**We still have a ways to go to break my comment record, peeps!! You have until SATURDAY NIGHT! WOOT!
I realize that my post title sounds like a bit of SPAM that would normally be sent by someone hoping to lure you into their casino/porn/herbal penile enhancement site, but it’s all I could come up with at the moment.
Apparently, it’s “National Delurking Week” AND “National Delurking DAY”.
Dude. That’s a whole lot of “Delurking”.
I have craploads of lurkers. That’s totally fine with me, I am just thrilled to my toes that anyone reads me at all. Besides, I can’t necessarily blame someone for hesititating to comment on a site that talks about psychotic nipple-flinging and clubbing baby seals, now can I? It doesn’t bother me if you don’t delurk. I don’t want to add to the pressure. Still, I feel like I should do something for the week.
I haven’t had a contest in awhile and contests are fun. Since I’m not putting pressure on to delurk and because I love my longtime readers, this contest is open to everyone.
Leave a comment saying…well…what should it be? I hate these things where you just get a million, “Count me in” comments…hmm…I have been feeling fairly hideous and old lately and could use some bribery-induced affirmation..SO…
Here are the rules:
1. Leave a comment stating what you like best about reading this blog. If you’re new, just say something nice about the template or whatever.
(No, it can’t be “The days you don’t post”.)
2. IF WE BREAK MY COMMENT RECORD all comments will be entered to win a $25.00 gift certificate to Amazon.com.
3. Link back to this contest on your site and the value goes up to $30.00 if you win.
(What can I say? My Technorati ranking sucks.)
Since it’s opening night of “The King & I” and I probably can’t post for a few, why don’t we say that I close this on Saturday night.
Even if you don’t “Do” contests or whatever, just say hello anyway. It will help make up for the fact that I and my grandma-esque flappy, floppy arms have to spend the next two weeks standing next to young, gorgeous women with perfect figures in a sleeveless costume.
(Yes. I realize just how lame this is. Sigh.)
GO!
P.S
Thanks to Angella for having an idea I could blatantly steal. Go over to her site and chip in to win a certificate, too!
Stumble it!
Filed under: 
I’m no lurker.
What I like best about this site?
YOU!
I like your witty humor.
I’m a newbie over here, but I so rarely lurk. It’s my constant need to type or talk or be irritating. One of those.
Regardless, the honesty and authenticity kept me coming back :)
Damn these delurking days, I always find out about them when I’ve already posted stuff that isn’t about delurking.
I’m not a lurker here either.
I love the “voice” on your blog, and after meeting you I know that it’s just your awesome personality coming through on screen. That’s talent, my dear!
The King & I? I love that. Are you Anna? I was in that show in the 6th grade. Had a total crush on the king (who was in 8th grade) and made out with him with crazy abandon later in high school. He is now an actor at the Shakespeare Theater in DC. And me? Not so much.
What do I like most about this blog? The pictures. AMAZING.
Break a leg!
I already introduced myself yesterday (or was it the day before? hmmm), but I wanted to go ahead and leave a comment anywhoo! It’s hard to pick a “favorite” part of your blog, cuz I really just enjoy it all so much! It’s been awhile since I’ve stumbled upon a blog that can provide a lot of entertaining reading material to shirk my days away…I guess my “favorite” part of the blog is your sense of humor.
PS-you’re gorgeous and those youngins ain’t got NOTHIN on you…good luck with “The King and I”!
Your honesty. That’s the best part. Oh and your Diet Coke addiction.
I am new to reading your site but have enjoyed your honesty and great sense of humor.
Can I still be a “lurker” even though I comment?
And what I like most? Definitely the nipple flinging. And the sense of humor.
I’ll put up a link when I get back to command central (my laptop). Cool idea, I hope it works for ya.
I’m always down with a little herbal penile enhancement (spam!). Happy! Thursday, babe.
You know I love you! This idea for a contest is spot on! (What if I steal it?)
I love best about your site that you make me laugh, you are an amazing person, you care about other people and I feel like I can relate to you.
Idea just stolen. Still love me!
I read your blog because you are funny, intelligent, adventuresome, and I never, EVER know what to expect when I click on your link!
You have made me laugh and cry, sometimes within the same blog post. You are not afraid of sharing some pretty personal and heavy stuff that goes on in your life. In my book that makes you SO brave!!! Not like me….
