A few weeks ago I redesigned my blog and re-wrote my tagline to reflect my 3 key areas of expertise, namely:
- Great with WordPress
- Good parent
- Lousy cook
Well, earlier today Website maintenance guy and fellow South African Tertius actually noticed the new tagline and suggested to the nice folks on Twitter than I CAN actually cook. So I figure I’d better elaborate on this whole tagline thing before people start spreading rumours (I wouldn’t want you all arriving at my house expecting an impromptu gourmet dinner).
Great with WordPress
I recently discovered that I’m great with WordPress. I’m not claiming to be a rockstar developer, but I sure can knock other peoples Photoshop designs into tight, efficient WordPress themes. And to top it off, I actually enjoy it. It’s not the ‘I love this so much I’ll do it for FREE‘ kind of enjoyment, it’s more like the ‘Oh, that was fun, I wonder if someone else would want to pay me money for a PSD to WordPress gig‘ type of enjoyment.
Good parent
In a moment of awesome spousal support, Karin once told me that I’m a good parent. That’s fantastic! But it doesn’t excuse the fact that I’m bad at parenting. Connor is 5 years old and he wins every argument, always gets his own way and suckers me into making bad decisions/feeling like a complete arsehole at least once a day.
So I may be good at providing for him, and I love him more than any other human being under 4FT tall, but I suck at the day-to-day parenting duties bestowed upon me. That’s why it never ceases to amaze me what a great kid he is. Must be his mothers influence…
Lousy cook
I am possibly the world’s greatest bad cook. When I’m allowed into the kitchen (rarely) I destroy cookware at an alarming rate. This year alone I’ve wrecked 3 pans cooking rice, pasta and a cheese sauce. It’s safe to assume that my wife is about to to ban me from doing anything more complicated than making tea (which I’m actually very good at) and Braaing (that’s Barbequeing for you non-South Africans).
So, before you decide to pop in for dinner (by the way you’re welcome anytime), you need to know that I’ll spend a long time bending your ear about WordPress. Because of the ear-bending, dinner will run late and we’ll have to eat burnt beans on toast, which Connor won’t want because he’ll have tricked me into buying him fish & chips.
Do any of you lead a life this complicated, or is it just me?
Hello, I’m Dave. I work with web design agencies, freelancers and bloggers to develop standards-compliant WordPress and Thesis themes.
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I think all of us (especially parents) lead such complicated lifes. I spent the last couple of weeks torturing my daughter so she would stop sucking her fingers (two fingers rather than one thumb) because one of her new teeth wasn’t growing in. I won that battle and as a reward I let her get her ears pierced last weekend. That went ok but she is pain wimp and thought it hurt a lot more that I told her it would. I don’t remember it hurting – well, not like later piercings done with ice and a needle
Then the next day she was riding her bike at the park. One of her training wheels kept coming loose so I got in the habit of carrying a wrench around with me. (Yep – I can fix more than websites). I finally got sick of fixing it, took the training wheels off in a fit of anger, and told her to ride. Well, she just started riding along … guess she didn’t need the training wheels after all.
Oh … and my point. All of this was the just part of one weekend.
I’m a decent cook … but I’m one of those yicky vegetarians.
Hello Freelance WordPress legend for hire Kim Woodbridge of http://www.kimwoodbridge.com (how’s that for a subtle plug?!). Nice of you to drop by.
As parents we lead amazingly interesting lives. Great stuff, but it sure is tiring…
Speaking of the ice and needle trick, I pierced my ear that way when I was about 16 and stopped wearing the earring about a year later. And I still have the hole 17 years later. Clearly I did a good job!
But can you get an earring through it? You can still see the hole where my nose was pierced but there is no way anything will go through it without massive amount of pain.
I wasn’t trying to plug myself – I was trying to make a joke about carrying a wrench with me everywhere …
@Kim I know you weren’t trying to plug your services. I just thought you deserved a bit of link love.
I did try and put an earring through the hole a few years ago. Got halfway before the pain got to me. I was obviously a lot tougher when I was younger.
Dave you have one up on me with your Braaing (thats BBQ in sunny Queensland) I am barred from anything to do with cooking on the BBQ in our house. Reason being is I manage to burn every thing to a crisp without even trying.
You know how it is – ‘I’ll just leave it on for a little longer.’
Cheers
Kym
I do feel that my life is complicated enough. Sometimes I make it harder than it has to be, then I realize that whatever I was stressing over wasn’t worth the energy after all.
I’m not a parent, but I’m high maintenance enough! I feel like I’m my own baby.
I love to cook and I think I do a great job at it, given I cant eat half of the food out there.
Wordpress is challenging to me at times, but I can usually work though whatever challenge I’m facing.
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