**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!
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!