And the amazing diversity of your posts just boggle my mind! Keep up the wonderful work!
I like that you just seem real — an authentic person. As I posted on Angella’s blog, I prefer to think of myself as just a reader rather than a lurker. :) I love my feed reader because I always have something to read when I get online.
I love that you can be ridiculously funny, but also very deep and moving. And I’m just enough of a stalker to love reader about your life in general. (You know I have to feed the addiction to people.)
Ha and I just delurked myself here the other day.
I am so ahead of my time.
I just like that you’re kinda weird. Or, funny but incredibly real. Does that sound better?
I stole your flashing man to link back to this post with… I was hoping that coz it’s linking back to you it’s not incredibly bad form… (but probably still is and my foot in mouth disease is starting to extend to internet ettiquitte, bugger.)
(Also, fecked if I know how to spell edikit)
ps – what is your comment record, anyway?
Wow. I’m delurking. Huge step for me. [Insert little panic attack here.] I am VERY new to this blogging business, but stumbled across it and fell in love. I just started my own last weekend, and am probably addicted.
I love how FUNNY you are. And you are very beautiful, and smart, and probably a really good cook (I don’t know because I haven’t done all my homework and read ALL the archives…).
Anyway, Good luck! And thanks for forcing me out of the blogging closet.
I’m not really a lurker, although I read every post but only comment occasionally. My favorite part of your blog is how I never know what to expect. Somedays you make my laugh with your silly antics about stealing rolls or your cat epistles, other days you make me cry with your touching stories, and I can’t lie, some days I just end up confused – but I always enjoy the read.
I lurk, but it’s because you’re so incredibly witty. I knew Kerflop when she lived in SLC, she linked to you once and I’ve read ever since.
I spent 10 years in logan and still have family there. I like reading what’s going on and see pictures of places I know. I’m the same age as you, and feel like I know you – like we’re friends.
I’m friends with someone who doesn’t even know I exist. Woah, sad. And yet, I’ll continue to read. I think we’d be friends in real life, and that’s good enough.
delurking. i think. i’m sure i’ve commented before. i think.
:)
I’m only doing this comment crap so I can win free stuff. You know what a greedy basted I am.
Hmmm I wonder if Amazon sells beer….
I have you in my google reader -and I think this is my first comment. So I admit, I am a real lurker.
I read your blog because I feel like you are authentic. Thanks for brightening my days
I like that you’re good to Ray. Does that count?
I like that you can share your pain and then make me howl with laughter. You, my dear, have an awesome gift.
So what’s the record we need to break? :)
The best? Your voice- funny and honest. I like readers that write like I’d like to. And no, that sentence is NOT grammatically correct. Sorry.
Erm, make that bloggers that write like I’d like to.
Apparently I need more coffee or less wine.
i love your authenticity and your humor. i also was a voice major with dreams of singing on the stage (though never materialized) and so i love all the musical references and such. :) have fun in the king and i!
I qualify as a semi-lurker. I love your blog because you’re “real”…I can identify with a lot of what you say…and you make me laugh my freakin’ head off. :)
De-Lurking now!!! I have visited your blog before and have always loved your sense of humor. Thanks to Angella mentioning you I found my way back again and look forward too being out from the lurking status now. I just blogged and linked up to you.
Hi – I think I found your blog through a perfect post award and I have subscribed ever since. I enjoy your humor and honesty. Keep it up there are many of us out here!
here’s to breaking your comment record.
you know why i read.
and don’t enter me in your contest. someone else can win.
break a leg!!!
i just thought of a little thing we used to say before every show we did in high school…
the whole cast would stand in a circle…and then you crossed your arms in front of you and held hands with the people right next to you. then while moving our clasped hands up and down, (kinda like churning butter i guess) we’d chant:
one for all and all for one!
the bestest show we’ve ever done!
let’s break a leg!
and people wonder why drama peeps are sooo, well, dramatic..
I enjoy reading about the outrageous events that happen in your life. Now gimme that gift certificate.
I like reading between the lines. Because there is so much more to the story! I also miss visiting the little house built by farmhands.
Favorite: When my days get to crazy to see you or even call you, I can still get my fix!
Delurking: I am a loud and proud lurker: I don’t write it ‘cuz I usually just tell you.
What I won’t tell you? Which night I will see The King and I.
