Really, guys, do I have to explain everything? Sheesh!
What am I talking 'bout, Willis? Let me 'splain, Lucy!
I posted last, as you may recall, for the Freaks' tour, for which I received a comment that kind of threw me for a loop. It wasn't in my comments, it was directly emailed to me and I am not telling you who. But I was not sure about how to respond and so I have been MIA while I have been contemplating it.
Here it is:
Yes, we do LOVE you!!! But PLEASE STOP, STOP, STOP with the YILM or I
may TU!!! (throw up)!!
I was, to say the least, gobsmacked. So it think a little education is in order for those who just don't "get it". And let me hasten to add that this is all written in the spirit of SARCASM. I was raised to believe in Sarcasm as the ultimate expression of love for people you care about, so I hope you know that the mere fact that I am being sarcastic here on my blog means I wuv you vewy much.
People may think I am stuck on myself, if they haven't been around long enough to know better. YILM = Yes, I love myself. You know this, right? If you don't and always wondered, now you know. BTW, it is in the legend in the right sidebar that defines terms that are peculiar to my blog. I have always been happy to explain to anyone who asked what it means.
However, what it does not mean is that I am so stuck on myself that I think I am perfect, or even practically perfect in every way like Mary Poppins. Frankly, the only use I can make of an umbrella is this one. 
Anyway, what YILM means is that, in that moment of creation aftermath, while I am still basking in the glow of a successful project, that I pretty much think I am extremely clever to have made the whatever it was I have made. I am, rest assured, still well aware of all my failings, including the pathetic fact that in order to feel like I am validated, I have to post a picture of my project online and hope people agree with me about how cool it is and how wonderful I am. If that isn't the supreme example of a person who has low self esteem, I don't know what is.
And thus, when I first was writing this blog, in the spirit of Sarcasm, I coined the phrase "YILM". It is MY acronym. I use it to remind you that you actually are on MY blog and not anyone else's as well as to remind myself that I am a pathetic scrambler after people's good opinions. After all, if I had perfect self esteem, I would simply use the card and never show it to anyone.
Of course, there is all that "sharing" stuff that we all do to help those on their papercraft travels to explore the vast universe of papercrafting and to boldly go where ...
Well... Never mind!
Honestly, I have received a lot of comment on my little acronym over the years I have been using it. Mostly, people laugh. That is what it is there for, after all. People who know that I am poking fun AT MYSELF for feeling the way I do about a project, who feel the same way when they make something they just fall in love with.
Other people have told me that YILM gives them a great feeling, since it is good to see a woman who seems to think well of herself, since most of us do not, as a matter of course because of the way we are brought up or have been treated later in life by other people. You would be amazed at how much they like to see that, because that is not at all the way they feel about themselves and they are trying to feel better about themselves, after years of being told by other people that they are unworthy of any kind of esteem, their own or anyone else's. For those people and for the sheer reason that YILM has become a hallmark of my blog, I have continued to use it.
Frankly, I could stop writing YILM tomorrow and it wouldn't bother me a bit, except for letting down the people who I mention above. If you were to comb through my blog posts, you may even find somewhere I have forgotten to put it in. Sometimes I have had to go back and add it when I notice I left it out. Yes, sometimes even *I* grow weary of YILM.
But hey, it is just FOUR LITTLE LETTERS. Four little letters that are easy to skip over. Four letters you need not shield your children's precious eyes from if they happen to glance at it, unlike other words and acronyms with the same amount of letters that are far more offensive than YILM.
So, let's just accept the fact, shall we, that I will continue to use YILM. If it bugs you, just skip on over that part, after all, it is always in the same places in every post. If not, I believe you can get a good deal on barf bags over at Airline Liquidators Inc.
And now for something completely different, a card:
Ingredients: Stamps - A Beautiful Season; Paper - Holly Berry Bouquet DSP, Silver Shimmer paper, Wild Wasabi, So Saffron, Real Red, Chocolate Chip; Ink - Versamark, Wild Wasabi, So Saffron, Real Red; Other - Black EP, Boho Blossoms Punch, Decorator Lable Punch, Eyelet Lace border punch, Word Window punch, Chocolate Chip Dotted Scallop ribbon, Subtles Glimmer Brads, gold brads, sponge wedges, markers.
Yes. It is GOJUS!!! And... And.... And...
YILM!
Sorry... I meant to make 4 little letters and it just got away from me. Ooops. My bad.
Ta!
