First, we have to have Today's Word of the Day...
geniality · (noun) : the quality of being cheerful and pleasant
I'm still working on improving my blog's reading level. I tested it again yesterday and got the elementary school symbol. Let's just say geniality didn't exactly describe me after I saw that.
Now, my original intent with this blog was to journal with both words and photos our daily lives with our little guy, but somewhere along the line I got sidetracked and have found that I can think of all sorts of stuff to babble about. It's rather like an outlet for me, although on any given day what I'm typing out has probably already been discussed at length with Hubby somewhere between home and work on our bluetooths. Yes, we're those annoying people who you see shopping the grocery store giggling for no apparent reason and seeming to talk to ourselves in a disturbingly enjoyable fashion.
Updates on our little existence...K-man can get his rear in the air with a little more ease than before. It's really cute as long as he has a diaper on. When it's bare butt staring you smack dab in the face....well, let's say we've mastered the duck and dodge method. He's teething, of course, so he has some rough nights every now and then. Nothing a little motrimin can't handle. He's also finally eating baby food on a regular basis, but he's still not sleeping through the night. I'm hoping that maybe when he's a year old, we might get a full night's sleep. (6 months down, 6 months to go)
We're back on the lose the weight wagon train, and I'm kicking it off with a no-sugar-for-2-weeks gig. I've done it before, I can do it again. Never mind the claw marks I left in the couch cusion last night as I struggled with the temptation to make that box of brownies that was sitting on the second shelf in the pantry. (next to the rice, in front of the oatmeal, at a NW by SE orientation) And since I'm on the topic of weight loss (aka...my body is driving me nuts) I have to provide a link to Candid Carrie's website. She posted a great piece on appreciating our bodies the way they are...click here. Tell her I sent you. I'm still figuring out how to drum up more blog traffic...or maybe I'm just boring compared to all of the other witty ladies out there. Anyway...happy Tuesday! Have some coffee, two motrimin, and a slimfast with me and enjoy the day!
4 comments:
Wow, I am (almost) speechless. Thank you.
No matter what you think about your weight...you look AMAZING! You don't even look like you had a baby...turd!
ha ha
Amber
Don't fret about the dumb education level of your blog you silly! I did mine too and it also came back elementary school level. I don't worry about it in the least. It takes thought and solid writing to put together a post that anyone with half a brain can read. USA Today only writes to an 8th grade level. Some of the greatest novels in history were writen to an elementary level.
For blogs that come back at a much higher level, it isn't necessarily that their blog is written that much smarter or uses better words. Sometimes it is because the sentence structures are so complicated or so fragmented that it takes a genius to understand what they are trying to convey. That doesn't make it better writing than yours.
Take some of your posts, dump them in word, and see what the Fleichman-Kincaid (or whatever level) comes back as. See if it is consistent with what the blog level reader is telling you.
Now, see? We were so close to being friends - you and I. Until you asked me to eat a SlimFast with you.
And then...AND THEN I read the comment by Amber where it said you don't even look like you've had a child, and she was obviosuly emphatic about it for she referred to you as a "turd." And that's pretty hefty talk.
So no, we are officially un-friends. But there's still hope. Put away the SlimFast, pop open that package of brownies, mix the dough up and eat it all just like that, no cooking it. THEN give me a call.
And no, you're not boring. I assure you.
Melissa from Stretch Marks
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