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To Whom it May Concern: Blog Withdrawal
August 22nd, 2008
It started out so innocently. I was bored at Heartless cellular company. My manager told me to kill some time because I was making my teammates look bad by actually being productive. He gave me the password to be able to read blogs and chat boards from my work computer. I saw a post on The Nest that asked “what mommy blogs do you read?” Mommy Blog? What the heck is that?, I wondered. I was about five months pregnant and voraciously reading anything “Mommy” related. Dooce.com was the only one mentioned in the responses to the original post so I wandered on over to read my very first blog entry.
It was friggin hilarious. I read back through her archives and was enthralled. She had a post that listed the blogs that she reads everyday. I followed her cue to Finslippy, Fussy, and Mighty Girl. I was officially a hooked blog reader. I expanded and started reading blogs I found on my own, Amalah, Looky Daddy and more. I branched out from just parenting blogs and started to read humor, politics, and activist blogs as well. I am a crazy fast reader so I could spend 30 minutes a day and catch up on 10 blogs easily.
This is where you come in. You started your own blog. A Blog! From someone I know! That I can read everyday and it will be like an email just from you that shares your innermost thoughts and is funny and SQUEEEE! Breathe. I laughed, I cried, I was inspired with ideas for The Huckablog. And then your posts dropped from daily to bi-weekly, to weekly to oh yeah I should post something eventually. The whole time I faithfully added you to my blogroll. I directed others, friends and strangers to your site. I had faith in you, in your writing and knew you would entertain and motivate. I checked your site everyday. Then every other day. And now? I am thinking seriously about dropping you from my blogroll.
Please do not make me drop you. I rarely check blogs not on the blogroll anymore because I no longer have a boss that encourages me to goof off. My boss is much more demanding now. I have to sneak in internet time between naps, and early bedtimes. For the love of whomever will invoke you, post something already. It does not have to be perfect, it does not have to be particularly galvanizing; I do not have to be made to laugh or weep with every entry. You do not have to post every single day, I think two or three times a week is well within proper blogiquette. I can only go through one form of withdrawal at a time, so please just BLOG already!
Yours Sincerely,
Hey You Desperatelyseekingnewposts-Huckablog
p.s. A tweet does not equal blogging. Thank you very much.
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Hey. Are you talking about me? Alright already…geez…you don’t have to be such a (insert bleep here) about it. Really, you know I have e-mail. You could have said this in a more personal manner.
Okay, so if indeed you were talking about me (and I do suspect that you were), I have now added two posts just for you…and anyone else who cares about the ShoeShe. But, I must say, I’ve been pretty busy taking care of my mom, my grandfather and my great aunt. We’ll talk later…maybe on that new invention they call a phone. You can actually talk out loud with someone miles away…like hear inflection in their voice and everything…my number hasn’t changed.
Hey You thinks Shoe She has a guilty conscience! There are four people on my blog roll this was directed at. You are just one of them. Oh, and your cell has gone straight to VM the last five or six times I have tried to call…I kinda thought it might be off for a good reason (your Mama) Love ya!
Crapola. That above comment…and this one too, are from HEY YOU not GRAMMY. I am at her house taking care of dogs and she auto-logs in.
Well fine, on the whole voice mail thing, but every time I call you I get voice mail too. So, I guess we have a lot in common.
At least you two try to call each other. I always answer my phone but I never get any calls from either of you. Out of state out of mind?
Not exactly, Cat…I seem to have misplaced your numbers…and only have the ones with the old area code, which I know don’t work. I did find your work number on the internet, but didn’t you say you have a kinda snitty secretary? You should call me and then your number would be on my cell.
You’re never out of mind.
Shoeshe, I care about your blog, I like reading it, so I don’t like it when you don’t post for a few weeks either.
lol, I just updated my blog before I read this. The update revolves around your request for pictures of The Roommate’s hair, though I am not sure that there is a picture of it’s full glory.