Five Things

Today I've picked a Mama Kat writing prompt to write about. Nothing really spoke to me so I've taken the easy way out with this one.

Five Things. List 5 things we don’t know about you, 5 things you’re knowledgeable about, 5 things you know nothing about, and 5 things you believe.

I've done lots of lists before all about me, so it's hard to think of 5 things you don't know about me. Hmmm...
1) I don't eat a lot of vegetables. I think my parents gave up with me as a child and it's stuck. Strangely enough, I don't mind most vegetables raw and as I'm getting older I'm finding that my taste buds are changing and when I'm brave enough to try a vegetable, I'm liking what I taste!
2) Most people who know me know this but my blog lurkers might not...my phone is forever attached to my hand.
3) I'm a huge horror movie fan and have made a mission of watching some really obscure movies over the last year or so. I've seen some horrible, horrible things on screen.
4) The 'Your Grammar Sucks' you tube series makes me giggle like a small child.
5) I've watched a tonne of Sailor Mood episodes.... as an adult. 

I like to learn. I think I'm a great learner and I'm definitely a self starter in this respect. But to say that I'm knowledgeable about something means that I know all there is to know about it right? Hard choice.
1) Speak toddler. This is an acquired skills after needed to understand what a 2 year old with a mouth full of twisties was whinging about.
2) Swear word combos
3) Online shopping. This comes from doing far, far too much of it.
4) How to be a primo super positive person with unicorn fart rainbows, but also (unfortunately) how to be a down on it sad sack. With any luck the former out-does the latter.
5) Pinterest... and luckily, how to follow through with pinning stuff on my boards, may they forever be overflowing with potential.

Now 5 things I know nothing about is going to be much easier.
1) Insurance
2) Stock market
3) Rocket science
4) Interest rates
5) How to be a proper adult

5 things I believe....
1) You shouldn't judge others
2) Mario is superior to Sonic
3) Santa is real
4) You attitude sets the tone for how others treat you and see you
5) Rottweilers are an alien race sent here to steal underwear garments to take back to their homeland.

Plot twist! Some of these might be a little silly... it's your job to figure out which! :D

“Things don’t have to be extraordinary to be beautiful. Even the ordinary can be beautiful.”

Each fortnight I get emailed a set of writing prompts from Mama Kat. I've used them previously, but only a little bit, and had some really good writing come out of it. The emails keep rolling in each fortnight and I continue to ferret them away in a folder on my email application, but I haven't used one for a long time.

With the zhuzh up of my blog over the next little while, when I don't really have anything to say I thought these would be good to use to make sure I'm getting a post in. So here today I present to you, a prompt that was supposed to be used last week, but it's only Monday, so I'm only a weeny bit late:

A blog post inspired by the word: ordinary.

Not many people know about a subset of my life at the moment that is a slight bit off track, and even less people know all the ins and outs of what's happening. Hell, I don't know all of them. It's a complicated little matter in relationships and for me it comes down to the crux of what I really want in my life, or don't want as the case may be.

So here's a bit of an open letter to the person in question. One who I'm struggling to understand at all at the moment, but who's taking up a whole lot of my thinking time.

The ordinary comes in here. I can see why you might be able to completely eradicate your life of me pretty happily, I'm fairly ordinary. I can be a proper pain in the arse most of the time. I'm a professional steering wheel and shower singer, I'm about as stubborn as you get, I wake up, go to work, come home, repeat, I'm obsessively tidy, I am vocal about things I care about and extremely lackluster about the rest. I'm leading an ordinary life. I know that, and I can see how not having me in yours wouldn't be that much of a big blow. I'm cool with that.

What I can't possibly fathom is how you could happily not have this little wonder in your life.

Because she is incredible.
Loving, caring, articulate (as much as a 3 year old can be!), funny, inquisitive, beautiful, inspiring, heart-melting, happiness inducing... about as far from ordinary as you get. She's extraordinary, and she always will be. As will her partner in crime who's about to come into fruition very, very shortly.

So forgive me when I roll my eyes and laugh at the ludicrousy of any argument that would have you taking yourself out of these wonderful lives. I would give all my limbs to stay in their lives given your situation, and I would do so happily. I would do so knowing that I was doing the best thing - making it possible to know these extraordinary girls.

Don't be like me, don't be ordinary. Make a point of staying around these two extraordinary little ladies.