One of my favorite blogs to read is Karen’s, over at Write from Karen. I love her take on things, the witty articles, comics and fun things she posts, her book reviews, the little sneak peak we get into her family life, the questions she poses, and really, most everything she writes. Karen has a new blog going, called Blog Talkers, that is designed to get bloggers blogging. She asks a new question each week and you have the entire week to respond. That’s a great timetable for a procrastinator like myself, LOL!
This week, during week 3, Karen offers this question:
Do you consider yourself a high-maintenance, or a low- maintenance person? Why?
No-brainer for me. I’m definitely high-maintenance. Ask anyone who knows me in “real life”. I think I’m difficult to get along with, and I do require a lot of attention from the people I love. If that doesn’t make me high-maintenance, I don’t know what does. I don’t particularly want to be this way, but I do accept that this is the way I’m wired, and have learned to live with it. I think I come by it honestly, I think my mom was high-maintenance, and I learned it from her (is that passing the buck, or what?!) Tim, thankfully, has learned to live with it too. He’s great when I go into high-maintenance mode. He’s very patient and understanding with me. Tim has the longest fuse of anyone I’ve ever met and puts up with so much from me. I often quote him one of my favorite lines from one of my favorite movies, “You’ve Got Mail”. Tom Hanks is on the treadmill, talking to his buddy about Meg Ryan (while she’s on TV, protesting his big chain bookstore). He says to his friend “She’s a PILL!”. I tell Tim that’s what I am. I’m so glad it’s a pill he’s able to swallow.:lol:
Great question, Karen! Be sure to go check out her blog and her Blog Talkers blog too, good stuff!
Oh, this sounds like fun! 🙂 I’ll try to play along sometime later this week.
Yay, I always love discovering new blogs, and if it’s one that helps me come up with something for my own, all the better! ; ) Thanks for the tip, Stacy!
Aw, that’s sweet. I think all wives are high maintenance at times – after all, we’re women! BUT it’s good that you accept that about yourself. And now i’m off to check out Karen’s blog.
I agree…definitely sounds like fun!
That’s a great blog recommendation.
Her site sounds like a lot of fun! I’ll have to check it out. I guess I’d have to say I’m a high-maintenance kind of gal, too. 🙂
Sounds like fun, I’ll have to attempt to participate next week. I’m in a blog blah. Don’t know why, but….
I’ve answered this over on my site too. Link is on Blog Talkers – I won’t self promote right on your site – I just got here 😉
Nice response. I think you’re quite right, most of our mannerism and ways of conducting ourselves are inherited from our parents.
I’m very low maintenance! I’m laid back, stay away from confrontation, easy going, etc. I get all that from my dad! I’m also physically low maintenance. Mostly jeans and a t-shirt, hair in a pony tail, very minimal makeup!
Maybe I need to be on “What Not to Wear”?
LOL
Sherry
Oh, I’m so high maintenance, too! I think it annoys Beef, but he can deal!!
I’m playing along!
i will definitely have to check out her blogs! (like i need more blogs to read… LOL!)
as for me, i am so low maintenance, i think i actually annoy people! i really don’t want or need anything. and if you ask me where i want to go or what i want to eat, i am almost always so go-with-the-flow that i truly mean it when i say “whatever you want”!
LOL! Love the pill analogy! I’m one of those HUGE DayQuil pills (have you seen those things?? I have a cold and have been taking them. Geez, they’re horse pills!), hard to swallow but easy on the stomach. lol
Seriously, good answer. You’re high maintenance and FUN. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. *grin*
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