You Don’t Know Me But I Stalk Your Blog

Hello, all 800 of you.

Want to know what’s making me hap-hap-happy these days?  Every couple of days some more-or-less stranger comes up to me and says “You don’t know me but I stalk your blog.” 

It makes me want to dance on rainbows or do the Michael Jackson “Hee hee!”

Hee hee!

I’m always so relieved when a reader outs herself (let’s be real, like five of you are men and mostly related to me) and I burst into a big fat ball of happy because I don’t have to explain anything!  You kinda know me already!  You aren’t going to be weirded out by the hair or ask me questions about who my kids belong to and all that.

We’re friends!  Or at least I think we are even though it’s a little one sided – I mean I know next to nothing about you and I’m always completely mystified by your readership.  This is just my dumb old life chronicled primarily as a journal and secondarily for my own amusement and thirdilerily (what?  How is it spelled?) so my friends can see what’s up around these parts.

Is your blog linked to mine and private?  That is not fair.  I want in.  Add me please (that means you, Circe!)

I love getting adds from new friends on facebook who know me through my blog.  I love getting emails from distant acquaintances with third party perspectives.  Most of all I love sharing my testimony from what looks like an unlikely source.  You have to wait for Testimony meeting.  I get to affirm my beliefs any time I want – edited and not off the cuff.

Jesus optical illusion.

It’s kinda how I used to feel when people would tell me they read my book.  I always think “Why?  How did that happen?”  I’m terrible at marketing.  I’m about 50% sure my mom has just bought a bunch of copies and given them out to make me feel good.  I don’t know why Amazon has it listed at $34, that’s highway robbery.

Thankfully, I’m not the last Greenbomb girl blogging.  First Ellie dropped, then Paige, then recently my famous blog sister Celia.  Camille has just started up again, thankfully.  She only writes nice things.  Aubrey also posts fairly regularly and I appreciate her Teddy photos.

Camille, lower left.  Aubrey in white. Both still blogging.  Quitters pictured: Paige, Celia, Ellie.

 

If you’re blogging regularly and I don’t know about it that needs to change.  Please put your address in the comments.  Oh, will you also let me know if there are some things you’d like me to blog about? Always on the search for new topics.

Now for the Shout-outs:

Genevieve – I got your email, hells yes!  You have great ideas.  In a world where I could drive for two hours round trip without my kids I would absolutely meet you for hot chocolate and talk through these things.  I am working on it.  It will happen.

Patty – I delegate you as the responsible party for coordinating aforementioned hangout.  I am in.

Marie – I read you.  Why have we not collectively lain on the couch and commiserated in our overwhelmed state?  Why?  Oh yeah, because we are overwhelmed.

Caroline – I want a fancy button that people can put on their pages “I Am Nortorious” with the html code.  Do you know how to do that?  Do you know someone who knows?

Niya – You famous!  I saw you in Sephora on the Bumble and Bumble Hair Products and in Costco on the modBod cami’s!  Proud of you.

Kirsten – Thanks for inspiring this post.  You made my week! 

Brett – You are my Best Best Friend in the whole wide world.  So it is written, so shall it be.  Be thankful I didn’t use your whole name and make it googleable, and if you deny it I will.

Some Guy – They made a vow their mother would be found.

Mardee – I need more info about Budapest.  Get on that, lazy blogger.  Did you go to the creepy spa I suggested? 

Cafro – Pretend this is me calling you back.  I am a phone call failure, can you please just start texting like a normal human being?

Al – I may be down there in the next month.  By the way, it’s time for another baby.  Specifically of the female variety.

Marc – It’s just a phase.  All of it.

Bronwyn – Your blog about Gwen was delicious.  What a perfect baby she was and darling girl she is.  Also, you are super fun and I am trying to ration myself with you.  And also I’m stealing Ana, soft A.  Fof?

Eva – Got your email, you’re absolutely right.  Thank you for your ongoing support I love hearing from you.

There’s so much more to say to so many of you lovelies, but those are some of the ones who have contacted me and I didn’t respond because I am lame.  There are more I need to contact.

Any way, thanks for coming with me on this wild ride.