Our 10 days of trying not to swear are up. Thank freaking god. (Do you see the improvement?). I can't say either of us ever made it through a full day without swearing but I feel like we had really valid reasons for some of the days......
Day One: Nate called me sheepishly at 9AM and admitted that he already swore. But he blames me for not reminding him before he left for work. Hmmm..likely story. I did SO good until a bunch of stuff fell out of the fridge while I was getting dinner ready and then I let out a quick "Sh*T!" which was quickly followed up with a F-bomb upon realizing I just blew my swear free day. Counter productive I realize.
Day Two: On my drive into work this morning, I am just be-bopping along with the radio and the song just slipped in some swear words..and without thinking I belt them like I am a finalist on American Idol. Which begs the question--does it count as a swear word if the radio station can play it?
Day Three: Well....Nates bike got stolen today. Swearing was at an all time record high in the Hanson Household. All. Time. High.
Day Four: Question: does typing acronyms like FML, OMFG, STFU or BS count as swearing? We aren't techinically saying the swear word, even though it is implied. If not, consider this day a success! Nate and I were pretty darn smug with ourselves for finding this loophole. I realize this is self imposed...but still.
Day 5-7: I am visiting Becca in Chicago this weekend, and swearing goes through the roof, because if anyone loves swearing more than me, it's my sister. She is after all, the person I've been looking up to the last 28 years :)...Nate said he did really good with me gone...hmmmm this doesn't bode well for me.
Day 8: The first sentence out of my mouth this morning was : You just scared the F*&cking Sh*t out of me. Fail and fail. Double fail. But seriously, Nate snuck up on me while I was blow-drying my hair and really did scare the shit out of me.
Day 9: SUCCESS! Today was the day...ok fine, I think I said ass, but in line with my radio theory I don't think this counts as swearing anymore....who's with me?
Day 10: There was a moment where I am pretty sure if someone had a little clicker today they would have heard me swear about 30 times in 10 minutes in Katie's office. 30 times. Yes people, I decided to end this challenge in true style.
Okay, so here is the deal. I actually think trying to NOT swear increased my swearing. Because every time I swore, I would swear because I swore. Does that even make sense. If I dropped a f-bomb, I would follow up with a sh*t once I realized I swore. And if I said Sh*t or another swear word, I would usually follow it up with a F*&k!
So the conclusion is that we should just continue to swear at our normal levels because stifling our swearing only causes more swearing. So noodle on that sweet-ass eureka moment.....
5 comments:
Some times you just gotta....
Have a great week! See ya Saturday!
Dad
Do prayers count if you say them to yourself and not outloud?
How about swearing...:)
Uncle Todd
Keep working on it...It is a worthy excercise! Driving in city traffic should be exempt though (Get busy creating some earplugs for kids when in the car)!
Love, Mom
Good idea Nancy. The spongebob filter. When someone says f*(k they hear fishsticks. When somone says bi#@h they hear barnacles. And when someone says youmot#$%@#$fu*&eng*dd@mas%*ole^rot*^ro%tenbas*%ardhu(%ingde*&sch#%bag they hear tartar sauce. Of course you can use Finn for R&D...I guess maybe we need to include the word dickhead.
Uncle Todd
OH MY...WELL, I WOULD NOT TAKE THE NON-SWEARING CHALLENGE BUT THEN HAVING THE 'FINN-FILTER' WOULD BE A GREAT INCENTIVE NOT TO DO IT...JUST REMEMBER THAT 'AUNTIE G' AND UNCLE -NATE....IT'S TOUGH TO DO...KEEP TRYING...BUT NOT IN TRAFFIC...SWEARING IN THE CAR IS MANDATORY!!!
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