{"id":1488,"date":"2011-02-17T14:30:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T20:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jodilee.ca\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2011-02-17T14:12:48","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T20:12:48","slug":"ten-weeks-of-blogdom-week-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/?p=1488","title":{"rendered":"Ten Weeks of Blogdom &#8211; Week Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jodilee.ca\/?attachment_id=1455\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1455\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/scribbles-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"scribbles\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1455\" \/><\/a><em>Four turn offs. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a big subject, because the turn offs could be from several different areas&#8230; not just the one that everyone&#8217;s dirty mind goes to right away. That&#8217;s right. I know you&#8217;re all here in the gutter with me, I can tell. It&#8217;s getting damn crowded.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to list the number one from every aspect I can think of, just to cover everyone&#8217;s tastes, and keep myself from going too far into the TMI zone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4) Biggest Turn Off <em>in any and all slush (reading):<\/em><\/strong> first or omniscient-to-first person, present tense. It&#8217;s trash, it&#8217;s garbage and really no one can do it well. I&#8217;ve never once &#8211; <em>NOT ONCE<\/em> &#8211; read one that&#8217;ll change my mind. Particularly omniscient-to-first person\/present. &#8220;You run around the room, you trip, you cut your hands. You look at your hands, you realize you&#8217;re bleeding&#8221; needs to be put in its place and put away. Preferably burned at the stake and the ashes spread far and wide. Seriously. Even as a writing exercise, it should be halted and students everywhere told never ever to do it again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3) Biggest Turn Off <em>in the meeting of new people:<\/em><\/strong> Being dismissed with the look that tells me the person thinks I&#8217;m an idiot.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t talk a lot right away, and don&#8217;t maintain eye contact. People often think I&#8217;m being a snotty-arsed snob, and then don&#8217;t ask me to chats, or the like (or in the non-internet world, coffee, etc.). Or they think I&#8217;m not smart enough to deal with. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not purposely doing this, believe me. It&#8217;s because I have a difficult time looking people in the eye unless I know them well, and I am ridiculously shy in &#8216;real life.&#8217; Ask Louise or any of the bunch that used to chat (maybe still do?) on Skype after The Funky Werepig. I was there, sometimes. I rarely spoke. Even when it was just Louise, Greg and I &#8211; I found it hard to extend myself in the discussions. <\/p>\n<p>Case in point &#8211; I&#8217;ve known my grove-folks for over a decade now. We&#8217;re fairly regular coffee\/chatters. Thing is &#8211; I <em>still<\/em> have shyness issues around them. Go figure.  Anyway, after one open event we held, I had a woman tell me I had the coldest aura she&#8217;d ever felt. She didn&#8217;t know it was me she was talking to&#8230;I&#8217;d used my real name rather than my craft name at the event. When I told her Jodi Lee was\/is ierne, she told me I was totally different in the chatroom than I was in person.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only been nearly completely comfortable with one person other than my daughters, and even then there were times I wasn&#8217;t able to just &#8216;let go&#8217; and be me. *shrug*<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) Biggest Turn Off <em>in food:<\/em><\/strong> Foods served without any form of warning or hint at what it is&#8230; I&#8217;m all for trying new foods and such, but if I&#8217;m not warned that the roast beast is mutton drenched in fat, I&#8217;m going to toss it back up at you pretty damn quickly. There are just some foods that I can not stomach, and I do need to be warned. I will go to dinner parties and actually not eat if I don&#8217;t know what something is. It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m intentionally being rude, it&#8217;s that I have this odd gag reflex that uh&#8230;causes power-puke. Seriously. <\/p>\n<p><strong>1) Biggest Turn Off <em>in sex:<\/em><\/strong> Finally down to the good stuff&#8230; girls, please stop reading here and go do your chores. Thanks. <\/p>\n<p><em>Wetting the bed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. I said wetting the bed. I desperately want to go into details because twenty years later I find it hilarious, but&#8230; I won&#8217;t. Suffice to say I was still awake and right beside him, he was sleeping and he <em>wet the freaking bed<\/em>. I&#8217;ve never thought of him as the hottest guy in school again. I literally stole a car (my friend&#8217;s, she understood later) to get the hell away from him and get home to shower.<\/p>\n<p>Runner up is having someone else&#8217;s name.. well, from what I understand a lot of us have been in <em>that<\/em> position before. I&#8217;m still pretty sure that while the first and last part of my name and hers are similar, &#8216;od&#8217; and &#8216;ul&#8217; are two different sounds. \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ve done enough to make everyone uncomfortable for one day&#8230; see you next week. Mwahahaha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four turn offs.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s a big subject, because the turn offs could be from several different areas&#8230; not just the one that everyone&#8217;s dirty mind goes to right away. That&#8217;s right. I know you&#8217;re all here in the gutter with me, I can tell. 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