I almost skipped Manic Monday today because it requires far more thinking than I feel capable of this morning. Or ever.
*sigh* I am not at all good at saying what I am good at. I can bend your ear all day long about what I am bad at. How come they never assigned THAT as one of those 5,000 word essays in college? Hell, I could write a thesis on "What Biscuit Sucks At."
I do not paint. I do not draw. I cannot sing. I do not play an instrument. I am not a deep thinker. Lord knows I can't move out of my personal space without being a danger to myself and everyone around me, so dancing is out of the question. My husband said "What about HNT?," and while it certainly is a means of expressing myself, I'm not sure how creative it is.
I have always maintained that I am NOT a creative person. My strengths lie in other areas, and I can live with that.
What spot in your body would you say is the center of your emotional being?
What spot in your body would you say is the center of your emotional being?
It depends on the emotion.
I am an emotional being (I mean that in a "more than usual" way). I think it kind of comes with the territory when you are bipolar. I tend to feel things to an extreme, metered emotions are a learned behavior, and...uh...I'm still learning. It will most likely be a life-long pursuit.
Each emotion has it's own location, but because I have spent a large part of my life dealing with anxiety and feeling "defective", my first reaction to this question was "the pit of my stomach." Anxiety, jealousy, hurt feelings, shame, regret...they all live there. The more positive the emotion, the higher up it goes in my body.
So, while we commonly hear people say they were so angry their head was going to explode, I suppose for me it would be quite the opposite. :)
What do you think is the secret to a tranquil soul?
What do you think is the secret to a tranquil soul?
If I knew that, I wouldn't spend so much time in the pit of my stomach.
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Bean got her ears pierced on Saturday! I took her to the tattoo/piercing place where I got mine done, and they were SO sweet to her, and she *talk talk talk talk talked* the whole time. I have no idea where she gets that from... I was prepared for her to change her mind at the last minute, but she marched into that room, inspected the red dots on her ears to make sure she was happy with the placement (as did I), and hopped up on that table like "let's do this thing!" When the needle went in, all she said was a very quiet "ow ow," and then she smiled. "Look Mom! We're twins! We have the same earrings."
My husband whispered to her as we left "Don't let Mommy get anything else pierced!"
Dammit.
15 humored me by saying something:
Well, your last line answered what would have been my first question!
just curious as to what you do have pierced? Bean is looking all grown up with her pierced ears. :)
Os- I knew you'd wonder that!
Laura- I have 2 lobe piercings and 1 cartilage piercing in my left ear, 1 lobe piercing in my right ear, and my belly button used to be pierced until it got wrecked by my surgery. I have toyed with other piercings, but they would not go over well. ;)
I think we're very much alike. Reading your answers had me nodding me head, thinking,"Neither am I. I don't know, either..." I may have also teared up a little bit because Hi! I'm a big old emotional person, too!
Your daughter is awesome. I tried to take my nieces (9 and 6) to get their ears pierced for Xmas/birthday gifts. They talked a big, big talk until we got to the ear piercing place and then they couldn't get out of there fast enough. I told them I'd get my nose pierced if they got their ears pierced, but even that didn't fly.
We were going to wait and allow The Girl to decide when/if she got her ears pierced, but I always wanted a baby girl with pierced ears. I think it's too cute :)
I wouldn't mind AT ALL if you got something else pierced! ;) But I have a feeling it wasn't me that you were worried about.
The Bean is ADORABLE! What a sweet pic!
Wondering if you left it out on purpose, or seriously overlooked your WRITING as a creative outlet?
Because, depending on the swing of YOUR mood (and MINE), your posts often make me giggle, get all teary, or think way to freaking hard.
I know a lot of people who blog don't see their writings as anything special, or creative - myself included. But you must be doing SOMETHING right for people to keep coming back.
So there, like it or not, you DO have a creative side.
I almost skipped today too. Ha!
I played too :)
FADKOG- That's what I want! I think I would so rock the teeny tiniest little nose stud. Wanna go together?
TUG- Don't tell my daughter that you got your daughter diamonds!
RLL- Well, gee, now I wish it WAS your permission I was hoping for...
Lalana- You made my day :) Thank you. You're right in that I don't see myself that way. As far as I'm concerned, I'm just running my mouth to whomever will listen.
You need permission for those sort of things? :-)
Teena- It was a hard one, huh?
Just Another Girl- Permission would be the wrong word. Knowing that one's SO would not like it kind of takes all of the fun out of it.
Those WERE hard questions. Gah!
And, just so you know, when you do HNT as well as you do, it is SO creative!
Bean looks adorable with her pierced ears! I got my daughters done when she was 4mo. I loved them on her. Then mysteriously two years ago she became so sensitive to all metals of any type that she can't wear a single pc of jewelry anywhere on her body with out breaking out in a horrible rash immediately. She's very bummed. *sigh*
Damn! Those are some hard questions. I wouldn't be capable of answering them quite so well. ;)
Aww Bean is cute. She handled the ear piercing quite well. And yay for going to a tat/piercing place instead of those goofy mall boutiques. (No offense to anyone, lol.)
If Cam and I make it out east this summer, you and I might have to take a little field trip to the tat/piercing studio *giggle*
Your writing is very creative, and your HNT stuff is unique, too.
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