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Delicious Humble Pie

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I keep thinking that I’m running a great website. That I spend time on it, and create content that keeps you coming back for more. Yesterday, computer running all fast and new, I reread my entire blog back to front.

I’m sorry.

If you’ve been here since then, my bad. I got a little too worried about finding you pictures. I should write you stories. It’s nice to know exactly where I hit my stride -about 20 pages ago. Too bad there are 150 pages. I’m a slow learner. There’s a little bit of funny mixed up in there, but there’s a lot of trial and error internet junk. I’m going to work on that.

I am so glad I do have this space to log our journeys and adventures – rereading all about my New Zealand trip brought back a ton of great memories. I tend to forget all the little things very easily these days, which has me all the more determined to do a better job of storytelling here.  I also get a little sick and tired of packing and moving, but was reminded yesterday that there is no reason I shouldn’t feel like the luckiest chick in the world to have such a fun if at times tumultuous life.

I’m pretty excited about the new header RD made just for me- surely you’ve noticed it by now. I’m going to think of robot fighting chickens every time I write, and that should spice this place up a little bit.

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Dooce

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I met dooce last night! This is the giant exciting post (that Mom said don’t bother with).  

 Reread my previous entry about dooce here.

Let's go meet dooce!

Let's go meet dooce!

TB is a super big fan. She noticed dooce was here for a book signing. We braved a winter storm warning, had a delicious Lebanese dinner, and went to the reading. It’s tough to collectively frame all my thoughts the day after, but I’ll do my best.

TB gets the bits I don’t get, obviously- I don’t have a baby. It’s amazing to see all the women that can relate – there was an awesome turnout (more people than will ever even buy the book I’m never going to publish, never mind want to MEET me!).

Super excited fan yo!

Super excited fan yo!

I’m more interested in the blogging your life stories. I could see writing on cnet or even Yahoo!, but I have a hard time truly opening up and telling y’all stories sometimes. That lady has it ALL out there, and for a million people she’s never met. That’s just plain crazy to me! She made it look so easy, no big thing. Her reading was something I could never do, not with 12 family members staring up at me!

Talking about sex in front of her parents...

Talking about sex in front of her parents...piece of cake

We headed over to the King’s English, a super adorable book store I want to own one day and sit around reading in, and got our books signed. TB was so nervous that later in the car she was sure she said something creepy, but her filter was on, she only gushed the just right amount. I couldn’t think of anything to say (dude, people brought her gifts, that threw me) but did tell her husband outside that he does an awesome job programming. That was all I could think of.

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Cupcakes & Design

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Here at SomeGoSoftly you will find some of the most discerning readers on the internet – people that care about news and facts and creativity. HA! But you know I love you all dearly – especially lately – it is so busy here! Thanks!

So I want to do you all a favor and let you know about anther place you might like to check out.  I recently reconnected via Facebook with one of the super nicest girls I knew in High School. She’s started herself a website.

Run over there and say hi. Cupcakes & Design already has SomeGoSoftly beat – she knew how to design her own page. If you’re nice to her, she might even help me tinker around over here!

She blogs about design, multimedia, the web, and yummy food. A great combination, since I’m always eating while I’m sitting in front of the laptop! 🙂

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No Comparison

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There are only two things that SomeGoSoftly has in common with Dooce.

1. I have a blog.

2. I now live in Utah.

That’s where that ends. I was painfully reminded recently of the awesomeness that is the first blog ever to cause an uproar. Because hey, I’m in her state. I’m on her territory. I should be so good at blogging by now.

Not.

Her blog kinda set the standard other blogs fall short of. She’s got her own Urban Dictionary reference. She’s got ads. An income. Cute custom CSS blog design. I’m making myself jealous.

When Snippy first mentioned to me the big wide world of internet diary blog keeping…I was in a trance. I read some dude she pointed me to that I think wrote a lot about chickens or rabbits, I don’t remember. I read Snippy’s entire site. (At work.) And I read Dooce beginning to end. (Also at work…) I started this site. (Totally at work.)

