My name is Dani, and I am a blog junkie.
Phew, it feels soooo good to finally admit it. But, the only problem is I don’t want to recover. I love blog and all things bloggy – my blog, other people’s blogs, articles online and in the print media about blogging, talking to my friends about what they’ve read in blogs. Blog is good. Blog is life.
Unfortunately, some key people in my life feel a little differently about blog. My employer, for one. Don’t worry, I’m not about to go all Dooce on you and get my ass fired. But, I suspect the IT support guys are on to me. I can only imagine the reports I must trigger with even the most mundane blog content. The smut filters must rev into overdrive on all those references to poop, nipples, sperm, breasts and vaginas, to mention just a few less than innocuous terms I trip over daily on the Mommy Blog circuit.
“No really, I read this stuff for work. I’m compiling a study on, on, (thinking fast, wheels spinning) on the use of blogs to reach a wider audience on the Internet.†Nope, they won’t buy that. How about, “I’ve been analyzing language use in online users, to make sure we are wording our outreach products in terms to which the users can relate.†Hmm, gonna have to work on that one… Any suggestions from the peanut gallery?
The only way I can get any amount of work done at all is to set little performance goals for myself throughout the course of the day. “If I respond to these three urgent e-mails from last week, I can look at one blog.†And, “Since I posted today’s blog entry from home last night, I can follow someone’s blogroll list to TWO new blogs today. Only two. And I’m only allowed to read the most recent post on each. Absolutely NO ARCHIVES. Okay, maybe archives on one. But only if they’re really good blogs. Or mostly good. Or showing a lot of potential, that I will probably find in the archives.â€
Well, you’re probably thinking, why don’t you just do all your blogging at home? Ah, but it were that easy. Even if I suppress my bloggy urges until the kidlets are in bed, there is still Beloved, my blog widower. I don’t think I’m fooling him anymore. I think he realizes that it doesn’t take me 20 minutes to “check the laundry†(did I mention the computer is in the basement beside the laundry room?) or an hour to “pop on to the Internet to see if that cheque clearedâ€. (Nancy mentioned the same pathetic attempts at subterfuge in her comment last week.) We are sad indeed.
Beloved has so capitulated to the fact that blog is simply an irresistible force in our lives that he is in the process of mounting a campaign for us to acquire a laptop. He dangles tantalizing tidbits like “wireless network†and “you can blog from anywhere in the house†– he is almost as insidiously evil as the bus people. The idea of spending a couple of grand on a laptop simply to feed my blog habit is wrong. It is very wrong. It is oh so wrong. It is unimaginably wrong. And no, that is not a Best Buy flyer open on my desk. (But we could probably do without groceries at least one week a month, right?)
hi hi… saw your comments on Kim’s blog. I thought it was darn hilarious that I have to pop in and read yours!
You got me too.. I am a Blog Junkie / addict or whatever they are labelling me. I DON’T NEED HELP! 🙂
Well, since I only read your blogs Dani I think I am only a mild addict. 🙂
Don’t get help. Otherwise what would read in the morning while drinking my coffee. The paper??? Oh, no that just silly information. Your stuff hits a lot closer to home. LOL
Robin
Proud to come 3 maybe 4 times a day to read any all blogs. Becoming a bad habit….that I don’t want to fix.
And who needs food anyways?
Yes Yes Yes and it is all your fault! No longer can I blame my sleep deprivation on my children – but on reading all the damn blogs out there.
“Checking” for something yet again…or rather plunked kids in front of TV in order to satisfy my urges. Oops – LMAO urges – hope hubby doesn’t read this!
So I’m not the only one who has to create little cover stories for her blog habit? I feel so relieved!
Hmmmmm, it’s a double edged sword for me. I can’t quite get that thrill from reading the blogs of strangers, however, I love to read the ones of people I know. It’s almost like picking into their brain a bit and reading their private thoughts.
Dani, I really enjoyed yours this morning as you managed to tie in so many bits from past entries. Although that isn’t really fair, as somewhere, there is some poor husband waiting for his wife to get off the computer and she is now combing YOUR archives!
Poof….another addiction is born
Looks like we need to form a support group here. Bloggers Anonymous anyone?
Thanks to all for your feedback, your encouragement just feeds my habit! That’s a good thing, right?
xo Danigirl
Blogs are too addictive (I think that Bill Gates and the folks at Dell or Gateway are behind it somehow) but they are just sooo good to read. This year I asked that a laptop be the “family” Christmas present (hey, hubby gets to use it between 1 and 6am if he wishes!!)
Jen
Hey Jen – that’s the second time you’ve mentioned a Bill Gates conspiracy. Do I see a pattern here?
Beloved has YOU salivating over buying computer hardware :)LOL:). He’s good.
Achilles, what’s wrong with your ankle?
Hahaha. (Found you through MUBAR, btw.)
I like to compose little messages to our IT people in the middle of blog posts or comments or emails: Hello, censors! This is not child porn! I love my job, really!
I do, I love it, I’m not making it up!
(That was for the censors.)
Like your blog, it’s quite funny.