Fussy's Amazing New Abilities

Since I began my blogging all consuming obsession little hobby, I have noticed a few changes in my life.  I have decided to come clean with you, my wonderful Friends of Fussy. I know admitting my problem is the first step in recovery.

1) I have the power of telepathy.

I have, with alarming frequency, received more and more emails and forgotten to respond because I think I have already. How? Let me give you an example.

After reading an email from a friend, I think, "Oh great, so-in-so wants to meet for lunch this week. We'll have so much fun. I can't wait." Then I go off on my merry way and never respond. ACK!

In my mind, I must just assume I have the power to think something and have my thoughts automatically shared. If I have not responded to anyone lately, please understand I'm not really ignoring you. I've just gone crazy and become telepathic. 

2) I'm becoming a bit of a hermit.

I spend my days hiding from homeschooling/feeding/cleaning up after my four sons. After that, every last minute of free time is spent online. Both these things are wonderful, but I fear I am slowly forgetting how to behave in an social setting with other adults.

Small talk? Only if I can chat about potty training, teaching my 3rd grader division, RSS feeds and my deep and profound love of Stumbleupon. Other than that? I'm no good!

3) I am best friends with people who don't know I exist.

 

I have long standing relationships with people who don't know I exist. Take my BFF Dooce for example, she has no clue that we are so close. I am happy for her when she is feeling good and I worry about her when she gets depressed or suffers a loss. But if my homegirl BOSSY can't get any Dooce love, sheesh, who can?

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So there ya have it, my three new web-induced personality quirks. Hopefully this post won't ever be used as example #1 of my mental decline! GAH!

Speak up, Friends of Fussy, do any of you have any of these crazy 'abilities'? Have you noticed any new phenomeon in your life since you fell in love with the web? I mean, anything other than how supa-fab you always look! Oh, yeah, I see you sitting there smirking. There's no hiding from Fussy.

  Mwah!

Comments

[Sister Honey Bunch]

I dream about my bloggy friends. It's weird.

[Valarie in AL]

I haven't noticed anything to different in the telephatic world yet. I have only been doing this since January so I don't know if thats enough time or not. I do however find myself wanting to call yall up to tell you something and then I realize your in cyberland, and yall might think I'm a stalker and all, but I'm not. Hey I'm coming up your way tomorrow. :)

I really liked Bossy's video.

[Heather]

I dream about my bloggy friends too. And I think I drive Hubby nuts when I talk about you like you're an IRL friend.

[Brea in Texas]

Oh, Heather, my husband, too! He doesn't get how I can be friends with people I've never met IRL. And I totally start claiming friendship with people who have probably never heard of me! Ree (the Pioneer Woman) is my BFF, and Amy at Humble Musings and I are, like, sooo close ... neither of them really know it, though ...

And Fussy, you make me laugh when you say comments are like crack; I'm the exact same way! I mean, if three people comment on the same post, I pretty much wig out and start making up acceptance speeches for World's Best Blogger, because obviously, with THREE comments, I have become Very Important.

I just wrote a Friday Confession last week about my alter ego (she's a rock star!). I guess I forgot to make her a world-class blogger, too. :) I think it's good for those of us who play the Mommy Game all the time to have some fun, even if it is inside our heads ...

~Brea

[Summer]

So that's why I never respond to my emails! I think I'm telepathic. LOL Seriously I respond in my head, then forget to actually type the words.

[Ree]

I feel compelled to respond to every single thing that enters my email box. AND compelled to comment on EVERY SINGLE post I read.

And join every social network I'm invited to. And then I realize that I do need some sleep at some point. Sigh.

[Alli ~Mrs. Fussypants]

We are all crazy together! ;)

[Melizzard]

My "internet" friends and my real life friends long ago became mingled and my husband is never sure I'm talking about a person I know or a website anymore. It started years ago with a iVillage Pregnancy Circle and went downhill from there.

[Anglophile Football Fanatic]

I talk to my spouse about everybody by their blog names & expect him to keep up. And, nobody in real life "gets" it. Not at all. Like why would you trek hours to go visit someone you've never met who you consider someone who knows you better than your "real" BFF? It's strange from the outside, I think.

[Michelle]

I am the Queen of answering email telepathically and wondering why it doesn't reach its destination.

I'm also BFF with lots of people who don't know me at all. I always feel a little stalker like about it...but such is life. Thankfully we've met in person a couple of times so I don't feel like a stalker saying "my friend Alli". Hehe.

