January 5, 2005 | Detritus
Sheryl at Papernapkin has dubbed today, January 5, International De-Lurking Day. That means that if you visit a blog today, you must comment or bad luck will befall you, your children, your children’s children, and so on and so forth. Well, not really, but hey, commenting is painless and every once in a while it wouldn’t kill ya. This is your chance to see and be seen, to comment and leave your mark on the world! Er, at least to leave your mark on my blog.
And I’m still sick and highly unlikely to say anything interesting today, so have at it. It’s Make Your Own Entertainment day here at Woulda Coulda Shoulda! Ready? Go!
Posted by Mir @ 10:07 am
January 5th, 2005 at 10:22 am
Okay, I’m stepping out now! Also, love the title—it’s too bad freaking literati won’t accept that as a real word! ;)
January 5th, 2005 at 10:22 am
Hi there! Just trying to dodge bad luck!
January 5th, 2005 at 10:32 am
I just started reading your site a few weeks back, and I like your style! Former teacher, so the lice trauma brought a smile to my face. You can’t imagine how many lice incidents a 2nd grade teacher faces over 5 years of teaching.
January 5th, 2005 at 10:32 am
Feel better soon!!!
January 5th, 2005 at 10:33 am
Feel better!
January 5th, 2005 at 10:35 am
I’m not commenting…I’m still mad I didn’t make the year end meme…
January 5th, 2005 at 10:36 am
Argh! I feel like a rat who has had a flashlight shone on her! Yes, I’m here. I’m here every day. Sometimes two or three times a day, if I notice you’ve updated according to my blogroll. I think I qualify to be your stalker.
Back to lurking. ;o)
January 5th, 2005 at 10:40 am
Major lurker/semi-stalker here. I’m finally saying hello and hope you feel better soon.
(Sorry no entertainment here.)
January 5th, 2005 at 10:44 am
Alright. I’ll comment, since you’re forcing me to. But I won’t like it. “Comment,” there, are you happy now? Now I’m going to go to my room and pout.
Hee. I am way too tired. Feel better Mir.
January 5th, 2005 at 10:46 am
Okay, I’m obviously not a lurker. I just came by to tell you you’re fabulous, and I read every post.
January 5th, 2005 at 10:53 am
I’ve been reading your site for a while now. I love your style so I thought I’d pop my head up and say hello.
January 5th, 2005 at 10:54 am
Hi Mir. No bad luck for me…
January 5th, 2005 at 10:54 am
***sliding out from behind the lurking bush*** Hi! ***back to hiding now***
January 5th, 2005 at 10:55 am
Ok, so I think I came out the last time you shone this light in the closet…and I’m still hiding in here.
You entertain the hell out of me and I’m always excited to check your site after a long weekend to see if large company has called, ex has been up to more mischief, or some other major/minor event has conspired.
Ok, I’m going back in the closet now.
January 5th, 2005 at 10:57 am
Good idea - force out the lurkers (like me). I’ll have to try that myself!
sick here with fever too, so I feel for ya!
January 5th, 2005 at 11:01 am
But, but, but…lurking is a way of LIFE! S’ok, don’t mind commenting to say Happy New Year, and kick those sickies!!
January 5th, 2005 at 11:06 am
Lurker here! :) Hope you’re feeling better!
January 5th, 2005 at 11:08 am
Wench - You’re as bad as a chain letter! I hope you feel better, and I hope the ex’s “fatigue” turns back into a miserable fever. And maybe a scaly karmic rash. On his face. Or somewhere more embarassing and harder to itch in public. Nothing quite disfiguring, but close.
January 5th, 2005 at 11:08 am
This delurker hopes you are feeling better soon. Love your blog!
January 5th, 2005 at 11:13 am
Feel better!
Why do I now have this sudden urge to type out 10 letters and mail them to family members to increase their junk mail?
January 5th, 2005 at 11:21 am
I hope you feel better soon! I joined the non lurker band wagon, this is fun!!
January 5th, 2005 at 11:23 am
Just another lurker hoping to avoid bad luck and say you crack me up. Thanks for the daily laughs.
January 5th, 2005 at 11:24 am
That’s what I was coming here to do…my list being alphabetical and all!
