My poor husband. He watches his wife gaze at her computer. Soon, he fears, he will come home to find her sweatshirt and jeans deflated on her desk chair, shadings of her voice eminating from her computer speakers. He will have to log in and go to Kris.com just to see and speak with her. He'll have to (*shudder*) read her Web site.
TV watching is socially acceptable, at least, not worthy of commitment. But start spending time at the computer, dare mention any “friends” you have there, and see how fast your husband starts in with the comments.
“Oh sure, go to your computer.”
“I’m just browsing the news. It’s like looking at a magazine, which you do, too, by the way."
He raises an eyebrow.
"O.K., fine, I'm reading blogs.”
God forbid I speak of these “friends” in any detail.
“Gina’s so inspiring. She’s going through a lot, but it’s so touching to watch her get through it with faith.”
“Ann is a writing machine. She’s buried right now, but these books will be major highlights of her career. Isn’t that cool?”
“Dani just left me the most flattering comment. When I write a novel I’m going to ask her to write a blurb on the back cover. She's having a 'commenting tea party' today, and she's serving mimosas!”
His skin pales. His eye twitches. He looks at the floor, flashes a half smile and says, “Anything good on Tivo?”
6 comments:
My husband does the same thing when I mention my blog! He gets annoyed and says he just doenst understand it; that blog friends arent real, etc. I really think that unless you are involved in it, you dont understand. My blog is a journal of my life and its comforting to know that there are people out there feeling and doing the same thing I am. Doesnt mean that my "real" life isnt fantastic; its just nice to have friends and a life in the blogging world too! Hey--I dont understand the fun in golfing for 6 hours at a time but I dont criticize him! :)
i know how you feel and did a post about the same thing last week!!!!!
Hey, I love to see my name in lights! Thanks!!
And um, yeah... I so hear you on this one. Shh, don't tell, but Beloved and I had one major-ass ugly blowout about this just the other day, and blogging about our argument about blogging just seemed a little, well, circular, ya know?
By the way, the tri-gendered strippers finally showed up, and there's chocolate mandarin martinis, so feel free to make your way back to the party when your husband's not looking!!
"TV watching is socially acceptable."
That's it exactly.
My husband watches TV, which is considered "okay," but me reading online (which I do far less than he watches TV) is "a little weird."
I get the same reaction from my family. I use the TV argument all the time, though they just shove it off, because they can't admit they're wrong.
Hilarious! My husband says he feels like a "blog widower." He was perfectly happy when I was frying my brain in front of the tv, but god forbid I be tickling my brain by writing or reading blogs. Beautiful site BTW, look forward to visiting it in the future.
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