This Saturday I will be going to Nuffnang Blogopolis.
Am I excited? I have no idea.
Am I prepared? Most definitely not.
There has been no time to think about it.
I have watched the blog posts and the status updates and the tweets float by me on the rapids and I still have not put much thought into gathering with a few hundred bloggers in my home town.
Lots of bloggers have been busily making lunch and dinner and drinks plans, shopping, chatting and drinking copious amounts of coffee. You name it they will be doing it. I have one little plan made to have a sandwich with a lovely one. And that's it.
I honestly have no idea how people fit in all the tweeting and blogging and arranging stuff. No idea. I feel utterly clueless and quite a bit out of the loop. I am too busy, most days, surviving.
Busy days filled with autism, therapy, anxiety, meetings, meltdowns, achievements and wins.
The Bowler whose favourite word right now is NO. Yes I mean "No, I don't want to", "No, it's mine", "No, don't touch it". Someone please send me some strength.
The never ending housework and piles of washing. So. Far. Behind.
Cooped up kids with winter cabin fever wrestling on the couch. I need strength for that too.
Being the kinder secretary. Enough said.
The punishing exercise schedule I have set for myself. 5 kilograms more off my bum by the first day of spring.
All of that. And when I read back over that list I know that I am doing way more than surviving. I am living a full and rich and busy and amazing life with my three boys. The sudden and devastating death of someone I knew well almost three weeks ago has been one of those perspective giving kicks up the bum about getting on with it, about being grateful and about giving it all you've got.
So, I will be literally flying by the seat of my pants all the way to Blogopolis. For the most part, clueless. Really.
Is anyone else like me and completely unprepared for Blogopolis? Are you rocking up with your arrangements all done and dusted or are you crossing your fingers and hoping you find someone you know?
Most of us are clueless but creative. Loved your blog post. I am going to blogher mush the same way you are going to blogopolis. I am traveling with a dear friend and set up a meeting with a twitter fined in the ares ( nothing to do with the event) but as for the actual even - no clue. But lately, doing without a clue is better than not doing with a clue. Have a wonderful day.
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Barbara
www.paintalifestyle.ca/blog
Congratulations 99 posts you are doing well. If I see you I will be sure to come say hi . There are so many of us feeling the same anxiety ,you won't be alone.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations 99 posts you are doing well. If I see you I will be sure to come say hi . There are so many of us feeling the same anxiety ,you won't be alone.
ReplyDeleteYou are hanging with me, aren't you?
ReplyDeleteAREN'T YOU!?!?! I am depending on you...OMG
I have new shoes. That I would have bought regardless. That's it. I have nothing else organised. I have to pack. Tonight. Sometime... but I need to get the clothes i need out of the wash pile first.
ReplyDeleteSee you soon xxx
You are well ahead of me on the organised - you actually have a ticket. I left my run too late and missed out so I will suffer through reading about all the fun instead. Have a great time there and meet heaps of wonderful people and I will live vicariously through your posts!
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