Hi, my name is Liz and I’m a recovering lurkaholic and dork.
I love your blog!
Come visit my January 5th post and be a part of De-Lurking Day.
January 5th, 2005 at 11:24 am
Ok, i am not technically a lurker because i Have commented in the past…just not recently.
Hope you’re feeling better!
January 5th, 2005 at 11:28 am
Hi Mir! I read your blog quite often, and always enjoy it. Hope you feel better soon!
January 5th, 2005 at 11:31 am
So this guy gets into an elevator with a statistician he knows, and the conversation goes like this:
Guy: How are you today?
Statistician: Compared to what?
January 5th, 2005 at 11:34 am
God! The guilt!
I enjoy your blog, your “voice” as a mommy rings true to me (although mine are much bigger now but no less of a challenge) as I remember those days of insanity. Keep it real.
January 5th, 2005 at 11:40 am
You crack me up.
I wish many, many blessings on you and your family in 2005.
Love your blog.
January 5th, 2005 at 11:43 am
This is my de-lurk. I’m not sure if I’ve ever commented here or not, but here I am, reading every day.
January 5th, 2005 at 11:45 am
Okay - that’s 2 of you who’ve caught me in the non-lurking posting web. I’m leaving the room. No more blogs until tomorrow when this madness will be over.
January 5th, 2005 at 11:51 am
Hi my name is Wendy and I lurk on an almost daily basis. You have a wonderful writing style. I love your blog. You keep writing and I’ll keep lurking.
January 5th, 2005 at 11:56 am
Another lurker, wishing you well (and wellness).
January 5th, 2005 at 11:57 am
i’ve JUST started journaling and have been cruising the web to get some ideas about what’s possible, what works, and what doesn’t. yours is one of the good ones … thanks!
January 5th, 2005 at 12:00 pm
Mir,
Get better soon! But, before you do, perhaps you should pay a vistit to Mr. I-forgot-how-to-use-a-phone and infect him. Share the wealth I say!!!
January 5th, 2005 at 12:03 pm
Mir,
I just wanted to let you know how much I look forward to reading your blog every day. Your writing has been a comfort as well as a source of inspiration to me and I just want to thank you for letting all of us out here see into your world! Many well wishes for you and your family for a terrific New Year! Thanks again!
January 5th, 2005 at 12:05 pm
Hope you’re feeling better very soon.
January 5th, 2005 at 12:07 pm
I found your site today. I will be back. Take care. Being sick in not fun.
Linda
January 5th, 2005 at 12:08 pm
caught me - I check in at least once a day. Hope you’re feeling better!
January 5th, 2005 at 12:08 pm
Another de-lurker here… it sounds like some kind of syndrome! Nice to have an excuse to come out for some fresh air, right? Anyway, I’m a big WCS fan and fellow New Englander. Hope you and yours are feeling better.
January 5th, 2005 at 12:18 pm
Just trying to stop the bad luck curse right here.
Hope you feel better soon. Seems like everyone in New England is sick, myself included.
January 5th, 2005 at 12:20 pm
I haven’t posted before either but love your writing. Thanks for sharing your life with us. Oops, kids in dog food - gotta go.
January 5th, 2005 at 12:25 pm
Hope you feel better
January 5th, 2005 at 12:28 pm
Hey there,
your descriptions of getting your two ready in the morning is very simular to what happens here.
January 5th, 2005 at 12:36 pm
Happy DL day! Hope you feel better soon Mir ;-)
January 5th, 2005 at 12:38 pm
Another lurker here, saying “Hi, Mir!”
Hope you’re feeling better…
;)
January 5th, 2005 at 12:40 pm
Well, I don’t usually delurk unless your dad comments, but I suppose I can make an exception.
January 5th, 2005 at 12:43 pm
De-lurking to say feel better and I love your site!
January 5th, 2005 at 12:46 pm
lurk, lurk, lurk, lurk, lurk, lurk, lurk …
Crap! Did I say that out loud? Curse you and your magical delurking powers!
January 5th, 2005 at 12:58 pm
Poking my head out from under the covers of lurkdom. I love your site, I visit often.
January 5th, 2005 at 1:06 pm
Happy de-lurking day!
