This week thousands of bloggers are in Chicago attending BlogHer13, one of the biggest blogging conferences in the country. Bloggers will check out seminars, network, collect 1,264 business cards and make connections and memories with good companies and even better friends.
Blah, blah, blah.
Obviously I’m not there, mostly because:
a) I’m a peon in the blogging world who had no ads on her blog or “sponsors.”
b) I don’t have kids—apparently there is a “lactation” lounge—which would make me unappealing to said sponsors.
c) Self-promotion isn’t something I enjoy, and that’s 99 percent of this thing.
d) I would have to leave my house.
e) I don’t even like to travel for work—the thing I actually get paid to do—so the thought of spending $1,000 on a conference appeals to me about as much as self-promotion, a lactation lounge, writing only sponsored posts and leaving my house.
But what does appeal to me is meeting all the awesome people who are there—at BlogHer, not on my couch—and having fun with those talented/hilarious ladies.
So that combined with my raging insecurity that said awesome ladies will become bigger blogging superstars and best friends, forget about me and my blog and form some new clique like the Pink Ladies in “Grease” minus the hickeys from Kenickie is why I’m curled up in the fetal position avoiding any updates from Chicago.
Okay, not really.
It’s more like lounging on the couch this weekend watching baseball and finishing up an upcoming post about fictional characters in therapy. Hey—even Snow White has issues, you know.
But in the meantime—for the MILLIONS of you people who are also awesome but not in Chicago—I invite you to click over here and read about how I have the bladder the size of a Cheerio and memories of my first hover.
Because while I might not be in Chicago, I am In the Powder Room and no one is around to kick us out (see BlogHer crap above.) If we show them how much unsupervised fun we can have while they’re gone, we might just get invited back.
And you don’t even have to leave your own couch. Win-win!
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