Tuesday, August 07, 2007

sugar coated

apparently my blog is making people sick. in the past week, two complaints have rolled in. the first was in an email from raph (congratulations on the blog mention), he wants a little more "reality" and not all this "puppies and kittens" stuff. sorry to admit, i semi-ignored the request...laughing it off as "typical raph".

then tonight during my bi-monthly phone call with my older sister, i'm told my blog is too sugar coated. i believe, if my ears are clean, that i'm giving angelique a toothache. i quip back, "yeah but it's funny right." to which she half-heartily agrees and goes on to explain that it seems that i try to come off as nice and that i don't need to gush so much about jason, as if i'm writing to my mother-in-law. as she explains this in a kind, half-joking way (and if you know angelique, you know the exact manner i'm referring to), i'm wondering "does this mean my sister doesn't think i'm sincerely nice."

in my defense i post from the heart so if my blog is cheesy, i must be cheesy. i am the girl that made a three pages list of "Things to be Happy About" during college and frequently read it. perhaps i have a candy coated disposition. if that seems to be the case, i must confess i'm mostly warhead, a little sugar on the outside and a tart inside.

ask yourself this, is stepping on a rat sweet? i think not. what am i to post? the conversation arose when i put her on hold to help jason locate something (for the second time in two minutes) and then complained that he is allergic to looking. this is true. we have a 400 square foot apartment that we've lived in for over a year and jason still doesn't know where we keep things. this frustrates me to no end but is mostly funny. the same way, several times a week jason holds up an item from the drying rack and asks, "erica, did you wash this _____?" which really means "this one is still dirty...could you be more attentive when doing the dishes." both frustrating and funny, which would probably translate into a mostly funny post.

this much i know is true, the post i was saving to write next week about how much i love my sisters, isn't going to air. i mean what could be more rainbows and puppies than singing the praises of your lovely sisters. i wish i were joking...i already had the pictures selected.

14 comments:

angelique said...

i am going to throttle you - i'm sure Mrs. Gardner really does read your blogs and now she's going to think I have something against Jason - for the record, I think he's terrific
as a lifelong target of your 'tart' wit, i just thought that you've been, well, yes, sugar coating it - but i didn't mean that i thought you should make fun of Jason in particular - and the blog IS funny
oh and if you have good pics of the 3 of us, e-mail them to me
oh and if you're mean about me in your blog again, i'll post a comment about your first day of high school

nikki said...

I love sibling squabbles over cyberspace :) Sugar coat or not... it's your blog, which means it's your world. Bring on the glucose.

Unknown said...

I'm thinking of changing our blog name to "Was that Braggy?" Because blogs are sugar coated. It's a new-age form of keeping up with Sister Jones. I think you should lay it on even more. If your blog doesn't reek of "We are happy" with an undertone of "because we make good decisions" and an occasional, "we're good looking too" then what's the point? But seriously, I can't wash dishes either. I think this is a wife thing. Many husbands air similar complaints.

Tyler and Stacy: said...

Erica, these are possibly the longest blog entries I have ever seen. My low levels of literacy prevent me from fully understanding this charming wit that everyone is referring to; but having known Jason for some time now, I don't blame you for singing his praises. That is one nice piece of man flesh.

familia Bybaran said...

you are hilarious. So funny. Just put the love the sister post on hold, but I do hope to see it. I love your posts and your outlook on things. It's fun to get in your mind, which I think is sincerely pretty happy. That's great.

Unknown said...

Ignore the naysayers. Blog on! I like sugar. Even if it is 3 inches deep. :)

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