Unanswered Questions
I wonder things. Nothing specific. Just whatever is in front of me at the moment. Like:
**Why do they make it so hard to start a roll of toilet paper? I mean what is that? Glue? Is there a serious problem with toilet paper unrolling in the packaging?
**How do those women that are all over Facebook and Twitter figure out how to use this stuff? Is there some secret Twitter Code that I don’t get to read because I don’t make the grade?
**Why do two of my sons refuse to speak loud enough for people to hear them? Is it a conspiracy to drive me crazy? Do we need more low talkers in the world?
**Who invented thong underwear and why? I am completely baffled by this.
**How is it that my 11 year old son can remember to take out the trash in the guest house but my 18 year old son can’t? Have hormones washed this information out of his brain?
**Why is there always hay in the floorboard of my van? I don’t carry hay. I don’t wear hay. Is this just part of the delight of living on a farm?
**Why did it take me so long to discover Craig’s List? Everyone talks about it. Other friends use it. Do I have selective hearing? Is it my resistance to resale shops that has transferred to online resaling?
**Is resaling a word?
**What would Caroline Ingalls think of me having a bread machine, two crock pots and a rice steamer already cooking tonight’s dinner, yet I complain that I have too much to do?
There. Now that I have dumped this morning’s questions into your head I am feeling better. But now I am wondering something else….
**Have I revealed too much about what goes on in my mind? Do you still like me? Do you have any burning questions of your own?
I don’t know what Caroline would think but I know that Laura had lots of thoughts on similar burning questions and she wrote about those thoughts often when she was a journalist for the Missouri Ruralist.
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Haha! I think about some of the same things? Like the toilet paper…really, folks. Couldn’t you sell it for cheaper if you took out a step in the processing?
Facebook and Twitter = time suck. You have not time for a time suck. I end up losing sleep because I have things left over to do at the end of the day. Boo, me!
LOVE Craigslist!
.-= Bridget´s last blog ..Sous-chef Smiles =-.
Melissa, I don’t know why, but I always wonder what Caroline would think of these things in my life. I am going to have to read some of those old Laura articles. Thanks!
Bridget, You are so right…they can be wasters of time. But I am so curious! Lisa~
The toilet paper thing baffles me too. (AND…why doesn’t the person who takes the time to get a new roll out, and set it on top of the empty cardboard roll…take another 20 seconds, threw the old cardboard roll away, and slide on the new roll??? Why???) Why do we need both Facebook and Twitter? I never could figure out Twitter, and deleted it. And, I agree…major time wasters. We always have French Fries on the floor of our van, and we only eat McDonalds once in a great while…shows how often I clean it out. Caroline Ingalls would say that I’m a wimp in a very polite and gentle way. I often feel guilty over all my household appliances/servants, and wonder… Don’t know a thing about Craigslist.
I found your blog last week, and am absolutely LOVING it!
Kathi
You just made my day!!!!!!
Thong underwear, really if you are going to that extreme why bother
Tweeter, I have an account, try it, still don’t get it and then you follow one person and get half a conversation between them and someone else, just seems weird
I have one low talker and one shrieker from the same house, how does that happen
And my question of the day is what do you do when you lose your voice in the middle of teaching and 15 girls are looking at you, how does it just go away?
BTW my oldest daughter would love to tell you what any of the Ingalls would think, she thinks she is an expert on all things Ingalls, and she is but I don’t tell her that.
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Thongs….shudder. After a few kids my bum isn’t what it used to be. 🙂
We joke that my oldest son has 2 volume levels: loud & foghorn. It’s all part of his exuberance for life.
So, so thankful to have found your blog.
.-= shannon´s last blog ..Homeschooling and Giveaway =-.
I wonder weird stuff all the time too…..it’s my add, I’m sure of it.
I tell my girls thongs are for those who’d like to grow up and be pole dancers. Seriously, I spend half my life pulling my panties outta there….why ON EARTH would I put panties in there on purpose? Ugh.
Craigslist. My hubs hates it because I have a wee little problem with hanging out there too much. *snicker*
And at least you have dinner cooking….I hate cooking. Leftovers again tonight. 🙂
.-= cindy´s last blog ..Make it 4 Monday! =-.
You gals are cracking me up!!
Cha Cha, what is that with your voice going out? How would that even happen? Did you start to wish you knew sign language?
Shannon, with my noise sensitivity I guess I should be thankful that my problem is too quiet and not too loud. And let’s not talk about how different our bodies are thn they were pre-children. It is too depressing. LOL!
Cindy, you have me on the floor laughing.
Kathi, EGG-ZACTLY!! What is that about with not putting the new roll on the holder?! I mean, you’re just sitting there anyway!
