha.
I forget to respond to a lot of emails and non-bloggers just don’t understand. They also look at me funny when I start talking about “friends” named Fussy who I don’t actually know. lol.
Oh Mrs Fussy, you so make me laugh. I, too, have those super powers plus more! Does being friends (and knowing everything about other’s lives) with people you’ve never actually meet before count as a super power. I go on-and-on about so-and-so when i’ve NEVER MET THEM! Very scary stuff.
Yep, I’m displaying all of the above listed symptoms as well. I think it’s MBS – Mommy Bloggers’ Syndrome, and they’ll be including it in the upcoming edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental health disorders.