Mom: How do you like blogs?
Child: I hate them.
Mom: Why?
Child: It is very annoying to me because my mom is being spoiled and wasting time instead of doing something useful like reading a book.
Mom: Why do you think it’s a waste of time?
Child: Because it is like a computer or Facebook and it is wasting time, not like doing something relaxing like eating lunch or doing work.
Mom: Do you think doing my work is relaxing to me?
Child: No. Because doing your work is something you have to do.
Mom: Do you not like my blogging because you feel I am not spending time with you?
Child: Yes. No. Maybe so.
Mom: What if I say this is my hobby and I really enjoy doing it?
Child: Life’s not fair. Deal with it.
Mom: That’s all?
Child: That’s all. I wanted it to end in a funny way.
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"Oh My Blog!" is the new OMG!
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This post is brought to you by Just Humor Me who shared her new OMB! Award with me. Thank you, Diane! There are rules associated with this award:
A. doing a video blog (vlogging)
B. writing a blog post while in a state of intoxication (drogging) or
C. blogging about your most embarrassing moment (embarraslogging)
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Originally I had this evil scheme of making begging Mr. Monk, my 7-year-old, to vlog for me since he’s been having a lot of fun with Flip video. I made the mistake of forgetting to use bribes not easing him into this idea, instead I ASKED HIM NICELY.
“No.” He said without even giving it another thought. “Here’s your pencil and paper. Go!”
“What?”
“Well, you want to interview me right? Ask me questions. I answer. You write them down. Don’t you know anything about interviewing people, MOM?!”
What did he mean? Writing stuff down longhand? I haven’t done that since, well, grad school!
“How about this? How about if I write your answers down on my blog?”
“What?” He sounded rather indignant, sensing entrapment. “You want to write about me on your blog. Again?”
At the end, the exhibitionist in him won the battle. In fact, I made the mistake of pushing forward with my REAL question:
“Do you not like my blogging because you feel I am not spending time with you?”
After he gave me the deliberately ambiguous answer which spelled out, to me, the real reason behind his discomfort with my new obsession “hobby”, he was rather upset.
“You ruined everything! I want ‘Life is not fair. Deal with it.’ to be my last line! Because I really want it to end in a funny way!!!”
So I manipulated the interview script to give him what he wanted.
“Good. Now can you print it out for me?” He couldn’t wait to show it off to his brother. “Look! These are my words!”
Later when we were getting ready for bed, he penned a poem calling his brother a Computer Geek and a Facebook Freak. Nice I know. But hey, we encourage artistic creativity in this household!
“Mom. I know what I want to be when I grow up. I want to be a writer!”
So… Who is a future blogger in the making?!…
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It is extremely hard to decide whom to pass on this award to since all of you are wonderful bloggers. This may be a tall order: Anybody up to give VLOGGING a try?
Vagina-blogging? I guess we have all (except the handful of male readers I have… I am a sexist now too, I guess…) been VLOGGING all this time.
Video Blogging. Anybody up for it?
Bueller? Bueller?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEXfASbPbDM
Love that he was concerned with needing to end on a funny line. Future writer, indeed.
.-= Falling´s last blog…Possibly the First Time Brangelina Has Been Mentioned in a Treatise on Grief and Loss =-.
I’ve got quite a few vlogs online, however most are of my husband, I’ve been meaning to do a new one.
Your boy is awesome.
.-= Robin´s last blog…A Day in the Life of Aurora =-.
I hate the way I sound on video, too!! It is a horrible high-pitched mess! So, no to the vlog. Good luck passing this award on. MWahahwaha!
.-= Amber´s last blog…Could You Spare a Sec? =-.
I LOVE Mr. Monk! Takes after his mom! Congrats on the award and I’m with everyone else who is afraid of vlog. Everyone hear me talk? Are you kidding? I sound like a weasel.
.-= Jane´s last blog…Don’t Be Fooled, Feed Your Flies Honey And Forgive Your Enemies =-.
Nobody sounds the same way they hear themselves inside the head. There is a scientific reason for that right? Mr. Monk gets frustrated and upset every time he listens to himself on a video. “Why do I sound so bad?” “No, honey, you have a lovely voice!” “No. I sound awful!” Since I can’t get inside his head, I can’t tell exactly what he’s hearing. It’s very frustrating to me too. Yup. That kid does take after his mama. LOL.
Vlog=a talking vagina. scary. Now that is all i see…in my head. Oh, bother. nevermind;)
This ties in nicely with your latest post with the birthing video… Just sayin. LOL. 😉
I kind of love Mr. Monk!! He makes me smile. So clever. I think you should just choose your award winner and force them to bend to your will. Bwahahahaha!!
