Guess Who I Met Last Night?
I’ve lost my potatoes. I bought a package of baking potatoes about a week ago and now I can’t find them. This scares me. Have you ever smelled rotten potatoes? Suffice it to say…’tis very, very nasty. And they drip stuff.
But the larger question is WHY can I not find the damn potatoes? There are only so many places I could have put them. I do have a habit of accidentally putting things in odd places, especially when I’m on the phone. I consider it a small price to pay for the luxury of being distracted from a lame chore, but clearly there are some kinks to be worked out.
There is another other possibility that I prefer not to consider. Maybe I’m cracking up and didn’t really buy them at all. Maybe they’re memories of buying potatoes from a parallel existence or something. But seriously, that’s so Vanilla Sky…
Okay, enough about my missing and very possibly imaginary potatoes.
I have better news.
There IS hope for me in this godforsaken city. There IS a cool mom living here. And unlike the long disputed Bigfoot, I have proof that she is real. She gave me a book and it’s right here on my desk.
I’m happy to announce that my first blog to real-life interface was a fabulous experience!
Last night I met Wendy at a nearby Starbucks and we talked for THREE hours. Turns out she is not only a very intelligent and accomplished chiquita but she is ALSO funny, down-to-earth and she says bad words. She’s no stiff!
AND, we were wearing almost exactly the same outfit. We both had on plum-ish colored v-neck tshirts with jeans and sandals. *twilight zone music plays*
Weird, huh?
I didn’t bring my camera so there are no photos but, at the risk of seeming like an overeager puppy, hopefully we will have Get Together 2.0 and I can have someone to snap a photo or two to commemorate the occasion :)
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Addendum: Blogger blogs are freaking out and either not opening or not letting me leave comments again.
And Blogrolling is shitting the bed again.
WHAT is going on today? Grrrr…
When you guys finally get fed up with Blogger and decide to make the leap to something else, come see me and let me bend your ear about my lust for Wordpress. It’s elegant and simple and it rocks my inner geekgirl’s world. For realz :)
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coffee, intellectual discourse, cute clothes, bad words with no blushing, funny, earthy, no kids! Just like blogging only you’ve exorcised the hours … the vanilla sky meaning of blogging. of course it’s an alternate universe. that’s why live there, right? at least we don’t have to kiss Tom Cruise.
thanks for the sweet words.
What? Wendy says bad words? The framework for my life has just crumbled.
Damn, you’re lucky! I love Wendy Boucher and would love to meet her one day, too.
P.S. Have you checked the bedroom closet for your potatoes? That’s where my grandmother used to keep hers. She even fell into the closet trying to retrieve them one night.
It is so great to find a new friend. I didn’t realize how hard it would be as an adult to make new IRL friends - everyone’s life is so full that it is hard to wedge new stuff in.
Look under the seat in the car, thats where I found the missing gallon of milk I swore I brought in the house :) It’s nice to meet someone IRL that is just as fun and real off the computer as on! thats great for you enjoy :)
Awesome! It’s always great to find someone you just click with.
Yay friend! Sometimes that blog to RL thing can be tricky, but it’s so awesome when things click.
I’m jealous. And how funny about the outfits.
And ps. I could have told you had lost your potatoes a long time ago. I didn’t want to be the one to break it to you.
LOL. :)
How cool that you and Wendy got together. Books, coffee, and cursing - oh my!
You have plenty of time to find the potatoes before they start dripping. No need to panic.
All I can add is YAY! Meeting 2.0 is definitely a go! By the time the BlogHer conference gets here, I imagine we’ll be insufferable. :)
meeting people is half the fun!
shoot… I want to meet some real people too! i may have to get ugly and small and hate all of you who are off to the wonders of blogher.
as for the potatoes.. well, i really have no idea…
About a year ago, we bought some potatoes and put them in our pantry. We apparently hid them behind a bunch of stuff that no one was ever going to eat…the yucky healthy snacks. When I found the potatoes, I was actually looking for a frog that had escaped from my son’s frog tank in his room. I thought that the smell in the pantry clearly must be the (dead) frog. What I found was even more gross! My pantry floor is a nice wood floor, which now has a gross green moldy spot in the back of it. Yuck! Maybe that is why we haven’t bought potatoes for a while. I kid you not, but last week I had a potato craving and actually bought just one potato so I could avoid losing the rest again! I think I may be scarred for life! I hope you find yours before it turns out like mine did!
