Lately, as you may have noticed, some of the most dynamite peoples in the blogosphere are disappearing on us. My darling Lemmonex is taking a break, but at least she knows I will break her knees if she doesn’t come back to us eventually, in one format or another. Next thing I knew, rs27, Racquel Valencia and Gina Clover got all existential on us, and said they may or may not reappear to the blogging scene again. (All three have since posted again, however, which is promising… I would miss them so.)
And I DO understand the value of retiring something you aren’t feeling- I’m not coming down on anyone at all, just lamenting the loss of some of my favorite peoples. Let’s be clear on that.
All the same… is there a bug going around? A blog-boredom bug? Have our attention spans gotten so short we can’t even focus on our five paragraph blurbs anymore… is the Tweet taking over?
B chatted me yesterday and said something along the lines of, “Your blog people are dropping like flies, huh?”
I knew what he was really asking was, “Are you?”
And the answer is, No. Absolutely not. Not even for a second.
I keep waiting for the burn-out to set in, but it just doesn’t. In life? Sure, there are days I want to curl into the fetal position for 72 hours and watch Always Sunny and drink boxed wine until the world sets itself right again. (See: my plans for this weekend.)
But as far as this place goes… my little corner of the interwebs… it’s cozy. It’s cathartic. It’s home.
I’ve been really lucky, I suppose- trolls are minimal, my hilarious boyfriend, strange neighborhood and crazy ass friends (elephant shoe!) give me endless fodder (it has nothing to do with how weird and dorky I am! NOTHING!)… and I have the best freaking readers in the world.
So yeah, I’ll be sticking around for a while. I hope that’s okay with you.
And here’s a parting gift for being so. Goddamn. AWESOME SAUCE:
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
In other news, I am twelve.
God, I love you guys. Happy weekend, y’all!
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You best not be leaving! You make me laugh!
Don't tax or force yourself, though — that's what leads to burnout, when you feel the need to produce X amount of posts on Y timeframe. The blogosphere will continue to tick if you miss a day or two, and, y'know? Blog burnout is like any other kind of burnout — you take some time away from it, and you come back stronger than ever.
don't EVER leave. although i'd still have you..
p.s. i got your check. LOVE that you put one of my middle names..hahahaha. i was very confused for a second when i looked at the envelope. luff you.
Nor am I going anywhere…I have far too many gripes and far too much venom to spew…this is my outlet to existentially relieve myself…the place where I relieve my physical self is in mah turlet or into one of those capsules they use in the vacuum tubes at the bank… "Here comes my deposit, fuckers!"
That weekend idea sounds glorious; I need to graduate asap in order to make that a normal thing (except for the boxed wine because I'm classy like that…I drink my wine while wearing a monocle).
Also, that commercial had me giggling and searching for new ringtones. WILDCARD, BITCHES!
Phew! You better not leave, I just started reading your blog and <3 it!!! :O)
I think it's the weather….sunshine brings the crazy out in people!!
I love you (what?)
My friend @Micah at LearntoDuck.com wrote a post once about what blogging means and what it should mean. And he wrote that if you're ever writing because you feel like you HAVE to – because someone else is waiting to read it, because you promised yourself you'd write every day, because whatEVER – then blogging is going to feel like a chore, a task and, eventually, a burden. I try to remember that and actively NOT blog when I'm feeling too stressed about not having anything funny or witty to write – I just don't. And I think it keeps me from getting burned out. The only thing that ever gets me down is not knowing whether folks are actually reading – no one ever comments – but I guess that's not why I started blogging in the first place, so I try to ignore it.
Glad you'll be sticking around. me too.
yayee! keep it up lady. (that's what she said?)
and sorry to imply that cats are gross…
Actually, I think I know what's going on. It's me. Pretty much every time I start reading a blog, that blogger immediately feels the need to take a break.
Just proving, once again, that it's all about me. And that I'm full of shit.
