The Backstory
This was the “About Me” page I wrote for GeekMommy’s Weblife back before I let anyone know that GeekMommy & Lucretia Pruitt are one and the same. Just in case you’re curious, it’s a little about me and why I started this blog. I’ve updated it just a touch to get rid of dated references, but it’s all still true!
I’m in my 40’s. I’m a huge geek. Mostly computers. I’m happily married to a huge geek. A few years back, we decided to reproduce. In January of 2003, my darling daughter joined our happy geek household and turned everything upside-down, forever.
This is a good thing.
But, it’s hard to be an “older” Mom – even if you’re one of the many celebrities out there doing it these days. (I’m no celebrity. No au pairs here… nor personal trainers to help me get rid of those ‘problem spots’ but there are days I wish!)
There’s nothing like finding yourself talking to a woman you believe is the Mom of the child that your child is playing with on the playground and thinking “wow! We have so much in common! At last a Mom I can relate to!” only to have her turn to the child and say “Come on Suzy! Grandma’s got to get you home – Mommy will be waiting!” All the while realizing that she’s somewhere within a few years of your age.
It’s hard to be a Geek Mom – because when other Moms sit down around the edge of the playground or the occasional Moms-night-out Table, they want to talk about normal June Cleaveresque, Suburban Mom things. They’re not so much into the latest technology news, social media events, or what MMORPG you’re presently obsessed by. They don’t care that you just scored a deal on the hottest bleeding-edge must-have gadget. The issues of when to address the need to customize your firewall so that your child can’t accidentally access inappropriate content and the pros & cons of running your own DNS server to accommodate for that is far from their minds. Merely stating that your child had a domain name before she had a birth certificate comes across as loony behavior that can cause them to pick up and move to the other side of the park bench.
The only place I can find aging geek Moms with any regularity is here on the Internet. (edit to add:
So be it. I’ll write it… and if you’ve found me and read this far? Maybe you’ll stick around and play.
I won’t promise that it will all be ‘geekish’ posts, or ‘oldish’ posts. After all, I face the same issues anyone else trying to raise a little girl in America in the first part of the 21st Century does… but I do promise that it will be all through the eyes of this GeekMommy.
And so, let’s get on with this, shall we?
