Is she trying to tell me something?

[mrsbrown]

My mum spent the night at my place last night. I can tell she'd love to be here more often but is being very careful not to overdo it.

I got up early, to spend time over breakfast and a cup of tea. She told me all about her friends who are doing weightwatchers and have lost heaps of weight. She also told me about the vegetable soups she's ben making lately and how nutritious and easy they are. As a bonus, "you lose weight if you eat them instead of dinner."

Later, we went to the market, more good chatting with Mum time. I mentioned that I limit how much money I spend, because it means I don't end up with a fridge full of rotten vegetables. Then it was, "I work out what to cook based on what I have to use from the fridge" (well, durggh!), and "If I can't eat the veggies in my fridge, I make soup! It's very nutritious, and low fat."

btw Have you noticed a correlation between negative, depressed posts and the number of comments you receive? I have. does that mean that to "make it" on LJ you need to be really down?

Comments

[splodgenoodles.livejournal.com]

Hmm, nice one mum....subtle.


Well it depends, depressed posts get your irl friends posting, but not many others....
this guy nows how it goes

The people who really make it on LJ post funny, happy, and/or vaguely thoughtful.

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I get the most comments when I post bizarre surrealistic comments about Napoleonic naval warfare. Or wigs. Or both.

[alecto23.livejournal.com]

Your mother sounds like my mother was all through high school. Thankfully, my mother now lives almost 10,000 miles away from me so I don't get it too often anymore. You could try convincing her to move to New York...

I have long pondered the quixotic nature of lj comments. I would think people would comment more on the ones where I'm happy, or funny, or something, but they usually go past uncommented. My thought-provoking posts will usually instigate one or two comments but not the hordes I'd like, despite secret fantasies of lj being like some of the enthusiastic back-and-forthing I used to get back in the heady days of usenet. Sadly, my most comment-popular posts tend to be the ones where I'm sad and depressed or moody and bitchy. And I am very much aware that reading about people being sad, depressed, moody and bitchy gets old pretty damn quickly, so I try to keep those as minimal as possible. And now you're thinking how much of an angst-ridden pseudo-Goth I must really be. Heh.

Actually, the post that got the most comments was one where I posted someone's list of the best 100 books and highlighted the ones I'd read, asked for recommendations or offered to give them. I think it was because I confessed to not only not having read most Pratchett, but to not really liking him. If you can call recoiling in horror at the sight of a Pratchett novel "not really liking him". :)