... it's all relative ...
BlogsBlog: Until very recently there were two "blogs" I read religiously, every day (this is not including my LJ Friend's List, as I call these "journals" or "LJs", even though they are all the same thing... anyway...). One of them is Dooce, and the other is the Daily Coyote. I read them for different reasons - Dooce is often times hilarious, and the Coyote Woman posts the most gorgeous photos ever, mostly of her coyote, Charllie, but other things as well. (Check out the hot cowboy calendar - because you know, if I wasn't totally into Cool Geeky British men, I'd totally be all over the Hot Cowboy scene....). Anyway, back to the point. One day I was at the hot, er I mean, Coyote blog, and some link in the sidebar caught my eye, so I clicked it and ended up on this other blog. I don't know what it was about that post, but something compelled me to read that blog from the beginning - and OHMYGOD the more I read, the more I felt like I was reading some of my own life, but said way better (and way funnier) than I could EVER do. She was saying things that I felt, but could never find the right words to convey how I was feeling (especially on "body issues"). Since I've been so sick, I've been just trawling (is that the word?) through her archives, and finally today I got "caught up" to present day. I feel as if I've found my long-lost internet sister - we have loads in common, but don't always see eye to eye on everything - as I think it is with most siblings. The clumsiness thing. The young marriage/divorce thing. The body issue thing. The uprooting and starting your life over several thousand miles away - with a man named Peter! And her name is Kristy! Of course, she is SO MUCH cooler than I am, and when I showed my Peter the photos of the loft Kristy and her Peter were moving into, he said "I hate them." Because yeah, totally awesome and so us. (Though, now that I am caught up to the "present" found out that Kristy and Peter are moving from their SUPERLY AWESOME FANTASTIC loft, and my Peter said "Oh, so does that mean it is available?!" despite it being in, you know, San Francisco :) I really *relate* to Kristy in so many ways, and it was finally nice to be able to find words to help Peter understand some of the things I have going on inside my head/body too.
(Did you really think I was going to tell you about my real biologoical sister? Sorry. :) I wonder if she would even KNOW what a blog was ...)
(Did you really think I was going to tell you about my real biologoical sister? Sorry. :) I wonder if she would even KNOW what a blog was ...)