The Commoner Tries Pinterest

  It was sometime around December when I first started hearing the word Pinterest.  I wasn't sure what it was but began seeing people talk about it on Facebook and occasionally someone would have something interesting in their house or classroom and they would say I got that on Pinterest.


So now my interest in Pinterest is spiked (that's funny get it)  and I'm wanting to know what it is.  Well first thing is someone has to invite you.  I hate that-it means I have to ask someone for a favor and then I owe them.  But it makes me even more interested in Pinterested (oops).  And I beg someone who I can't remember for an invite.


So I'm on there now what.  I see lots of recipes and lots of cute things to do with your class which I will never get to do because I'm too busy TEACHING!  (Sorry).  I do  a lot of looking at things but have no idea what to do with any of it or quite frankly the point.


So I constantly campaign on Facebook that I don't know what to do with Pinterest.  I'm really good at Facebook and I lurk on Twitter but this seems ridiculous to me.  Recipes going around, cute classroom crap, what does this mean to me?  People try to explain it and I'm still not getting it.


But you know my level of intense competition and I can't stand that other people -commoners like me-are tearing the Pinterest boards up and I WILL know how to do it.


Then I start to get it.  And I started making boards.  It's great it's like a little scrap book and I'm convinced that it's like one of those wish boards that if you put something on there and believe it will happen.  

  But let's be honest this is me.  So my favorite board is recipes I wish someone would make for me.  This is specifically meant for my cousin Kim and my friend Megan.  They are both GREAT chefs.  Kim on the east coast Megan on the west.  They can both make these things for me-because I never will-you know what?  It worked.  Kim made Guinness cupcakes for me on my trip to NY.

So I start pinning things that I like and when I go back and look occasionally at my Pinterest Board-I notice a trend.  I have very little for work (I hate to say it but I come up with great ideas on my own-which actually are achievable and teach something besides cut and paste).  I have a LOT of outfits on there-explaining why I broke yet another closet in my house, I have some great sayings about running, pictures of New York, I have some funny insulting comments, and I have a lot of pictures of Adam Levine.

So that's Pinterest.  I have to say I'm excited when someone repins something I've pinned.  

I've noticed that there aren't many men on Pinterest, but I'm beginning to notice a few.  My friend Kevin has one that has tobacco ads, leprechauns, and things I played with as a kid.  We often thing alot alike.  I wish my cousin Gina would make one-it would have a lot about Jamesons and kicking ass.

My cousin Lori refused to Pinterest (remember Gumass).  So I have a board labeled things for Lori-so she just looks there.

The thing about Pinterest that I really hate?  This is such a simple concept which works on the idea of copying peoples things. 
Why didn't I think of this I love cheating, spywork, and espionage.


Follow me on Pinterest-look for theresephillips-but please stop posting teacher stuff and post more great outfits so I can steal them.

The Commoners Uncommon Cousin

My cousin Lori technically is a commoner.  She's a Special Ed teacher who works hard every  day and then tutors kids.  But many many uncommon things happen to her every day. That's what makes her uncommon.


She joined us yesterday on our adventure to see How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.  Lori goes to many Broadway shows. She has totally surpassed my new life long total of 3.


She realized halfway through the second act that she really had to use the rest room.  Knowing that the rest room was two levels below us-remember the commoners were in the last row of the balcony.  She realized that if there was any hope of not having to wait 3 hours to use the restroom after the show-she would need a strategy.


Her strategy was was to leave as soon as the final act drew to a close.  Off she darted down the stairs and she meet at by the restroom.  I turn to Kristen and said how are we ever going to find her?  She didn't even say where she would be and her phone was dying.


But alas as we descended among the hundreds of screaming Nick Jonas fans, miraculously there she was and it was off to Connonly's bar to meet my cousin Jimmy.  But you know all that.  What you don't know is what happened next.


This is something so uncommon that no one has ever heard of it, but what a story.  I noticed walking down the street that Lori was laughing and I asked her what's so funny?  She told me shouldn't couldn't tell me -now I'm thinking she took a phone call -because she's only on her phone-and had access to some scandalous family gossip.  But oh my was I ever wrong.


She said "I'm about 60 % sure (really she said 60%) That I have gum stuck in my ass. "  I'm pretty sure I almost fell over.  So I said "Okay  I give up How?"  Now if your a California friend you know we have seat covers in every restaurant.  This in not common in New York-thus the squat a very important skill.  It is practiced from the time you are out of diapers and is something every New Yorker worth their salt -is an expert at.


Well Lori was doing her job in the rest room and decided her Dentyne Pepperment Ice Gum was a little stale and it would be a good time to flick it down the toilet.  Do I have to go further?  Can you infer from here what was wrong with my cousin?


A few steps later, after I snorted my coffee out of my nose from laughing-she said "make that 75% sure".


We went to the bar and met Jimmy and I pretty much assumed this matter was settled upon Lori's first trip to the rest room.  And for sure it was 100% true that she did have gum in her pants.  This is the birth of the newest super hero to grace the planet Earth -this was the birth of GUM ASS.


Tonight at my cousin Gina's Bar North Village Tavern (yes most events with my family take place in bars).  Lori redeemed herself at Karaoke night by her beautiful rendition of Angel (you know the dead puppy song).  It was really beautiful.  Drunk hand slapper seated next to us at the bar thought so too. 


Lori's going to take her talents to The Voice where she will compete on Adam Levine's Team.  Kristen and I will be her back stage family cheerleaders.  I can't wait for that.  In the meantime she'll be starting her own blog called "The Adventures of Gum Ass"