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Edited on Fri Oct-15-10 12:45 PM by Better Today
"Y'know," he interrupted, "I'm just tired and cranky enough to say something here." I had just started discussing with Larry some of the words that were sticking in my head regarding a name for this trek to use on Youtube and Wordpress blog.
"I'm not sure you want to hear this, but I have to say it," he continued. Even after so many years of phone calls and one or two personal visits, he seems to think I'm more delicate than I am. "I really think you need to stop demeaning yourself like you do. Graceless, wrinkled, old and cranky. I don't like it when you refer to yourself like that."
"Larry," I interrupted back (yeah, that's exactly the type of person I am), "but I don't associate negative connotations to those words. It's just reality." He's always had problems dealing with my attachment to reality, and therefore reality based terminology. "I am old, I love my wrinkles and have never done anything to avoid getting them, and like it or not, I am graceless. I understand that you would like me to word things so that your particular response to those words are not triggered, but really that's your problem, not mine. I fully and completely see who I am. It is what is, and I see no point in shying away from any of it."
"But by repeating things like that to yourself, you assure that none of it will ever change or improve. It will become self-prophecizing."
"Oh, Larry, what makes you think I want to change any of it? I know who I am, and most importantly, I am quite okay with it. I embrace it, that's probably why I have no problem discussing myself in terms of reality." I say, then before he can get going again, I add, "Anyway, I was thinking perhaps something like 'Graceless Granny', ..."
Before I had a chance to go further with the list of maybes, his eyes lit up, his furrowed brow smoothed right out, and a smile crossed his face, "Oh, I actually like that quite a bit."
"But all I did was add 'Granny' to 'graceless,' which you hated a second ago."
"Yes, yes, I know, but I really do like it. It changes everything. Yep, I think it's grand."
So there you have it. Las Vegas may have been a bust from many standpoints, though each on a learning experience that I'll need to find resolutions to, but at least I seem to have a name for the trek blogs and videos. I am just today finally where I can use the internet, so I'll be checking the availability of that ID for Youtube and Wordpress, then I'll get some of the longer early blogs posted as well as getting caught up to date with the almost complete fiasco that Las Vegas was for our first days out.
(Hang on, I'll go check now, and get signed up. Hope I've found a unique enough userid. brb)
So now I have acquired username "GracelessGranny" (all one word) at both Worpress and Youtube. Nothing is there yet, but I'll get there, blog first I think. Hopefully I've something worth saying, because to date it's been experiencing problems, imagining solutions, and hopefully here soon, implementing solutions, and not much video has been shot. Since I already know how to manage and handle that, it's the least of my concerns. My focus has been on the day to day issues of being on the road and living in the trailer with the dog.
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