Just Saying

It's been a while since I've posted a happy fun blog entry, the purported basis for this whole endeavor. Although I was thinking about it today and came up with several other reasons why I blog:

• Recording happy events so I can practice seeing the good in daily events so I can look back and hope the happy glass is more than half full.
• Keeping my friends updated on what I'm doing since I suck at calling on the phone and I prefer mass emails for events of import.
• Time-date stamped journal - the bane of my handwritten memoirs was always forgetting to add a date, or collating them in one spot, or not being able to scrawl fast enough, or having to add references without hyperlinks.
  
• Getting wacky ideas out of my head so they either (a) take a coherent form that I can edit to my satisfaction and share or (b) so they can leave me space in the brainpan for for things that matter more and/or (c) I can stop thinking about them and get to sleep.
• Discussion about topics that matter to me. Or frivilous things.
  
• Seeing if I can get blog readers from the 6 major continents (Yes! Thanks, clustrmap!) although I'd really like to know if any of the small dot browsers (1-9 hits) only came once by mistake, once purposefully, or checked in a couple of times and gave up. And how they got here.
  
• Practicing writing on topic. Or giving up and piecing together completely tangential thoughts.

It turns out that I'm mostly still getting what I want out of this and plan to keep blogging. I have noticed the comments have dried up a lot but this could be because a lot of the blogs I used to like have bit the dust, so those bloggers aren't hanging here as much. Or because its summer and people are off doing interesting things. Or because people keep having kids and those little suckers seem to really cut into internet time.

I mention the "why I blog" list because I was just reading the comments over at Jennifer Crusie's Argh Ink in response to her thought that it might be a good idea to quit blogging. And I thought, "NNNNOOOOOOOOOooooooohhhhhhh!" Then, "Oh noes!" I just switched my sidebar link to hit the blog directly instead of routing through the main page! Why is everyone jumping off the blogwagon?

In her comments, I found some phrases that made me smile. And sometimes that made me think of other things too.

• Awesomeness with Awesome sauce! made me think of friendly McFriendster M back in Boston.
  
• Michael Phelps Even with the schmaltzy pandering coverage, it is a thing of beauty to watch him swim, and his relay mates are nothing to sneeze at either.
  
• May-Walsh beach volleyball If you want to see how it's done, watch them. I do wonder why the women are wearing rubberbands when the men are in gunny sacks. Anyone good at beach volleyball should look good enough to wear a rubber band, and I'd like me some fair trade skins.
• Mens Gymnastics The USA team musta had superglue for dinner because they stuck more landings than I've seen in a month of sundays. Or a lifetimes of olympics. Rock solid they were, and a joy to watch because of it.
  
• Probably When I first started reading Janet Evanovich's books, starting a sentence with "probably" without the use of "because" or another conjunction struck my funnybone as very Jersey. Now I see it a lot though, and even do it myself sometimes. Such as, "He was in the military. Probably his sock drawer has structure."
• tart This is such an excellent word. It sounds punchy, and, well, tart. It recalls the 404 page with "it was tart and tasty on my tongue". Used as a female pejorative, it rather makes me giggle. One can eat a cherry tart.
• Just Saying One of my favorites of recent slang. Meaning roughly, ignore at your peril, or please consider, or...

So I'd love to hear from readers, even if you're shy (anonymous posts are allowed but you have to play the word game) about why you keep reading my blog especially if it's not a reason I listed for writing it. And what made you grin like a fool today. Don't make me come rough you up to get some comments going. Just saying.