Dear friends- I will be attending a 4 day blogging conference for Christian Women later this month. My decision to attend Allume was a God thing. Totally from Him. So I have no idea how this is going to play out for those 4 days. I signed on for this before I knew anyone at all in the blog world. And my new blogging friends have really raised the bar of expectation with all of their “things my roomie needs to know…” So I thought I would write this as a way of explaining why the only roomie I will have is me, myself, and I -quite a crowd sometimes!<\/p>\n
I tend to shy away from people in groups that I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t initiate well and have to make myself participate until I know the lay of the land. I\u00a0like<\/span>\u00a0being a wallflower, actually I hate it, but there is something to be said for obscurity. It allows me to get comfortable in the surroundings I find myself in before I engage.\u00a0 Moving right along\u2026<\/p>\n 1. I snore, I have allergies, it\u2019s not pretty (so my husband says).<\/p>\n 2. I like the anticipation of being alone- totally- for at least some portion of time- an escape.<\/p>\n 3. I\u2019m slow moving in the morning \u2013 I don\u2019t talk until I\u2019ve had something hot to drink.<\/p>\n 4.I have to concentrate on getting myself together and\u00a0any<\/em>\u00a0distraction ie: someone talking to me is liable to ensure that I will be late. You see, I have to stop and think about what the other person said and then formulate an answer. I don\u2019t multitask anywhere well except with kids and in the kitchen.<\/p>\n 5. I have insomnia- regularly. I can fall asleep faster than a rock hits the floor but wake usually a couple or three hours later and can\u2019t go back to sleep. That is not conducive to a roommate\u2019s sleep.<\/p>\n 6. I can talk to the wee hours or crash and burn with no notice.<\/p>\n 7. I\u2019m messy.<\/p>\n 8. I can\u2019t decide what to wear until I\u2019ve tried on everything I\u2019ve brought at least twice.<\/p>\n 9. I\u2019m usually cold when I go to bed but that can change at a moment\u2019s notice.<\/p>\n 10.\u00a0 I\u2019m getting old in my old age! Notice- this was all about me-ha<\/p>\n I realize that this paints a pretty bleak picture (or some pretty lame excuses)- of a grouchy old bird, but once I make a connection it\u2019s all good. I\u2019ve had years of practice of making myself participate- all those nursing conferences didn\u2019t go to waste! So once I find the comfort zone- yee haw!! Besides, I\u2019m counting on you Better Writer girls to spur me on.<\/p>\n Oh, and Mandy? I can be bribed with chocolate, too. Just no bacon, please?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear friends- I will be attending a 4 day blogging conference for Christian Women later this month. My decision to attend Allume was a God thing. Totally from Him. So I have no idea how this is going to play out for those 4 days. I signed on for this before I knew anyone at … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[267,266,179],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-allume-conference","tag-blogging","tag-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}