Wednesday, February 07, 2007

The Things We Do for Ego

In a fit of pique I submitted my site to a new “review my blog” site last week. I thought, “Oh what the hell… What’s the worst that can happen?”

Then I realized that the worst that could happen would be that they wouldn’t like me, my site, they’d make fun of my kids, tell me that I’m ugly and fat and untalented and my ego would be deflated even more than usual. (Having twelve kids, a torn apart house, and being hung like an elevator button tends to wear down your ego, you know?) So perhaps submitting my site wasn’t a good idea after all.

I was uncomfortably reminded of the time last week when I posted a movie on my site and I e-mailed a friend and showed him the video I made before it went live and he said I was “brave” to post it, which I immediately interpreted as “not funny” and so I asked him, “Is it funny?” and he said it was “funny enough” which to my mind meant I should take it down immediately, dismantle my web site and set fire to the web server, which would be a problem because I don’t own the server and the ISP guys said they’d call the police if I ever showed up at the data center again and then I’d lose my job and all eighteen of my kids would go without franks and beans (or “toot-fruits and doggies” as we like to call them at the Deal Family Compound) and I’d have to go back to selling soccer balls on the streets of Topeka, KS and I JUST CAN’T GO BACK THERE AGAIN; it’s too flat there and I get nauseous when I’m around planar things.

Ego is a fragile thing.

And I think it’s time for my meds again.

Thanks, ladies. 

1. Wow. I was already thinking I’d start hanging around here after reading the review. This post settles the matter.
   :)

   Posted by Radioactive Jam  on  02/07/07  at  11:16 AM

2. wtg! You took their review on the chin :)

   Amazing you went from 12 to 18 children in about 5 seconds (I read fast) ;)

   I hope this pulls in some more readers for you, as you deserve it, even if I don’t understand the computer stuff everyone still deserves to “share” their world.

   Hugs

   Whisky

   xxxxx

   Posted by whiskyminx  on  02/07/07  at  11:53 AM

3. You are brave. I too have submitted myself for slaughter at a different site.

   ...isn’t this exactly what we tried to avoid in high school?

   Posted by Woman with Kids  on  02/07/07  at  02:07 PM

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