Love you buckets!
I stumbled onto your blog on New Year’s Eve. I think it was from BlogHer. The first post I read was the one about being upset about not going to visit your son on Christmas. I too have had tragedy in my life and your openness and honesty in that post just struck a cord in my heart! I also have a blog and at times feel like I am so FAKE! So your honesty in your posts is so refreshing.
Another things that made me feel connected to you was the first day I read your blog you had a sidebar post about the book “Eat, Pray, Love!” I was and still am reading that book. I too LOVE it!!
So there you go, this lurker just delurked!!
Happy Delurker Day!
Jen
“what and get out of show biz?”
Not really delurking, but I do check your site to see what’s new every time I get on line! What do I love about Loralee’s Looney Tunes? Funny stories about your boys (especially the balloon funeral), your mad passion for Diet Coke, awesome pictures with nearly every post, and just living vicariously through you.
I like a lot of things about you and your blog, but what made me come back the first few times were your eyebrows.
(Have I told you this before? I feel like I have.)
Hey, I just started reading your blog, but I have to say that you are one funny chick.
I love this line from your last post: “I drive a Jeep, baby. It’s pretty much peeing itself with excitement over the chance to tackle these roads.â€
Hi, found you via Redneck Mommy just the other day. So far, I like what I have read. Hopefully, one of these days I’ll have a little time and will be able to go back and read some older posts as well.
I am also new to this blogging stuff, don’t have my own yet, but am seriously thinking about it.
I don’t know if I lurk or not. I think I comment more often than I used to. Anyway, I really hope you beat your comment record. I totally understand the whole “Comment is currency” theory.
What I like best about your blog is that you posted about a neighborhood “pit-stop” gas station. Just like me and my precious QTs. That was when I knew it was love.
Oh yeah. Good luck with the musical. I’m pulling for you, and would totally go see it if I lived in the same country as you.
Delurking to say I love to read about all the things you do: like singing, being in the musical and freaking out about Diet Coke at that convenience store. I like the everyday stuff too.
(amongst other things) i love the way you can make record-breakingly long sentences and still have them make sense (or is that just me?)
happy weekend
good luck with the show! break a leg!
Vx
Hope opening night was GREAT! I think my director is regretting calling me to fill in.
Favorite aspect of your site? I love the Lo, what can I say? I have been a groupie for years even when I’m just in the shadows, spying on you from the neighbor’s attic window with my pink rhinestone opera glasses and you don’t even know I’m there. Silently sipping my 46 oz Diet Coke with vanilla splash. Motionless, except for the occasional lifting of the jacuzzi size cup to my lips and the inhale/exhale of my lungs… I’m your biggest lurking FAN!!!!
Hey Loralee, just saying Hi from the East siiddee. Have fun with your musical
delurking…although i comment sometimes lol.
love your sense of humor, thats what keeps me commin back for more..
plus the nipple talk….love me some boobies.
oh yah and i too stole the lurker pic to link back here =D
Stalker here.
I keep coming back because you were the first person outside of Northern Minnesota that thought a degree from BSU was cool.
Actually, you are still the only one.
And where else can a guy play with another woman’s “Magical Boobies” with the full permission of the wife!
I like your blog because it has a nice beat and I can dance to it.
I really find your humor and authenticity very inviting. I think this is the only thing both my wife and I read. We even talk about it over dinner. Ha Ha. Then we get to talking about our life similarities. It makes for a great conversation starter. Thank You so much for keeping our marriage on track since we share many of the same experiences. Really helps to hear how another couple handles their differences. Thank You Loralee.
I’m not too much of a lurker, but definitely not a big commenter.
I like your honesty and your humor!
I love your site because it’s real. I’ve come away from your blogging rolling with laughter and I’ve come away crying and everything in between. I like your blog because you have a wonderful personality and it shines.
I clicked over cause I like free stuff.
I like the honesty of your blog best.
I dont think I am considered a lurker.. your blog has made me laugh out loud at times, and twice it has literally made me cry. you are a talented writer. wish i could see you in the king and i! good luck!
I’ve been fading slowly into the position of lurker as I distance myself more from the blogging world. Just thought I’d let you know that I still read you and enjoy a good, hard laugh every time you post one of your conversations with your hubby. Another thing I like, photos! Glad I found your blog and introduced you to the BSU blogging world :)
Do I get anything for commenting last…wow 53 comments already, I’d kill for commenting like this on my blog.
