Blogs

I have decided something recently, and here it is: A person can be addicted to some really odd things. In my profile, I stated (quite proudly) that I am not a watcher of reality television. I'd rather have a STORY that is scripted on my tv. Which, ok, most reality television shows ARE scripted...I'm pretty sure after the first or second season of The Real World, there have been scripts, but I digress.
I am not addicted to smoking, drugs, drinking, exercise (ha!), or any of those things that people seem to glean to so easily. I prefer to lean more to things like chocolate, cheese, pasta...food in general. But I have a new found obsession: Blogs. Yes. That's right. I get to look into people's lives via my favorite medium. I love words. I like to be able to read about a person or a place and have a picture constructed in my mind. I guess I like to use my imagination. I like it when I read to Kennedy at night and she takes her eye mask off her face (yes, my 8-year-old diva wears an eye mask to bed) and says, "Mom! It's like there's a movie playing in my head! Cool!" The only way that blogs could be better is if they were in book form (umm...I guess that would be a memoir, huh?). I like the weight of the book in my hand, I like the smell of the bindings, I like to turn the pages. Once, when I was about 10, I went to Barnes & Noble with a wad of Christmas cash and blew it all on books. Glorious books! The cashier asked me if I was going to jail or something. I don't know why that's the first thing that came to his mind, but whatev. I had a stack of about 15 books, fresh, never opened, bindings that had never been bent, and it was all mine! Yeah. I'm a nerd. What of it?
I've been reading a lot of memoirs and autobiographies lately, and on the authors' web sites there are usually links to blogs that they write as well. So one day last week, I had decided to check some of them out. I couldn't imagine for the life of me a) a writer coming up with something to write about on a regular basis ASIDE from their books, and b) that there would be something interesting and worth my time to read. I figured it would be all about book signing dates and book tours, etc. Which, don't get me wrong, that's is interesting, but not as much fun as a story. But, oh my. The world of blogging has opened up a whole new can of obsession for me. This is my "Real Housewives of (insert city here)", my "Keeping Up with the Kardashians", my "American Idol". Yeah. I'm a nerd. And this, friends, is my nerdy version of reality television.