In other news, please don't leave. There may be spankings (I'm not even sure if this is a threat of what I will do if you leave, or a promise of what will happen if you stay). What?
I have quiet periods when I have little to say but I've never quit….although I have moved blogs to shake of bad people and vibes, I find I usually have something to say!
That's okay. I'm twelve as well. Maybe even 11.
And I'm not going anywhere.
Love you too! Don't ever go
I just entered the blogosphere in march and it seems that as summer approched, lots of bloggies closed shop. So sad.
You're the funniest blogger I read!Long live LiveItLuvIt ! <3 <3 <3
Glad you're not leaving– I just barely started lovin' ya.
I saw that commercial on our local news the other day. It is still funny.
Farts are too funny not to giggle about.
And you can never leave because then we would have nobody to remind us that the embarrassing/inappropriate, I mean, classy, thing we did last night is completely "normal"
thank you for answering the question without any of us having to ask! if it weren't for the time i spend reading your faboosh posts and the 100 funny comments from your readers that follow i might actually have to do WORK.
glad you're not going anywhere, cuz really… life would be a lot more boring than it already is without reading your hilarious stories. keep it up!
I just made chocolate biscuit cake, smiled at the fact you're not going anywhere and then laughed my ass off at that ad for new ringtones.
Damn I need a new ringtone.. Hmm…
this is goood to know
but i wouldn't have guessed you would abandon your blog at all
I think people are just jumping on a trend Arjewtino started a few months ago. Lame asses.
Glad to know you aren't departing the blogosphere. I'm not either. I have about 12 readers I'd hate to let down, ha.
YAY!! dont go anywhere!! the blogosphere would SUCK with out you and HELLO you initiated TMI Thursdays… you are like a blog genius!
Promise I will be back. As long as you are happy and it doesn't feel a chore, you should always write. Having a home is a good thing and hard to find.
So glad you're not going anywhere anytime soon! You rock!
I'm glad you're not leaving! I'd miss your TMI Thursdays. I'd probably have to move to DC if you quit blogging.
Always Sunny AND boxed wine? Amazing. And I'm of course glad to hear you're not going anywhere…how else would I stay entertained during work?
Everybody goes through their moments of burn out…It's whatever works for you…I couldn't go without blogging (The last 3 days drove me nuts)
Don't ever leave…but if you ever need a break, take it to recharge.
We'll be here.
xo
Seriously. I just found you. I'd appreciate it if you continued for a while. For me, you know?
I agree – I love reading some blogs that aren't getting updated every day and it makes me sad. I also hope that some people will read my blog to fill their time
That is, until I run out of things to talk about, which isn't likely… Love you!
I'm glad you're sticking around.
Also, I spent last weekend watching Season 1 of It's Always Sunny and wine may or may not be involved.
Just replace your dull, existential QUITTING blog buddies with someone like me.
Fresh and exciting, yeah!
Well I am glad you aren't leaving, cause I'm not either!
glad to hear it!
You best not leave, your blog posts are the funniest I've ever came across haha!
Well de well, thank goodness SOMEONE is sticking around!! (I said, out loud, to my computer screen, "Ohhhh, maaaaaaan. Shit!" when I read Lemmonex's latest post.) Coming to your blog and reading your hilarious posts is like going outside and sitting in the sun and saying the big "F*** you!" to The Man and my desk.
In other words, don't you go anywhere, anytime soon!
I actually had a fart ring tone. I LOVED it. My kids bribed me with promises of washing the dishes for a month if I'd get rid of it.
No dishes for a month! WHOOHOO!
If you left too? Yeah, I would throw myself into on coming traffic in front of your house so you would see what you did to me. Try and be home when that happens, ok?
yay, so glad you're not going anywhere. especially since you might be my fave blogger out there! Also, as far as my blog goes.. I'm just getting started!
Glad you're not going anywhere and I agree, it seems like my faves are always leaving, often just as I discover them!
However, I also get their loss of blog mojo or whatever. I feel like I'm losing mine and I've hardly been blogging a year!
