Saturday Morning Ravings

I really thought I'd cooked up a storm for T-Day. And I did. It's just that last night, we were so low on food that we ordered pizza. Oh well. I guess feeding 2 people for almost 4 meals is a lot of food, but I'd had visions of not cooking again for.... years, I guess.

One of my main activities yesterday was blog surfing - checking out a friend's blog, then heading to a linked blog, then another linked blog, etc. When I do this, I hope to A) be amused and B) find some sort of inspiration for my blog (this isn't as easy as it looks people! Do you realize that I've been doing this for almost 4 months, and yesterday is one of the first days I didn't blog?). Unfortunately, inspiration was not to be found - but I did find several things that other people do on their blogs that I am actively avoiding - and wish others would, too:

1) Songs. That automatically play. Now, let's forget about the part where most of these songs I despise, and the blogger's poor choice of song makes me less likely to stay around and read. I do not need my blogging experience to be a multimedia one. What if I was at work, and I didn't have my headphones plugged in or my sound off? And I click over to your site, and... music blasts! Not only would I bother the people around me, but what if someone superior to me were in the area? And then I'd get fired for reading your blog. Because of the damn song. That you felt should be shared with the world. And when I'm at home and I'm reading blogs, I'm generally listening to my own music. Music that I like. Music that I don't like to be layered with "My Heart Will Go On" or some other shit... Frankly, I don't care if your heart will go on. I kind of don't want it to.

2) Turning one's blog into such a form that there is Work Musings on Monday, Baby Pictures Tuesday, Vomit Wednesday, etc... basically taking one's original, fun creation and turning it into a form that practically requires no creativity, and then BRAGGING ABOUT IT. I can't stand that. I know that some of my posts are slightly repetitive - I do those "Facts about [cute animal here]" but... I try not to do that on a regular basis. In fact, I don't do it nearly as often as I would like, because, well, I find it amusing, but... just because I like it doesn't mean anything. Sometimes I have Horrendous Taste. I do own 4 pairs of gaucho pants. And I love them and I'm not ashamed of them.

3) Misspellings and grammar mix ups. Now, a few here and there are
fine - I run all my posts through a spell checker, and try to read them over a few times before posting, but... sometimes I miss something. Which my eagle-eyed husband immediately brings to my attention. And I then immediately change. But posts that are FULL of errors... I wonder what care these people are putting into the work that they are putting on display for all the world. And that makes me want to leave their site and never come back. I'm fickle like that.

4) Posts that are long and boring and uninviting. Probably like this one is. Sorry. I'll stop now.