The Greater Vancouver Region has a very strong Blogging/ Social Media community, which is great. I didn’t know of such a community in Seattle. In fact, I never knew any other bloggers in Seattle, sadly. I’m listed on a uberlist of bloggers in Seattle*, that’s as close as I came to knowing other bloggers. So even though I considered myself a Seattle blogger, of course, I have never really considered myself a Community Blogger. I blog about myself. So I’m very impressed with the community here in the GVR.
The other day, I was mentioning to Wil that our friends, Airdre and Kerry Anne, won Favorite Audio/ Video Podcast for their excellent beauty podcast, Lipgloss and Laptops, in the Best of 604. Very well deserved. He asked me why I didn’t win an award. Which is sweet, don’t you think? In addition to not really being heavily involved of this community, it’s quite simple. This is not my blog’s heyday.
Oh, it’s true. I know it. You may or may not know it. Blogs, like everything, have and ebb and flow. I think that once I quit my job, my blog started to ebb. Or maybe it’s flowing. I’m not sure. Either one. Man, you should have caught me sometime in 2004 or 2005. I was rocking the blogging.
I’m ok with this. It’s understandable really. If my life were one of those Family Circus cartoons, where they show what Billy or Jeffy did all day, everywhere they went, it would show little Jodi footprints running from my apartment, to the Safeway half a block away. And back. Occasionally, you’d see little feet running further down the block to the bank or London Drugs. But your chances of blog fodder decrease greatly if you never leave a 3 block radius.
Nonetheless, I did recently win two nice awards. One from Captain Dumbass of Us and Them, who lives here in the Greater Vancouver Region.
Hee! He said “booty.” One day, Captian Dumbass and I will run into each other when we are both wearing our Bad Monkey shirts. I certainly hope we aren’t compelled to fling poo.
And another from a former coworker, although I didn’t know him at the time, Good Father.
It’s too bad he wasn’t blogging back in the days when I was at my POE. (And we didn’t know each other) We could have had Blogging Lunches. Booked a conference room on the 2nd floor, right next to Central Services, with it’s free soda and candy jar. Remember that kid, the mail guy, who one time dyed those kick ass flames into his hair? His name escapes me, because I’m horrible with names. It starts with a “D.” He’s worked there about 20 years by now, I figure. I hope he’s still there. And the last big formal Christmas party we had, right before the dot com bust? We had different international themed rooms for the dinners. Oh man, I got DErunk that year. I did it for Evildeb. She was pregnant with AlmostCertainlyGoingToEndUpEvilMaggie, and was sad she could not “party.”
Anyhoo, I like these awards. They are übercomments from two readers saying “I like you. Or at least your blog.” And that’s all the reward I really need. ** I know that one day my blog will cease to ebb and start to flow again.
* I suppose I should remove myself, but I’m not gonna. I still consider myself a Seattle blogger. I’m just… North of Seattle, is all. Very very north.
** ok, I suppose all awards are really saying that.
I for one will hang in until it starts to flow again. You know what makes for great blog fodder? Children. I know you and Wil don’t have any but I’d be willing to let you borrow mine for as long as you’d like. No no, it’s the least I could do. You don’t have to thank me.
Aside from you, World of Higlet, Buzz Bishop and Meg Fowler, I don’t know any Lower Mainland bloggers.
I love your blog, and it was your blog (and your friendship with Airdrie) that brought us together, and for that, I’m grateful!
Hugs!
Hey! Nice manwards ;).
I think ‘D'(ylan) is still there, but I’m not sure. I had to clear out of there pretty fast, so I don’t know who all was affected. But of course I (fondly) remember the candy jar on the second floor in the Central Services area. And I was at the party too, yowza! Sigh, the days of wine and roses. And more wine. 😉
I found you through your blog, and now you are part of the Vancouver blogger community. Such a large world — such a wonderful process to make friends. NO I’m not drunk.. I just spun on my head and now I have a compressed brain I think.
Ooooh! Like Pulitzers, huh? I award the worthy by my august presence, I always thought, but, hey, that includes the ridiculous, who shall remain nameless and link-less, to the sublime, like here, which I have praised with encomiums to the unwashed (oops, those would be my pals) before. We bow in your general direction. We are not worthy. Three cheers for Jodi!
I also think that blogging for me is partial to a bit of ebb and flow. Before I started my blog from scratch a couple of months ago, I had something like 6 years of content on there. Looking back through it I had periods of over-blogging, periods of just-enough-blogging and periods of cannot-be-arsed-blogging. I think it just goes with the territory once you’ve been doing it a while. At the moment I can feel myself sliding into cannot-be-arsed-blogging so I hope I snap out of it soon 😉
Had lunch with ex-employees of our mutual PPOE. Including Anastasia and Tony. Dylan is apparently still there. Tony’s started looking for a job.
Love,
Lloyd
Your blog was, like, the first I ever discovered and I check back here often!
Keep on blogging. I loves it.
I think ‘D'(ylan) is still there, but I’m not sure.