You know how it is when someone shows up on your back door for a surprise visit, and the breakfast–and lunch–dishes are still in the sink (and on a reallyREALLY bad day, the ones from the night before)??
Or say, you’re a sassy, sweet young single thang dressed to the nines, and while strolling your best-loved aisles of your most-adored bookstore, you run into the most darling fella you’ve stumbled across in ages, made much more so because of his beautiful eyes and warm, engaging conversational skill–only to realize the pepper in between your top two teeth was complimented by dried, foamy half and half on your nose from your caramel machiatto…
Or maybe worst of all, you write an excoriating post about something (or someone) that made you spit nails, except your intention was simply to vent your frustrated emotions, and instead of "save to draft" you accidentally click "publish" and when you discover it the next morning, you’ve had your highest comment count EVER and though you now delete the post, it’s already in 10,000 readers’ readers?
Well, that’s exactly how I feel. Sans the 10,000 readers.
It looks like a bunch of new friends are visiting my little blog after BlissDom ’08, and I’m eight shades of proud (not!) for the whiz-bang of a front page I’ve got up right now…
- a survey for your favorite TV maid
- pictures of my own self mutilation
- proof that Paula Deen is trying to kill me s l o w l y and with a smile on her face (again!)
Oh, dear………PLEASE COME BACK LATAH! Read my 100 Things! Check out the Trifecta series in my left sidebar! Subscribe to me in a reader or via email SO YOU WILL EVENTUALLY REALIZE "this" isn’t actually the best of Robin @ PENSIEVE.
Prettypretty please?
Pitiful Excuse Warning:
- My kids were on Fall break last week and I was livin’ more than I was writin’…
- I was w o r k i n g on important stuff.
- I had a conference to get ready for!!
T h e n, a g a i n, there was Bittersweet Momology…and a recipe for the Best Apple Pie of the Universe*, so m a y b e it wasn’t a total loss….
Anyways…THANK YOU if you ARE a first-time or newish reader. Let me know you checked in, how you found PENSIEVE, and give me a way to get back with ya.
And stay tuned from some SERIOUSLY whiz bang posts…as soon as my husband goes back to work and I return from his conference in Atlanta.
Durn…that sounds like another P.E.W.!
**according to my family 🙂
Ha, I can relate to this. I’ve published things on accident (with no photos and half written sentences and got comments on it–everyone was too nice to mention the problems with the post though! LOL)
I’ve also been caught embarrassed by days certain people have visited my blog. I think that is why I quit doing those memes about myself, usually that was the day that a very important person came to check out what I was doing on my blog! Totally embarrassing that I was talking about dog poop, not getting manicures or driving a 8 year old mini van. Nice.
Your post was so funny. But, at least you are real!! That is the best thing of all! I love all the new blogging rules to make it to the top, but knowing how many rules I have broken makes me all the more in awe whenever I succeed totally on accident. I think there is something to be said about just being ourselves (rules breakers!). Maybe that is wishful thinking lol!
Funny post! Loved it! I really wish I had been at BlissDom and I hope if I am able to make it in February that I’ll get to meet you!
melissa
hysterical, R !!
Hi Robin! It was so great to meet you at Blissdom and I hope you’ll visit our neck of the woods again in February.
Umm… I added you to my Google Reader this past week. So do you mean to say that last week wasn’t normal? I totally added you to my reader because I thought, “hey, someone else who doesn’t have it all together! Thank goodness!”
Hey Robin,
I’m a newbie and I found my way over here via the Nester and am glad I stopped by so that I could appreciate the humorous and totally read side of a bad day!
K
Are you kidding me? I enjoy even the mundane stuff. Your life seems kinda like mine! Let’s just say you’re “relatable.” Looking forward to some “whiz bang” posts, though. I’m intrigued…
Found you thru Twitter, BTW. 😉
Kelly
http://macaroniandglue.etsy.com
How fun! I am new to your sight and saw you on the Nesting Place…excuse me while I snoop!
What a great blog…I love “don’t ring and run”…so cute!
-Sandy Toes
that kind of thing always happens to me.
This post just proves how incredibly talented you really are. Hilarious!
I’ve been known to duck down and pretend I’m not home when someone drops by on one of those days…a little tougher to do on line!
You crack me up! No need to apologize girl. People just love you!
No worries! I like to catch people being themselves. Don’t “clean house” – just celebrate it! 🙂
I’m the author of We Are Girls Who Love to Run. I hope you enjoy your copy of it. If you review it (or review other books), stop by my blog and let me know so I can send my readers your way (assuming more unannounced visitors won’t cause you distress!!). You’ll see that my blog has much work to be done, too.
Have a great week!