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lesmisloony I just changed my religion to "Mozart l'opéra rock" on facebook (which, awesomely, was already a suggestion).
If/when my parents see it, they will not think it's funny. I'm not convinced it's a joke. But these are the same parents who, when I had comedic middle names like "Zydrate" and "Lestat" and "Musichetta", asked me if I was doing that because I was ashamed of my real middle name (which is the name of my grandmother who had recently died at the time). These are the same parents who used to bully my brother so much about the pictures of him partying with friends that he eventually blocked them on facebook.
A few weeks ago my mother posted a status about her retirement. A friend commented to congratulate her and my mom replied asking how the friend was doing. The friend said fine, you? to which my mom said something about how she would be much better if her children had kept true to God's will like the friend's children and hadn't strayed so far. I immediately commented too, saying something almost lighthearted like Wow, thanks for that, Mommy. Then I saw that earlier that day my mother had left a comment on her brother's status about going drinking with her friends that said something about how her daughter's weird new ideas after living in Europe were driving her to drink too.
Since then I have strongly considered blocking my mother on facebook, the same thing my brother did that made the rest of us tease him for years. But now that I'm finally becoming my own independent person and not a mirror of my mother's thoughts (after twenty-two years!) I understand what he was doing. I guess he isn't the black sheep of the family after all; he's a normal, maturing person.
That's all.
Here, have a video of me singing my badass English lyrics to Le Bien qui fait mal. Please do not judge my Southern-ass accent. "Twisted duh-sahr."
If/when my parents see it, they will not think it's funny. I'm not convinced it's a joke. But these are the same parents who, when I had comedic middle names like "Zydrate" and "Lestat" and "Musichetta", asked me if I was doing that because I was ashamed of my real middle name (which is the name of my grandmother who had recently died at the time). These are the same parents who used to bully my brother so much about the pictures of him partying with friends that he eventually blocked them on facebook.
A few weeks ago my mother posted a status about her retirement. A friend commented to congratulate her and my mom replied asking how the friend was doing. The friend said fine, you? to which my mom said something about how she would be much better if her children had kept true to God's will like the friend's children and hadn't strayed so far. I immediately commented too, saying something almost lighthearted like Wow, thanks for that, Mommy. Then I saw that earlier that day my mother had left a comment on her brother's status about going drinking with her friends that said something about how her daughter's weird new ideas after living in Europe were driving her to drink too.
Since then I have strongly considered blocking my mother on facebook, the same thing my brother did that made the rest of us tease him for years. But now that I'm finally becoming my own independent person and not a mirror of my mother's thoughts (after twenty-two years!) I understand what he was doing. I guess he isn't the black sheep of the family after all; he's a normal, maturing person.
That's all.
Here, have a video of me singing my badass English lyrics to Le Bien qui fait mal. Please do not judge my Southern-ass accent. "Twisted duh-sahr."
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Date: 2011-07-11 04:51 am (UTC)Make a friend list on facebook that's extremely limited -- so that they can see NO pictures, NO wall posts, NOTHING but, like, your profile picture and a few basic things. Then add your mother to it. I did that for my mother and if there are pics or whatever that I don't mind she sees, I set that particular item to be viewable to all friends, instead of my standard which is everybody NOT on that limited friend list.
I put a number of family members/friends I don't really care for on the list and it really just makes it look like I'm never on facebook. *cough*
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Date: 2011-07-11 10:25 am (UTC)I agree blocking her might not be the best idea but you can always exclude her from everything you don't wanna her to know. 90% of things I post on facebook are visible only for fellow moraholics and it's the best thing ever. As I see it, this kind of guiltrippping is widely used everywhere. Bless filters and locked posts...
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Date: 2011-07-11 02:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-11 02:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-11 06:16 pm (UTC)Luckily for me my mother is an Internet-phobe and won't touch a computer unless it's an emergency (like a long mission trip in Mexico where emails were necessary to communicate with dad. Priorities. :P)
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Date: 2011-07-11 08:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-11 10:30 pm (UTC)