Blank space is so challenging.
I’ve been using Facebook more and more often to post a couple of lines about recent events in my life. It’s not a good way of archiving anything, of recording memories for the future, but it attracts me more than my blog all the same. I think it’s because I always feel like I need to make a Real Post. I need to update and describe and explain. And more often than not, I’m disappointed in myself and in what I have and haven’t accomplished lately. So I avoid posting ‘real posts’.
Facebook feels closer to my old MUSH, in some ways. I guess it’s a lot like Twitter, but Twitter (tweeting?) feels a bit more granular in purpose than Facebook’s status updates.
In any case, don’t worry! I’m sure I’ll still post more thoughtful entries here (like perhaps my reading about the ‘RaceFail ’09′ in scifi fandom), as well as Robin updates. For example, he figured out how to climb onto dining room chairs today. And push them around. He’s still not WALKING to move around, but oh boy can he climb. (Actually, that’s a bit inaccurate. He loves toddling between me and the couch, or me and somebody else. He gets lots of hugs and cheering, and he can balance while standing still and fall 3-4 steps forward, giggling madly the entire time– and then he turns around and toddles back the other way as soon as he gets a hug.)
We’ve all been sick here, and while Robin has mostly been pretty cheerful, today he had a wretched day in which everything seemed to go wrong with him and his parents were full of fail. Poor guy. I hope he feels better tomorrow.