Nov 27 2007
Eight
“TODAY!” I thought. “Today I have some extra time and I’m going to catch up on all the blogs I’ve missed lately!”
Yeah. I tried. I really did. But here’s the problem:
See, I have my blog lists arranged by days of the week. They are in “bookmark categories”, ordered as Monday, Tuesday, etc. Crap, I have no idea if I’m making any sense as I try to explain this. Hmmmm. Anyway, a dear friend gave me the idea when she realized that I was always complaining about being behind on my Google Reader. She explained that this way I can arrange to read some blogs every day, and some I just read twice a week or whatever. It’s an excellent system and I’d love to give her full credit for the idea, but I’m not sure if she wants the whole world to know that that’s what she does, so I’ll wait for her to reveal herself, rather than me being the one to “out” her.
ANYWAY, since today is Tuesday, I opened my Tuesday link list into tabs. 26 blogs in all are assigned to Tuesday (though some of those 26, as I tried to explain, are also assigned to other days of the week too). Now, again, please understand that I haven’t done ANY blog-reading in weeks, let alone have I read all 26 or whatever assigned to every day. Some people on my lists haven’t seen me around in MONTHS.
So, I opened up the Tuesday list. By the way, I have these listed completely randomly—not in order of favorite or ugliest or goofiest or whatever. Just how they ended up in my bookmarks. And, wanna know why I didn’t get very far? Because the first eight blogs on the list that opened up are:
Something to Say: About Life in The Netherlands
Soccer Mom in Denial
Do you have any idea how excellent these 8 blogs are? They are certainly NOT the only excellent blogs I read (and miss desperately!). But still, what an amazing 8!! You have to understand that I adore these women. Every single one of them. I am enriched by them, I am enlightened by them, I am educated by them, and I am entertained by them. I am in awe of these women that I am so blessed to “associate” with. And, so, I ended up spending seriously like half an hour at each of those eight blogs. I started with the most recent post, and then couldn’t keep myself from going back farther and farther and reading most or all of the posts that I’d missed. How I bask in their words!!!
But! It also means that I missed 19 of “Tuesdays” blogs, not to mention all of my Monday blogs, Sunday blogs, Saturday blogs…
I have no idea how I’m going to catch up. I can’t spend half an hour at every blog. But I can’t help it! Your blogs are so amazing! Which means, of course, that tomorrow I will probably only make it to eight or so blogs too. Sigh. Anyway, I’m working on it!
And if, by chance, you have nothing else to do (cuz I know that everyone but me is just sitting around doing nothing…) I strongly suggest that you check those 8 blogs out. 8 beautiful women, 8 awesome blogs, 8 true friends.
