Having a blog is a little like being on the radio because you have absolutely no feed back. For all I know I am the most boring person on the face of the Earth. (Except for you Faith- I know you think I’m amusing!) Also it’s weird because I don’t know who is reading it. That means that sometimes when I am talking to people, I don’t know if I am repeating myself or if the stories are really new to them. The worst is when I am talking to someone, telling them something I have just written about and I ask “Have you read my blog?” because I don’t want to be telling them something they already know. Then it turns awkward because they feel bad if they haven’t read my blog so they say “uh…um… no I usually do but ...I uh just haven’t gotten around to it yet today…but I will- I mean I always do.” Then I feel bad! All I am trying to do is figure out if I am sounding like a broken record or see if I can use a good line on them that I may have already used in the blog- not make them think that I am trying to hold them accountable for reading it! Hummm-taking attendance on my blog site. There’s an idea. “Let’s see who attended today…ok and all those absent are not my friends anymore!”

Another weird thing is when people mention stuff to me that I KNOW I did not tell them directly. It confuses me if I haven’t talked to someone in a week and they call and open the conversation with something about how my neighbors are getting along these days or how they would have liked to eat that 20 pound lobster too. I get kind of freaked out. It is strange that they have had some connection with me that I don’t even know about! All I do is sit in the spare bedroom typing away, sending my thoughts and feelings in to cyberspace.