I found your blog through your vids on youtube…I was searching youtube for cache valley videos to see where my videos came up (i like to see how popular I am) then I happened upon your blog.
I stalk your blog because your a funny writer, your honest, you really share things…I want to be like you…in the sense that you get lots of comments…and people reading your blogs. Plus its nice to know there are other shameless bloggers in cache valley.
Thanks for letting me read your rants!
and I want 25.00!!!
And yes, check my blog for a link!
What do I like best about the site?
Um… Gee… Let me think…
You! Silly goose.
i’m all for having a reason to shop for books on amazon, and a potential gift certificate could do it.
the reason i like your blog (other than you being the coolest and tallest amazon i know) is you give me a reason to laugh and to continue blogging. without you and my good buddy first nations, i wouldn’t even have a reason to have internet. i have learned early on not to be drinking anything when i read your blog. having coke come flying out of my nose more than once is painful.
I like reading this blog because its author is bat$h1t crazy ;)
And I mean that in the best possible way.
OK, seriously. I like the mix of humor and poignancy. And your attitude about life.
Hmmmmm, there is a lot to like about your blog. I have cried (sobbed in fact), I have laughed…..and later on giggled even more. Thanks for being real. You rock!!
Always
Heidi
Hey hey! I’m here. :)
doin’ my part… :)
I’m not really “delurking” but I haven’t commented in a while. Or all that often. Not that I don’t read, ’cause I do. And one of the things I like is that you are a very real person. Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I cry and sometimes I have to swallow the bile creeping up the back of my throat (ok, so that one has only happened once… or maybe twice.) It’s not just a funny blog or a “oh poor me” blog, it’s just real.
But even if I don’t always comment, I do read! You’re in my google reader, so I have to whenever it comes up. I’m compulsive like that. :P
Well, I proudly delurked a while back, AND I’M LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT. Or whatever.
I found your site via VeryMom a long time ago and finally got my act together to visit regularly. Struck by the honesty and beauty in the posts about your sweet baby, I stuck around for more. Your writing voice is full of loopy humor, but not at the expense of shoot-from-the-hip truth-telling, and I like that.
Plus, you’re in Utah and I’m in southern Idaho, so I’m trying to keep it local, baby.
perhaps i’m alive?
hello!
Um, where did “The Song” go?
I’m trapped at home and I need a Diet Coke from the gas station. Can anyone help me out?
i’m coming out of the shadows to say hi! :) i love your writing… there’s nothing a mama with an infant (me) needs more than a good laugh! thanks! i just stumbled upon your site recently thru a link listing funny mama blogs!
I’m somewhat of a lurker. You know I’m here, but I don’t comment all the time.
You are a fascinating, fun person, and I love reading about your daily trials and tribulations. Maybe it’s because you live in Utah. I’ve never been there. Completely different culture than where I’m from. Or it could be that you’re one of those people I would be friends with if I lived near you, you know? :)
I love your honesty, from personal struggles to annoying, Sharpie-toting neighbor kids. Also, your vacation to Scotland was awesome and I lived vicariously through those posts, thank sweet Jesus for getting me out of Redmond, even in my mind.
I am not a lurker. You know who I am, but I rarely comment. I suck at comments.
Anyhoo, I love the raw honesty and the humor of your blog. The post about your whore cat still cracks me up.
I am a former lurker but no longer!! What do I love about this blog…well sometimes I laugh and sometimes I cry and I am always amazed that I have this true emotional response to your words.
75 comments???? Man, you are popular! I’m lucky if one person reads my blog now and then… sniff, sniff…
I’m late, but here I am!
I’m just here for the diet coke.
Your writing, whether funny or otherwise, is always true. It’s just amazing how many times I think, “I know EXACTLY what you mean!”
Are we getting close?
I do love to comment…
From one comment whore to another….hello!
Hope you blow your record out of the water.
so its okay to like post twice right? once for yesterday once for today…tomorrow…….
I’m all for someone breaking a commenting record. I hope you shatter your record!
Ok, I haven’t had time to read all 84 comment, so please forgive me if I say what 84 other people have said. I love your blatant honesty, ironic or just plain silly humor, and the fact that I see so much of myself in you (or is it you in me, I can’t think right now as the boys are playing squealy/whiny horsey very loudly).
