Squint Your Eyes and Look Closer

As some of you may have observed, my blog has a new home. This change comes about for one reason, some of my former readers (my family) think that the way I write is "disturbing". Why is it disturbing? Because I use words like "crap" and "sucks". Oh and my occupation reads "fun sucker".

Most of you know that I grew up in a strict and structured home, things like "sucks" and "shut up" and "crap" just weren't said. Now I happen to think that these aren't always the best of words, and perhaps there are better and more appropriate ways to express yourself, but they are common place words in the world I live in, and when I feel like using them I do, and I don't happen to think that makes me a bad person.

My family tried to have a real live intervention with me this week about my blog, oh boy. My mom even came with a whole list of all the definitions of the term "fun sucker" -which, in all of the explanations still just means someone who takes the fun out of things. (And I guess I could be wrong, but that is pretty much what I do for my job, and so I thought I was having a sense of humor about it.) They also shared their concerns about what was going on with me and why I would express myself in this way because this 'obviously wasn't like me at all', and where was the nice sweet Autumn that they knew.

Wow I guess that I was unaware that nice people don't use words like "crap" or describe themselves as a "fun sucker". And if that's what constitutes a nice person then I would have to say that I know hardly any if any nice people. Despite my choice of words I would hope that I'm still a nice person, but alas, I am also a real person, and maybe that makes me imperfect but who isn't?

This is who I am, this is how I speak, and yes I say things like "this sucks" and "I'm pisssed" but so do most people, don't they? And while I understand that this may be offensive to some, and I could cut back a bit, the truth is that I have a lot of other weaknesses that I think are more pressing. Like my obession with Lynn Wilson bean burritos.

I personally started a blog just cause I wanted to place to write things down and express how I feel, good and bad. And I also have a sense of humor and nothing I say should be taken that seriously. So that's why I have a new home for my blog, that my family is not invited to. And I suppose that it comes with a disclaimer that I might say some "disturbing" things, but since you're all my friends I'm sure you'll understand.