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15 weird spam comments on a previous post. I'm going to have to disable comments on this thing. If you are reading this, you know me, and can just tell me what you think- all five of you! Love you to pieces for even reading this random drivel.
I am wondering what it would feel like to go an entire week without advertising. Like, no catalogs in the mail, no online adds while looking at Facebook or playing words with friends, nothing on the TV. And I am wondering how much of who I am has been shaped by advertising of one kind or another. And mostly, I wonder, how does one go about escaping advertising completely?
Things that will surely make you unhappy:
1. Complicated cookbooks
2. Attempting to cook restaurant style meals at home
3. Home decorating catalogs and magazines
4. Comparing yourself to others
So went my more benign thoughts this week.
Other thoughts:
1. Talking about others behind their backs just isn't the thing to do
2. It's much more interesting/challenging to find the good in every person
3. The really classy ladies I have known- all of them my mom's generation or older, are so different yet share a few things in common. They think before they speak. They listen and consider. They find you interesting, or at least pretend to. They mean what they say.
4. oh HA! Today I was very briefly in charge of four little girls at an expensive Christmas ornament bazaar. Zoiks!
My daughter is very upset these days because I keep telling her what to do. Where to poop. What to eat. How to do something. How to spell a word.
I am going to write in this damn blog until I can reestablish a train of thought. It may take weeks.
I am wondering what it would feel like to go an entire week without advertising. Like, no catalogs in the mail, no online adds while looking at Facebook or playing words with friends, nothing on the TV. And I am wondering how much of who I am has been shaped by advertising of one kind or another. And mostly, I wonder, how does one go about escaping advertising completely?
Things that will surely make you unhappy:
1. Complicated cookbooks
2. Attempting to cook restaurant style meals at home
3. Home decorating catalogs and magazines
4. Comparing yourself to others
So went my more benign thoughts this week.
Other thoughts:
1. Talking about others behind their backs just isn't the thing to do
2. It's much more interesting/challenging to find the good in every person
3. The really classy ladies I have known- all of them my mom's generation or older, are so different yet share a few things in common. They think before they speak. They listen and consider. They find you interesting, or at least pretend to. They mean what they say.
4. oh HA! Today I was very briefly in charge of four little girls at an expensive Christmas ornament bazaar. Zoiks!
My daughter is very upset these days because I keep telling her what to do. Where to poop. What to eat. How to do something. How to spell a word.
I am going to write in this damn blog until I can reestablish a train of thought. It may take weeks.