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Other People's Blogs

I'm sitting here at the computer, at 11AM, having accomplished nothing this morning. Oh, I did get the kids ready and off to school. I took a shower. I made and drank coffee. I heated and ate one Divine Beyond Description almond croissant (an aside: I love my husband so very much. He showed up at the train station last night holding a shopping bag, with a bakery box in it. "Happy Valentine's Day," he said. I thought it was a cheesecake he picked up at Grand Central. No!, it was a box of half a dozen of the most wonderful pastries known to humankind, the almond croissant from Claude's on 4th St. Ross had to go to a talk at NYU, so he stomped over to Claude's to get me one of my three favorite foods in the world. I was so touched, and thought, wow, when was the last time I was so surprised? At this age, how many truly *happy* surprises do you get anymore?)

Anyway, yay me. I'm procrastinating. I worked like a maniac cataloging my eBay inventory yesterday, including Tessa's used spring and summer stuff, prepping for my final weeks of selling. I don't want to do it anymore (prep, that is, though I also don't want to be selling on eBay anymore, which is why I'm preparing to sell off the rest of my inventory).

So I did something I never do, which is click on the blog link for someone who posted a comment to the blog of one of my friends. I only read 2 blogs on a regular basis, and as you can see I don't post to my own all that often. I never ever ever surf other people's blogs. But today I did.

And I was struck by how clever and funny some people are. This woman was just really funny, and her writing style really appealed to me. She wasn't posting about anything earth-shattering, and she talked about the banality of her topics (which is part of what was funny), but it was just so well-written and so good.

How many millions of blogs are out there, written by people who are smart and funny and whose writing I would enjoy? It's a rhetorical question, of course. I need to get off my ass and start packaging up my eBay sales from yesterday and this morning, so I don't have time to endlessly seek out amusing bloggers.

But I'm reminded that there are a lot of gems out there (in addition to a lot of crap), in other people's blogs.