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June 16, 2005

Are you pondering...

I'm posting something today which I hope will make you laugh/chuckle snort a bit, at least smile. My brother sent me an email with a bunch of photos designed to induce smiles, many I've seen before but not this one. Very cute....however I think the one of his cat waiting for breakfast in the bird feeder is right up there with some.

My point? Well, at breakfast this morning, we were once again subjected to the news on TV..more Terry Schiavo controversy and Michael Jackson backlash ( Hey MJ, good move your announcement to not sleep with Chrildren in your bed anymore!). Doom and Gloom and Chaos and misery....good way to start the day. It's often puzzled me why we seem to be drawn to this time of "news" and why we don't hear about "good stuff". It's extends to our entertainment shows as well..murders, mysteries and please deliver us from reality shows where the nastier the judge or humiliated the contestant becomes, the better WE like it.

Then I had one of those AH-Ha moments! Yup...this type of attraction is alive and well in the blogosphere as well. Sooo this is why I don't have masses running to my blog! ( and I have been linked by some pretty popular sites in my day and had some heavy traffic on occasion but nothing sustained.) It's Not that I'm not the least bit funny or entertaining...noooooooooooo that's not it(can't be! snort)...it's that I don't write about the misery in my life. I haven't lost my job, divorced, flipped my gourd, had a major disease diagosis, lost a child, found a child...I just don't have a running misery-series for a life! Yeah, that's the ticket...guess my broken vac pot or the horrors of going through security of major airports around the world is just not miserable enough to sustain a readership. Woe is me...is that miserable?

Snort..ok, I won't take myself too seriously here folks. I guess I post because I want to...I want to entertain a bit..I want to inform friends and family of what we are up to and where we are and I want to keep track of this stuff for myself as well.

I'm totally satisfied with the 10 of you who don't think of me as too boring to check in with from time to time...I prefer my life not to be a car wreck, thank you. Have a fine day all and continue to find something less miserable to entertain, huh?

Thank you very much.........

Posted by frani at June 16, 2005 08:12 AM

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Fran, I always read and promise to start commenting. Your blog always brings a smile...heck a snort and many times a depends!
Loved your summer reading list. Since it dosen't look like I will be traveling back and forth to Petersburg, Va this summer, I will have to start my own summer reading list

Posted by: Blanche at June 17, 2005 08:40 AM

I love the pics, especially the cat in the bird feeder--too funny!

You are one of the 10 people who regularly comment on my blog also--thanks for that! It is refreshing to read about someone who does not have a car wreck of a life! In the winter, during those times I miss snow,I can always read your blog and think of the pleasures of a good snow (while knowing I do not have to shovel, or clean the salt off my car :)

Posted by: bunnybeth at June 17, 2005 02:21 PM

Hey Fran, I tagged you for the "Zero Meme." I thought you would still talk to me later :)

Posted by: bunnybeth at June 19, 2005 02:35 AM

Hey I am here to read and comment...of course that is when I have internet access...was in DC last week for a wek long oncference...no email or anythign for a week!

Posted by: Risa at June 19, 2005 05:38 PM

Count me in as one of your loyal readers. And I do find you entertaining. Who needs misery, there's enough out there in the universe. I want entertainment.

L, DA

Posted by: DA at June 22, 2005 07:51 PM

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