Now that I once again have my wits about me (ish), I’d like to mention a two recurring themes I heard last night that you bloggers might be interested in.
1) Finding your blog voice: the biggest hurdle to blogging. Some professionals last night had spent up to six months simply developing their style before going live! I’d agree…a certain level of consistency gives your readers a chance to figure out if they like you or not. This goes for personal/humour bloggers too. Surviving Myself has a killer blog voice. So does J-Money.2) Content: being a PR grad, I was asked last night why I wasn’t blogging about the industry with an east coast perspective (as of this week, I am but elsewhere). Honestly? Tried it. Didn’t have anyone bite. Moved on. I think that blogging, when done well regardless of content, highlights initiative, motivation, writing skills, social media savvy, brand power, and many other facets of PR/marketing. I had this chat with Jamie just the other week, was interesting to think about it again last night.
That’s enough learning stuff for one day because – who are we kidding? – last night was totally about getting smashed and talking about it on Twitter…
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EP: You and I are very, very lucky
Hahaha, love it! Your mom sounds like mine. Isn’t it fun?
This post made my day
I love your mom, she is so adorable!
You mom is funny. Also charades game … ha ha ha,
You have a strange family. Gotta love it. Mum’s come up with the strangest things…
Instead of “Boy”, you could have said “no, we’re trying to guess me, not you.”
Burn? Burn. Slowclap.
Your mom sounds great.
I know I’ve said this before, but I hope one day that I am as cool of a mom as yours is.
Hilarious quotes
These kind of made my day. So thanks!
Now, i’m just saying, but fashion shows for gay men and small dogs are THE BEST.
Is it every fashion show gay men and dogs?
Start with the brown one, he’s less annoyed by strangers Hahahahaaaa! It’s important to let people know how your dog will react to their advances. Often people ask if they can pet Emmy Lou and I say “You can TRY.” A surprising number of people go for it even then. HA ha! Denied!
I’m quite upset that our little twitter conversation didn’t make this post…
or are we still trying to keep it on the d/l?
LOL
It doesn’t matter if it’s a cook off for manyly men. All dogs should dress accordingly!
Just ask my pup, Stella.
hilarious.
Hilarious.
seriously laughing my ass off over here
That charades line is priceless!
Off topic, your story about the lady in line (how could she NOT want to pet your dogs?) reminded of something that happened to me over the weekend. I got my car washed the other day and wound up practically snogging with a big lesbian’s dachshund. The dog was wonderful and cute, but I had to suffer some agonizing conversation just to play with the little guy.
Can we hang out? Seriously.
Haha. LOVE the last one!
I love awkward situations, and they’re even better when on purpose.
To be fair, it is perfectly natural to assume that someone would want to pet Theo and Calvin! She’d have to be crazy not to.
Thanks for the laughs!
I definitely needed this as my first blog-reading in the morning – back at work (ugh)
I laughed so hard at the girl/dog-petting fiasco. I could totally picture the awkwardness.
I love the over-thinking in charades. Fabulous!
Haha I love the last one! And, uh, aren’t you a vegetarian?
your mom rocks. I hope I’m that funny to my kids
These are HYSTERICAL!
I’ve been in the dog petting situation before! Well, not exactly. But I’ve stood behind a guy thinking it was the line-up only to find out it wasn’t and I’d just spent the last 5 minutes looking like a weird eavesdropper/stalker.
I love the charades one, everyone learned about all your self esteems issues in one blow!
I hope you had a LARGE drink after that one!
OMG!! Laughed my ass off at this post. Love it, love it. I can’t even pick a favorite because they all made me laugh!!! Thank you Ben, I SOOO needed this!!!
“Um….how about BOY?”
Bahahaha… that was gold, Ponyboy.
Your mom is hysterical. Really. I wana swap. I don’t really. I love my mom. She just doesn’t want to admit that I’m adopted.