Welcome to this week’s Marketing for Romance Writers (#MFRW) 52-week Blog Challenge. The topic this week is, Things Only My Family Would Understand. I believe that I’m a pretty transparent person, and even more so in my blog, so if you’ve been hanging around you’ve probably gotten to know me pretty well. In fact, if you only know my ‘virtual self’ you might assume I’m a chatty person. Well, I can be, but not usually. Some of it is my personality, but it also goes back to challenge the old nature vs. nurture.
There’s another reason I’m often quiet, and my family is to blame.
What Did You Say?
My family likes to talk…a lot. And when they talk, they like to talk very loud. And all at once. So if you have something to say, you’d better start talking fast, and over the other person who might interrupt you to insert their two cents, or a totally different topic.
Thus, as a person who isn’t very loud, there were times I’d resort to raising my hand to try to get a word in. Then I grew up and married a very loud husband.
The benefit of battling to be heard for most of my life is that I became a very good listener, and I started writing more. As I explained before in this post on Paranormal Romantics, writing is one of the few ways I can talk without getting interrupted.
With that being said, I love my quiet time, and prefer complete silence when I’m writing—but no other time. I find it odd to be with a family that isn’t oversharing their day, and blaring music, while someone might be yelling from the other room.
I suppose I’ve found comfort in this. My girls can be very chatty when they are together, but often resort to my tactic of silence and observation.
Family Matters
Besides my family having a better understand of my quiet nature…
There are other things that only my #family would understand, and there is one thing in particular, Dadisms #MFRW Click To TweetI could write the entire blog post, and perhaps a whole book, on famous “Dad Quotes” that only my family would understand—usually. Sometimes we’re even challenged, but when you’ve heard them enough, you figure them out. I’ll share a few here to leave to your imagination since most make absolutely no sense to anyone else but mentioning them to my family almost always brings a laugh or a shake of their head.
- “Looks like you’ve been eating ham.”
- “I’m used to doing without.”
- “Who’s the best?!”
- “Looks like a relief-er.”
- “Is that a pimple?”
- “You’re all head and feet.”
- “What am I, an orphan?”
- “Dough ball.”
It’s a Blog Hop
Check out the other author’s blogs to see if you can understand the little idiosyncrasies that come with a family and perhaps share a few of your own.
I think most of us have “dadisms.” My father has one that’s become a sort-of catch phrase for all of us: “I don’t make this $hit up.”
lol, yes “dadisms” seem to be quite common. Thanks so much for visiting!
I come from a very loud and talkative family. My husband’s family is more akin to the whisper lady on Seinfeld. He’s always telling me – I’m six inches away. Shhhhhh!
Between the two of us, I’m always the more talkative. However, he’s got this dry deadpan humor that at times he comes off with stuff that will floor you!!
Thanks for sharing! OH, and I agree, the writing is one of the few ways that I can express myself without being interrupted!
I love a deadpan sense of humor- it gets you when you least expect it. 🙂
thanks for sharing. And I totally agree about the writing.
So glad you stopped by Helen!
I don’t usually think of my family as loud, but as I read your description of your family, I realized that fits us to a “T”. Hmmmm. Enjoyed your post.
Thanks Sherry!
I have to admit, I’m the quiet one in my family, and because of it, I’ve developed a very bad habit of interrupting….I *blame* it on my chatty sister….if I had something I wanted to say, I had to wait til she took a breath!
At the same time, this made me a good listener, with an ear for dialogue. But I’ve noticed as an adult, I’ve regressed into the ‘interruption’ mode when with another chatty person.