CountryMouse's Refuge

I played "Paper Mario" this morning until it got so bright I couldn't see the TV screen anymore. I spent most of my time in Toad Town going back and forth from the market (where you can store items too) and Tayce T.'s, having her cook up items for me. Most of her recipes enhance the raw ingredients or make something different/better from the raw ingredients.

Then went through the stacks of CDs I had sitting out and filed most all of them away, getting out more to listen to. :-)

Now I need to Get Caught Up on reading peoples' LJ entries! Eep!

but not much commenting, on my part. I really find everyone's journal interesting, but I don't always have anything to say. Sometimes I'm just the Silent Mouse. :-P

You know, julesfacks mentioned in his LJ on April 7th, in his "stuff and nonsense" entry, about not wanting to initiate IMs and phone calls, feeling that it might be intrusive, that others might be busy and he wouldn't want to bother them.

I know I am like that a LOT. If I seem to be ignoring people, it's that I feel that people have very busy lives. I don't want to crowd them.

I'm even that way about snail mail. My Uncle F. (not the same one who didn't speak to Daddy for years) used to write, wanting me to write back Right Away. So I would. And then *he* would write back IMMEDIATELY and sound petulant if a couple weeks went by and I hadn't answered *that* mail. Aarrgh.

So when I get snail mail from someone, especially one that sparks a lot of ideas and comments in me, that make me want to answer right away, I stop myself, thinking, "Wait, this person is going to feel pressured if I write back *immediately*." So I wait. I think, "I'll write back in a week or so...better to let a little time pass." And then, you guessed it: I forget and more and more time passes; and then it gets awkward. How do you explain that you've waited six-months-to-a-year to answer someone's letter that you *wanted* to answer right away? I am such a dork. :-P hehehe

Note to self: UPDATE YOUR VP DIARY!!!!!