January 5th, 2005 at 1:07 pm
Okay - so you have a bunch of lurkers and semi-stalkers. But we all come back everyday :) Hope you feel better soon.
January 5th, 2005 at 1:17 pm
Delurking to say hello, and that I love your blog. Maybe next time I’ll say something more witty, when I’m not put on the spot like this…
January 5th, 2005 at 1:22 pm
De-lurking: Can you believe that Target is only at 75% off holiday and there is NOTHING left??
January 5th, 2005 at 1:29 pm
I don’t have any children, so am commenting totally without regard to being threatened.
January 5th, 2005 at 1:34 pm
Knock, knock
Who’s there?
Me, mommy, don’t you see me?
(courtesy of my five year old - guess you had to be there!)I read every day, but I think you already know that…..
January 5th, 2005 at 1:37 pm
way to many offspring here to risk the ole evil eye from the blog emperess. hope you are feeling better and that the laser eye thing has simmered down a bit!
January 5th, 2005 at 1:40 pm
Happy DeLurking Day Mir! Love the site and read daily!
Feel better soon!
January 5th, 2005 at 2:00 pm
Holy hell you’ve got a lot of lurkers!!! Who would lurk on such a fascinating site?
January 5th, 2005 at 2:03 pm
My appointed tasks to be accomplished today were:
to wish that you feel better
to pick up my meds
to fill my Honda with gas
to not get stuck in my driveway
to kvell
to lurk!
Mission accomplished,
and no bad luck for me or my progeny.
January 5th, 2005 at 2:08 pm
I am not currently looking for any more bad luck.
January 5th, 2005 at 2:17 pm
I’ve commented once or twice but read on a daily basis. You have a wonderful way with words and are very entertaining. Hope you’re feeling better.
January 5th, 2005 at 2:20 pm
Not only do I lurk here, but found you from FFD where I lurk, too. And you’ve opened my eyes to the world of blogging, where I lurk and lurk and lurk… Now, I’m afraid to go look at any other blogs, having to reveal myself…..
January 5th, 2005 at 2:22 pm
I know Joshilyn told you this morning that I’m a lurker but I’ll comment anyway…by the way, Scott is MINE and you should know I weigh over 200 pounds and I’m MEAN :)
January 5th, 2005 at 2:27 pm
No room for anymore bad luck.
must….post….comment……NOW….
January 5th, 2005 at 2:33 pm
Not lurking… hi :)
January 5th, 2005 at 2:36 pm
Hi there…been visiting your blog now for a week or so. Enjoying it greatly! Also celebrating De-Lurking Day and raising $$ for tsunami relief. Read all about it at my blog. :)
January 5th, 2005 at 2:37 pm
Actually I was just thinking that I really should comment one of these days. I love your blog. I’ve been reading practically daily for over a month now after following a link from Three Kid Circus. I hope you feel better soon!
January 5th, 2005 at 2:37 pm
ya know I usually lurk because I’m eating. What am I eating right now?? RAW COOKIE DOUGH…..Yummy!
January 5th, 2005 at 2:43 pm
Um, yeah, I’m here. Sharing your laments over not getting to be the “fun” parent. Yup, my crew is going to the “fun” dad’s this weekend where he will probably let them watch a rated R movie and stay up all night watching video games. Then I will have to yell at him and deprogram the children. Sigh. (How’s that for de-lurking?)
January 5th, 2005 at 2:44 pm
I am a faithful reader and love your writing. You are hilarious and I hope that 2005 brings all good things to you and your munchkins.
January 5th, 2005 at 2:44 pm
I feel such pressure with these comments - this is why I frown upon Evite, there’s such a pressure to be witty - but what the hell. I have recently discovered your blog and have spent many an hour laughing about some of your posts. Keep up the good work and I hope you feel better soon.
January 5th, 2005 at 2:44 pm
Good afternoon from Arizona. Yes, we have some sunshine today, would you like me to share? :)
January 5th, 2005 at 3:03 pm
You are a W and it’s taken me half a workday to get this far down my blogroll!
Hi! My name is Amanda and I have been a lurker for one year. I read you every day, but seldom comment. I am a dork that way.
