#53. I’m a hermit … wouldn’t you like to be a hermit too?
Because I know you guys are just chompin’ at the bit to get to #53 in the campaign to NEVER write a 100 Things About Me list, and because it is so stupid to begin a sentence with the word “because” – I am trotting forward with this silly ego-tistical (for what is a blog if not to be egotistical) attempt to define myself. If you haven’t been cursed blessed to read #51 and #52, you can catch up. Then again, this doesn’t build on itself, so you can probably NOT catch up and be the better for it.
Now, what was I saying?
Oh yes, #53 – I’m a hermit.
I mean, I’m not an anthropomorphic male, or female for that matter … I mean, I AM female, but not an anthropomorphic female.
GAH!
I can’t even write today.
WHAT I AM SAYING is that I’d rather be IN my house looking OUT than OUTSIDE my home looking OUT, IN, LEFT, RIGHT, or wherever. My home is my haven. It is my safe place. It is a comfort. It is where I rest and play. If I could have groceries delivered (oh wait, I do … Jeff gets them), I’d never leave for anything but church, the movies, and Chili’s. And sometimes – yes, even those places are hard to get out of the house for. (ended my sentence in a preposition – TAKE THAT Miss Thompson!)
My friends? Online.
My work? Online.
My family? Here in my home. See? So why venture out?
Now I’m comfortable in my ‘burban too. I like it there. I even have seat warmers to make my butt nice and tingly on those cold mornings. I have my radio presets; CDs are in the zip-up binder in the passenger seat floorboard. My water bottle fits perfectly inside the cup holder and I even have extra Crystal Light Lemonade packets to mix drinks (HA! I serve up mixed drinks in my car!) while en route to get the girls from school, drop Mer off at dance, drive thru Sonic. I load up my dog and my brood and sometimes even Mr. OMSH – and we drive. Why get out? We can stay in the car, IN the safe place, INSIDE!
I can’t remember when I wouldn’t rather be at home than OUT. OUT takes energy. OUT means finding something to wear – something that fits. OUT means putting on a smile … and it isn’t everyday that I can turn my frown upside down. OUT takes soooo much energy.
Life throws some difficult turns when you venture out.
IN … in is better.
IN is perfect.
IN is here.
I’m a hermit.
Are you?
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Mama Knucker Hatch
Amen sister! Your post is exactly how I feel on a daily basis. Eh-hem. I prefer to use the term “homebody”. I think homebodies work in pairs, because Mr. Incredible is a homebody too. We enable each other’s homebody-ness.
The church ladies make fun of me because I don’t attend their Friday night Crafter’s Corner. Meanwhile, I can’t understand why anyone would leave their best friend at home on a Friday night for crafts and froo-froo. What is up with that?
Home IS where the heart is, for a hermit.
frugalmom
HOME…All about the home. I like it here, in my home. Both my husband and I tend to stay home rather than go out. Everyone says, get a sitter, go out…yeah, no. Don’t really want to.
Angella
I’m a homebody most days…but some days I just need to get OUT.
And I heart seat warmers :)
OMSH
Mama Knucker Hatch – “homebody”/”hermit” it’s all good. :)
frugalmom – “Get a sitter” = too much money. Our church has “parent’s night out” and we attend those b/c it is a buck a kid and we can go out for 4 hours.
NOW THAT is something I can get out of my house for!
saj
I don’t want to be… but somedays I feel like I have magnetic shoes on that stick to the floor and won’t let me leave the threshold.
Cassie
So true, so true! My home is my haven :)
I may just print this post off & give to some well meaning friends of mine who keep bugging me to go out with them every.frickin.weekend. I dontwanna! Get the hint!
nyjlm
I’m definitely a hermit. My husband is not. Sometimes I get to stay home and he goes out with the kids. Sometimes he convinces me to come. I end up having fun, but I really do love to stay home all day.
OMSH
saj – you could probably market those magnetic shoes to those men who’d prefer their wives stay at home. HAHAHA!
Cassie – I give rights to print that and send it to as many women who think you are weird as you can find!
nyjlm – I have to admit … when I get out it is rare that I regret it, but I am ALWAYS – yes ALWAYS, ready to get back into my home.
the SmockLady
I am so much a hermit, that sometimes I get scared what my old age will be like – will I be that old lady that has no friends show up to my funeral? will I be buried in an unmarked grave because no one will realize I’m gone? Will the neighbor find me dead because something smells and I don’t go out enough to be missing? And worse yet, I feel I am a bad friend for it. I don’t know if I would notice my neighbors were missing even though they are active, but I, stuck in my house, don’t realize they are gone? Sad? yes. I must change things because it’s my fault. I build walls and fight depression.
Annika
Right there with you. I only leave the house to go get not-actually-in-the-budget-but-keeps-me-sane coffee treats. Which barely even counts because I usually stop while I’m walking the baby around the neighborhood. And THAT doesn’t count because we don’t have a yard.
OMSH
the SmockLady – keep fighting
Annia – treats keep me sane too. Coffee treats are the best, but Sonic rivals a close second.
Lanna
Yes I am.
