Coming to a Nursery Near You

Blogging is, by nature, cyclical.  What I mean is we blog, you comment, we blog some more.  The problem with that is, if you stop commenting, we stop blogging. Blog dies. Blogger folds up like an accordion and a little piece of them dies.

Dramatic huh?

Ok, so it’s not all the COMMENTERS fault.  If we, the blogger(s) stop blogging, then of course, we’re not providing anything for you to comment ON, and the cycle comes to a screeching halt as well.

So I’ve been trying hard to blog more often, not be so whiny (ha!) but still remain true to why I started blogging in the first place.  I needed a place to VENT. 

I vent, I bitch & moan, I complain and sometimes, I even cheer and smile and laugh.  But I *do* try.

By blogging, I’m putting my life out there, yes.  By blogging, though, I’m giving myself the gift of expressing those things that, quite often, keep me up at night and cause problems in my life and psyche.  I go through spurts where I don’t blog, but typically that’s because I don’t want what’s going on in my life at that particular moment, to affect those of my family that do *not* need to know those things.  Sometimes, I’ll blog about those things on other blogs I may or may not have, other times, I’ll just keep it to myself.  Not the optimal way of dealing with it, but sometime’s it’s necessary.

I know that my blogging slacked off quite a bit when I was seeing my therapist in New Hampshire.  Probably because I was telling her all the things that I was experiencing or thinking about, I didn’t need to also put it Here – but seeing as now I have no therapist, I have no outlet again.  So here I am, just a blogger, asking you, just a commenter, to give me a second chance.  I know you’re visiting, I see it in my stats. So just say hi while you’re at it.  It’ll make me feel better, knowing that I am NOT just doing this for the crickets.

Me thinks it has.

I wonder, did the original creators of DWTS over in England have people like this in mind when they created the show?

• Yet another ABC Soap actor  (and I use the term loosely)
• yet another obscure senior citizen
• yet ANOTHER blonde bimbo bombshell actress(ish) – or at least she used to be.
• yet ANOTHER football player with 2 left feet
• a reality tv “star” x SIX
• 90210 throwback – again
• a tv reporter (again)
• an Olympic athlete (again)
• an ABC Bachelor/Bachlorette (again)
• I don’t even know HOW to categorize Kate Gosselin – she falls under so many of the above.
• Semi-obscure actress turned reality show host?
• Kardashian Look-a-like scantily clad pop band member (ala Cheetah Girl & 2 of the Spice GIrls)
• Seriously – Kate Gosselin has EIGHT YOUNG CHILDREN that she will foist off on someone else in order to attend to the maaaaannnnyyyyy hours of rehearsal that all these people have to do.  Of course, that will mean taking time away from her book tour, too.  How ever will she handle it.  *rolls eyes*

Pamela Anderson – reality tv & felon

Shannen Doherty – reality tv & felon

Kate Gosselin – reality tv “Octomom”

Nicole Scherzinger – reality tv & singer

Erin Andrews – who?

Niecy Nash – reality tv

Evan Lysacek – athlete

Aiden Turner – soap star

Jake Pavelka – reality tv

Chad Ochocinco – athlete

Buzz Aldrin – “Octogenarian”

I’m left wondering just how many “seasons” we have left of DWTS.  Will they finally downgrade the name to “Dancing with the used-to-be-famous-but-not-necessarily-in-a-good-way”, or perhaps “Dancing with the people-who-have-something-to-plug”?  MAYBE it should be “Dancing with the reality “Stars””.

I can say that for myself, I used to watch it live every week, both nights.  I’d shush my kids, shut the door and just enjoy the show.  Now, I tivo it and IF I watch them the next morning, it’s a surprise.  At least last season, I watched for Donny Osmond & Kelly Osbourne.  The season before, Marie Osmond (ALSO a mother of 8!).  They were people to root for. 

It leaves me wondering, also, if this is why some of the pro dancers don’t compete – like Jonathan Roberts this year, Juliana Hough last year.

1. What’s something you do more quickly than most people?
   Type
2. What’s something you do more carelessly than most people?
   keep house lol
3. What’s something you do more slowly than most people?
   keep house
4. What’s something you do more carefully than most people?
   take photos
5. In what contexts are you more patient than most people?
   helping people… most of the time anyway

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Do you have blogger friends who have turned into “in-real life” friends? If yes, do you consider these friendships any different than those that developed more conventionally? What do you tell people when they ask how you developed the friendship? If no, what are you waiting for have you ever thought about what it would be like to meet a fellow blogger in real life?

Absolutely!  I’m very happy to have made ‘in-real’ friends with my friend Angel, who is my best friend in the whollllle world.  As well, I have made ‘in-real’ friends with the wonderfully talented trio of Coutus, Jane, Audrey & Sharon.  I consider the friends I’ve made online through blogging to be just as special as those I may have made more conventionally, but truth be told, I have very few of those.

As for telling people how I’ve made friends, there’s really no reason for the differentiation.  Friendships are friendships.   In fact, I would most definitely say that the friends I’ve met through blogging are more in tuned with me & my life than those whom I’ve met otherwise. 

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