.-= Wicked Shawn´s last blog…WTF? WTH? What The What? =-.
Wicked Shawn, I choose YOU!
(Ok, not sure how many of you get the Pokemon reference…)
You are easy on the eye too, so it is a Win Win. Really. Please? 🙂
Potential Vlog subjects: SHOW us your bitchin’ collection of wicked sexy shoes.
I got that reference. Am I part of the cool club now?? : )
.-= Amber´s last blog…Could You Spare a Sec? =-.
could never vlog (too awkard facial expressions) or embarasslog (too disgusting), but i’m very qualified to drog. but could end up actually embarasslogging simultaneously. think i’ll just drunk tweet. less permanant.
.-= pattypunker´s last blog…pause before you play, my ass =-.
I love TUI (tweeting under influence) too! BUT did you read about the Library of Congress acquiring Tweet archive?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/14/library-of-congress-twitt_n_537330.html
Yikes!
I vote for regular interviews with Mr. Monk. Those of us in his fan club can’t get enough of him. It’s a tough job for a kid to raise a mom! 🙂
.-= Mary Lee´s last blog…One Word =-.
“It’s a tough job for a kid to raise a mom!” You know it would be funny if it weren’t true… 😉
Vagina-blogging? I’m gonna laugh all day…
.-= TheKitchenWitch´s last blog…White Trash Motherlode: Brazilian Hamburgers =-.
Dude, the whole post and you focused on this? LOL. Me too. Me too.
My vagina is a terrible blogger. I stopped letting anything below the waist blog.
Mr. Monk is going to be a terrific writer! Please let me know how to follow him and his awesome writing career. I want to be able to say, “I knew this guy when he was called Mr. Monk and wrote “Computer Geek and a Facebook Freak.”
.-= Diane Laney Fitzpatrick´s last blog…Life’s a Beach. A Syringe-Filled Beach =-.
“My vagina is a terrible blogger. I stopped letting anything below the waist blog.”
LOL
I loved this interview. I have to laught at myself that while I am yelling at my son that “time is up on the computer” “to get a life” I am pounding aay on my blog. He sees what I do, the same as what he is doing and begs meto tell him the difference (laugh).
Not sure I could ever vlog…not my style and I would suck at it.
We had that conversation too!!! So I said, though I am ashamed for saying it, “I have been in school for more than 20 years and I have always been a great student. I studied hard. I work hard. I have paid my dues. Now it’s my turn to goof off!”
I can’t even imagine doing that. I’m so bad at handling pictures of myself that my blog photo is almost two years old. My daughter was messing around with Skype recently and I was looking at her friend on the other end, then looking at her friend’s house, her friend’s parents puttering around, the state of the kitchen, and I thought – no. I don’t want to ever be seen that closely!
.-= Linda at Bar Mitzvahzilla´s last blog…Past Tense, Present Tense =-.
Yes yes yes! My son and his classmate once did a video for a school project when I was still at work. I came home and thought: I hope they didn’t show the house. Of course they did! I about died. The whole class saw them gallivanting all over the house. Ugh
This post makes me glad that my kids are too young to know what blogging is. My toddler says I’m “working” whenever I’m on my laptop. I kind of like that. 🙂
.-= Kristen @ Motherese´s last blog…Parenting Books Really Aren’t That Bad After All =-.
They used to think I am “working”… They outgrew it.
I for one, know will not vlog ever not unless I am getting paid big bucks for it and I can reveal my true spidey identity. I don’t usually watch people who have vlogs and tend to bypass them, only because I prefer to read. That’s just my preference.
Now I am curious about your spidey identity. 😉
Vlogging? Gulp! Nope, not me. Not unless you’re willing to pay for my breast lift and tummy tuck, then I’ll vlog all you want. 🙂
That Monk, he has quite a way with words, huh? Love that!
.-= Andrea´s last blog…"Hey Ladies" =-.
M’lady, you do have a cute face. You can frame it so only your face shows. LOL. Not that I’m complaining about your body, I haven’t had a chance to explore the contour of it yet. Not that I’m saying I ever will…
It’s hard to vlog with a paper bag over your head.
LOL. IF I had Carl Kasell’s voice, I might attempt to vlog w a paper bag over my head
I’ve always dreamed of vlogging but probably never will until I can point my phone at myself, make the vid, then point it at my computer and have it magically appear on my blog. I’m just saying.
.-= honeypiehorse´s last blog…Bedouins, Camels and Viagra =-.
You never know: they did send men to the moon 40 years ago… And this may happen before they find a cure for morning sickness…
I am so afraid to vlog… I just don’t think I could ever do it.
.-= A Vapid Blonde´s last blog…Mongolian Death Worms and Shankings =-.
I am with you.