But I do love your blog and wish you all the best. Wish I could send you MY job when I quit next week.
January 5th, 2005 at 3:07 pm
I’ve had enough bad luck in 2004. I’m going for a “Good-Luck-Only-2005, so I’ll unlurk today!
Feel better Mir.
January 5th, 2005 at 3:09 pm
Um, hi! Just stepping out of the shadows for a brief second to let you know that I’m here and that I read your blog everyday too. You crack me up! Hope you are feeling better soon and that 2005 is a year of realized dreams for you.
January 5th, 2005 at 3:19 pm
I think you should have to send all this comment traffic to the wonderful person who got you started blogging to begin with eh?
Hey… feel better soon!
January 5th, 2005 at 3:24 pm
I’m not superstitious, but thought I’d comment anyway. Still, there are already 76 posts before mine…who the heck is going to keep linking all the way down to little old me??
January 5th, 2005 at 3:26 pm
Happy De-lurking Day! I hope you feel better soon. :o)
January 5th, 2005 at 3:26 pm
Don’t want any of that bad luck so here’s a quick hello:-) Enjoying your blog!!
January 5th, 2005 at 3:32 pm
I’m making naughty sounds with my hand and my armpit! Who needs funny blogs when you have this!
Also: I’m sorry you’re sick. Boo, fever. Boooo. And as for your question on my site, the answer is: believe me you don’t want this hair.
January 5th, 2005 at 3:38 pm
hi!
January 5th, 2005 at 3:40 pm
I adore you! Feel better!
Wooo!
January 5th, 2005 at 3:51 pm
Well if it’s a holiday of sorts I suppose we should all say /something/ eh?
Now of course we’ll all go back to the lurk state! :)
Cheers
- bd
January 5th, 2005 at 4:11 pm
Not a lurker, but I think you know how much I love your site.
January 5th, 2005 at 4:14 pm
Do you feel popular yet, Mir?
January 5th, 2005 at 4:23 pm
I’ll de-lurk if you show us your patch….
January 5th, 2005 at 4:32 pm
lurking lurking lurking….
hope some of these lovely lurkers will stop over and do the same to me. I’d love to give my money to the victims as well… LOTS of money…
January 5th, 2005 at 4:32 pm
I’m lurking too as always!
Lois Lane
January 5th, 2005 at 4:54 pm
Hi from a lurking Canadian in Germany. I’ve been reading your blog just forever. Keep up the good work!
January 5th, 2005 at 4:57 pm
…I’ll take this opportunity to let you know that my curly girl is STILL plotting to get rid of the new playroom table…
January 5th, 2005 at 5:39 pm
Coming out from behind the bushes….
January 5th, 2005 at 5:50 pm
Does de-lurking make one feel better? I think you might be well on your way to recovery if so.
January 5th, 2005 at 5:52 pm
I guess I’m out of the closet now…Love your site!
January 5th, 2005 at 6:01 pm
I visit a lot, but rarely comment. Happy de-lurking day!!!
January 5th, 2005 at 6:09 pm
Happy De-lurker Day Mir…..
January 5th, 2005 at 6:16 pm
Long time lurker….some time commentor…feel better!!
January 5th, 2005 at 6:18 pm
Hey! Didn’t want the bad luck. Here’s to delurking! Let’s all lift a glass.
January 5th, 2005 at 6:24 pm
De-Lurking Devotee…found you via KATE SPOT….HOWDY from TX!
January 5th, 2005 at 6:48 pm
De-lurking now… love, love!, LOVE!! your blog. Read it every day. You are hilarious. I adore the way you write about your kids -it’s so realistic! Thank you for a daily chuckle. Good luck on the job hunt.
January 5th, 2005 at 6:59 pm
I’m not really a lurker, but I’ll still comment to ward off any bad luck.
Although I got the dreaded ‘your child is sick- can you come pick him up?’ phone call from school a couple of hours ago, so the bad luck may still be incoming, urgh…
January 5th, 2005 at 7:01 pm
Ok I lurk here! Im caught today but oh how I do love your blog and your wit and humour! Being a mom makes it all that much more relatable! I love it! Kudos to you hon! Keep it up! ;)
January 5th, 2005 at 7:25 pm
Hi. My name is Thernessia and I’m a recovering lurker.