A lot of blogging introspective going on around the 'sphere, last night I was reading my friend Gayle and she was writing about why she blogs (http://everydayiwritethebook.typepad.com/books/2009/06/why-i-write-this-blog.html).
A point she mentions is that bloggers write about what they are passionate about. For Lemmonex it's food, for Lusty Reader it's books.
I think it's gotta be tougher for a lot of us that write on a personal level and not towards a dedicated subject. I'm not surprised we are left
questioning why we write sometimes after trying to force ourselves to regularly write when the lives we write about aren't as interesting.
You have a very entertaining view on life that comes out with every post you write. I believe that if we stuck you on an Amish farm to work in the fields, your blog would still be as funny and interesting as it is now.
That's the passion, you got it, but it's challenging to maintain.
So congrats on your success so far, it's been hard earned.
Blog retirements seem to come in threes, like celebrity deaths.
I've been reading your blog, just haven't had any clever comments lately….but just remember…always trolling.
I love that ringtone. I wonder if they have one with someone burping. That would be the perfect tone or ringback for my sister who is always burping.
singing: "if you leave me now, you'll take away the biggest part of me…no baby please don't go….if you leave me now, you'll take away the very heart of me… no baby please don't go" (baby please don't go by chicago)
i don't sing. look what you've done to me.
hahahahaha that is hilarious!!!!
i think the blog thing is harder if you think of blog posting as a chore, or one more thing on your to-do list. but if you like blogging and what you're blogging about… it's more like a treat! so hopefully some of those bloggers can fall in love with it alllll over again
You better not leave I look forward to your blog everyday. Who would make me laugh like you? No one that's who.
I need to get that ring tone so that when I pass gas I can blame it on my phone..lol
You better not leave I look forward to your blog everyday. Who would make me laugh like you? No one that's who.
I need to get that ring tone so that when I pass gas I can blame it on my phone..lol
if you leave, i'll run you over on a segway.
Good, stay where you are! I really enjoy your blog and am glad I found your corner of the internet.
And lest my comment get too mushy… I'm totally going to track down that ringtone and give it to my bro for his birthday. Priceless!
HAHAHAHA!! That is hilarious. Glad you're sticking around.
I'm totally feeling the blogger fade. It's good to know you'll always be here. I'm not surprised at all though, your energy comes through loud and clear in your writing. You'll never slow down.
Aww. Glad you're sticking around. I am pretty happy keeping mine going right now too, even though I haven't posted today, and I'll get to it after I'm done commenting and working for the day and stuff. So I might skip a day. That's not so bad in the big scheme of things, is it?
I'm like you, I've not faced any bloggy-boredom. Each day it seems like my love of blogging keeps growing (wow, it sounds like a sappy relationship, doesn't it?).
dang i have been on of those people that hasnt left but hasnt been blogging muvh either. unless you count drunk blogging as blogging. i'm just a hot piece of sexy sexy mess at the moment.
I would be too sad if you left!
BTW..that ring tone is awesome.
Glad to heary you're staying around. I think it's the call of the summer that makes some bloggers a bit apathetic to blogging.
After all, how many times can you blog about getting drunk on the boat and passing out in a watermelon?
it totally sucks to try and blog if you're not feeling it though.. agreed
and double agreed with the twittering. i use that now for most of my silly useless thoughts!
Darling, you've given us far too much information to ever leave. We could so easily stalk you. (and I would)
ps- I think it's the "OMG summer is here, beach beach beach" setting in. Soon it will be "it's too fucking hot, I'll sit inside & blog like a madman!
I have been in a bloggy funk for about 3 months. I used to post 4 times a week, then 3 times a week, and now I post twice a week.
I've been watching this phenomenon too, and I've noticed that a lot of people are around the year mark, so I think people are just burned out.
Yeah, I never run out of shit to say either!!
You're the most awesomest!
I will actually kill myself if you stop blogging.
