I can add blogging to list of things for which I will never be rich or famous.
Blogging, running, (prior to having three children) having nice cleavage, the list could go on and on. I can make a fucking fantastic cosmopolitan though.
I should mention that this started as a comment to Its Just A Blog and so I just decided to plagiarize my own stuff and post it here.
That whole BlogHer sensation is obviously a powerful one. It seems like all those Vagina MonoBlogs (inspired, bejewell!) are full of who’s going/who said something spiteful last year/blah blah blahs that frankly I never thought I’d deal with as an adult.
Was it Woody Allen who said something about not wanting to be part of any club that would have him as a member? I feel like that pretty often which is why I steer Way Clear of anything that smacks of any Mommy War Battles. I don’t play because there’s no way to win, and I like to win. When I worked and had a small child, there was always going to be someone that disagreed with that decision. Now that I stay home with three kids, no doubt there is someone lurking around ready to argue that one too. I guess what I’m saying is that I have no need to get approval from most people about my blog, my lifestyle, or my vacuum cleaner (A BIG SOURCE OF PLAYGROUP DISCUSSION! WTF?! Which is why I don’t belong to one anymore).
I guess I could get my butt down to Barnes & Noble and get a book on how to make my blog beautiful and pick up a WordPress for Dummies book and figure it all out. But, I’m working on starting a small business (we go live 9/1/2008, people) and I have lots of other pastimes that, despite my aforementioned mediocrity, I enjoy. There’s always running…my 10:12 pace in my recent 1/2 marathon isn’t going to get me to Beijing in 2008 or the Boston Marathon, gardening…I have a massive yellow spot in the middle of my yard, or playing poker…still haven’t qualified for the World Poker Tour and I was too intimidated in Vegas to play anything over a $5 BlackJack Table.
Of course, this isn’t to say that if the circumstances presented themselves that I wouldn’t go to BlogHer at some point. I would and I have no doubt I would enjoy it. Hell, half the posts I’ve read have something to do with drinking copious amounts of wine and that’s fun no matter where you are (NOTE: There are about three exceptions to that rule. Another post). It would be a pleasure to meet some of the very talented ladies who manage to blog for a lifestyle. I have a high school friend who is actually a pretty popular mommy blogger (I think that she would like Vagina MonoBlog). But, I doubt that blogging will ever be my main gig and that’s just fine with me.
So, to my blogging friend Bejewell…she says that I have the best blog name, but she has the best for real name…we’re going to be the Gamma Girls of Blogging. There are the Alpha Girls…the pretty cheerleading types, and the Beta Girls that follow their lead. But the Gamma Girls are the ones that know how to Be Their Own Girls. And, as I tell the Bear all the time, Being Your Own Girl is the Best.
July 7, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Can I say that I’m actually glad I have an excuse NOT to go this year? I just think it’s TOO MUCH. However – I may hit the one in Atlanta. Fewer women and a higher percentage of them being Southern = Me less likely to be insecure about my accent. I think my odds are better there.
I think my social anxiety is too intense to handle big functions involving lots of women – bloggers or not. I’m much better at sporting events. Maybe because beer is easier to come by.
July 7, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Blogging for yourself is its own best reward. But I have to say that aside from a few women who think that there’s such a thing as being “popular” for a blog, most bloggers recognize that the very reason most of us started blogging in the first place is that we were the quite, socially-anxious girls sitting alone in the cafeteria. Except for me. I stayed in the cafeteria and ate with my mom who was the lunch lady. True story.
PS. This blog theme exactly the same one I had 6 months ago. Same banner and everything. I’m having flashbacks.
July 7, 2008 at 9:54 pm
I will gladly be your Gamma Girl cohort. Screw the Alphas and Betas. Viva la revolucion!
July 8, 2008 at 11:04 am
I’m going to be sitting at home on my vagina writing my vagina blog.
I’ve never been to blogher.
July 8, 2008 at 6:30 pm
What, no cross country alert from the Mini-Cooper re your f*****g fantastic cosmo?
Not quite sure what your first bartender teacher would have to say about that…. Regardless, the cranberry juice in my fridge eagerly awaits its transformation.
July 8, 2008 at 8:49 pm
You really do have the best blog name. Which is way more impressive than wearing an upside down triangle on your butt – I mean a putting a button on your site – that says you went to Blogher.
July 9, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Reading f*****g and hearing it are different. You may be famous for your cosmos, though. They are fabulous. Never heard of Blogher until now – seems interesting . . . .
July 10, 2008 at 9:18 am
FYI–I knew it was not Woody Allen who said that, but couldn’t remember who it was. According to a quotations website, it was Groucho Marx.