It occurs to me that I don’t really have a lot of pictures on this thing. I have noticed that all the really cool kids have lots of pictures on their blogs. Hmph. I want to be a cool kid. I need pictures.
Here’s the thing about me, though. A while ago I listed six surprising facts about myself. One of them was that I don’t do numbers. Well, my cognitive limitations go beyond just numbers. I don’t really do space either. Or sounds. Or visuals. Umm. See, it’s like this. I don’t take in too much, sensory-wise. Did I already mention somewhere that I’m an INFP, completely lacking in sensory intake? So, I generally don’t need pictures or picture things in my head. I learn best verbal-visually: that is, seeing words. I can take mental pictures of words on pages, but pictures of things mean little to me. I’m not saying all this as if it’s a good thing. It drives my former-engineering-student husband positively batty. Well, that’s how I’d put it. He’d just say it mystifies him.
So, that’s why I named this thing Life as I Think It. Cuz that’s about all I do. Think. I’m sedentary and sensory-dull, and we–that is, my husband, my sister and I–joke that I’d be perfectly happy existing as a brain in a jar wheeled around on a cart as necessary.
But I really do want to do this blogging thing. In a way that leaves my Blog Stats looking more like a plateau and less like an EKG report. And the first thing I want to do is add more pictures. Because, as I said, all the cool kids have ‘em. The second thing I want to do is actually write more often. Perhaps less of loooong, rambling, blatherings of the “profound,” more short, succinct, snapshots of the mundane. I’ll work on the latter. And start with the former. Pictures.
Here are the children of whom I speak. In their natural habitat, as opposed to August’s field trip. While the picture is quite rare in that it depicts all three of my children in a way that represents them fairly and accurately, still, each time I see it I can’t help but ask, “Did I really give birth to these people?”
