Pinterest Interest

So we all know everyone is Banana Crackers for Pinterest. I'm 100% certain I am the only female within a thousand mile radius of internet connection who isn't a Pinner. Kinda like I'm not a Tweeter. I figure I'm a big enough twit in real life I don't need to Tweet about it. Besides, who really needs an instant play by play of your life? Famous or not, I don't really care what you're doing right now on the toilet, or what restaurant is taking forever to feed you. But alas, I digress. What's with all the Pinterest Interest??

So glad you asked!! I'll tell you!! As I visited the website this morning, it is an internet club (yes I'm calling it a club because when it started you had to be invited to join ... so ner!) that allows you to view thousands perhaps even millions of ideas great and small for all things creative. I've been invited several times, I've been told I should join, make an account and PIN TO MY BOARD!!!! AHHHHHH!!!! SO MANY PINS!

Well let me tell you a few things that I know about it. (Because quite frankly those are the only things I'll ever tell you about. Things I know, because if I tell you about things I don't know, then we'll all be confused because you don't know and neither do I then we'll really be in a dilly of a pickle now won't we?!) I think Pinterest is an incredible amazing idea. I truly thought it was completely stupid at first, as I also thought Facebook was a complete waste of time and now look at me. I really think that Pinterest is awesome. But I won't join - at least not yet anyway, and here's why.

This is in AMAZING website for those of you with the fortitude to actually do. With the creative mind running wild you can do just about anything. But for those of us with a creative broken, uh well, it's not so good for us. I'm fairly certain I was born minus a creative. Every time I try to draw or paint or do anything right brained it turns out weird. Which is funny because I'm not left brained either ... so I guess I'm just brainless then! Sure I always throw out ideas for this that and the other, because I keep telling myself if I'm not science minded I must be art minded!! Especially because my husband the engineer tells me my degree is in arts and crafts! But my ideas are never accepted, which leads me to  believe I stink. At the end of the day I'm not sure if it comes down more to my tremendous Lazy Bone or my Cheap Bone. Both are very large and I get some funny looks sometimes. Either way, I'm left not doing any of the things I know or should, to be creative, crafty and fun!

Okay you caught me. I told you a few posts earlier about some fun shower gifts. Okay okay so I do do some fun stuff sometimes! I paint, I take pictures, but we all know deep down, they're good enough for a gold start but that's about it! Long story longer, I don't have a sewing machine, a craft drawer or mountains of glue and glitter. So why don't I want to get on Pinterest? Because I KNOW I will see Billions of ideas, thought up by someone else better than I and I won't ever use them. I'll have a Board the size of Europe but that doesn't do me any good unless I do them! I clip recipes and they sit in my box. I buy cheap ribbon at Christmas nearly every year, and use mostly bags! It's a never ending nightmare of ideas gone to waste. I'm not a big fan of waste. Even if it is imaginary. I don't think thinking about spending so much of my time Pinning and thinking and dreaming only to find that to buy that bobbamagigger at Michael's is gonna cost me $40 is a good idea. So why again shouldn't I just save up my money and buy it? Isn't that what craft fairs are for? Sure I would be far more proud if I did it myself, who wouldn't? But do I have time? Do I have the resources? And do I have the ultimate desire to do it? The answer is no. And not because I'm a negative Nancy, it's a realism thing. I look at my world pragmatically and practically. With an 18 month old, a 30 pound overweight Great Dane and a Sugar Daddy (I mean that he is the sole income bringer inner at our house, so we're broke), we're looking at not much time, or energy or finance to complete my grandiose ideas.

I usually use stories in my posts so lets drive home my point with one! I was reading a book on happiness not to long ago thinking that it would hold the key to changing my life forever. It was written by Dr. Henry Cloud, an amazing speaker author and therapist. (Nothing more cliche than reading a self help book ... am I right?!) Well there was really good advice in this book. And I decided that I wasn't going to just read I was going to do. Big Step. One of the ideas, which I have done a LOT in my life being a former athlete - which is pry why I did it!, was goal setting. Set goals for yourself to accomplish, it gives your life meaning and purpose and makes you think toward the positive. One of my goals was I wanted to start painting. I go to a church that has live painters every once in a while and it truly inspired me! I went to Michael's, of course, and spent Birthday money stocking up on painting supplies for dummies. Brushes, a pack of canvas, sponges, paint yaddi yaddi yadda. I have done one painting last winter. Yep one. A year ago. My ultra amazing hunky husband told me don't buy an easel I'll make you one! So I didn't and because I don't have one, it's not easy for me to paint and thus haven't done it. That and the fact that my idea didn't turn out right, as previously mentioned - it was a little weird. So even when the supplies are there, there is a lacking in the doing. Sure I could start now, but my daughter will wake up 5 minutes after I start, I have to take them for a walk, go to the bank, come home finish that laundry and you get the idea. Life takes over and my projects lie in a cabinet somewhere quite unfinished. So I have learned not to start. Not only can I not afford most of the ideas I want to do, but I really just don't have time! I'm on parental single duty from 8-8, that's a 12 hour day folks, and sometimes longer. I get one 2 hour break in the day (nap time) but that's spent Blogging, cleaning, trying to eat a peaceful lunch, folding laundry - whatever I can't do with a kid around which is everything.

So I really think Pinterest is amazing in theory. I think bringing so many ideas together makes the creative person drool. But all I see is my SUPER limited computer time gone in a flash looking at everyone else's good ideas!

So Pin away you Pinheads of the world! Enjoy the site! I may join at some point for the interest of my blog (which was a valid and excellent suggestion) but until then, I'm going to try to keep my Pinterest sanity and wait it out til I have no more good ideas of my own.

PS this isn't to say crafting is a bad idea! It's not, just my thoughts on why not to join! You'll be inspired out the ying yang, but no further along in your craft life than you were before! Or at least that's true for me!

Pinterest ... Out. (Get it like Seacrest out ... you know Ryan Seacrest the host of stuff ... yeah I'm a moron!)