The Humor of Social Media

A Pin from Pinterest

I was reflecting on my rap on social media yesterday, and the last line I added was on Pinterest. You see I became infatuated with Pinterest recently, with nothing else to do! Right! Plenty of organization and getting rid of stuff around here, books to read for my seminary class, and then Pinterest beckons me. But I was hooked on Pinterest! When . . .

The Internet went down along with the land line. I used my cell phone to call Bright House (Road Runner). Last time something like this happened it was the pump water and the land line. Spiders caused the water problem and maybe the phone problem. This time no Internet and land line for 24 hour until Road Runner could get out here and provide a new modem! No Pinterest! I laughed at myself and got a lot of de-cluttering done. Not finished, but made a huge dent.

In 2009 Getting Off the Niceness Treadmill was published and in the 9th chapter I wrote a poem that has since become a rap, actually my first rap that I do at the end of good classes when I substitute teach in secondary education.  As new media have appeared I have added lines. So here is the current version of "Longing to Chat On the Front Porch With You":



It started with e-mail
The demise of snail mail

Our personal lives are right out there

Anything we’re likely to share

I guess we learned this from reality TV

We rant and rave

And post pictures you can see

On Twitter you can tweet

On Facebook you retreat

On iPod there’s a beat

Real people you don’t meet.

With blogs I can rail

Dialogue will soon fail

Too slow but we can text

What will be the latest next?

Want no face-to-face strife?

Send pictures of your life.

With Skype I can gripe

With Flicker I can snicker.

On Blue Tooth I tell the truth.

On Link-In you can ring in

On Google Plus there’s no fuss

But on Pinterest there’s no rest

The pace we live is sad

No front porch makes me mad.

Pinterest they say is mainly women, but a Manterest and a Gentlemint site have emerged for men along with a lot of other lines I might add to this rap of mine. And, by the way, I am on a huge group board about Alzheimer's on Pinterest.

Thanks to Barb from Cleaning Up the Clutter for getting me into Pinterest! Now I have graphics for blogging! And you all have my third of eight raps on this blog! And me? I need to go de-clutter and stay off of Pinterest for the rest of the day.

Have a good week!

Handling Clutter, Part One

FlyLady (see link at right) writes today:

     Some of you still don't believe me when I say that you cannot organize clutter; you can only get rid of it! For the life of me I can't understand why you won't just try it. I have given you little assignments to clear off areas so that you can feel the difference the free space has on your life. Yet you are still refusing to let it go!

     The result in not releasing your clutter is that you are not finding success with your routines and you are not FLYing yet. The guilt is weighing you down. You are blaming everyone but yourself for the problems you are having. Some of you blame our emails and complain that they are the clutter, while others of you blame your spouse or children. The truth is you are the problem because you will not let it go!

What have I blamed? Our crash that kept me from doing much due to my back. No longer. Working? Not so much this summer. Just teaching one class for DUI offenders and attending one DUI training and taking one seminary counseling class. So it is back, folks--TIME TO WORK ON CLUTTER--rested from vacation, my cruise.

My friend Sally is also my inspiration to work on clutter. She has a new office and has handled/is handling her clutter at their charming home. She also has an organized storage room. We both know that our days of functioning husbands (before Alzheimer's takes it toll) are numbered and the more organized we can become the wiser we will be. Dolores moved, downsized, and handles clutter very well--also an inspiration to us all.

Sally and Jake (not their real names) will be here later and our husbands will hang out while we go to our monthly Alzheimer's Association support group. Then we four will go to dinner observing Weight Watcher ppv (Points Plus Values) at the restaurant.
 
Meanwhile I am de-cluttering so Sally sees my progress before she comes. I am pinning some progress on Pinterest on my Organizing Board so you might want to follow the pictures there. The link is at the lower right. I have SO much to do in this house.