So. How're things? Oh hey, so you know Pinterest? (That question is rhetorical.) I signed up for Pinterest MONTHS ago, but then I was like, This is stupid and I don't need more time-vacuums.
Except only NOW I need nothing BUT time-vacuums, preferably ones that I can steer with one hand (starting yet another blog is therefore out. Typing one-handed, you guys...I can't even. *stabs something [one-handed!]*).
So I have been Pinteresting with a vengeance, is sort of the bullet point of this conversation. Go follow me (Rachel Krueger [the pregnant one in the red tank top riding the carousel bear {I know}]) so I can follow you back and stuff.* We can pin each other! And then go steady! (Right? Somebody much older than me let me know if I've got the terminology correct.)
In otherly news, threaded comments are working out STELLAR for me. How are they for you? Seriously, tweet or email me if they render you uncommentable. Inquiring minds want to know.
And then, OH HEY LOOK A BABAY!
Sunday forth.
*Ok so earlier in the week I got a tweet that was all, Following! Follow me back! Thanks! Which, I will follow back who I damn well please, but then I clicked on that person's stream and it was NOTHING BUT requests to be followed back. DUDE YOUR FEED IS SO BORING. This is why I am not following you (that and inherent contrariness).
I DON'T UNDERSTAND PINTEREST. Is it just...looking at pictures of stuff you want..? How is that not frustrating? Am I totally misunderstanding it?
ReplyDeleteI didn't either? But...it's basically tearing pages out of magazines. ONLINE. Like, oh, here is a recipe I will try. And here is a dress I like. And here is a craft I will do with the fetus when she is older.
DeleteOnly, instead of sorting them into appropriate binders (which, ok, I hear that people actually do this), you PIN them to BOARDS. And when you have THINGS TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE you probably shouldn't be spending time on Pinterest. It's the laziest sort of internet browsing.
But when you are tethered to your rocking chair for hours of the day, and you have read the entire internet, and it's 2 in the morning, it's weirdly satisfying.
Massive cuteness attack.
ReplyDeleteRight? That face. It's like a pile of puppies.
DeleteI don't really get what I'd use Pinterest for, tbh! I hope I catch on quickly this is the longest it's ever taken me to adapt to some new internet technology.
ReplyDeleteOh cute baby! :)
See above response to Amanda. Pinterest isn't FOR anything, except wasting time and collecting ideas. Mostly wasting time.
DeleteYou need to get a pinterest follow me button off of there because I think there are OTHER PINNERS USING YOUR NAME! So if you have a button it will go directly to you.
ReplyDeleteThere are buttons for everything! I will look into this.
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ReplyDeleteGah! stop temtping me!! Twitter and Blogging have eaten my life!!!
ReplyDeletehmmm pinterest, so pretty....
Right? Shiiiiiny things...
DeleteSO CUTE! And that baby's nice too.
ReplyDeleteI for one am loving the threaded comments on my blog. Though sometimes (always) I forget that I have that option and then have to delete what I've said to put it in the appropriate spot because I am compulsive like that.
Ha! That's awesome. I'm more likely to forget I have threaded comments and just not respond to things. I am new to this whole 'conversation' business.
DeleteNow that is a happy baby! I don't really get Pinterest either. Well maybe I do but I'm pretending not to because if I do one more thing I will implode. As for the threaded comments, I had to turn mine off. There was a small group of people who couldn't load my blog as soon as I enabled it. I don't really understand the problem, I suck at these things. But I'm convinced it was the problem, and once I switched back everything was fine again. So I guess no threads for me.
ReplyDeleteBoooooo that. Although you're pretty good at email responses. I am TERRIBLE at emailing.
DeleteI love your blog! That's all. :)
ReplyDeleteThat is all that's necessary! And thanks.
DeleteOh my goodness! Look at that baby! Kiss her for me, Raych!
ReplyDeleteDone! It is like kissing velvet. (Screechy velvet.)
DeleteI'm a Pinterest-aholic. I have actually made several things that I've pinned. So it is useful! I swear!
ReplyDeleteAnd now I follow you!
DeleteAwww- love the baby smile! typing one-handed gets easier (i'm doing so now)
ReplyDeleteGood to know. I feel like I've lost so many clever lines down the brain-tubes because I can't type quickly enough.
