Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Well it’s official people. I’ve been trying to hold it in but I think it’s safe to announce that I will be working on my first contract blogger project – a panelist on Momversation.com. I have just signed the paperwork and am getting ready to pdf it back today. Momversation is a recently launched “video show and forum community for women” that features some big names in the blogosphere like Dooce, Finslippy, Parent Hack, Mighty Girl and Work It Mom. I have been following their individual blogs for a long time and they are rockstars in the industry. This makes me transcend the “groupie” title into becoming an official “hanger-on.”
I would totally be lying if I said I wasn’t over the moon about this. The Korean in me wants to say how excited I am really fast and then never mention it again because that would be almost as distasteful as actually mentioning that something awesome happened in the first place. Now that I think about it, the Korean in me says I shouldn’t even be blogging at all … I am a bad Korean.
The only thing that is equal to the excitement that I am feeling right now is the fact that I am completely terrified. I think that I have taken more photos of myself this past week than in the past 7 years in my Shrinking Giyen project. Now I am going to start videotaping myself. Seriously, this is crazy. I am so uncomfortable looking at myself that I actually had to switch the sidebar widget to my main Flickr feed because I don’t really like looking at myself and things seem all the better when my self-portraits are mixed in with other photos (as to somehow disguise the fact that I am taking pictures of myself). It’s neurotic, I know. You can still keep tabs on my daily self-portraits here.
Okay, I am gonna breathe a bit and let myself lean into the fact that I am happy for the first time in a long time. QB made some crack about me “not going Hollywood on him” then advised me to go read Margaret Cho’s “I’m The One That I Want” – which I actually finished over the weekend. I really didn’t know much about Margaret Cho until I read the book. But after reading it I can definitely say that much of it is familiar to me and my life. There are a lot of commonalities about self-esteem issues and personal hardships in there. At the very end, Cho sums up how I am feeling about life right now:
“I believe that when you take those first steps in loving yourself, the universe conspires with your soul to keep that love affair going.”
A few years ago I the cynic in me might have thought that this was metaphysical crap. Now, I’m drinking the koolaid.
PS. Thanks Mir & Aimee for such great advice!
Tags: dooce, finslippy, i'm the one that i want, margaret cho, mighty girl, momversation, parenthack, shrinking giyen, The Coven, work it mom
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