A Very Bloggy Entry

Something has been bothering me. Type "Julia" into google (right, like you never google yourself. please.) Now click on the second page. OK, see in the middle there? Right below the Julia/Julie project and right above Julia Fordham? See that?

"Tales of a mother in Minnesota and her struggles to have another baby."

WHAT THE HELL IS THAT ABOUT? Who wrote that? Can I take legal action?

Could I sound like any more of an ass? Of a lame ass? Tales! Mother in Minnesota! Struggles! I am hiding my face in my hands. I don't know about you but I am picturing a doughy woman in a theme-sweater (huh. I wonder what a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day sweater would look like) thrashing around up to her neck in snow saying "Oh for disappointing! Oh for so not fair!"

My friend Julie claims that she writes the synopses for google but I am not sure I believe her. Hey! Speaking of Julie and google it just dawned on me that I discovered blogs through Julie and a google search almost two years ago today. Anyone who has ever tried to research depressing pregnancy statistics will inevitably land at a little pregnant. You come for the slow rising hcg or exploding ovary, you stay for the laughter. Me, I showed up at her blog, looked around, measured for drapes and then vowed that someday, somehow this woman and I would have our asses kicked by the city of Boston... together. I see (oh yes I do. I get around you know) that Julie is up for an infertility/adoption Best of Blog award. With all due respect to the other fine writers who are nominated (and there are many fine ones), Julie is the motherfucking genesis of infertility blogging and personally I think it would be nice for her to get shouted out with a BOB win. Seriously, I am willing to bet that every single nominee in that category starting writing a blog after finding Julie. In the beginning, Milton tells us, there was chaos. Before that there was a little pregnant.

I neglected to delurk myself (I like that phrase. isn't it rather French: now, to delurk myself) last week which was particularly obnoxious since you were so kind. So, in the spirit and late as always, I offer a couple of blogs that I read often and think are terrific and/or funny (you decide which are which) and yet I seem to have never commented, most likely because I am afraid of looking stupid on their sites. But stupid on MY site I can handle, so here they are. Enjoy 'em.   

http://www.geeseaplenty.com/

http://queserasera.org/

Also, this new one http://thumbscre.ws/ but I might have to kill her before you read her because I have had Wham! Last Christmas stuck in my head ever since she mentioned it in a post. And that is just waaaaaaaaaaay too long to be giving it to someone special, ya'll.

Patrick has preschool tomorrow and I have nothing to do in the morning but update here. With, um, photos! and sex scandals! and my perfect dinner party chicken recipe! Look, please don't stop reading me. I'll be better. I'll write more. I swear it. Give me another chance. I KNOW we can work this out.

Comments

[MFA Mama]

Hmph.

[MFA Mama]

Hmph. Just...hmph.

[Kate]

Julia:

I think I missed delurking week, but thought I'd comment tonight. I love love love your blog.

This recent post of yours was the push I needed to delurk. I found your blog after finding A Little Pregnant many moons ago. I found A Little Pregnant in exactly the way you described -- and I have stuck around for the laughter.

I could go on and on. Your Patrick stories bring me such joy. I could write paragraphs about your question about finding friends as an adult. And of course there's the infertility stuff that got me here in the first place.

Thank you for sharing your life and your talent with the written word online!

[AmyinMotown]

Dude. I just Gooled my screenname not too long ago and a post I posted on Julie's (who, along with Grrrl, I worship so hard it's embarassing) from eons ago when only like 20 of us were reading the Posse and HOLY CRAP only like the most embarrrassing post EVER shows up. I am mortified. Vagina comes up, like, a lot. I HATE ME.

[Lisa V]

Julia, give up the holiday sweater with the "Strike Fist" on it. For god's sake you are a white girl in Minnesota.

[Greg]

You worried about looking stupid on MY site, where I get like 10 comments (versus your 200) per entry, and they're all from my father using various pseudonyms? That's cute. Thanks for the shout out, funny lady.

[Tonya]

You know what sucks? I'll tell you what sucks. I will probably be singing "SKY rockets in flight. AfterNOON deLIGHT!" over and over again for the next 36 hours. Damn you and that funny woman at thumbscre.ws.

[Me, ok, me!]

Fishing for compliments, Miss I regularly get comments in the hundreds?

I think you're net existence is safe for the time being.

Phoey on Greg for stealing my line before I even had a chance to read this entry. Phoey I say.

[Me, ok, me!]

