Several friends have commented that I am grumpier in real life than on my blog.  Is this a concerted effort to improve my public image?  Is it a conspiracy to make other moms out there feel alone in their grumpiness?  No!

Most of my posts are not grumpy because I write them ahead of time.  Usually, I sit down for an hour (often, when I have downloaded photos) and write several posts at once.  Then I can up-post them (that's the opposite of downloading, right?) with one button click, so I'm not spending all week writing posts, and getting distracted by the "Hot Gossip" on msn.com.   But I only sit down to write those posts when I'm feeling chipper and creative.  (I have no creative energy when I'm grumpy.)  Then I change the date/time from the post from when it was written to when it was posted.

So-- 'tis not a conspiracy.  I am just as grumpy as all my friends (who, for the record, are not any more grumpy than anyone else).  But when I'm grumpy, I'm too grumpy to post about it... so you don't often read about it. 

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Posted by Christinethecurious

Lots of people's scrap books are only happy, and their journals only grouchy. I wonder if the photographs make us remember happy times, because we take pictures when we are happy, and we pull out journals when we need to dump?

Future historians and biographers had better look at both sources.

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