Blog Party Recap

On to what you really want to hear about- the Blog Party!

Busy Mom and I met at my house and rode to the party together. Thank God. Not only did she know exactly how to get to the downtown bar and where to park, but we gabbed all the way there, stopping only when the elevator door opened right into a barroom packed full of bloggers.

At that moment, I remembered that I was supposed to be nervous. And it hit me in a huge tidal wave as I stood frozen and wide-eyed in the elevator. I decided at that point to just stay in the elevator until the doors closed again.

The only problem was that there were people behind me. People who were making noises like they wanted to get out. Busy Mom gave me a strange look and I reluctantly stumbled out of the elevator and into the fray. In a moment of genius, I motioned for Busy Mom to go ahead so that I could walk behind her through the crowd. I had this idea that I could spend the whole party this way, letting B-Mo do all the work of meeting and greeting, while I waved from behind her.

That worked for about a minute before she was onto me. I was forced to come out from behind her and start shaking hands and making conversation. And you know what? Everyone was very warm and polite! Not one person gave me the finger. We chatted with lots of cool bloggers, including Bob Krumm and his lovely wife, Brittney and her Boyfriend, Aunt B, Kerry Woo, Short and Fat (who, to our great surprise was neither fat nor bald like we had imagined), Ceeelcee, Dork Nation (who also writes for the Scene), Randy Elrod, Mark Lee, Terry Heaton, Rex Hammock, Katherine Coble (who initally thought Busy Mom was Rex Hammock’s wife because she hadn’t put Busy Mom on her name tag like a good girl! Har!) and like, dozens of others whom I’m totally forgetting right now. Forgive me. The Backyardigans are on. Brain drain is occuring.

And then there were the mommy bloggers. Shauna was there and we bonded over Pee Wee’s Playhouse. (I think she probably took me for a total weirdo after I reenacted an entire scene from PWP like, two minutes after meeting her. That was my big idiot moment). And Sista Smiff… Girlfriend, it was like I’d known you forever. No wonder everyone raves about this woman. She was hilarious!

My favorite moment was when Terry Heaton took camera video of an unsuspecting Busy Mom. He put his camera right up to her face and said something like, “Are you the greatest mommy blogger in the world?” And she grimaced and squinted and hemmed and hawed and looked totally abashed. And I giggled wickedly in the background. Luckily for her, he opted to use the picture of the two of them together, rather than the video. Heh.

As we were finally leaving, Hubs called on my cell phone.

“So, did you meet any blunks?” he wanted to know.

“Blunks?”

“You know, blog hunks.”

I left him guessing on that one. But I will say there were an awful lot of Blice Folks there. And I would totally do it again.