parenting

A few weeks ago I redesigned my blog and re-wrote my tagline to reflect my 3 key areas of expertise, namely:

1. Great with WordPress
2. Good parent
3. 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?