The Meet and Greet a/k/a BlogHer Preconvention

Imagine my glee with getting to meet Chilihead, one of my fav blogger peeps, in PERSON.  Real life.  She ventured over to the real home of …and the pursuit of happiness yesterday and spent the day with me.  If you want to get to know me better, I blog about a lot of silly nonsensical things and I give away my own created blog awards like they’re candy.  But, you know, with four kids (two of each flavor) and a home business, this is what I do to maintain my sanity.  Barely.

First, we had the "when are you going to get here?" phone call. I made
her feel at ease with meeting me by explaining I had just had my axe
sharpened and bought a new freezer so I could go all Jeffrey Dahmer on
her ass and she’d have her face on a milk carton come next week.

Couldn’t
bring myself to do it. She was too nice. Visiting nearby family at a
reunion she took a WHOLE DAY out to come see me. At my house and in my
town.

I took her to a point of interest just outside town. Wish
I could share it, she’s the one who took the picture. She helped me
walk the dog, I drove her around, we had lunch while on our laptops (a
wee bit, she had 1,287,932 emails to answer) and while we were
lunching, she said another couple of women kept looking at us the whole
time. They were jealous, because we’re cool. It’s hard to be so cool.
And lunch took forever because we kept TALKING so much.

 

I made her a shirt that she’s going to pimp at BlogHer where she is a speaker.
Dude. I had lunch with someone who knows "stuff" enough to SPEAK at BlogHer!  OMG!

Anyway,
don’t know about Chili, but I think we hit it off. We seem to have a
pretty similar temperament. And we already knew we had similar
Libertarian leanings. And she laughed at all my jokes. That gets you
superstar bonus points when you laught at my jokes. FYI.

 

We discussed a topic that I think she might have to put up as a tutorial on Blogging Basics.  How to tell a friend you really love as a person that their blog is boring.
We’re calling it a Blog Intervention. It just might need to be a new
service provided out there in the great big blogosphere. Kind of like
those letters you can have sent anonymously telling someone they have
bad breath. You know? Because you care. Same difference.

Then she ran some errands with my girls, and they were dazzling her with their ability to be cute and form complete sentences.

Meeting
someone in person for the first time that you already sort of feel like
you "know" could be fairly intimidating. I keep hearing about it over
and over in regards to BlogHer convention (family vacation at the same
time for me AGAIN, I wonder if I’ll ever make it!).

 

I’m going to
give this real live meet up a 9 out of 10. The only thing that would
have made it a 10 is if she’d been here long enough in the evening so I
could make us a kickass meal and then we could have sat out on my back
deck in front of the chiminea and had a glass of wine, or three.

PS)
Here is photographic proof we really look like the photos we post,
because somebody could put some random picture up but actually have
scary, greasy hair and a goiter. Our thanks to Emersyn for butting into
the photo and thanks to Sammie for taking the picture (yes, my 5-year
old took the picture in my yard because we kept forgetting to have
other people do it when we were out in public because we could not stop
TALKING)

Tagged as: all the cool kids are doing it, blogger, chilihead, Iowa