LOVE IT!
HI! Im delurking. I don’t know how i found your blog, but i’ve been reading for a few months. Thanks for making me laugh when i should be working, but instead i am reading blogs.
Okay I’ll stop delurking this week. You know I love ya! Your a great person on your blog and in real life. I hope you bet your comment record.
You… and your amazing ability to make me smile and wanting to keep coming back for more….
I’ve never been here before but I can tell already that I like your tongue in cheek tone and your slightly jaded perspective on your blog and its readers. I find that refreshingly honest.
Man, you have already passed my comment record by leaps and bounds.
As far as what I like about your blog, I would have to say that it’s your talent for story-telling. You always have something interesting to talk about.
LOVE your blog!! So funny and heartfelt. You do a GREAT job.
Happy Delurking!
I like that 1) you entertain me (in a good way) and 2) make me think of Utah where one of my best friends lives.
I have laughed harder reading your blog than any other I have found. You are a very “real” person and I love that.
Free what?
Well, I already de-lurked the other day (the very same day I visited for the first time, thankyouverymuch) but I love me a good contest.
I love the way you write, and I nearly wet myself from laughing the first day I wandered over here Oh, and the fact that despite your hatred of olives, you’re still willing to make something with them for your husband. ;)
What was your old record for comments?
How exactly do you fling nipples?
I thought I had commented already, but looks like I was wrong. Since I’m feeling lucky ;-) thank you for extending the deadline.
Your personality comes through in your writing and you are so funny and entertaining and also very real sounding. And I think your header photo rocks.
I don’t know, dude…maybe that burka thing you’re wearing in your photo? I do love the sideblog and have been thinking of trying to steal it.
You’ve got more comments in this post than I’ve ever had TOTAL. Well, okay, not exactly true. But geeze!
I’m totally a lurker…thanks for the contest.
Hi Loralee…
I check your blog out sometimes. I found it through your “Dancing in Cache Valley†video from a year or 2 ago. I figger I’ve been lurking long enough that I should leave qa comment for your record, since you inspired me to start my own blog, although I’m nowhere near as dedicated or as open as you. If you ever get into the discussions on the HJ website, you can occasionally find me there posting as “Rockdawgâ€â€¦Anyway, I spent part of my growing up years in CV, & so I have some emotional attachment. I was just showing my older son your pix of the theater where “The King & I†is playing. Looks like the old Capitol to me…I was telling him about how we have 3 theaters in town, the Capitol (50 cents), the Utah (35 cents) and the Gem (25 cents)…Why don’t modern keyboards have a cent sign? Anyway break a leg!
Rockdawg
I think you are very funny :)
LL2 coming in late (sorry) to give LL1 some support. Break the record, baby. You already know I love you. xxxoooo
I’ve only been here twice, so I’m not sure that even counts as delurking just yet! I originally found you through Glossy Veneer and now Dutch Blitz. You don’t have to include me in your drawing, I just thought I’d say hi!
Alright I’ve been waiting for a way to actually comment. I was your random e-mail mucinex recommender. (BTW I’m so glad that it made you feel better!) When you actually wrote back it totally made my day. I think it still might be in my inbox. My favorite thing? Um it would have to be the way you talk to your readers in your posts. or the funny tangent lines that end with the *ahem*s. That would be fabulous. And now I have an easy opening to start commenting. Thanks for the opportunity!
I’m no lurker either, but I love your site because it, and you, are refreshingly honest and funny. I can relate on so many levels.
How, how, how do I keep forgetting to comment here? I’m such a space case sometimes. So glad I came back and caught it. Duh.
Okay, so I *heart* reading your bloggity because I love you and love seeing what you’re doing. Plus, you know, we both do theater and sing and know a lot of the same people and both like sushi and cuz you’re a freakin’ babe and, and, and. . . I just like ya. :* Just to name a few reasons.
I love reading your blog because you make me laugh and you make me cry. Also I love to hear about what you’re up to with your singing.
Very new reader but must say love the sarcasm. Keep it coming please!
I love your honesty!
Here is my commnet Loralee, hope that you find the webcam, that will be so cool
Hi, I found your site when I googled “Happy Sushi” to see if anyone liked it. I live in Cache Valley and it’s fun to read about places I’m familiar with. Keep blogging because I love reading what you write.