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[auntiemeesh]

Well, I've got a chapter of Troll Slayer off being betaed tonight, so I suppose today was not entirely unproductive. I also broke out the crockpot and made some lentil stew (enough to feed a small country for a week). It's not bad, but I think I need to adjust the recipe before I make it again. Now if only I could identify what needs to be changed... *shakes head at self's culinary cluelessness*

I've heard recently that each successive child in a family has less intelligence than the ones that came before and I have to say I believe that is entirely possible. My family, totally without malice or intent, nearly always manages to make me feel like a stuttering dullard. However, there are advantages to being the village idiot, and as soon as I figure out what they are, I will put them to good use. *eg*

TenSeven things I've done that you probably possibly haven't done:

1. Gone all the way to Japan for a wedding.
2. Spent six months as a nanny, in England.
3. Had partial amnesia after being mugged by teenagers armed with pliers.
4. Changed 11 poopy diapers in the course of a single hour. Disgusting, but true. I set a record at work with that one.
5. Dressed up in costume / worked a table at several conventions. (I know a lot of you have done some variation of this one, but I'm including it anyway).
6. Gone out to dinner with six men, only one of whom I'd ever met before, once, months prior to the occasion. (Yeah, I'm living on the edge, all right!)
7. Designed and stitched my own cross-stitch design and then had it signed by the actor who'd inspired it (Lani may not have patted my butt, Pips, but at least I have his signature on my Moya-stitch.)

It seems to me that I should be able to come up with more than this, but really, that's all I've been able to find after searching through all the dusty corners and empty drawers of my mind.

Comments

[b-briarwood.livejournal.com]

In my family the younger ones are smarter, but our eyesight gets worse!

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Well, at least the eyesight improved in the younger ones of our family. Several of my older sibs need glasses, but my eyes are perfectly functional. :)

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

*snort* The genius in my family was the middle child, and the master's degrees went to the two youngest of five, so I wouldn't put much credence in the diminishing intelligence theory. If you got hit on the head hard enough to cause amnesia in your youth stuttering is not an unlikely result, and not being able to get the answer out as fast as someone else does not make you a dullard. It just means it takes you a bit longer to give an answer (which quite possibly means that the answer you give is better thought out. The fast kids aren't always the right kids!)

My record for poopy diapers in around an hour is however many were in an unopened box of pampers in 1980, but that was the day that we discovered that diarrhea was going around the daycare. By ten in the morning the director had to run out to the store to buy more disposables for the babies and we were starting to consider using dishtowels and cheesecloth on the older kids. Not a favorite memory!

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Luckily, I'm not actually a stuttering dullard, I just feel like one sometimes, with my family. I love them dearly, but sometimes I wish they could just be interested in nice, non-intellectual things on occasion.

That daycare story is pretty awful. *shudders* We have our parents provide their own diapers, so they do last longer, but I could see that happening if they all got a bad case of diarrhea at once.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

We didn't usually use disposables even then, that was our emergency stash. And as I was the low man on the totem pole that day...

*gleh!*

False modesty gets you nowhere

[westwindschild.livejournal.com]

I've heard that silly bit of research several times, but I've also heard that it has been totally discredited. And if you feel like a stuttering dullard amongst us older sibs, dear Meesh, it is a case of insecurity, not a realistic appraisal of the situation at all. Most of us are flat out astounded by your abilities! I think it's only because intelligence was so clearly our parents' most highly prized trait (in us) that we all tend to feel so deficient in it.

Re: False modesty gets you nowhere

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Well, I wasn't aiming for false modesty, I was simply stating how I sometimes feel around all of you very intellectually minded sibs, when I'm feeling particularly plebian and unintellectual. Not stupid, just unintellectual. This weekend was a particularly unpleasant one for my state of mental well-being and so I was feeling less than equal to all of you yesterday. I'm better today, though. :)

[westwindschild.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear that you're doing better today, and very sorry that last week was difficult. I actually had a lot of trouble keeping up with the chat myself - as was probably evident by my continuing to respond to comments that were already off the page!

Hope that this week is much better for your self-esteem and general mood.
*Sends a hug*