Absolutely love what Matisse had to say in her blog today – I couldn’t agree more wholeheartedly. I knew a few people when I was more active in the community who attempted the dynamic she is warning about. I never saw it end well.

I never tried to do the whole 24/7 thing in my life. I realized a long time ago that I am a bedroom player. I did have a semi-long relationship where the dynamic pretty much existed whenever we were together, but it mostly worked because we weren’t together all that much. There was no sustaining anything day to day. When my former partner wanted to introduce that towards the end of our relationship, it was mostly, I think, an attempt to keep the relationship going. An unhealthy attempt, kind of like how some people whose relationships aren’t working decide to have a child together or something, because that’ll make it better.

Hint: adding another stressor, even one that is supposedly going to be bonding, is not a great idea in a sinking-ship relationship. heh.

And moving on: I always watch Jon Stewart and Colbert in the mornings (taped from the night before) while I snuggle with doggie and sip the first cup of coffee of the morning. Today Colbert was especially good. First, because of today’s (last night’s) WORD, I now know that ijustmadelove.com exists. Basically, it’s yet another thing where you can broadcast details of your life. Did you just make love? Was it on a boat? In a car? And the cute little icons look like the player pieces from a LIFE game.

I actually am so sick of “social media” that I could scream. Yes, I have a Facebook account. And Twitter. AAG has been doing them for the site for the past year or so. I just can’t bring myself to start posting. I login to Facebook only because I got addicted to a stupid game on it. I log in, play it, and log back out immediately. I guess I just don’t get it. There is such a stream of mostly useless information, all of these things just seem designed to make us even more ADD than we already are. In Elliott’s world, all of the tech conferences these days are about social media.

I have one friend who briefly worked for a supposedly multi-million dollar, uber-successful social media company in our town. She worked there for a month and never got paid. It’s all smoke and mirrors, is what I actually think. I don’t know, maybe I am just a dinosaur in the whole world of online. I’ve been online since it was only usenet groups, and I’ve seen a lot of fads come and go. And here is what I think: I don’t want to be a fan of Target on Facebook. I don’t want to follow Sears Twitter feed. I cannot think of a single person or business that I find so compelling as to want to follow it’s random snippets of stuff sent out into the universe.

There, I said it. (I know you disagree with me, AAG. Do you think I can be converted?)

~Janie

listening to: actually, nothing but the sound of my own typing. Not in a music mood yet.

life stuff: hair appointment day today! I love hair appointment day. I’ve been growing out again. I never posted a picture, but a year ago I cut my hair short and went blonde. I’ve been growing out ever since. It was an experiment. Every time I’ve been blonde, people have mistaken me for younger than I am, so maybe I should keep doing it. Thing is, I don’t like it. (and yes, it is my natural hair color. I guess I just don’t feel like it’s me.)