An Update, Sorta
Sep. 25th, 2005 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I'm depressed today, easily irritable, and generally don't know what I want, making it hard for anyone else to have an idea of how to appease me, either.
Well, of course, I *do* know what I want - I want financial stability, and to have ALL my bills, past and present, paid off in full, and a substantial amount of money in the bank. Not go-buy-a-mansion substantial, but if-we-all-lost-our-jobs-tomorrow-we-wouldn't-be-destitute-and-panicky-for-at-least-3-months substantial. Oh, and to be able to buy furniture and such for the apartment.
This post, however, was meant to be a bit of a poll (without the actual poll). I'm not in the mood to get into the visit with my parents last week. Suffice it to say that things went well. I might go into more detail later, I might not.
However, they did request that I ban 3 members of my family from reading the journal. Now, since none of these people have LJs, I'm thinking the only way to do this is to friends-lock the journal. I mean, yeah, there might be a way to block certain IP addresses, but that would imply that I knew what they were, and would also be contingent on those addresses being static, which is unlikely, and would also assume that no one would ever log on from a computer other than their own. So... again, I can't see a way to do this without just blocking the non-LJ world at large. Which would also block people that I'm glad read my LJ, like Frog, Leo, and Johnny... and Mark, I think... Which I don't want to do. Plus my feeling that the Universe points people in the direction of various things on the internet for a reason, and I hate to block that.
So, I'm interested in people's thoughts on this. I mean, no one's FORCING me to do anything. But I feel like I owe my parents a great deal, and this isn't much to ask on their part. So, tell me what you think about this, and if you have any geekly advice for how I could possibly have my cake and eat it, too, that would be cool.
Thanks.
Well, of course, I *do* know what I want - I want financial stability, and to have ALL my bills, past and present, paid off in full, and a substantial amount of money in the bank. Not go-buy-a-mansion substantial, but if-we-all-lost-our-jobs-tomorrow-we-wouldn't-be-destitute-and-panicky-for-at-least-3-months substantial. Oh, and to be able to buy furniture and such for the apartment.
This post, however, was meant to be a bit of a poll (without the actual poll). I'm not in the mood to get into the visit with my parents last week. Suffice it to say that things went well. I might go into more detail later, I might not.
However, they did request that I ban 3 members of my family from reading the journal. Now, since none of these people have LJs, I'm thinking the only way to do this is to friends-lock the journal. I mean, yeah, there might be a way to block certain IP addresses, but that would imply that I knew what they were, and would also be contingent on those addresses being static, which is unlikely, and would also assume that no one would ever log on from a computer other than their own. So... again, I can't see a way to do this without just blocking the non-LJ world at large. Which would also block people that I'm glad read my LJ, like Frog, Leo, and Johnny... and Mark, I think... Which I don't want to do. Plus my feeling that the Universe points people in the direction of various things on the internet for a reason, and I hate to block that.
So, I'm interested in people's thoughts on this. I mean, no one's FORCING me to do anything. But I feel like I owe my parents a great deal, and this isn't much to ask on their part. So, tell me what you think about this, and if you have any geekly advice for how I could possibly have my cake and eat it, too, that would be cool.
Thanks.
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Date: 2005-09-25 10:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-25 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-25 11:44 pm (UTC)Why exactly would you consider this, when you've made a point previously about specifically not censoring your journal?
I don't know the whole situation, obviously, but asking that you ban 3 specific family members... That's just sounds hinky.
Why do your parents care? What leverage do these 3 have? Or is it just to save potential embarrassment?
You know, kids grow up and become adults. Adults that are equally capable of wonderful or embarrassing things. Either way, it's them doing it, not the parents. You are no longer their reflection, you are you. Maybe they need to let go a little more.
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Date: 2005-09-25 11:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-26 03:38 am (UTC)::hugs::
what's the reason?
Date: 2005-09-27 12:53 pm (UTC)::hugs::