My blog and I

I'm taking this one from Tonya. I saw it earlier today at Under the Mad Hat and thought oh, I'd love to do this one. Memes make me happy. It's amazing what pleases me really.

1. Do you like the looks and content of your blog?
I like the green. I wish I had the abilities to do one with pics of my kids. I love those ones.


2. Does your family know about your blog?
William and my kids do. I've mentioned to some family members that I blog, but never given them the address. Nor have they asked. Some sort of sign, you think?

3. Can you tell your friends about your blog?
Again, sometimes I'll mention blogging. My friend Shelley has read it once I believe and my friend Lisa in Vancouver occassionally is seen in my stats. Which reminds me, I wonder what her ex (a fellow Brummie!) thinks of Beckham coming to this side of the pond. Leave us a comment please.

4. Do you just read the blogs of those who comment on your blog?
Fecks sakes, no. I'd be pretty bored then wouldn't I? Not saying my commentors are boring, not at all, just that I'd only have like six blogs to read. