been a quick minute

since i last blogged...

was messing around with wick's iphone last night and followed a tweet from mark to a blog by some chic named penelope (i so love that name-i dig the way it falls off the tongue). anyways, penelope had apparently tweeted some complaint about the nanny and the ex being busy so she was home with the kids all day, pining for intelligent banter and this one dood, who shall remain nameless here since she's already raked him over the coals mercilessly, pipes up from his dreamy little existence in some cozy ohio town- just send your kids to us, we'll love them for who they are. ok, my first reaction was wtf, are you serious? bitching about parenting is our innate right! please. it's a full time JOB...yes, it's amazing and it's rewarding and at times, it's even magical, but at other times, it's painful, it's draining, and it's tedious. and dammit, voicing that does not mean you do not love your kids...it just means you know yourself. i seriously have to wonder about these peeps whose sole existence circles around (much like ravenous vultures) their kids' burgeoning lives; i'm talking about the parents who have lost their personal identities- they're so and so's mom or dad and that's about the extent of it. there's something kinda sick and mottled about all that. so penelope sounded off in response to ole dood's self-righteous tweet and it became like the proverbial snowball-- it's freakin huge now. when i read the blog, she had garnered 166 comments! wowsa. what a following. what i didn't like about it is that all these peeps are getting all irate and just sound kinda bloodthirsty- like, i'm not gonna be surprised if someone doesn't call for his public stoning or something ludicrous like that. jeez. it doesn't call for all that drama...instead, let's take a step back, shall we? let's just see what's really going on here.

all that was entertaining and served a purpose for me- i spent some time thinking about parenting (am a single mom now and parenting is still difficult and sweet and draining and joyous- no news here). but it's good to reflect on these things from time to time and if an innocent tweet leads to a self-righteous tweet (although i'm pretty sure he didn't INTEND it that way) and then leads to a lambasting blog...well, if nothing else, it made a lot of peeps think and reflect. not all is lost. yeah, i think if you look hard enough, you can find the good in anydamnthing.

and ya know me...overly analytical thing that i am. that reflective journey about parenting made me think about twitter and blogs as vehicles for communication, and like anything else really cool, they can be misused and abused. it made me consider my own purpose in blogging and tweeting. with twitter, i think it matters who follows you- in my case, my following is teetiny- friends and family (and i'm good with that- i'm not selling anything, not promoting anything). it's a social networking tool and i'd like to branch out into education-based groups but since it's blocked by my district, i dunno how much luck i'll have with that. as far as blogging- again, tee tiny following- like maybe 3 peeps know of my blog's existence. so why do i blog? well, it's akin to journaling, no? i've always kept a journal and i like the whole online thing. i blog for me. i bounce ideas off myself and the walls of my text box. and it's here for me to return to whenever i need and from wherever i am (major convenience there) and if someone happens across it along the way fabulous. let's chat. and you can bring your kids too.