BTW, what I find funnier, is if you yahoo Julia, you get Julia Roberts, and then you. No offense to all the other ostensibly more famous Julia's out there. ;)

[Alexa]

See and if you Google me, you get some things about the Alexa search engine and then #4:
"A New York Escorts Confessions is the online journal of Alexa, a twenty-something New York escort, who loves Prada, Seven jeans, and Jimmy Choos"
All true, obviously.

[Jul]

Aiiiiiiie! Holy frijoles! I'm not sure what shivers my timbers more... being name-dropped by an awesome blogger - blog royalty, as it were (Viscountess Julia of Blog-enbourg?), or the fact that the same ridiculous songs which are stuck in my head will soon be stuck in the collective head of the ENTIRE INTERNET. Right now I've got the Kit-Kat jingle in there. So prepare to spend the next week mumbling, "Gimme a break, gimme a - SHIT, NOT AGAIN!"

And NO ONE should be afraid to look stupid on my blog. The whole point of my blog is that it's, well, pretty stupid. I describe my son's poop... to an audience... for FUN. This puts me on par with the insane people hanging around the train station. MAYBE a step above, just because I don't insist that I'm receiving divine guidance via said excrement... yet.

[Lady_Fushia]

Hi there, I have been reading your blog for quite some time now and thought it was about time I delurked (although I seem to have missed delurking week). I didn't find your page through looking up anything to do with pregnancy or fertility though, I found it through ski masks and stuck around for the laughter!!! I was looking up some info for a ski holiday I was about to go on and "Maybe If I Just Pull My Hair Forward A Bit" turned up. I read that entry and was laughing out loud at my desk at work - which created a few odd looks I can tell you! I've been hooked ever since! Thank you for cheering up my days at work. LF xxxx

[Heather]

Oh GREAT! Of course these new blogs are awesome. Now I have to go read the archives too. And add them to the 50 blogs I check every day. THANKS JULIA!

[mommymel]

Delurking to say how much I have missed you and that you'd dang well better be using your free time to update your site because, well, I'm using MY free time to check up on you. As for the bogus MN description, nothing like the REAL you we all know and love. And post that chicken recipe as I'm dying for something different over here.

[Amber]

glad our break up is over...I love the making up part. the chicken recipe is a great place to start. Followed by chocolates, and flowers. :)

[Accidental Poet]

I'm not going anywhere.

[Ella]

I like the Martin Luther King, Jr. sweater. Perhaps with sequins?
I think I missed de-lurking week, but I am here and enjoying nonetheless.

[CatherineH]

Julia, you should poke around typepad because on most web sites, that description is controlled by the site it's coming from, not written by google. Usually called a metatag. Maybe someone who actually has a typepad blog can jump in here.... because add me to the list of people who don't want to see you described in such a tragically incorrect manner.

Oh, and thumbscre.ws? Brilliant.

[Kayla]

I found blogs through Julie too. Searched for D&C information and read all about hers. hcg had dropped from 6000 to 375, and I decided to wait for it to happen naturally. 2 weeks later, doc found a baby with a heartbeat on ultrasound, who is now a 9 week old asleep in his baby swing. No explanation, nobody knows what happened. But now, I'm an avid reader of youuuuu miss Julia, Tertia, The Naked Ovary, ... and I wasted all that birth control.. and many others. Ahhh the fun of blogs :)

[Saartje]

Julia, I wonder if you can find the answer to your Google description tag by reading the rant in the first article on this link:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/diary.htm

[Lisa]

I have visited and read through this blog ever since googling "how to remove ink stains"...which I believe brought me to the link re: baking soda. Who knew that my search to remove ink stains would reveal a really interesting, fun read. I have never done this (commenting on a blog!) before...

[Kitmeout]

Can someone finally put this to bed!! What is it Seven Jeans, Seven 7 Jeans or Seven for All Mankind Jeans? Are they three different companies and three different brands. What’s the official story?

This is the unofficial story plucked from the urban grapevine. Seven for All Mankind Jeans started producing extraordinarily innovative jeans in the USA under the banner Seven for All Mankind and made appropriate trademark arrangements in the USA. However, they neglected to make the same arrangements in Europe. This is where it starts to get messy but the saying goes an entrepreneur with an eye for an opportunity, when he saw the success of Seven for All Mankind Jeans in the USA, started to produce Seven Jeans in Europe since Seven for All Mankind failed to file a Trademark application in Europe.

Upon hearing about this development Seven for All Mankind started long and labourious legal proceedings against Seven Jeans for TM infringement. After much legal debate, it was decided that Seven Jeans in Europe should change their name to Seven 7 so to reduce the confusion with Seven for All Mankind jeans which was and is a far superior jean. So, that’s the story from the urban grapevine. Can anyone confirm or deny this. Does anyone have the definitive story?