I may be in shock...

Because I'm unnaturally calm.

Situation:
I forgot to clip my signature when I replied to an email to my mom's friend and my own boss. She's also in DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution), and I'm sorta joining. Well, I signed something, but if they want me to actually pay dues, I'll probably rouse myself enough to say I don't want to join. So, she goes to my website via my link in my email sig.

She is... not happy about what she sees. Well, she said that it 'displayed a remarkable lack of maturity'. I'm not sure where she stands on the whole gay issue, but she does see the site as... hmm.

And I can see why she would think those things. She's the mother of a 2 year old. And...

But one of the things that she said bugged her were the possibility that I could get stalked or such because of the website. Which might be possible, since... actually, I don't ever mention my last name on the site. I do say that I'm in Oregon, but not Oregon City. I mean, seriously, a stalker would so get me from my livejournal, not my site. I actually give city and last name information there.

This is the first time that anyone's actually said that my site bugged them. I'm sure that my brother had a quiet freak-out over it, but my mom was fine with it.

It's actually kinda cool. I got a response. Other than "do what makes you happy".

And hey, judging by this, I'd actually be good with negative feedback.

Of course, I'm not going to change my site because of this. I will, however, change my sig.

More on what I was talking about before:

I didn't cover the full extent of her words in my earlier post. She actually said that unless I 'show more maturity', which I'm guessing means taking my site down, that though she isn't 'firing' me, she is going to stop asking me to work for her as soon as she finds someone else.

Honestly, I don't mind. She pays below min wage and I've only put up with it because she was a good sport about my horrible unreliability last year, when I was into massive cutting and general clinical depression. But I'm over that. Because I am more responsible now. Which she agreed with until this happened. So. She has her (conservative Republican) opinions and I have mine.

She has no clue how much I've bitten my tongue with her in the past.

I do think that I'm going to make it known that I'm honestly not interested in joining DAR. Because I'm not going to get into that stuff again. I don't enjoy the meetings. I don't particularly enjoy the people. I do enjoy looking into genology, a bit, but I can do that without being in DAR.

One good thing: this has inspired me to put up a warning page, which I probably should have done months ago. Makes everything nice and clear for everyone.

Good things:

My cousin Alex from New York will be visiting for Christmas. And! He might be staying as long as a month. He's way cool, plus! interested in watching due South. He's a smart one.

My uncle Coert from Alaska will be visiting for about a week, including Christmas. He's always fun. Very mellow.

Mom told me not to buy Justified, which means that someone will be getting it for me for either my birthday in two weeks or for Christmas. I have high hopes.

And I've been getting calls about working other babysitting jobs, which would be good if the thing with Mary ends up unworkable. And that bit might not make sense unless you're on my friends list. Basically, she saw my website and freaked out a bit. She'd recommended me for the other jobs, for the neighborhood roster thing, before she saw the site and she can't exactly take it back now.

Random DAR update:

Apparently my mom's paid the dues for the first year. So, I'll just be an inactive member for a year.

But there are... about 13 new people joining CAR(Children of the American Revolution, for people from 0-22) this year, which doubles our membership and pretty much destroys any feelings of guilt I might have about leaving.

And they don't need me in DAR. It makes my family and people like Mary look good to have me join, but they certainly don't need me and I don't need to place myself in an uncomfortable situation, even if it is only once a month.

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