Confession (previously confessed right here on this blog)- I talk to myself.
I walk myself through things that I am doing at work by talking out loud, I remind myself of my grocery list in the grocery store, I have conversations about what was said or should’ve been said while driving in the car, the list really does go on and on. I talk to myself so much that I get freaked out every once in a while and do a phone check to make sure I haven’t actually dialed someone who may be listening to this whole crazy show!
I have even gone as far as having a conversation in my head, I try to keep them in my head when other people are around, but once accidentally let an enthusiastic response slip out aloud while my husband was around and had to dismiss it away, weirdly and awkwardly.
So honestly, when I had E it was like the floodgates opened and all of a sudden I allowed myself to think it was acceptable to talk to myself… everywhere. In the grocery store, in the car, while doing laundry or making dinner, I talked. As long as I somehow made it seem 3rd person and directed at my daughter it worked… so then all of my conversations started like this “mommy thinks we need to make dinner”, “mommy needs to get one more thing from the grocery store”, “mommy doesn’t like it when people cut her off and then slowdown 20 miles an hour!”. All ok to say out loud now, because mommy is talking to E, not herself.
All ok to say out loud, because mommy is talking to E, not herself, until she starts doing it when E is not around. Now I find myself talking to myself in third person without my daughter around! Ha- seriously people, welcome to the crazy that is my head.
Now I find myself walking down the hallway saying “mommy just has one more load of laundry to do” and then I realize it… E is not home, she is on a walk with daddy and mommy has done gone and lost her mind.
It’s not bad enough that mommy talks to herself, but now she talks to herself in third person referring to herself as mommy when no one else is around that knows she is actually a mommy. Hence the strange look I got from the man in Target when I said “now mommy needs to go get some milk!” and then realized I was all by myself…. except for the man standing in the same aisle as me who mommy had to awkwardly explain how she “isn’t used to not having her daughter around…” (laughing embarrassedly) walking quickly toward the milk aisle!
So let me rephrase, having a baby makes it ok to talk to yourself as long as said baby is around… right?
haha I do the same thing. It is only ok to talk to your when the baby is around, if the baby isn’t around people think your crazy talking to yourself…LOL
Hahaha!! This is hilarious. The said thing is much of this applies to me…but my conversation is directed toward my cat. Who is not a person. And who, most of the time, is asleep anyway.
I have always talked to myself…babysitters used to hear me in the tub talking to myself and laugh. But you’re right…in the grocery store I talk out loud now about what I need and other things and I think “hopefully people think I’m talking to Casey” but usually I’m not 🙂
oh my gosh, i am dying!
this is tooooo funny!
Absolutely!
haha….I do the same thing.
I think we are normal 🙂
Ha ha I wish I could have seen that guy’s reaction…too funny!
Nothing, absolutely nothing has changed from the day you were born. You always, and I do mean ALWAYS talked to yourself. Of course we thought you were talking to your babies, the dog, your cat, you were the school teacher and talked to your students who were not THERE~~~~~~you never cared who was around, you just talked and talked and talked! Dad and I loved to her you talk and sing to yourself! Love your baby!
I think talking to ourselves keeps us sane for when baby is around 🙂 I do it all of the time.
Hilarious! Oh to be a fly on the wall at Target and see that guy’s expression. 🙂