>We meet again…
>When bloggers unite, weird things are bound to happen.
Today, Busy Mom and I met again at the soccer fields. This time, we managed to carve out a good thirty minutes to sit down and talk, but just as I walked up to her at the snack bar, another woman spied Busy and interjected.
“Heyyyyy!, You must be Steven’s wife!”
“Yes, I am,” Busy Mom said, smiling.
“I just saw you and I thought, ‘I know her. Why, that’s Steven’s wife!”
“Yes,” she agreed, “It’s me.”
“Well hi!”
“Hi.”
“Hi.”
“Hi.”
Etcetera, etcetera. You know how that goes. At last, Busy Mom and I sat down at a table. The other woman sat nearby. Busy and I started talking shop. Laptops were mentioned and so were domains. Blogging terms were bandied about, like “site traffic” and “readers” and “online friends.”
At some point, I realized the other woman was totally listening. She had a fixed smile on her face, a vague look in her eye, and an ever-so-slight lean in our direction. Heaven knows what she must’ve been thinking. After all, one doesn’t talk about blogging on the soccer fields. It’s simply not done.
Oh dear, I’ll bet she thought to herself. Did they say Internet? Did I hear something about instant messaging? They must be perverts!
Does Steven know about this?!
By the time we left, the smile plastered across her face had turned into a bemused grimace.
“Get hold of yourself, woman!” I wanted to snap at her as we were leaving. “Don’t you realize you’re in the presence of Busy Mom? A million people would kill to be in your shoes right now!”
Instead, I sadly shook my head at her, as if to say, You could never hope to understand.
Now I understand why so many people want to go to the BlogHer convention every year. It’s the one place you can walk around with your screen name proudly written on your nametag and people will (hopefully) treat you with the respect and awe you so richly deserve. That’s a lot more fun than the real world, where even Busy Mom can shop at Publix without once being asked for an autograph.
I’m glad I’ve met Busy. She’s even more fun in person than she is on her blog. Maybe she’ll even hire me some day to be her personal assistant. I could walk ahead of her on the soccer fields or at the mall and shout, “Make way for Busy Mom! All hail Busy Mom!” Now that would have the other moms talking…
>Okay I’m trying to figure out what to guest post for you and I was reading your 100 things…you play wordracer? I used to spend HOURS there when I was pregnant. It’s embarrassing how many games I’ve played. I bet we’ve played together too, and you kicked my ass.
>wow… is this what I have to look forward to with Peanut? uh-oh… not good at keeping my temper. I am the kind of person that would look at the lady and say, “Ya got a problem?”LOL… I am in trouble!!!
>Ha ha! I was nerdily good at Word Racer (It’s on Yahoo games, people). I got really mad if I didn’t come in first. I can’t believe you are a fellow Word Racer, Mom101. I was going to give you my screen name, but I’ve forgotten it! :/ Ghost, you’ve got lots and lots and lots and lots of passive aggressive mommies to look forward to. Ugh.
>say hi to BUSY!!! I’ve never been to BLOGHER…SIGH! I WANT A FREE TRIP!!
>Incredibly good!
>BlogHer would be so much fun. Are you going?
>No. Go to a blogging convention across the country for women only? My husband would be 100% convinced I had lost my mind.But secretly? I would LOVE to go!
>LOL! You act as though 1000 bloggers would want to meet you! Lucinda, I would probably crap myself if I were to meet you in real life. You AND Busy Mom. And a few others.It is so cool that you two got to meet. How fun!!
>I have yet to meet a fellow blogger but I have some plans in the works. You are actually at the top of my not-so-secret list of bloggers to meet! So I know how you feel about Busy Mom. I was invited to go to BlogHer with a fellow PTA mom who blogs but I can’t get away from the family on my own, it’s simply unheard of! 🙂
>We should have an East Coast convention. We have to represent!!Whenever I talk about blogging with other real life bloggers in public, I always imagine people are thinking we are internet sex chat room junkies. They have no idea how cool we all are 😉
>LOL!!I often wonder if people would like me as much in real life as they do in the blog world… or they might not like me at all and stop reading… ahhh!!LadyBug
>Very nice, Lucinda. But you ain’t no slouch.
>Your writing is amazing Lucinda, perhaps I could be your personal assistant :0)
>Wouldn’t it be fun if more bloggers could meet each other?
>I know what you mean. Today I saw a guy who repeated something back to me that I knew I had said in a bloggers “Comments” section and for a moment I froze. “He knows about my blog!”. Later, I looked at my e-mails and realized that I had used this same phrase in an e-mail to him. What I said was that, as a mother of three sons, it was my job to make sure that our kids with dicks didn’t turn out to be Dicks. So you can understand my concern. Fortunately, he thought it was funny and I’m safe for another day. I want to meet some bloggers close by.
>I AM SO SO SAD that your not going Lucinda. ~sigh~Lena and I signed up a month ago maybe a week or so less, and we are so EXCITED and we were hoping to meet our favorite bloggers there. I live about 5 hours away, so it’s not that bad and my husband STILL thinks I’m crazy but I’m FAR to excited to care.I’m sure that lady thinks something is up, wait until she goes online (if she remembers) and figures out whatcha all were talking about…I am excited to meet someone that get’s the whole blog thing. I did get to meet Kelly from Diary of Nello and that was a blast. I hope I get to meet many many more to come.
>”They must be lesbians! Does Steven know about this?!”lololol…you know those secret instant-messaging lesbians. They’re everywhere.And I notice you mentioned Publix. I live in Florida and when I mention Publix to people from other places they have no clue. It’s all Safeway and Kroger etc. So you and Busy Mom are Publixers…very cool!