Okay, rotten potatoes are DISGUSTING. They totally stink. I hope you find them.
Very cool that you met a fellow blogger!
I once lost a carton of eggs. I ranted and raved and almost struck my husband when he suggested that I might have thought I bought eggs, but they weren’t here, so I probably didn’t.
A week later, I found them in the back of my car, wedged under the stroller. Thank GOD it was winter. Of course, if they had been stanky, I could have thrown them at my husband, screaming, “I TOLD you I bought eggs, damn it!”
You left the potatoes on the bottom of your grocery cart and forgot to load them into the car…but you also forgot the pay for them so it’s karma. (Or was that me?)
That’s so cool that you met a real author. Her book looks funny!
If you haven’t found the potatoes yet, may I suggest you double-check the trunk of the car? Maybe you saved that bag for last and forgot to go get it. Or was that me??
Hey, I think I just saw that come in on the new books pile last week at the library!
That’s fun - I am hoping to get a coffee meetup or playdate together with another TO blogger soon - one that I met recently at a little pub get-together. I am hoping our different schedules don’t get in the way or we can figure something out, because it would be nice to find a couple of other mom friends around. I’m so glad you got along so well!
You may not know where your potatoes are, but they’re watching you. They’ve got eyes.
That’s so exciting! I’m dying to have a real life meeting with a blogger who’s blog I frequent! There are so many people I’d like to meet in real life…
You’re so cute. Isn’t thrilling to me people that you know are going to be great friends. Good for you my friend.
blogger is seriously sucking today!!! i’m interested in wordpress, but i already have a website and a message board i PAY for monthly.. idon’t want to have to pay for my freaking blog too- it’s too much internet.. TOO MUCH! lol
Oh I’m so jealous you met wendy and jealous she met you. Next time I’m on my next Orlando megathon, I’m so making an effort to head your way!
a.) I have lost potatoes. BAD NEWS! I had a game of, What the F is that stink and where is it coming from in my kitchen! Also, I had a roomate once who really disliked another roommate. Roomate A was moving out and before she did, she cut up a bunch of potatoes and left them to rot under roommate B’s water bed. Mean, huh?
What’s the difference between blogger and wordpress? I’ve never had any trouble with blogger, myself. What’s the deal?
That is so cool about meeting Wendy. And I definitely recommend WordPress too. Even the free blogs at WordPress.com are awesome. I think it must have something to do with Bloggers servers or something. And I used blogrolling for awhile when I used blogger but now I just use the “link it” bookmarklet that comes with WordPress. And as for potatoes, mine usually get forgotten about and start growing things out of them!! Hey! Your little blog buttons look awesome in the footer. That is where I stuck my Akismet spam counter. ttyl.
Yay for new friends. Will check out her book.
Stinky potatos suck! Trust me, I know!
I’m tired of BLogger too. But have been too lazy to change. But its good to know there’s something else out there!
Hooray for successful blog-to-real-life transitions!
I love reading about others meeting blogging buddies. That rocks big time!
Just last week I bought some gardening supplies and left some of them in the store. I should have gone back to get them but I wasn’t ready to face traffic to get a couple dollar items. Maybe that’s what happened to your missing potatoes.
How great for you guys! I love the idea of blogger dates. Two fabulous women crossing the virtual line and meeting face to face… I’m surprised the blogosphere didn’t explode. And curse words! Lucky girls.
I would so love to meet people, but there really isn’t anyone here in little ole New Jersey! P.S. I bet your potatoes are in the fridge. Happens to me all the time. Then I look again and they are RIGHT THERE…..like HOW THE HELL DID I MISS THAT?!?!?!
It is always so wonderful to find another person to hang out with!!!! Congrats!
I have a blogspot and a wordpress blog …im just learing wordpress and its fun !!! I added you to the links on my page i hope you dont mind …and i sent you an email ? but im not sure you got it :(
I am about 1/2 an inch away from being done with blogger. GRRR. I hate them.
This happened to Kvetch a while back with a box of cereal. Did you read her post about it? Maybe there is a food vortex in cahoots with the vortex that sucks socks out of the dryer.
yay for an awesome face to face meeting.