January 5th, 2005 at 7:53 pm
My name is Thumper, and I’m a recovering lurker… I found your blog last week or so and the design drew me in first (holy crap, it’s AWESOME!) and then the blog itself.
I often don’t comment on blogs because I feel like an intruder…even though I want comments on mine.
I said I was a lurker, not a sane one…
January 5th, 2005 at 7:56 pm
De-lurking…
But if I commented everytime I came here, I’d have a label that read “serious stalker and obnoxiously loud laugher” on my head.
January 5th, 2005 at 8:11 pm
Uh oh…it’s as if the spotlight went on and it shown right one me as I was lurking through! :P
I have been lurking around a week or so and immensely enjoy your stories! :) Well, maybe now I won’t hide anymore!
Hope you get better soon!
January 5th, 2005 at 8:21 pm
I’m de-lurking to say that I enjoy reading your blog and I often laugh out loud while doing so! Thanks ; )
January 5th, 2005 at 8:23 pm
Holy sh*t, you have 106 comments, Mir.
January 5th, 2005 at 8:24 pm
GOOOD LORD! I’m late!
I rarely lurk, as I have such a large mouth but still…happy de-lurking day.
January 5th, 2005 at 8:54 pm
I honestly haven’t “lurked” over here for a while, and of course today I am delurking!
Love, Love, love … the new look!!!!!!!
January 5th, 2005 at 9:10 pm
Well, gee, who knew? Not me till I got home from a crappy day and read your blog. And you gave me something to smile about.
January 5th, 2005 at 9:29 pm
You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and lurk you.
Damn I just spoiled the lurking aspect by commenting here. Please forgive me and accept my admiration. Which is of course ardent.
January 5th, 2005 at 9:49 pm
Delurking to say hello and to ward away any additional bad luck that could come my way :-) Feel better! Love your blog!
January 5th, 2005 at 10:06 pm
just found your site a couple weeks ago and am now a regular.
January 5th, 2005 at 10:10 pm
Hi. I have been visiting your blog for awhile now. I really enjoy doing so, do u think there’s a possability we were seprated at birth?!?!?!
January 5th, 2005 at 10:11 pm
I’ve commented before, so I’m not *really* de-lurking, but I wanted to add to the list of your ardent blogmirers.
Hope you feel better, or at least your fever breaks, so you can go back to not being that hot.
(OK, that was mean. I WAS KIDDING!)
January 5th, 2005 at 10:54 pm
really I’m just a sudo lurker…I do comment every now and again
January 5th, 2005 at 10:59 pm
You know that I don’t lurk, I go ahead and say something inappropriate!
January 5th, 2005 at 11:06 pm
Ok, I’ll leave a short message, since you are sick and I don’t want to catch anything by staying too long. Good luck with the BoB!
January 5th, 2005 at 11:28 pm
I think I’ve commented here before, but just in case, de-lurking to confess that I read, and enjoy your blog way more than I ever comment. Hope you’re feeling better!
January 5th, 2005 at 11:35 pm
All aboard!
January 5th, 2005 at 11:54 pm
Yours is my favorite blog for its content plus how often you update. Quality AND quantity! Like a biggie fries. If you knew me, you would know that is the highest compliment one could bestow on another.
Happy delurking day!
January 6th, 2005 at 12:30 am
So since I actually comment on your blog occasionally I guess I’m not officially a lurker, but I’ll delurk anyway, just for the sake of the holiday.
January 6th, 2005 at 4:05 am
I’m late, but I’m de-lurking!
January 6th, 2005 at 4:31 am
De-lurking again :)Hope you’re feeling better!
January 6th, 2005 at 8:44 am
Lord, did I forget to come here and say hi? Feel free to hit me over the head with something large and heavy.
January 6th, 2005 at 9:13 am
Hi! I have been reading you for a while now and thought I should probably comment or something, especially with it being “De-Lurking Day” and all. Anyway, I love your writing! ~Marlen
January 6th, 2005 at 10:16 am
Hi!
January 6th, 2005 at 11:26 am
I want it to be a matter of record that I cannot abide bandwagons so shan’t be jumping on this one either.