Random Tuesday Thoughts: BlogHer edition
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 5:29AM 
Oh, hello, Random Tuesday Thoughts. It seems like a million things have happened since we last spoke. Apparently, someone tells me, Random Tuesday Thoughts are "huge in the UK".
(Did you hear that? I'm huge in the UK. That is totally going on my resume. Right after tends to believe even the drunkenest ramblings if it at all resembles flattery.)
Blush. Modest wave.
So, let's start with this:
In related news: I cannot, apparently, party for many hours 3 nights in a row anymore. I...feel like I've failed you all.
Inadvisable: eating nothing but organic fruits & veggies for months, and then switching to a diet of nothing but flour, sugar, and red wine; going anywhere near Chicago O'Hare airport; thinking that I actually believe I'm "huge in the UK".
Advisable: going to a blogging conference at least once in your blogging career; meeting some of the online people that you feel you really click with, because you probably will; booking extra time in the host city if you actually want to see any of it. Which I didn't.
Summary: BlogHer made me feel like a tiny fish in a Big Apple in an even bigger pool, if there were a thousand writers that are better than me and cliques and bewildering high school politics in that pool. But that's okay, because (much like high school), I had my peeps:
That's Becky, moi, Jenni, and Gretchen. Not pictured from our weekend posse: Casey, Mrsbear, and Andrea.
(Thank you Gretchen, for explaining that you almost never take a bad photo if it's from above. The double chin is still there, you just can't see it. Magic. Probably worth the price of admission.)
Oh, I forgot to mention that in the big pool with cliques and high school politics, there would also be a bunch of random people just GIVING you things. Here, have a necklace! Want some jeggings? Here's a whole box of Weebles!
But I knew I'd hit a low point with that when I had to answer not one, but THREE questions about tuna, and spin a wheel, all to receive...post-it notes. Post-its with the "Chicken of the Sea" logo on them.
I don't even LIKE tuna.
I obviously haven't absorbed my BlogHer experience very well yet, which is why I'm doing this on a Tuesday. You guys won't expect any kind of brilliant analysis out of me, right?
Also, I seem to have gone to NY with a horseshoe up my ass, because I won not only a pretty nice clutch purse, but a learning system from Fisher Price for my ingrate kid, and a $500 scholarship for another conference of my choice. Guess I've gotta do that again.
Blissdom, anyone?
Reader Comments (47)
Did you say Blissdom was on you? tap.tap.tap. Uh, okay. Is it still in Nashville?
You all look wonderful. And only slightly drunk.
You are really big in the U.S. Of course you would be in the U.K. We only steal the really good stuff from them.
I'm #2 on Mr. Linky, but not the blue kind. (Lame joke you may chuckle about after reading mine).
Sounds like you had a fun trip!
Well, if you're not huge in the UK, you're at least pretty damned big. That's what I believe, anyway.
And save the $ for San Diego next year!
I wrote about not going to blogher. Haven't got up the courage to attend one yet. Your pic makes me want to go.
Ugh, I'll never forget the whoring for tuna swag. Shameful.
I did wake up yesterday looking for my pastries and hot coffee. Instead I was greeted by hungry toddlers and mounds of laundry. Good thing the kids are cute.
I hate that I had to miss it. Last year my drunk ass dominated Blogher but I had to go on a cruise this year.
Blissdom, huh? I've heard good things and met Ms. Fussypants herself last year, this may be a great ride..
Let's talk..
Hey, I'm back in this week! Not that great, but I'm back, so there's that!
Sounds perfectly awful...
And what the shiz it Blissdom?
Sounds like a wonderful trip! Congrats on the loot!
Hey, I am number 10! On the tenth! Which is my birthday! But not the tenth birthday. That would be a little weird.
Totally jealous that you got to hang with my girl, Gretchen.
I am joining in for my first rtt. Thanks for hosting. I got so many invites but couldn't make it to blogher. I would love to go once though. Sounds like you had a great time!
Kinda jealous but know I'd totally fail at the meet and greet thing. Glad you had a fabulous time.
Glad to hear you had fun...and, that's a lot of work for a pack of post-it notes. :)
Excellent post. Catches the flavor. And speaking of flavor, I'm going to devote an entire post to our tuna swag low point. Soon.
Bloggy Boot Camp in Austin? But I guess part of that $500 would have to cover the flight.
I think the most important thing is that you have fun. Everything else is just extra.
Glad you had a cool time. Great pic of you and your pals: you're look like you all are heading out to a bitchin' Def Leppard concert.
I hear that BlogHer will be here in San Diego, my town, next year. If so, I may just have to gather up my XYs and represent.
I'm so glad you had a good time... I'd love to visit NYC someday!
Yay! How awesome! I think I'd like to go to BlogHer when my kids are a bit older =)
Sometimes I think I would then I'm not so sure..if I ever go can I hang out with you guys?!
So fun, and awesome! I'm so glad you are big in the UK, and you need to use that in your daily life a LOT now.. "Please, dishes? Honey.. I'm big in the UK, don't you know?"
Sure sounds like BlogHer was a fantastic time!
Sounds like you had a fantastic time - even if you can't party like you used to!
I think I need a BlogHer conference to get me out of my funk. Too bad I can't get away from this job.
BlogHer sounds like fun. If I get to the UK, I'm going to mention you...
Can I borrow your Horseshoe? I'm so glad you got to go to Blogher! Thanks for the update too, I love reading these posts.
You know where I'm huge? In my apartment. I KILL there. The voices in my head are TOTALLY stalking me.
But seriously, congrats on having the courage to go and for winning cool stuff. And whoring for tuna. Me? I'm too chicken to go to such things (or as I say, a polo, because that's how they say it in Spanish and it makes me sound less, oh I don't know, insane.)
Sounds like everyone had a great time at blogher. I cant imagine ever having a blog big enough to attend!