I am not even kidding.
I "have" that ringtone in elevators all the time. It doesn't usually go over nearly that well.
And, you: stay. That is all. Notice I didn't say "please."
I've noticed that the blogosphere has slowed down also. I'm not getting as many comments and people aren't posting as much. So, you stay. I am. Send me some readers.
Maybe we should come up with a sabbatical system. Where to join you have to agree to take time off – say 2 or 3, 4 weeks a year… and babysit each other's blogs if it's too hard for someone just to leave behind here and there. It is a bit like getting on a fast moving merry go round, and not being able to get off. You're either on or off.
heheheheheheheheheheh. i want a ringtone that burps, i think.
Can I get a hallelujah? Cuz I just found and I would hate not to get my pee in the pants laugh fix!
I know Nick will totally covet this ringtone.
And I'm glad you're not going anywhere.
Happy weekend, boxed wine and all.
Please I'm glad you're not leaving us!!! Your blogs are one of the best parts of my days.
Also your weekend plans sound good. I'll be spending mine planted firmly in my computer chair watching old episodes of Doogie Howser and Beverly Hills 90210.
ROCK ON SISTER. Or whatever.
What should I focus on writing about and I'll come back new and improved?
That ring tone is pure win!
Don't you go anywhere chica! we love your blog!
As long as you're not signing off I'll be happy! x
Damn.
I had a bet on that you were a gonna.
glad to hear that you are comfy and happy here- that's what really matters.
i think it's a summery thing and just a burnout thing, but ive also taken a bloggybreak more or less, and that feels good right now.
happy weekend!
Holy crap! We're blog-psychic!
"Existential" sounds a lot nicer than "crapped out".
I'm too lazy to soul-search, but I don't think I'll stay away forever. I'm also too lazy to quit.
Yes, please stick around!
I'd love to continue blogging for a long time…hope my life continues to permit that.
you better not stop or I will fly my ass to DC and…..well, I don't know what, but you always make me laugh and you better stick to it!!!
Just have B ghostwrite for you if you get burnt out.
Oh and I'd like to see you post while completely hammered.
I noticed the bloggin' blahs going around, too (I may or may not have had to swat that bug a few times). Glad you're not burnin' out, though.
I'm taking a break, too.
See you on Monday!
What?
Two days counts as a break, right?
To quote KC: "Keep it coming, love, Keep it coming, love, Don't stop it now, Don't stop it, no, Don't stop it now, Don't stop it…"
If I'm here, you're here. Like Thelma and Louise, but without the whole driving off a cliff part.
I may be slower these days, but I'm still kickin'.
I think with summer quickly approaching some people are getting too busy to write. I couldn’t help but laugh, I kind of feel like I’ve been neglecting the real world for the blog world…which isn’t good because the real world will be taking over again soon…I hope I still have time to write. I love it so! And good, I wouldn’t want you to disappear! Ever since reading one of your old posts I’ve enjoyed it, quickly becoming one of my faves, so I will continue to comment even after I stop blogging (god forbid that ever happens)
Have a lovely weekend- don’t get into too much trouble. ;P
Glad you will be around. I think it's the summer thing. Nobody wants to think.
Too bad you have B. I have a friend who acts like he's 12 or so.
Since I don't want to be a turd monkey, I suppose I should comment. (And you wondered if people really read that little blurb right?)
Don't go. Thursdays just wouldn't be the same.
I'm not going anywhere and neither are you! Cause I said so…so there!
I'm glad that you are sticking around. We non-bloggers love and need you here. I love having someone to say hi to on the blog. e-friends are great.
If you stopped I would hunt you down and stalk you IRL b/c you are just that damn cool that I would be lost w/o you.
Also, that fart ringtone? I need it. I already downloaded the free fart sound app for my phone and it never loses it's luster. Hehe! I am twelve too!
Happy Friday love cheeks!
