Billy-isms and Winnie the Pooh

On By Erin @ Cracker Crumb LifeIn day in the life

So one day while driving around, Billy and I fell into a rabbit hole about personality types and our friends and Winnie the Pooh. Mainly, how we thought everyone had a Winnie the Pooh character to match their personality, and then of course, deciding who we were and who our friends were in the 100 Hundred Acre Wood. Then we of course went off on another tangent about whether we all had secondary characters and who those were. Then I wondered if anyone else had wondered all of this too, which of course they had, and I found there were all sorts of quizzes and tests that match the characters to the Myers-Briggs Personality test, which was yet another rabbit hole for us. And I feel I have begun to ramble but stay with me, this was all just to warm up to the topic of my husband being a human Winnie the Pooh, but one who wears pants of course.

Billy is my perfect counterbalance, as I am to him. I am the Piglet to his Pooh, and even this probably not very scientific version of the Myers-Briggs tests shows this. I am not one hundred percent sold on these types of things, but they do ring with some truth. According the online tests we have taken, Billy is an ISFP and I am an ISFJ. Or Pooh and Piglet.

“Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?”

”Supposing it didn’t,” said Pooh after careful thought.”

I always say Billy is a like walking calm-bomb. Like just being near him is so relaxing, he exudes waves of calm and peace. It’s funny, because during a huge problem at his work a few years ago, one where Billy and his boss actually stayed at work together for three days working on it, his boss said something similar, that Billy is just so calming to be near. You get a sense that everything is going to be ok. He is laid back and confident and pretty agreeable, and is always willing to help. Billy’s mom told me that he was always like this. Just unflappable. She also told me that he was impossible to discipline because he nothing really bothered him and he found ways to entertain himself; she would send him to his room, take things away, and she would find him just singing to himself, happy as could be.

What got me thinking about this again is something Billy has been saying and doing. His “May as well” attitude. If you are doing x, then you may as well do y. If you are in the basement doing something, then you may as well thrown in a load of laundry. If you are heading to the bedroom, you may as well pick up Wyatt’s socks off the floor and throw them in the dirty clothes. (Wyatt always tosses his socks hither and yon – he is a total Roo) You get the idea. And I have started to do it myself. It just seems like such a gentle way to get things done, and multi-task. Instead of looking at it like a chore, it’s a may as well.

Billy has other little Billy-isms that I have learned and implemented. One thing he does is the “ok”. If someone is giving him their opinion on how to do something or maybe just opinion, and Billy is not of the same mindset, instead of disagreeing with them outright, he just says “ok”. Like a verbal shrug. Then does it his way anyway. This really only works if it is something that he doesn’t need to collaborate on, something that is his own already. He says there is no point in arguing with someone you are not going to change their mind on.

Billy also tells me all the time that it is “ok to just be ok.” Because as we established, I am Piglet and can come up with a worry about anything. He says sometimes I can just bounce from one thing to the next, and that it is “ok to just be ok”. So I have started to internalize that Billy-ism as well. Because he is right, it is ok just to be ok.

What about you all? Are you a Pooh or a Piglet? Or maybe a Tigger or an Owl? I would like to think I am also a little bit Kanga, but I might also be a little bit Rabbit…

Thanks for reading through this probably silly post of mine!

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18 thoughts on “Billy-isms and Winnie the Pooh”

  3. billy beard's avatar billy beard

    O, bother.

    🙂 thank you! Erin.

    Here is a “real” Piglet quote that reminds me of you.

    “The things that make me different are the things that make me, me.”
    —Piglet

    and I love your for them.

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  4. I love this post! You know I already have adopted his “ok” attitude.

    This line got me: this was all just to warm up to the topic of my husband being a human Winnie the Pooh, but one who wears pants of course.

    I just laughed out loud! Loved it!

    Warren is probably more of Winnie the Pooh and I’m a cross between Piglet and Eyore. lol

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  5. marsha57's avatar marsha57

    Did you know I used to decorate my classroom with Winnie the Pooh? Well, of course, you didn’t! But, I did until we went through this corporation training, and I had to take it all down because the trainer said it made my students feel like they had to buy me Winnie the Pooh gifts! I had so many stuffed animals but finally donated them when we moved from up north. My grandson was absolutely terrified of Bouncing Tigger!

    Billy sounds like the perfect man, Erin! Especially since he wears pants!!! I had to chuckle at that one. Mike now asks me if we’re going somewhere if he has to wear hard or soft pants. I don’t know that I’ll ever get that man into dress up clothes again!

    I was really surprised to discover I’m a Roo! I really see myself as Christopher Robin or Owl at the very least. But, Roo is lovable so I’ll go with that! But, I’m definitely going to use “OK” in the Billy way from now on. It will keep me out of trouble!

    Thanks for a fun post, and give your Winnie the Pooh a hug!

    https://marshainthemiddle.com/

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    1. What? Really? Lol! Influencing even then. Tigger was Wyatt’s favorite character when he was younger but if a stuffed animal talked or moved he hated it!

      Well…he does have his flaws! Lol. Oh my gosh, that is how we are with pants too. I live in yoga pants during the day and when I have to go somewhere and wear “real” pants all day it makes me sad. Then the minute we walk in the house I change. Billy also wears soft pants around the house. But he does wear pants! Lol.

      I can TOTALLY see you as a Roo!! I have not met you but you exude energy even through the interwebs. And Roo is definitely a lovable character.

      I am glad that you enjoyed this!!

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  9. How lovely to have such a calming presence in your life, I am very glad for you! I do might as well, too, though that often leads to me struggling up the stairs with armsful of stuff! I am an ISTJ so Eyeore, as I assumed!

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