DeleteI'm a huge fan of Pinterest because - as you mention in an earlier comment - I'm that person who has a tabbed binder for ripped pages from magazines. I totally am. So I'm a moron for not figuring out how cool that would be online and reaping the monetary benefits... but whatevs.
ReplyDeleteSince I have a use that I frequently do stuff to, Pinterest is great for me. I pin tips and rooms I like and all sorts of cool stuff. I just followed you on there.
And yes, cuteness with the baby smile!
I KNEW there were people like you out there! I only organize things if I can do so on a computer. In real life my shit is EVERYWHERE.
DeleteAwww...the baby smiles melt my heart. Soooo cute.
ReplyDeleteI signed up for Pinterest a few months ago as well, but I still haven't used it much. I've pinned maybe five or six things. I am lame.
Dude, this was me until I had this baby. But once you have scads of otherwise-unusable time on your hands...
DeleteOh, my! I just found your blog by aimlessly meandering through the corridors of Google Reader.
ReplyDeleteI am hooked. Please excuse me while I rummage happily through your archives.
Also, you know how the grim reaper is the anthropomorphisation of Death? Your baby is what I imagine Cute would look like if we gave it the same treatment.
Welcome! And my baby thanks you for your kind analogy!
DeleteYou get used to typing with one hand. I've been doing it for a few years, and I'm almost as fast with one hand as I was with two.
ReplyDeleteVery cute baby! How old?
Four weeks? But I think in that photo two weeks. Freshly minted, anyway.
DeleteOh, Pinterest. It's like the best time-vacuum EVER. I almost like it the best.
ReplyDeleteAdorable baby! :)
Right? HOURS have been sucked away, and all I have to show for it are some craft ideas and a few recipes and a catalogue of some clothes I like. Ok fine, it's super-useful.
Deleteoh - cuteness and everything nice!!!! Got 4 weeks to go till mine now, might start practising the one handed typing thing ;-)
ReplyDeleteGood luck! Babies for everyone!
DeleteOh look at the baby!! So cute! So happy!!!!
ReplyDelete(I shall not give in the Pinterest … yet.)
REFRAIN, yo. And yes, so cute! Although probably more gassy than happy. Who loves a fart? (This baby does.)
DeleteCute baby is SO CUTE.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I've been having difficulties commenting on your blog, which is sad, because I want to comment more (I think I've only commented like.. twice, but I'm finally coming out of my lurking-shell, but this is hard to do when I can't comment *sad*).
What? Booo. What kinds of difficulties? Maybe they can be fixed otherwise? I am enjoying my threaded comments.
DeleteI think the problem is with the internet browser. Whenever I try to comment with Firefox (my internet browser of choice) my comment disappears and nothing happens. All is well when I use Safari though.
DeleteMini Darth Vader of Awesomeness - Lolz! How about this one? http://pinterest.com/pin/142004194470242156/
ReplyDeleteOh lord. *pins*
DeleteBwahahha. I will now stalk you on Pinterest, too. Although to be a proper stalker, I suppose I'd have to not tell you that I'm following you. I wish I could keep a secret!
ReplyDeleteYou're allowed to tell me as long as it's in a letter derived of magazine cut-outs.
DeleteThank you for prompting me to FINALLY figure out how to find someone on Pinterest. I kept typing names in and getting only pinned stuff with those names in it. Turns out, you have to not be dumb. So thanks for helping me not be dumb (at least in that capacity) today. I'm following you and loving the jetpack idea.
ReplyDeleteDude, it took me like ten tries before I figured out you could search 'people' instead of 'pins.' Technology is hard.
DeleteCute! This is what the babay's picture made me think of: http://movieclips.com/G3qb-the-land-before-time-movie-littlefoot-is-born/
ReplyDeleteAHHHHHHHHH LITTLEFOOT YOU DARLING!
DeleteHrm. I tried finding you on Pinterest but can't. *sigh* Is this where I get too old for social media? Anyway, please find me so we can follow each other and repin each other's pins.
ReplyDeleteThat's because I FOLLOW YOU ALREADY. And you follow me. We're good.
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