A) My mom will stop lecturing me about….

OH, we don’t assign resolutions to others?    We create them for OURSELVES????

(HOLD on, let me go explain this to my mom first who’s around the corner still working on her list for me.)

Ok: MINE.

10)  Write more of these whimsically delightful humor and insight-filled blogs.  (in my brain that sounded a bit more modest).  But, really, they are. You should read at least 6-8 a day. Make it a habit; like brushing your teeth or watching FoxNews for the hot anchors (errmmmm, news)

9) Clean the grout in my shower.  You didn’t think I even knew what grout was, did you?

Eat more brussel sprouts.   Brussel sprouts are the new spinach. ( that’s an original Jill-ism. Feel free to use it at parties or around the water cooler.)

7) Be less carefree with self tanners.   My ankles look like I got in a paintball fight with a Cheese-Wiz wielding sharp shooter.

6) Keep developing my close-lipped smile.  The perfect blend of Cheshire cat and a 12 year old’s Facebook profile pic, I feel it gives me a edgy look…..that or it says, “I just ate the expired cottage cheese.”

5) Adapt a Kardashian-free lifestyle.  (I’ll test market this for us all and let you know if it’s even possible.  I bet deaf dumb blind cloistered monks in Tibet don’t even lead a Kardashian-free life.)

4) Clean my room.  Shoot, I caved to one of Mom’s Resolutions for Me.  Well, the other 37 items on her list won’t get touched.

3) Watch more Modern Family.   4 DVR-ed episodes a day won’t cut it. If I want to make it the finals of the Gloria Quote Off (this is an imaginary game show I just made up in my mind where I would OF COURSE excel and win MILLIONS of dollars and tons of notoriety), I need to work SOOOO much harder.

2) Keep my blogs (see Item #1) short.

1) CRAP. Too Late.

Jill

Big. STUFF. Coming for the radio show (s). I will not be on Toginet.com anymore starting this week …but….  #KEEPLISTENING for our annoucement.

Hit me up on Facebook or Twitter at @NotSoSoccerMom & @NSSMJill or at NotSoSoccerMom@gmail.com if you’d like for ME or my mom to assign  for YOU resolutions. We’re available most of the rest of this afternoon.

Somewhere Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tiger Woods & John Edwards are on a Skype conference call giggling about Anthony Weiner and his less-than-safe choice in Twitter passwords.

It’s about once a month that a scandal story like this arises.  We have the same debates & psycho-analyzation.  ”Why do some in the public eye gravitate toward the seedy?” “They seemingly have everything, do they need to fulfill some sort of living-on-the-edge thrills?”   “Can we separate someone’s ‘private life’ from their ‘public life’?”

(See: ‘NotSoSoccerMom Sits Down With The Three Johns’ http://notsosoccermom.com/2010/02/13/notsosoccermom-sits-down-with-the-3-johns/ )

I look at it through a different angle.    In recent years, Facebook & Twitter and texting have joined phonecalls, Email, & face-t0-face communication as acceptable means to communicate.

But, sometimes, you hear in :  ”It’s the Facebook & Twitter.”   People are quick to admonish all these new mediums as the culprit when said Congressman mis-uses Twitter or a Rutgers student mis-uses YouTube or a teen misuses texting.

I proudly stand up for Facebook and Twitter.  Many still view them as toys.   I won’t judge someone who says “I don’t have time for Facebook” or only gets on once or twice a month.  I do bet that they either A) haven’t moved in the last 5-8 years, B) work in an industry or business that is locally owned so they perceive there is no gain  C) Say “I don’t WANT to say HI to my  High School boyfriend, girlfriend, ex-husband’s hairdresser etc   or D) Think it’s ‘one more thing to keep up with.’

And that’s fine.

Over the last 3 years in being on Facebook, I’ve reconnected with college girlfriends to pray for an ailing sorority sister. We all felt as close as if it were 1992 at the Tri-Sigma house.  I started this very website as a result of a Facebook friend’s nudge.   Tomorrow I will dine with new friends and my new Friday am show co-host whom I met through Twitter.

It’s not just that: My husband’s Aunt can now see up to the minute pictures & video of her great-nieces and nephew.  You chat with friends from your gym about this morning’s Zumba class. A room is diffused at a 20 year reunion when old classmates already know each other’s ‘small-talk.’

You get me.

And Thanks to these new forms of communication we can all be aware of our NotSoSoccerMom.com’s business partner and close-friend Mr. Robert Barrett’s returning battle with cancer. And we can come together, if only virtually, to support and pray for him.

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/robertbarrett

Jill

For everyone that thinks they are patently silly or only occasion check-ins, there are many of us that LOVE and live by these communication tools.   So, don’t NOT start a Twitter account because you think it’s all stupid celebrities or Congressmen being lewd.  And please jump on your Facebook.  We want to keep connecting with YOU.

Thank you for letting me share this.

Please visit Robert’s page.

*This blog is dedicated to Dina Clifford, my Twitter friend in Florida.*

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