{"id":51,"date":"2012-06-01T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2012\/06\/7-quick-takes-friday-2\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T17:15:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T22:15:30","slug":"7-quick-takes-friday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2012\/06\/7-quick-takes-friday-2.html","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes Friday!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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Lately I\u2019ve been having an existential crisis over my About Me page. (I know, could I get any more navel-gazing? If you\u2019re thinking not, brace yourself for the next paragraph\u2026s.<\/i>)<\/div>\n
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See, I have two family pictures I can use for that page. One is a pretty good picture of everyone in my family except me and Sienna (and Sienna has been refusing to do anything but make ridiculous faces lately so she doesn\u2019t count). The other is a mediocre-to-bad picture of everyone else except me.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Two days ago I put the one that\u2019s a better picture of me up. I also like it slightly more because it\u2019s in color and so are all the other pictures on that page. But the last two days I\u2019ve been dealing with this nagging feeling that perhaps I shouldn\u2019t sacrifice the visual appearance of my entire family on the altar of my own vanity. I realize this is probably the stupidest and most ironically self-absorbed train of thought I\u2019ve ever had, wondering if I\u2019m being too vain in my handling of the \u201cAbout Me\u201d page of my blog, but I\u2019m still having it, and it\u2019s still bugging me, so I\u2019m blogging about like one would suck the rattlesnake poison back out of a wound. (Not me. I would never do that. But someone else might, if they lived in 1890 or were a character on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman<\/i>.)<\/div>\n
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I\u2019ve decided to let you guys decide which picture looks better, and I\u2019m bracing myself for the very real possibility that my inbox will quickly fill up with variations of \u201care you effing kidding? No one cares but you, pick a picture and get over yourself,\u201d which is advice I should probably take ahead of time and erase this quick take. But I\u2019ve already spent time writing it, so it\u2019s gonna stand. Plus I can use the picture comparison for quick take #6.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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(I\u2019m sorry for the huge gap between these pictures. Blogger sucks lately.)<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Picture #1, in color, with my chin tilted at the appropriate angle to minimize photographic evidence of double-chinnery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Picture #2. Charlotte and the Ogre are the big winners in this one, looking cuter than cute (Oh, sorry, I guess the Ogre looks \u201cdistinguished and professorial\u201d) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Cast your votes below, or chastise me for my vanity, but either way, know that I am in no way responsible for Sienna\u2019s rockin\u2019 side-ponytail in either of these pictures. That was my mom\u2019s doing. She\u2019s got a thing for side ponytails. I\u2019m convinced it\u2019s a direct result of trying to raise little girls in the 80\u2019s.<\/div>\n
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Tired of hearing about the things that keep me up at night? Then don\u2019t click on the link attached to the above picture. Also don\u2019t note that all this crazy shiz is happening within a one-to-three-hour radius of our current location.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Also, why would you be tired of hearing about the things that keep me up at night? If you\u2019re a reader of this blog (which I assume you are, otherwise I\u2019m not sure how you got here but I deeply <\/i>apologize for it) you know I\u2019m slightly-unhinged-bordering-on-legitimately-crazycakes. And you either love me in spite of it or find my particular brand of crazy amusing. <\/div>\n
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And anyway, it\u2019s not like I\u2019ve ever done a full-blown post on the things that keep me up at night.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Alas, since I have literally no idea where else to take these quick takes and my children are hovering around me anxiously saying, \u201care you done yet? Are you done yet?\u201d I\u2019m afraid that today is the day in which that post shall become a reality.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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At least it\u2019s in the form of quick takes.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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So without further ado, here are three other things that keep me up at night. <\/div>\n
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Shudder, shudder, shudder, shudder, blech.\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n
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I hate spiders. I know they\u2019re part of God\u2019s creation and keep like, some sort of insect population in check or something but seriously, did God have to make them so creepy?\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Guuaaahhhhhh.\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n
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This is made even worse by the fact that we moved from a place where the only poisonous spider was the brown recluse to a place where we had to worry about black widows and brown recluses to a place where we have to worry about brown recluses, black widows, red widows and brown widows. Add to the fact that Liam suffered what several doctors identified as a \u201cnecrotic spider bite\u201d from an apparently invisible spider, and yeah. I have nightmares about spiders.<\/div>\n
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I also check everyone\u2019s sheets and the undersides of beds obsessively before anyone gets in, shake out blankets, rustle curtains daily, and bang shoes against the ground before we put them on.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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And freak out regularly when I see anything even remotely resembling a spider, even though they usually turn out to be either crumbs or fuzz.<\/div>\n
I hate spiders.<\/div>\n
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When I\u2019m not laying awake freaking about spiders or listening intently for zombies to come crashing through the glass doors, I\u2019m usually terrifying myself by imagining some version of In Cold Blood.\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n
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Really, the idea that a human being would slaughter an entire family for basically no reason at all is incomprehensible to me. But it happens, and it\u2019s not exactly rare anymore, thus I lay awake at night listening for noises and check on my children obsessively anytime I happen to wake up. I\u2019m not sure what I hope to accomplish by losing sleep over a hypothetical and extremely unlikely situation that is entirely out of my control, but\u2026well, crazycakes, <\/i>remember?<\/div>\n
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Most nights, though, I lay awake mentally berating Stephen Moffat for what he did to River Song.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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I\u2019m sorry if you\u2019re not a Whovian (no really, I am sorry for you, but you can fix that by going to Netflix right now <\/i>and making your universe infinitely better and brighter), but Moffat took a character who had sparkling, limitless potential and just\u2026murdered her. Worse than murdered her. Made her just a side-show, a footnote (and a pretty deranged one at that) in his tale of Amy and the Doctor<\/i>.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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I can never forgive him for that. All the good things he brought us\u2026Matt Smith, the fez, the Weeping Angels, vampires and <\/i>Van Gogh, even Rory, glorious Rory\u2026all of it combined cannot outweigh the hideous injustice done to one of the most remarkable characters (sadly, only in potential now) to ever grace the Whoniverse. <\/div>\n
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I actually think I\u2019m going to cry now.<\/div>\n
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For more coherent and far less navel-gazing quick takes, go see Jen<\/a>! Happy weekend, everyone. I\u2019ll just be over here, bitterly cursing Stephen Moffat all the way through the zombie apocalypse. <\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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