And really, I enjoy not having to wear a bra most of the time (I only harness the girls when we leave the house or when we have company over – I put laundry on the clothesline in pajamas and flip flops).
DaisyCake
you have butt warmers? and you live (fairly) near me? WHEN do you get a chance to use them?!
The Texas sun is my seatwarmer! Now a seat cooler? THAT would rock.
I have hermit-like tendencies.
OMSH
Lanna – Buy those tank tops with built-in bras and your whole world will change. LOVE.IT.
DaisyCare – THOSE TWO WEEKS WHEN TEXAS HAS A WINTER – that’s when!
MMM
So. Totally. A. Hermit.
Lanna
Dude, if you can find one made for a woman built like a tank (or football player, whatever), I’d be all over it. I’m built like my farming grandmothers – barrel chest and nursing boobs. I’m an oddity.
OMSH
MMM – Ah, but YOU are a hermit that throws big birthday parties. You are a hermit that toes the line … I can see you edging out of hermit-ville to visit the land of the “outside”. :) heh heh
Lanna – I’m built like that too – nice, solid, German stock. Breast reduction ended headaches, gave me some scars, but man, my shoulders … it is a different world. I WAS AN “I” for crying out loud.
Barrel chests and nursing boobs that could pull down the walls of Jericho are more the norm more than an oddity.
Joely
I’m a homebody and I’m proud of it! Glad to hear that I’m not alone! Thank goodness for the internet – some days that’s the only way I’m “out” of the house (which of course is surfed while I’m IN the house…)!
MMM
I DO likes me some company. Mostly because I don’t like to go OUT for company! I like the comfort of my home or a friend’s home!
And…..my hubby STILL won’t cave to the idea of letting me throw him a 30th! He says he’s with people all day and doesn’t want them in his house. And he’s the social one!
BeachMama
There are definatly days I just don’t want to leave my house. It used to be that I could barely stay in two days in a row, now I am shocked if I go out two days in a row! Then once in a while, I feel like I need to get out, so I do and I am restored. So, I guess, yes I am a hermit of sorts but, I do get dressed everyday in case I have to go out, I am ready.
Sherry
I’m somewhere in between. If I don’t get out once in awhile I go batty, but I don’t necessarily mean go out and party. It can be like later today where we have plans to go to a big nature park for a picnic and some quality time petting goats. And I do need to go and see people but I like going to someone else’s house or having them come over here rather than go out for dinner.
I was out last Thursday night to see my husband play a live show and a bunch of us ate dinner out and we had a drink at the bar after it was over and it was GREAT. But I couldn’t do that all the time now. I like being home. There’s a reason I’ve worked so hard to find work I can do from home. :)
Jamie
I’m a homebody too. Also, I heart Chili’s. It’s funny, because back in my 20s, single girl days I just had to GET OUT. I still love to travel, but I do love being home.
Love your blog, by the way. I linked to your daughters’ cute room on Flickr!
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KYouell
Absolutely! We were just talking the other day about how before kids we hardly went out at all, so this isn’t that different. We would go out to eat and to movies, but really we had become fed up with the theaters and their grumpy employees and bored with the restaurants (yes, even with Chili’s). So while it is a crazy wild treat to leave The Biscuit with my mom and go out to dinner we only did it twice. Hard to be away from heart-surgery boy, ya know? And now that I’m back to breastfeeding a newborn I don’t see many nights out in my future. At this point an exciting evening is to have a grandma come over and play with the 2-year-old so I can nap with the 3-week-old. Woot!
OMSH
Joely – I just love it when you post. Everyone meet Joely. She and I became friends when I was pregnant with Meredith and she was pregnant with her son. *wave* “Hi Joely!”
MMM – Well, I WANT a 40th birthday. Can you come and plan it? Shhhh … I want it to be a surprise. You have 6 more years – okay, you have 5 years and a month (details…details)
BeachMama – I get up and get dressed everyday too. I think I got that from FlyLady. Not that I “do” FlyLady … not that I wear shoes … but getting dressed I do. Okay, so maybe it wasn’t FlyLady.
Sherry – I don’t mean to laugh … but did you just write “…and some quality time petting goats.” – because I’m quite certain you did and my shirt is wetter for spitting out my water in laughter. There are MANY things I’d get dressed for – SONIC, chocolate, SONIC, movies, SONIC, Chili’s, SONIC… but goats? Um … probably not.
Jamie – awwww … thanks. :)
Kyouell – I would totally hire out to take a nap here and there. Sometimes a nap robbed is the worst thing ever.
bethany actually
Wow, comments for this post are still open? I must comment! You already know, as we’ve discussed, that I am an introvert in the life of an extrovert. I would stay home a lot more often if it weren’t for my daughter. :-)
Skyler
I loved the article and the comments. i’ve recently started a blog: The Hermitous Hermitess. I was just now looking up ideas about the subject, and can relate to so many you mentioned.
If I do have to go out, I make sure I do ALL my “out activities” in one day so I don’t waste makeup, squeezing myself into clothes and all the other crap that goes along with going OUT
Have a great weekend everyone!!
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