I admit it, I look at my stats a lot. It’s a new world to me, this blogging thing. And I love that you, whoever you are, are here. Hello YOU!
Oh, and when you COMMENT! I’m over the moon! Seriously. I used to pass notes to my friends constantly in my classes in junior high and high school. (Amazing that I graduated, hmmm?) I’d draw on them, too. We’d get these long dialogues with cartoons going. Blogging feels like that.
And then, the fun of finding out what search engine terms brought you here. This is the meat of my message today.
You see, a few days back, I was feeling… less-than-erudite, less-than-interesting. I wrote a post about it. And now, at least one person a day is finding my site by googling or yahooing or ask.comming the phrase, “i am so boring” (note that lowercase spelling, a convention in my post titles, is exactly how said persons are typing the phrase in their search engines).
The thing is, there are many days that I feel boring. Today was another. I spent most of it triangulating the greater Bay Area in search of the pregnancy jeans I wanted in size Medium (the Large was too big). I started in a mall by the Bay, drove through a tunnel, got lost in another city that is essentially a giant shopping mall, and ended up so far from where I’d bought the pants yesterday (back through tunnel, across a bridge), that I had to pay 34 cents in additional tax in the exchange. All for a PAIR OF JEANS.
Why? Because I didn’t have anywhere else I needed to be. (I just hope these ones fit till the end of the pregnancy. The first pair I bought in Trimester One are binding now.)
The thing is, boring can be interesting, as soon as you take a look at it closely, catalogue the details. Get groovy with your boring self. At least, it seems that way to me. I don’t know if I have any advice for the “boring” people who are finding themselves here. Maybe if y’all know that you’re not the only ones who were feeling this way… I feel better about my boring self, knowing that I’m not the only one. In fact, I feel encouraged.
I sense a t-shirt design in my future…
And I would like to say a special hello and keep-on-truckin’ to the person who took boring to its utmost existential level with the googling of this phrase:
“why am i so boring?”
Are you boring? Do you have words of advice or encouragement for our boring brethren? Please share in the comments below.
Sad to say, but I am pretty boring. I spend my time carting around kids and volunteering for any number of crazy things, all so I have something to do!