I put up pictures. I tried to have an interesting life to tell y’all about. I made friends that hate blogs read this site by not calling. I moved around. Well, maybe that wasn’t for the sake of the site but you get the idea. So here I am, in cruise control posting when the mood strikes me, thinking that I can keep the love alive. Without so much as an afterthought.

But my pictures are crappy. And I don’t have cute dogs. OR kids. I’ve got Friday Fives. And we all secretly know that you don’t even find those very amusing. So instead of promising miracles of hilarity, I’m gonna keep being lame over here in my furry warm little internet corner, the niche about zombies and my dorky life. I’m going to keep on keepin’ on, so thanks to you (family and four friends that hit refresh 30 times a day) for your continued support.

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You Can’t Always Get What You Want

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And by “you”, I mean “you”. I on the other hand successfully managed to convince MK over the weekend to order me a brand spanking new laptop, just like I wanted. It wasn’t easy. And I have to wait a few days for it to ship. (Can’t anything ever just be cheap in the store!?!)

I hate begging. But I did learn an important lesson. Anything I want – I’d even go so far as to say I needed this new computer, mine IS on it’s deathbed – has stopped coming as easy as it did when we were dating. The last laptop, I maybe made fleeting mention of never having my own computer, and *poof* there it was. This one might have involved temper tantrums. Oh well. The super cool super light prize I desired is on the way.

Guess what that means??? Live blogging from SXSW! If you click this link right here, you can relive all of last year’s epic fun (Scroll down a bit past the first two posts). It’ll get you excited!

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Laptop Thursday

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Threats don’t usually work in my house. They get laughed at. I, (all 5 feet of me) apparently, am not all that threatening. I can’t understand that.

My latest threat is “Laptop Thursday”. For the last couple weeks, I’ve been reminding my husband that I asked for a new laptop for Christmas and was told to wait until the super tiny fancy one I wanted “went on sale”. Well, on our last travels, I won a giant crack in my laptop screen, compliments of the TSA. Supposedly this can be fixed, but to me it’s a sign that I NEED A NEW LAPTOP.

I really do want to finish a book or two and concentrate my efforts on publication. I can’t concentrate on anything with the upper right hand side of the screen all scratched and broken. Tomorrow is supposed to be the day, the plan is supposed to go down like this:

I get dressed up and get directions and get into my car and drive to a store, point to a computer I like without any education on said laptop, and purchase it without so much as a thought.

This plan has been repeatedly relayed to the husband with the hope it will scare him sufficiently to A) Come along and pick the right computer, or B) Order me the equivalent however he sees fit.

Really the idea is to not go buy something that will get me grounded for ever, but to at least give the appearance that I will to force him into action. I’ll let you know how it goes.

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In Case You Missed It

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There are a lot of good blogs out there. So many, in fact, they were cluttering up the sidebar that none of you look at anyway. In case you missed it, I’m announcing formally that I’ve moved the BLOGROLL to the tab in the header (the thing at the top of the page) called “Best Bloggers“. Click that and you’ll be taken to a very special page with all the links to all my online buddies (really, I practially know these people). So, if it’s a somegoslowly kind of a day over here, you can peruse more of the internets! I’m subscribed to all of them, so you should be too! Just don’t break up with me for any of them, or I’ll cry.

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Good Stuff While I Marinate

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So there’s a couple places that I want to point your attention to while I’m trying to remember how to use the keyboard.

First, there’s this blog that I can’t get enough of that I want to share with you. Still A Person is an internet acquaintance of mine that went and got married, knocked up his wife very soon thereafter, and is now about to be the father of twins. Girl twins. Wow. He writes them letters that make my blogging look like 3rd grade essays. UPDATE: That part of the life story over, he’s continuing his blogging endeavor here now.

Then of course, after a long absence, Snippy is blogging again, but now she’s a mommy blogger. You heard it here first. She is the proud parent of two little munchkins. I’m sure that’s going to be good.

Unlike these people, somegosoftly has no intentions (sorry again mom and dad) of becoming a mommy, now or ever.  But, in the vein of The Blind Leading the Blind, who has chosen to blog to you about the fitness of getting sexy, I’m thinking I might use this space to remind you what I’m supposed to be doing- getting around to publishing two books. Interested?

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