Thursday, January 31, 2013

TT Word.

Remember back in the day when people were on MySpace?



I was one of those people. On your profile page there was an area where you could blog. Straight on your profile you could write post. I wrote one a week, sometimes more, sometimes less. I loved it. It was like literal graffiti etched into the interwebs. I wrote about my hatred of Ants, that one got a lot of comments. I wrote about things I did, less comments. I wrote about racism and friendship, a lot of comments. I loved writing so much that I created a profile for my cat and wrote from what I imagined was her perspective. She told about the hi jinx she got in, her observations about her people and about a pesky stray that her people decided to bring into her home. She was not pleased. She had lots of pet friends and they read her posts.

Then everyone I knew decided that they were too cool for MySpace and jumped ship. They all got Facebooks and started pressuring the hubby and I to get one too. We resisted. Facebook was lame and super boring. All the cool shit it had was already on MySpace, minus all the ass and bots. Guess where all the ass and bots are now? Any way why am I talking about a relic? Because this weeks Theme Thursday topic is BLOGGING, and my first taste of it came from MySpace.

With MySpace dead, I had no where to write and no one to write to.

Then I got pregnant. I spent a lot of time on the Internet researching things like vaginas tearing and women shitting themselves while in labor. I also spent a lot of time reading things from babycenter, including a blog. I found other bloggers by following that one. It was great because I don't know a lot of moms with young children. As a matter of fact IRL I only know one young family. They are great, but we don't spend that much time together and I really need mommy friends. I can't do the chat rooms the moms are so mean. I don't judge (ok sometimes when I deem someone to be a total asshat, I judge that person) how any one raises their kids and I expect the same courtesy. So when I found a couple of Funny/Mommy bloggers I was so excited. I started commenting and eventually when Jenn from SomethingClever2.O asked if any bloggers where up for a weekly writing challenge, I knew I was going to start writing again.

Blogging for me has not only been a chance to write (something I passionately love to do) but it has been a chance to make some amazing mommy/bloggy friends. It's not a group of stepford wives that all mommy alike, It's a community of women and men, writers and moms who think for themselves, are raising their families how they think best, in away that works for them. Who will laugh with you. Cry with you. Encourage you and maybe share a cocktail recipe with you.





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15 comments:

  1. Some mommies are mean....Why are people so mean and think they can judge??? Anyway great post, I joined the whole blogging world for some of the same reasons you did.

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    1. I guess it's easy to sit back and judge others instead of admitting when you're not sure your making the best choices...

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  2. I loved MySpace, too! I loved being able to look at my pictures as they came up along with my chosen theme song of the week. (Normally I used something like "Isn't She Lovely" because that's just how I roll.) I jumped ship, but I still miss MySpace, too. I read in People or Us just yesterday that Justin Timberlake went into part ownership of it in order to revive it. Of course, I get all of my gossip magazines after my dad, older sister, younger sister, and mom have already read them, so this one may have been up to two years old. But still--something to look into. I found your blog while I was hopping around. I love all things fitness, too--except for the healthy eating part. I figure working out hard for an hour a day gives me license to eat what I want, which is totally not the way to think, but I can't help it. It's been working for me for a good 15 years, so I'm going to stick with it. Luckily I don't like fried foods that much. :) Hop on over to www.trashyblog.com if you want to check me out or have a good laugh today.

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    1. Lol, it has an awesome new look, but no ones on it except musical artist, so does it matter?

      I'll check it out, I like the play on words trashay...

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    2. I left you a comment on Google plus, but I'm not sure how all of that works, so I wanted to leave it here, too. Thanks so much for checking me out AND for sharing on Google plus. It seriously has made my morning!!

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  3. Were do these mean, judgy Mommies find the time and the energy for such shenanigans? Seriously... it's so much easier to all get along and laugh at ourselves...

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  4. I've never got the judgy moms. I'm sure I had some weird notions before I actually had kids, but after there was no room left to judge others. I was having a hard enough time remembering I was supposed to be the adult and not the one on the floor kicking and screaming.

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  5. Some mommies are mean....Why are people so mean and think they can judge??? Anyway great post, I joined the whole blogging world for some of the same reasons you did.

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    1. My first spammer. couldn't you have written your own comment? it's weird to copy and paste...

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  6. Man, MySpace. Memories. I used to be on Xanga. I don't even know what happened to that account. Yikes. I enjoyed your post!

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  7. I was JUST talking about how much I miss MySpace! It was like Twitter, FB, AND my blog all in one place. *sigh* Those were the days.

    Glad you started writing again and found me!

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  8. *sigh* is right. I had an awesome playlist and Tetris on my profile.

    Me too! Me too!

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