Back from the blog holiday

Last year I called for a national cell phone holiday! I was great! 1 day no cell phone could we survive? Yikes, it was addicting! I actually drove all over town listening to the radio and paying attention to stop signs. I did have a bit of fidget when I could not use (by self-dictated holiday rules) my cell phone to call home with a question. I had to look for a pay phone, have you tried looking for a pay phone lately? I ended up asking to borrow a stores land line. The clerk looked at me for a full 20 seconds before registering that I wanted to use his phone because I did not have a cell phone. I guess he had never heard that request before and was not sure it was okay. Anyway, cell phone holiday accomplished and a success (the next annual one in Feb watch blog for more) so I decided to do a Blog holiday for a rash two weeks during the kids Christmas break. More than complaining that I am always on the phone they always complain I am always on my lap top blogging. So . . . I took a Blog Holiday over Christmas break! Craziness . . . ensued, cooking, baking, merry-making and I did not miss it a bit — I confess I did a bit of blogging in my head . . . . but my fingers enjoyed the break and my kids loved the attention. My dogs got tired of following me around . . . I was way more active even on crutches! (I tore my miniscus sp? and am off my feet for 8 weeks — two weeks to go) So a successful blog holiday and now I am returned to the blogosphere with more meaningful bloglets to come! I have to say that the blog holiday was hard work and since the kids are in school anyway i am glad to be home . . .

 

Seriously some people have no idea

It seems I get caught between two worlds all the time.  (What exactly does that phrase mean and where does it come from?)  One minute I am getting kids off to school, using phrases like “Don’t do this or you’ll be sorry” and then the next minute I am talking to the dogs “Sit, shake, don’t eat that!” and then I am on my talk radio show chatting about the spring weather and then I am on a conference call with some guy who has no idea what he is talking about and I have to sift through my worlds to figure out how to address his un-non-insightful question about social media.  Seriously some people have no idea what its like to try and communicate with him.  I think through all the terms I use from other world’s and don’t come up with a way to respond so I ask about his world.  Dale Carnegie would be so proud.  Still no bridge.  My dogs and my kids all get what I do, why not this guy?  Is he not trying?  do I need to walk into his office and graph it out for him?  Okay, caught between the worlds obviuosly a bit uncomfortable today.  Good news is that we are almost done with the filming and recording for the Blog, Ping, Blast . . . guidebook.  Wow, perhaps we can use this guide for language in our new world!