I’m still getting used to functioning in this bloggy world of mine with dh home all the time – things like taking a video of myself talking – when do I do that? I don’t want to take the video with him sitting in the same room because well, it’s embarrassing and I know I’d just giggle hysterically through the whole thing – and he’s almost always in the room. So last week I never got around to shooting the video and I was kind of bummed because I love this little meme and I’d been looking forward to the questions. So I’m posting both videos today – I’m going to warn you, I took both of them last night before American Idol and it was a bit of a rush job, so if I sound like a nut case I’m sorry. I might rerecord them sometime, but you know, I might not – I like doing these on the fly so to speak and just living with the results because I think it creates a truly real capture of me – I am that mumbling, awkward girl who doesn’t like arguing, even to herself – If I tried to pose myself as some totally together chick who creates professional videos of her well crafted opinions, well it would never happen and if it did, it would be a lie to myself. So here are my video responses in all their dorky glory. The first one (for this week) answers the following questions:

1. Tax Day. Boo! What are your thoughts on taxes? Necessary evil? Too much? Too little? How do you feel about Joe the Plumber’s mission to abolish the IRS? (You can find out more about the Fair Tax proposal here.)

2. Are you more likely to avoid conflict or engage in it head-on? Why?

3. Which do you prefer: the hustle and bustle of city life or the quiet and serenity of the country life? Why?

Okay, I’ll confess I didn’t look up any of that tax information and I hope I spelled out my opinion on the subject at least moderately well. I don’t like taxes, because who likes having their money taken away? But if / when used properly I think the tax system makes sense, that it is necessary and that we all benefit from it. But like all beurocracy, I think the system is inflated and overly complicated and could stand to be reformed. I think the other two are self explanatory – I don’t like arguments and I want to live in Stars Hollow.

Last week we were supposed to answer the following questions:

1. How many siblings do you have? What is your birth order? Do you agree with the birth order characteristics? Why, or why not?

2. What’s the tastiest meal that you can cook? Do you like to cook? Tell us about your cooking experiences.

3. Has anything bad ever happened to you that turned out to be for the best? Has anything good ever happened to that turned out to be a bad thing in the end? Tell us about it.

Yeah I might have butchered that one. I think I nailed the last question, which by the way, that whole topic for me was like, “Woah I can’t believe I’m saying this on the internet.” It’s kind of the epitome of my dirty laundry even if the end result was so terrific. Numbers one and two I did a terrible job explaining I think – I might write out a written post going into more detail on them. Blame the fact that it was t minus 5 minutes until Idol was due on, Dan was on the phone with his old boss and I was only mostly paying attention. Kay? Anyway, next week’s questions look fun, I might have to answer them today just to make sure I get them done and hopefully devote a little more time to some thought out answers!

Are you playing along to the In My Opinion meme? I know that video taping yourself can be all sorts of embarassing and maybe difficult – impossible for some of you given the technology requirements. I know that my own awkward little videos probably aren’t the most, “But look how cool it can be!” examples out there but keep in mind you can do this in a number of ways – feel free to write your answers out in old fashioned bloggy format or even use a voice recorder and just get that audio of yourself answering. I think the questions are always pretty interesting and thought provoking, which is the main reason I’m joining in myself, but the challenge of video taping myself is an added benefit – I know I’m not good at it, I’m hoping somewhere along the line I get better. Anyhow yadda yadda, writefromkaren.com.