I still hold out hope that there's a market for somewhat poorly written poo humour and I'll make my fortune when some sick japanese or german guy discovers my blog while on his laptop under his shitting table.
See you again on the blogophere, is what I'm saying.
1) I told Q I might quit blogging yesterday and I thought she was gonna fall over and die.
2) I <3 box wine so fucking much.
3) If you stopped blogging I would fly to DC, go to your house, punch you in your crotch and then hand you the computer and say… "are you done?"
I had an existential crisis about blogging a little while back, and one of my readers commented on it by saying,
"Jesus– stop being such a fucking girl and post something to distract me from the hell my life is becoming."
And I realized, oh shit. I have a responsibility. To other people.
And that felt good, so I kept hitting "Publish."
And that feels good, too.
hm,mmmmmm yea, thats ok with me if you stay. arent you glad you got MY approval? i bet you were sweating this whole time!
I dont like when people leave. I have abandonment issues and i like to think people will blog til they die. let me think that.
I get bored with myself but I hope that doesn't happen to you. I like reading your blog more than I like writing my own!
And I am also 12 because I really want to get that ringtone for my husband!
I seriously look forward to your blog every day, so don't leave me. How creepy is that, huh?
Uh uh, sister, you aren't going anywhere! I just found you…*hugs*
I've been feeling the blog burning out. I cant help it. I dont want to become one of those people that just give up and stop writing. Hopefully I wont, and I'm glad to hear that you wont either
the day you stop blogging is the day….i do not even want to think about it…
i just want to say thanks for commenting on my blog. it really does mean a lot to me.
in other news…the polka dotted owl is a brown noser.
love the word cathartic. i need to use that word more.
happy weekend, girl!
I'm not going anywhere, well I am but as long as I have internets I will be here.
No really, seems like everyone is dropping out of the blog game. Maybe it's cause of summer and people just want to get outside and do other shit…
You on the otherhand tho lady, BETTER NEVER LEAVE!!!!!!
I would not read (well maybe) another blog if you left the blogosphere.
haha. that was a pretty great vid.
just dropped by via perfectlycursedlife and her bloggy award list. yay!
I've experienced that boredom before. Except this time I have committed. I've been blogging on the same blog since December!! I impress myself.
I think people get in a rut or set limits on themselves and what they can blog about. The thing that helps me is I made a rule with myself that I can be really random with my posts and that's cool. Sometimes I think I'm hilarious, and sometimes I have something serious to say. It all works out in the end!
I just think it's the nice weather and people are busy with flowers and playing….they will be back!!!
You better not go anywhere…i only started to read your blog and it makes me laugh always….
Keep it up!
i think it could be the season – sometimes people need some change. but i dont remember this a year ago…i dont know – does seem like theres something going around!
How could you stop now anyway? 14 trillion people comment on your posts. It'd be impossible to stop. It'd be almost as rediculous as if you told me a major auto manufacturer was going bankrupt or something.
Now seems like the perfect time to tell you…
I think I'm in love with you!
You know, in a bloggy kinda way.
*cough*
haha! the last comment was mine! i'm so creepy. no more wine for me.
I agree that there has been a bug lately. I have been shamelessly reading my Google Reader everyday ::cough:: several times a day ::cough:: but when I see the blank screen I find I don't have anything to say. My life is lame. However I love to live vicariously through everyone else. Ha-ha.
P.S. that ring tone would be AWESOME because my boss would FREAK
you BETTER stick around!
and hope you have a good weekend.
p.s. i am a 13-year old boy in many ways.
I think it's the weather. Those people are just closet 'enjoy-good-weather' people. We like to hide inside, working on our pale and typing on our laptops/pcs/whathaveyous. lol
Yes, it's the weather. And an insidious disease called, Mindblur, which can be brought on by overuse of a computer and or masturbation fatigue.