Lisa~
So I once had a Twitter account. But I kept getting requests from not so nice people. Like when I would click on their request it would show certain body parts that…well you get what I mean. So I wondered WHY am I getting these tweets? Have you ever googled your name? It seems mine belongs to a “author” who writes a certain type of novels…not exactly romance novels. Once again you get my drift. So the Twitter account is gone baby gone. I never really got it anyway. Now, Facebook is lovely. I have connected with friends from elementary school, junior high, highschool and college. I love it.
.-= lisa´s last blog ..For the skeptics =-.
Hilarious!!! I too have a low talker son and a son that couldn’t talk low if forced to. Both equally frustrating. I actually have tried reading lips on my low talker. It just seems easier than trying to get him to speak up. Or I have tried using context clues-like if he mumbles and smells maybe he is asking me if he can take a shower. Its exhausting trying to understand him! But I love him anyway and I am hoping “this too shall pass.”
.-= MamaHen´s last blog ..A Southern Girls Giveaway! =-.
LOL! So true… I have Twitter but mainly just to post about things. I don’t have enough time to spend on there.
.-= Sherry´s last blog ..I think I can! I think I can! =-.
At the last conference we attended, one of the speakers said “Facebook is living proof that our lack of a deep prayer life can not be excused by a lack of time.” Wow, that really made me think. God’s Blessings, Cherie
thongs: a certain something we can wear to delight our husbands if we so choose, pole dancer or no.
TP: agreed. skip the sticky stuff, people – put it on the roll!, and tp makers, can you please make soft that doesn’t = lint left behind??? Please????
Crock pots, your dinner, etc.: wow. Just wow. Two crocks and a rice cooker for one dinner. I should not be amazed, but I am. The logistics of big families just amaze me. That is so cool.
Facebook, etc.: Me neither. I was on FB for about 2 days before the headache and insanity compelled me to close my account completely. I Just. Don’t. Get It.
My question: why, when I reward her with treats and praise and petting galore for pottying in the RIGHT spot, does my puppy still insist, even with doors open and no medical reason, on pottying in the wrong spot sometimes? Like today, when she pottied literally at the threshold of the wide open door to outside, less than an hour after she’d last gone outside. She couldn’t make the 10 more feet to the grass? Seriously?? …sigh….
OMWord! hysterical. your post & the comments.
so darn funny.
do you use tweetdeck for twitter. my whole world opened up once i started using tweetdeck. i still hate that there’s no way to find tweep easily on there, though.
i can’t imagine having a low talker child. i think i would feel blessed to have one right about now. graham talks sooooooooooooooooooooooo muchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! the twins jibber & jabber right over him.
hope you find some answers. when you do, let us know!
kellie
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I just found your blog. And I had a roommate in college that we called “Little Voice”. We weren’t really that nice to her. Now I wish I would have been a lot nicer to a lot of people along the way. I think we DO need more low-talkers in the world.
Craigslist is one of my nearest and dearest friends. I would not be able to have a couch without Craigslist (and maybe having a loving Father didn’t hurt either). 😉
I firmly believe Twitter is completely unneccessary. I have yet to see its purpose revealed.
Love your blog. My grandmother is one of 9 children and my grandfather is one of 11. I have one so far. I’m intrigued and also scared crazy of having a big family. Is there a test somewhere that will tell me if I could hack it????
Paisley likes to talk quiet sometimes and it drives me crazy. That’s when I have to practice being a nice, patient mommy.
I’m trying to figure out the whole “thong=pole dancer” comment. Not sure I’d teach an untrue generalization like that. Better to be honest.
.-= Autumn Beck´s last blog ..When you have little or nothing to say =-.
oh and i had to come back to make a comment about Craigslist 🙂
1) They openly and knowingly allow prostitution advertisements.
2) Children and women are being exploited in the worst way.
This article has great points: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/03/craigslist.sex.ads/index.html
My favorite quotes (in case you don’t want to read it all):
*”Craigslist is like the Wal-Mart of online sex trafficking right now in this country.”
*For all its reforms, they say Craigslist still has no way of knowing whether the females being sold are women or girls and is doing too little to help police identify and rescue children who are being sold for sex.
*According to internet research firm the AIM Group, Craigslist this year is expected to earn a third of its revenue — more than $36 million — from its adult services section alone.
*To another national advocacy group, the Rebecca Project, there’s only one answer to Craigslist’s adult services dilemma: Shut it down.
.-= Autumn Beck´s last blog ..When you have little or nothing to say =-.
Autumn Beck, thanks for the support on the thong/pole dancer comment. I so agree, but you said it better/more straight-forward than I did.
I hadn’t heard that about Craigslist; glad I live where it’s not an option anyway!
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