My so called Facebook life

I added a new friend today on Facebook.  She’s a fellow coop preschool parent and since I have worked with her in the classroom for the past two school years, I’ve gotten to know her pretty well.  Looking through her pictures, which are all awesome btw, I began to look back and think about what people see on my own Facebook page.

It’s not interesting.  At all.  I realize I post far more in a “secret” group that I belong to, a mommies group that I started and a book club group far more often than my own page.  And when I do post something on my own profile, it’s a kid pic or a running watch update.  It’s no wonder that when I post what I think is an awesome status or super super cute picture (of kids or not), I tend to feel a bit disappointed in the number of “likes” that I get.

Recently Facebook started giving everyone their own video’s of their Facebook lives.  Watching some of those I would see that their most “liked” photos and status had at least 4 times the number that mine did.  Granted, one of those friends is a professional horse trainer so she has way more many friends then I do, but still.  One can’t help but feel a little sorry for themselves when seeing something like that.

I’m really going to try this year to spend less time on social sites, besides my nike+, weight watchers and meet-up pages.  Hopefully this will help with me stop the feelings that come when things don’t happen exactly the way I expect them to.  Roll with the punches right?

Leaving with a picture that to-date, has probably one of my highest Like counts.

Plants

Should I get a plant?

I was doing the dishes tonight and our kitchen window looks down into another townhouse’s kitchen window.  I am still trying to figure out when these people are ever there to accumulate any dishes themselves, but since it’s the only window I occasionally see lights on in and the blinds open; they do live there.  And they have a plant. 3 actually.

I’ve had plants in the past, usually the kind that are “hard to kill” or “easy to take care of.”  They do good for awhile, and I even managed to keep several alive until I decided that two kids were more important to water than a lily.

You know those bamboo plants they have in cute little planters made into cute little shapes at the Ikea checkout?  Yup, I killed one.  😦 My sister got the green thumb in the family.  I could keep plenty of animals alive and was the resident vet for the horses and cats, but she has an entire greenhouse in a room at their MI house.

So here is where I need your help.  Most plants need sunlight.  I live in Seattle.  We don’t really get a lot of sun.  What type of plant can I get that doesn’t need a lot of sun, is “easy to take care of” and “hard to kill”  but also looks pretty.

If anyone has any ideas… let me know!