Saturday's Deep Thoughts

My favorite quote ever: What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? Dr. Robert Schuller

And here is what he has written on Amazon.com.

Knitting in College

I wish I had learned to knit while I was in college. Although, maybe it was a good thing I did not yet know how to do it because I would have likely gotten bad grades...

My middle son (who is 10) just learned how to knit and I am trying not to push him too hard into it. I know he is really motivated by the idea of having cash (he is already talking about getting his first HS job and how much he will make after college!) so I keep telling him just that if he keeps at it and practices he can probably make things to sell in HS and college. We will see if that is enough motivation for him.

So many options, so little time...

So I am at a career cross-roads now. (aren't we all?) I thought that this would be a great time to figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up, even if I was already pushing 40 (and pushing it HARD). I was always one of those people who thought there were 100 things I would rather be doing if only this day job would go away...

My problem now is that I am paralyzed by all the potential out there. There are dozens of things I want to do or try and they are all very different from one another. So how do I choose? Obviously I need to focus on something in order to create a plan going forward and I want to do something that I love, but I am also to the point where I have put in a lot of time in my other career, so it would not be the smartest thing ever to let that all go away...

I just don't know. There are so many things I want to try and maybe if I was officially a SAHM, I could try them all, but I know that would not make me happy either so it is a conundrum!

There was so much to say today that it was hard for me to figure out where to focus my energy...

Yesterday we showed the house. It is starting to get old. No, it has been old now for several months. I know that much of it is the economy and all, but I just want to move on with my life! It has now been on the market for 10 months, and in that time NOT ONE house in our area in our price range has closed, so I know it is not just me. In all that time, we have only had 3 showings too, which is probably the most frustrating thing of all. If people were looking at it and not liking something, we could change it. But of the few people who have looked, the comments have not been bad. They are either not interested in the style or size of the house, which is not going to change!

Probably the worst part about living in a house that is for sale (and there are A LOT of bad things, but this is probably the worst) is that you feel like you cannot really "live" in the house. We did MINIMAL Christmas decorations (like nothing besides the tree and stockings) and nothing for any other holidays. And now that the weather is getting nice again, I have to work on the yard, which I hated to do before, so I have almost no motivation to love it now!

And we just got the feedback from the showing yesterday and they think it is a little too big. I had high hopes because they were here so long!! It may never end. We are not desperate to sell, but I think we might lower the price now just because we want it to be over!!

Saturday's Deep Thoughts

Sports practice after school needs to be balanced with the weekend meets (trrack) to determine if it is worth it!

Technology

I thought I was techno-savvy. I can navigate my way around a PC and I am all over most gadgets.

Then DH decided to go back to school and change careers to be a networking guy. I now know that I know NOTHING when it comes to technology. I still love gadgets and all that, and I probably know more than average, but that is where it end and I am OK with that now. It did take me a few months to come to terms with the fact that this was his expertise, but now that I am there, we are all good.

I am learning daily about a lot of things still, but most of them are applications and analysis of data (like SEO and such) and he is the guru of all things internal to a PC or a network. Together we make a great pair and comprise the whole package, no?

Twitter vs. Facebook

I hate to admit that I am on both twitter and facebook and I read them religiously and post to them quite a bit. However, to me, they have very different purposes. I know this is different for everyone, and it should be.

I use facebook primarily for friends in real life or people I went to school with or whatever. I use twitter for people I have not met, but based on their interests or mine, would maybe like if I were to ever meet them or even lived near them. The good thing about this is that I have varied interests and while there are not many people with the same combination of interests as I have, there are a lot of "specialists" out there with one of my interests and they will talk about it in great detail!

This may not work for everyone, but I do think it is important, at least for me, to keep these two areas separate, and this method of doing that works quite well for me.

I think of both groups as my friends, which I know might be pathetic, but it works out well that I know that I might run into one group of people and have them recognize me.

Does it change what I write? Not yet, but it might. I know that a lot of people might put stuff up on a site where they don't know people that might sound more critical then they are in person, but that just isn't me.

Do you twitter or facebook?