Bloggy Brain?

Do you ever go about your day....minding your personal business, doing what you do everyday for YOU....only to catch yourself thinking about your blog friends? Not to be confused with obsessing, mind you. Don't go get an ego or anything like that. But as we spend time reading about lives we would never have crossed otherwise, they become part of our everyday.

For example, the boys' daycare is set back from the road with a large expanse of grass/field in front. Probably close to two acres, if I had to guess. This grassy area, during good weather, is home to a gaggle of geese. Aside from shitting all over the driveway up to the building, they appear harmless, almost petlike. But because of Cammie and her incessant hatred of geese, I only picture a mass attack (on some random woman of course...not me or the boys), and to be perfectly honest....I sometimes think they "talk" to one another planning said attack while I watch them.

Need another example? Driving to work today, I saw a sad, little construction cone. It was sad because it was tilted and it was faded. So faded, in fact, that you couldn't see a speck of bright orange, nor could you see any stripe. How in the world does a construction cone equate to blogging, you ask? Iggy. I have NO idea where this started, and maybe he can answer that for us in the comments. But he's got a thing for cones. He even owns one and it is named. He has other blog friends who think of him and send in photos of cones for him. Today, I wished I'd had my camera to capture the sadness of neglected cones.

Let's go further. New Year's Eve. I stayed busy playing games with my family and friends, eating and such. Okay, eating a lot. But when I had a moment to think of something other than a board game, I let myself wonder how Dorkys was fairing with her new beau. I wondered if they were enjoying their "alone" together time in NYC for NYE. In case you're wondering, they did.

Just to continue with the examples.....there are times when I visit family and wonder....what if I ran into Anna, a darling college student? She attends the same university I did, in the same town I visit so frequently. She even wrote an article about this lovely town. I doubt that we'd actually recognize one another if we happened to find ourselves in the same location on the same day, but the chances aren't so "out there" as to call it impossible. The town is small and if I had the boys with me, they're too cute to ignore. She'd surely recognize the naughty that IS OJ, right? I do wonder.

Last example. My sister Anna. When I let days go by without blogging...when I find myself having difficulty coming up with thoughts I deem blog-worthy, I sit in anticipation of her email or her weekend comment about my slackish attitude. What this tells me is that my little sister actually enjoys the mumbles I provide, the updates on the family, the silliness that IS Tooj and the Tooj household. When I periodically check into my blog tracker and see someone reading from the city where my other sister, Leslie, works, I know that she also enjoys the blog.

I like that THEY like it. I like that many of you keep coming back, commenting, corresponding. Comments are the only way for a blogger to truly know that they are being enjoyed, and I'm grateful that so many of you take the time to say something, laugh at me, laugh with me. I don't just like comments, I love the conversation. Thank you, all, for that.