So I've basically given up on our family blog. And I've given up on reading others' blogs too. I think the trend is finally starting to pass. With the social interaction abundance that is Facebook it tends to be so much easier to write about our goings-on in small blurbs and picture updates. I use Facebook so often to share news that it dawned on me that I forgot to email my extended family the news that we're having a girl. ...Oops. The writings on this particular blog have also (obviously) taken a plunge in word count. I'm going to keep this one however. It's been nice to have a place to exercise the right side of my brain, since my left side is normally so dominant. Back you creative beast, back!! I wish I were more creative, maybe we wouldn't be so bored all day. I even had a good idea for a blog post yesterday. I promptly forgot it when I beheld the amazing amounts of chocolate Jason came home with. The crickets are chirping in my head as we speak, well, as I write. I have nothing to write about... Since most of my thoughts nowadays revolve around the discomforts of pregnancy and impending childbirth. And food. Lots of food.
I guess the enjoyment I find in cooking to be a point in favor of my right side. I don't think I've made a recipe exactly according to the recipe for years now. I'm good at mixing things up and tweaking flavors. I've been in the mood to try something completely new, but haven't been able to find appropriate ingredients when grocery shopping. Back to boring for us.
I follow politics, religion, parenting, etc... topics that are in the news, but try to avoid posting or commenting on forums because I don't like how divisive topics like that can be. Granted, there's been a few times that I have... and of course I'm ALWAYS right when stating my personal opinion. ;-) I don't like how closed-minded and disrespectful people can be; it's the common trend for people to post insensitive, inflammatory comments on issues-- things they would never have the balls to say to a person's face. I try to go out of my way to make sure the comment I am posting is something I would also say in person. Ha ha, then there are the times when I play the opposite side of the fence just to ruffle all the sheeply conservatives where I live. There's that right side in action again. I also choose not to listen to political commentators because they are so biased and rude. I think they cause people to be irrationally angry and judgemental of others who don't believe as they do. They host guests on their shows and proceed to shout and put them down. To avoid making this a blanket statement, I'll add, "Of course, not everyone is like this." To somewhat balance the media bias, I pull my news from two or three different news sources and form my own opinions.
Forming opinions is something that, I think, takes practice. It's hard to come into a new topic without an inclination to think one way or another. But I think educating oneself and being open to multiple thoughts helps to sideline closed-mindedness. While writing numerous research papers in college, I quickly learned that you can make research and statistics say whatever you want. If you want to find research that favors one theory over another-- you'll find it! If you want it to say the other theory is absolutely, infallibly correct-- you'll find that too!
I think I've written enough about absolutely nothing. Maybe my brain will kick into gear soon and I'll have another post on enlightened, creative subjects that I KNOW leaves everyone hanging for more.