Glad you're not going anywhere. Don't know about your friends, but I know that some bloggers say they are retiring, then get 100 more readers saying, "oh no – don't do it – you're such a genius – you write what I feel in my heart/soul/pants…." Then they decide to keep blogging and get 1,000 NEW readers, sign on money making advertisers, quit their day job and let their blog pay their mortgage. Or something like that. I may be threatening to quit soon….
I think it's worse when people push themselves to blog every day, then can't, then feel guilty, then try harder, then.. burn out.
We are still in-process of moving. I haven't posted since 30 May when I talked of being lost in a state of frazzlement – I'm still there. I've had plenty to blog about… touring the Citadel, Nile cruise, end of school. Even Obama was in town. I spent that day at the pool with the kids! – I have pics of that too – unblogged. I may eventually go back and share. It may not be timely, but it should still be interesting… and I'm not going to burn myself out by creating deadlines for a hobby that should be fun, not mandatory.
Well, my blog is on the rise, so you can always drop by and follow me. Of course, I doubt I'm writing about things that would interest you
Good blog.
Regards, Nino
There are too many comments to look at, so I'll comment as if mine is the first (and most important) one.
I'm kinda like that.
I've been blogging since… the start of the Korean war. It is wacky and cyclical. People retire (I've done it.) Some come back. Some never do. But they are usually replaced by other interesting bloggers.
I do think that Twitter has a somewhat negative effect on things. But anyone who has replaced blogging with twittering probably wasn't a full-time balls-out blogger anyway.
Eeeee gads I hope you don't go anywhere why where would I get my inspiration to talk about such things….and I too am going to drink box of wine curtsy of my cheep friend…He means well but I am just going to down the blush and he just might get lucky….
Haha Hilarious!
Bonjour !
first time i come across your blog, so im gonan visit it now
well if you wanna be inspired by my collage or just dream, come and visit my blog
a bientot!
Boubouteatime xx
Don't even get me all petrified you may be leaving. I would be so bummed…I mean, you gave me a sex toy and we haven't even been bloggy friends that long.
I know how it feels to have zero inspiration…but then something random happens and I'm like omg blog! Because I think of what to blog about everywhere. Because i am a loser.
You're not going anywhere, lil lady!
AHHHHH boxed wine, yes. I like to drink it out of the infamous red plastic party cup…..on ice……through a straw. World sets itself right 50x faster.
(Your box wine bladder comment had me cracking the hell up.)
Damn, farts are funny! Always have been, always will be!
But yeah, I've sort of filled my current (and fairly new) blog with "art dumps"…it's hard to want to write things down there because…well, I have no life whatsoever, and I'm tired of bashing my boyfriend, and I've recently gotten Photoshop and that's been fun to fuck around with all day long.
I've been blogging since I was fourteen, so it's safe to say I'll stay.
Okay, I was in the car totally thinking about your blog. I was like, I haven't been over to Lilu's in a couple of days. And when I got home, you had been to visit me!
We have some sort of bloggy connection in a totally not weird way.
LOL!!!
you, my sweet sweet lilu, are a gem.
that is all.
I have this promise in writing and I'm holding you to it.
I'm glad you're not leaving the blogosphere!I'm very sad about a lot of people that I follow that have kinda dropped out or only write once and a blue moon. =(
I don't really write wed-thurs && on the weekends because usually i dont have anything that great to say..lol.
Even if the internet implodes all around us you have to promise to Never Ever leave. Not to be dramatic or anything.
Thank you all so much for your kind words. And I meant it, I'm not going anywhere. LOVE you guys!
And anonymous- why anonymous? Declarations of love should be shouted from the rooftops!
I totally know what you mean.
I used to blog every single day M-F and occasionally on the weekends.
Since I got laid off though, it's hindered my blogging. I'm out & about trying to live it up during my funemployment, and most of my blogs were about my crazy-ass coworkers who I haven't been around.
I definitely want to get back into the swing of things though – it's too much fun to just give up
Big smooches! I'm glad you're never ever ever going away! And P.S. I thought you were eleven, not tweleve. And that's? Okay too.
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