Archive | November 1, 2011

October at a Glance and Why I Hate the Internet Today.

By on November 1, 2011 in The Blogger

1) I cannot BELIEVE that I just posted a wrap-up to OCTOBER. Where did the year go?

2) I also cannot BELIEVE that I’ve kept up so well with my project365 stuff. It’s so cool to look back at 10 months of daily pictures.

3) Google Reader – which, for the uninitiated, is a feed reader so you can read all of your favorite sites/blogs/etc in one place – has disabled their Shared Items feature. Imagine Facebook saying that you can no longer Share anything on someone’s walls. I hate FB, but this – what Google has done to their Reader – has devastated me. I found a lot .. if not the majority .. of cool stuff through everyone else sharing cool items. And now it’s an empty, cold place. I KNOW HOW STUPID THAT SOUNDS. But it’s taken the social out of a social network.

3a) Also, it’s now slower than molasses and it takes DAYS to load. AWESEOME JOB, GOOGLE! What, did you take a cue from Netflix’s CEO?

4) There are some people in the world who are just MEAN. My knee-jerk reaction is to call them trolls, like we do here on the internet, but they’re not because they don’t hide behind any sort of facade. They’re just MEAN, through and through and it pisses me off. They usually try and wear the badge of “I’M JUST BEING HONEST”, but that’s only half of the truth. Hurting ANYONE is awful. Arguing for no real reason is awful. Just .. STOP BEING MEAN.

5) I need to re-do my site. But I don’t know how. And I want someone else to do it. (This doesn’t really fit into my theme, but I’m agitated that now my GOOGLE READER SHARED ITEMS widget won’t work and I’m just all SARAH SMASH.)

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Treating!

By on November 1, 2011 in NaBloPoMo, The Mommy

Tony was very excited about going “treating” last night. Although it’s his third Halloween, our neighborhood doesn’t like to do anything Halloweeny – or so we thought – so we haven’t done the traditional door-to-door thing. (Turns out it’s just our surrounding streets that are anti. The front of the subdivision was WAY into it, we learned as we drove home.)

As we drove over to Aunt Gee’s house, I asked him if he knew what to say when he rang someone’s doorbell.

“Oh, yeah,” he said. “I say, ‘Hello there. I have my costume on!’”

And then?

“And then I say ‘thank you’ when they give me candy.”

So we practiced a bit.

We met up with the in-law family at Aunt Gee’s house and everyone was stoked. We decided to carb up for the festivities, since Aunt Gee had made quite a spread of hearty gnoshings.

Then it was TIME. Time for mild-mannered Bruce Wayne and .. whatever Wolverine’s alter ego is .. to transform. And then? WE HAD TWO SUPERHEROES IN OUR MIDST.

The boys hit a handful of houses and then returned home. As always, it’s so funny to watch them together. Trey is rough-and-tumble, but is very gentle and protective of Tony. And Tony ADORES Trey.

I hung behind with Ya-Ya (Trey’s grandmother) and handed out candy while we talked about raising kids. And this – this family dynamic – is so very much what I never knew I always wanted. A large and diverse village, not all bound by blood, but by common purpose.

By the end of the night, we were all exhausted, but also so full. Happy and full.

This post kicks off NaBloPoMo, which is a way us bloggers torture ourselves every November. Technically, it’s a challenge to post once a day and .. I don’t know, hone our writing or some crap like that .. but it pretty much is just a setting up to fail structure. Yay November 1st!

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