[ali]

screw Dooce...i totally think i'm bff with Miss Alli ;)

[Alli ~Mrs. Fussypants]

Ali Martel just won the award for best comment ever! ;)

[Christina]

I have the worst time answering e-mails. I think to myself "I'll get back to that one in just a moment," then forget that I never responded.

It gets even more confusing when you have met some of your blog friends IRL, also. My husband can't keep straight which people I have actually hung out with, and which I only know online.

And hermit? Yeah, leaving the house is tough. I keep saying I need a portable internet device to feel comfortable leaving the blog world for, you know, real life interaction, for more than 30 minutes.

[Christine @ Serenity How?]

I know it's kinda crazy (my husband can't understand it) but you're not alone in your online craziness. I know it's bad for me when my prayer list has more online friends than friends I know in person. LOL! They're still real!

Just last night hubby and I were discussing how cool it would be if I could be "beamed up" to bed instead of getting off the couch. You must really be telepathic after all! :-)

[justmylife]

I have found that I can't get around to all of my favorite blogs everyday anymore. I just keep finding more great bloggers everyday. Sorry if I haven't been around. I can't remember where I have been. I do hit the league and Blissful most everyday!

[Sleeping Mommy]

I totally do the telepethy thing. I think I have responded to emails and comments and then totally forget.

But you deserve some slack. You've got pregnancy brain, woman.

[Honeybell]

"3) I am best friends with people who don't know I exist."

You kill me!

[jen]

My pyschic powers started IRL after three kids. I started having imaginary conversations with hubba when I was drifting off to sleep. Telling him the trivial and the important stuff. Later in real conversations, he would have NO IDEA what I was talking about. It made me mad. Isn't part of the husband training package supposed to make them recpetive to all our thoughts?

No that I am blogging and making all these great new friends (one of your sons will surely marry my oldest daughter, making us not only bffs - but related, right?) I am sure it will only get worse....

Lord help me.
Jen

[Jennifer]

I do the exact same thing with email. It really ticks off my friends and then i feel bad, but still don't improve.

Also, I'm bff's with so many people. They have NO IDEA. Some people call it stalking. I just call it reading blogs.

[amy]

I am also friends with people who don't know I exist. My biggest problem though is CRS (can't remember shit). It began before I started blogging, so I can't even blame the blog!

[Redneck Mommy]

Some of my bestest friends are peoples hiding on the other side of their computer screens.

But your super powers sound much like my own.

I must really get a better handle on the email though.

[Carrie]

Oh DEFINITELY! I suffer from all of those maladies. Hey, maybe since there are so many of us we could qualify for some kind of class action lawsuit to get our lives back! :)

[MizFit]

ahhhhh Acute I Have No Life But Really I Do If You'd Just Go Online And Check-itis.

me? mainly the BFF with people who'd think WTF if I emailed em (*waves madly to crabby fitness*) as, just as you pointed out, they've no clue I exist.

can you even imagine what it's like to be the Dooce?

[Tamra]

Blog addiction is real, man.
My girlfriends irl look at me so blankly when I happen to mention in conversation something funny a blog friend said. I'm like, "wha? wha? We're tight like that!" Then they'll say "Oh, I don't have TIME for reading the internet" What, you mean other things are more important?! How can this be?

[Mackenzie's Momma]

Hmmm, unless the blog has suddenly contributed to my ulcer(wait i think that was stress?) i'm not sure i have any of these 'super powers' though maybe you could send some of the telepathy here? I need some about now...

[Ivy]

Ha! I do the SAME thing with email. I'm glad it's not just me!

[Angela]

You are hilarious. And you should have magnets made of your bonnet-topped visage. For real. Bet they'd sell. Doesn't Dooce sell stuff?

[karla ~ looking towards heaven]

yeah, emails and I must learn to come to some sort of compromise... Right now it is kicking my butt.

xo ~K

[Autumn]

I share the email telepathy and the hermit issues. Same with the BFF with people I don't know- funny, Dooce is my BFF too! She just... well, she doesn't know it yet... lol.

Seriously, I think it is easier to befriend and stay friends with people online, especially when you read some really intimate things about them in their blogs, and that automatically gives you a feeling of familiarity and friendship. That and people who blog just rock! ;)

[Kim]

I laughed out loud on this post.. I will have something happen and be like Oh.. such and such blogger will understand.. except..ya, were not really friends..LOL