3 Things About Me

I read a lot of blogs. I am a complete addict. I love those wonderful urban,n homesteading blogs where the families produce all of their own food, feminist parenting blogs where there appears to always be meaningful conversations happening between parent and child and cooking blogs where it seems that nobody even thinks of eating a processed food item. I read these blogs and think about how I can get closer to achieving my goals of creating an amazing life for my kids. I cook from scratch, challenge gender assumptions with them, talk my liberal politics, include them in projects, etc...

But, you know what? The thing is that I am never going to be as hip as these bloggers. Never going to be as fully dedicated to this lifestyle as them. Why? Because there are 3 truths about myself that I have just accepted:

1 - If  my temperature is below 101 degrees am always going to put makeup on in the morning.
2 - I am always going to keep a bag of precooked falafuls in my freezer (processed food) for an emergency.
3 - I have cable television (and I like it).

I can logically talk myself out of all three of these things. Why insist on wearing makeup even when I had twin babies, one of whom would vomit up to 50 times a day? Why not use my other pre-made from scratch meals in an emergency? Why not just have netflix for occasional entertainment and just cancel the cable?

Because I don't want to.

1 - Makeup: I have really blotchy skin. On a bad day where I am covered in some sort of disgusting body fluid produced by a child, it really does make me feel better to catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror and not think "ughh". I know I should accept my body for what it is, but I love concealer.
2 - Falaful: What can I say? Sometimes I just want a falaful. I do put it on a whole wheat tortilla with homemade hummus, but I am just not always going to make the falaful from scratch. I don't think that I will ever really give up processed food 100%. That isn't my goal. The goal is just to make the best healthy decision that I can most of the time.
3 - I like HGTV. I like those really awful made for TV movies they show on Lifetime. I like the Barefoot Contessa. Sure, I could probably manage to find a way to rent/stream all of that without cable, but I'm not gonna. I'm just going to have cable.

So I'm not as cool, not as dedicated, not as radical. Oh well... I am happy, so that is good enough for me.