Who am I?
I’m not trying to get philosophical or metaphysical when I ask the question: who am I. I’m trying to sort out my identity. First, I can’t decide what my last name is. It’s Meiners in the online world and now Thaeler in the world outside of the Internet. It gets tricky.
Sometimes I introduce myself with different names to different people going to the same meeting! But I’m not throwing away all the search engine rankings for Janet Meiners, plus I’m not used to Janet Thaeler yet. It’s time to update my signature at work and phase in Thaeler. I hope there will come a time when I don’t have to think of which name to use in each situation.
I’m learning attention to detail like I’ve never known. Starting with meeting with Vicki, I have learned to be more organized in the physical world. Next we’ll work on time management. My husband notices every detail and remembers everything. I always say I’m bad at gossip and good at forgiving. There is no time to keep score and I can’t recall the history of what happened. But anyway, you should see our home! I keep thinking I’m staying at a nice hotel, but the service is even better. It’s energy efficient! We compost! We have a yard with a few fruit trees and are growing a few vegetables!
With change comes some degree of feeling disoriented. I’ve always gravitated towards community and now I’m in a new one. A new thing called being married. I still get lost trying to find our house (the freeway exit is strange so I find myself driving right on by but not being able to get off until the next exit). I love the Internet because I can’t get lost, I sit down and site see from one place.
Every time I go to work at the fabulous OrangeSoda the question changes from “Who am I?” to “Who are you?” Every day a new face - this place is growing like crazy. We relocated to a bigger building and are already filling it up. The move, like mine, took a lot of time and involved a lot of work and had some bumps along the way - like new phone numbers!
[Note: If you are in Utah and know anyone who wants to carpool from Fruit Heights to American Fork, Utah please let me know. I have one lead that I haven't followed up with but they are going from Salt Lake to Lehi.]
I’m sure I’ll work out these new identities and get to know some of the new faces. In the meantime, I request a little extra slack.
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July 26th, 2008 at 1:00 am
Janet, you are so funny! You could still be Janet Meiners on the internet if hubby will cut you some slack, and Janet Thaeler in your personal life. After all, you have reached SuperStar status on the net, going from Newspapergrl to Newspapergirl and now you’re Mrs Newspapergirl and maybe you could talk him into being Mr. Newspapergirl ! LOL
July 26th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Janet, there are two questions in life that rarely get answered satisfactorily: “Who am I?” and “What do I want to be when I grow up?” At my ancient age, I’m still trying to answer both of them… Have fun on the journey and congratulations on starting a new adventure along with the OrangeSoda adventure!
July 28th, 2008 at 8:36 am
You make me laugh. Is Orange Soda really growing that fast. All I ever hear are complaints!
At any rate, it sounds like married life is treating you well. Congrats again!