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Over the last little while some things have happened on the internet that caught my interest. Apparently there was some conference for “social media” people, something about Northern Voices? I don’t even know. (I am a little out of the loop but I guess I will talk about that later.)

Anyways, this whole thing started about how the event was labeled as “child friendly” but then there was some freakout cause some person’s kid was being loud during the keynote and so they were asked to leave. I am not even sure why I am sharing this part with you because I really have no interest in talking about kids other than to say this: you made a decision to breed but that doesn’t mean your kid has the right to disrupt events that other adults paid for.

But because of this whole internet explosion I happened upon other local bloggers who either attended or participated in the event. The whole social media thing is kind of weird to me… I mean yes ok I use twitter and facebook and I have this blog and I have Twitpic and a neglected tumblr and lord knows what else. But I don’t really care about it. I use those things to share what I’m doing but I rarely worry about who I am sharing it all with (I’m doin’ it wrong, I know I know).

But yes. I am rambling. So two things:

1. This post on how to overcome social anxiety using social media is hilarious to me. Mostly because I have actually used the pants thing as an excuse not to do stuff. Well not just pants; sometimes it extends to entire outfits – I rarely feel comfortable in anything. But yes. Funny. Go read.

2. The internet. I feel weird about the internet. I write this blog mostly for me, despite joking about my desire to become internet famous. The truth is I have too many self-confidence issues to be internet famous. It’s just not going to happen. But sometimes I think I should be more engaging with what I write here, and perhaps on twitter (which I use mostly to clear out the incessant chatter in my brain).

But then again I always find it so transparent and a little cheesy when people dig for comments. Like “hey guys, I really love raspberry jam, what kind do you love the best?” Who honestly gives a crap? I can see if you’re actually asking for advice but to me it just comes off as a cheap ploy to get comments and give the illusion of engaging with your readers, and if you haven’t noticed I am not really in that business (probably should be though).

I know that sounds awful but I guess I am just looking for more substance. Like let’s say I love raspberry jam (totally do) and maybe you know of a good recipe to make it and you share that with me, that would be awesome. You know? And I guess I don’t ask you to do that because I assume if you really wanted to you would just do it but maybe other people need more prompting?

Which I guess brings me to my third point that I did not even mention because I forgot about it until now.

The older I get, the more I am starting to realize that I am a very visual person. I don’t usually want to read long wordy entries because frankly I think I have maybe some attention issues and I just can’t pay attention for very long. You have to be super interesting for me to read a lot of words, like really the most interesting ever, and even then I can’t promise I won’t be distracted by something shiny.

So, in a nutshell: if you blog, and you want people like me to read your blog, for the love of all that is holy, post pictures. I’d much rather look at pictures of your trip to the beach than read about how you sat on a dead crab and got sand in your pants, ok?

So now I will take my own advice and post some pictures of what I’ve been up to.

Maine convinced me to put on pants this evening so we went for a quick walk to Nanaimo street, and then back up along the bike path (this made me miss my bike so much. Does anyone know how to fix coaster brakes? I might be able to do a tradesies?)

Mostly I took pictures of flowers. Zzzzzzzzzz. But seriously spring is so amazing and I love it so hard. We found a bunch of rose bushes and I got all weird like when you take a dog for a walk to a park and it finds something delightfully gross to roll in.

I really love how soft the new needles are on pine trees. They make me happy. That is probably a bit weird.

Also this morning I worked on some weaving. I decided to try using handspun in the warp, which is a thing our instructor told us not to do, but I think the only reason she told us was because handspun can kinda… fall apart if it is not spun very well.

I was using the grey romney fleece that I over-dyed with fuchsia, and well, one thing I learned is probably I should have set the twist before attempting to warp up.

However I am the most impatient ever and don’t really mind battling unruly yarn.

Seriously, I had to get this through the heddles still.

But as you can see I eventually did get it to cooperate. Unfortunately, romney is kind of scratchy (ok really scratchy) but I thought it would be good to test it out. I might bust out the drop spindle and get some squishy delightful merino going later.

Bert pretended to sleep while I warped up and watched What Not To Wear. I am pretending that this is kind of my job except no one is paying me yet. Oh and maybe I will talk about that later, the whole job search thing. Cause I am discovering things about myself that are kind of good to know but also not very conducive to making dollars.

Until next time,
Keep Fit and Have Fun!

P.S. That reminds me I should also tell you about that time I did the 30 Day Shred video the other morning and how I am still hurting. Damn you, Jillian Michaels. You are an asshat.