How cool to meet another blogger in real life. Especially a real live author. I thought it was cool enough that she visited my blog once. I also think it’s cool when you visit my blog :) So, when will you be writing your book? I’d buy it fo’ sure. (Good luck finding those potatoes.)
When I read this I was going to post that the spuds were watching you wiht thie eyes but clever Ruth Dynamite already did, so now I just look like I’m riding her coattails.
I’m interested in Wordpress but have no HTML skills (but I’m trying to learn enough to get rid of my awful template!) and no moulah to actually pay for a site, so blogger, as craptacular as it is, is still probably my best option.
Ok seriously DH has been talking about getting the damn car a/c fixed. i say we meet 1/2 way and have a hell of a time. What exactly IS half way other then the Flying J gas station?
and can i just say WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I want to meet a cool blogger mommy friend who lives in my town!
That would be awesome. Orlando is only a little over an hour away.
lol…I knew someone would say that!
shitting on the bed again! hahahah!! that is a fabulous line…
Blogger ran my post yesterday three times. I’m certain my readers will never come back and have left me for more sophisticated blog hosting sites like wordpress. I’m jealous and happy for you at the same time that you had a successful meeting with a fellow blogger.
Blogger is making me weary and I long for something simple. I also would like a header I can put on there myself. I hope you find those potatoes because finding them only after they’ve begun to smell is NOT one of life’s little pleasures.
Thanks for the reminder! I forgot that I had a bag of potatoes in the cabinet. I cooked them last night. As for finding your bag, check the trunk of your car…I’ve made that mistake before. Blech!
Blogger is starting to be a pain, and my husband uses Wordpress…so I may switch soon. Thanks for your comment on my blog - I’m new to the blogosphere, and my friends are slack with commenting.
Izzy is right. Blogger sucks big time and WordPress gives you so much flexibility. I have been using it since September and still learning all the neat tricks….take the time and make the switch.
Thanks! I’ll have to get a tutorial from hubby…he seems to really like it.
Wordpress rules the school.
And Blogger bloggers? I’m trying to read and comment. I really am. Now you know why I left Blogger.
I HAVE SWITCHED! Huzzah. You can now find Fire on the Poop Deck at http://www.wendyboucher.com/blog. It’s Wordpress baby! When you get the chance, you can change your linky-poo in the blogroll.
You were my inspiration, Iz!
I want to meet you and Wendy, too! And curse and drink coffee! Waaah!
OMG next time you are here Mom 101 me you Izzy OMG it will be mayham!
I love Wordpress! Ah, about the potatoes, I’m always losing things like that, but it is usually because the little guy took it and hid it somewhere odd. You’ll find them rotting somewhere in about a month ;).
Checked the closet. No potatoes. But thanks for the tip…lol
Okay, Iz, spill it. Why is Wordpress better than typepad? I mean, am I sitting in the wrong boat? I’m not necessarily wanting to change, but then again, while typepad isn’t the SUCK that defines blogger.com, it may also not be my favorite location to be … especially if there’s something better. ??
Sell me, sister. Sell me.
Have you looked in your washing machine? I loose things too and find them in strange places. Not that I’ve ever put spuds in a washer. Cool book! Sounds like a great read. Happy spud hunting.
I can’t wait to actually meet one of my blog friends in person. Pretty soon now — I’m supposed to meet one over July 4 and then there’s BlogHer! Sounds like you and Wendy had an amazing time. :-)
I can just picture us all at BlogHer trying not to act too excited to meet/see one another. I’m going to be having conversations in my head like, “Clam down Tracey, don’t act like an over-eager idiot. Don’t scare the people. Don’t act like a stalker. Don’t be too hyper. Don’t say something stupid. Act cool. Act calm. Stop talking.” I could go on and on.
Maybe we should just agree to act as lame as we want. Who cares, right??? (My god, did I just say that out loud?)
Potatoes are better than sweet potatoes rotting.
I am also in this godforsaken city. And also, before finding your blog, starting to think there wasn’t ever a hope of finding gals like me. Perhaps there is hope for me too, someday?
(/runs pitifully back to her little hole so she doesn’t feel like such an Internet stalker…)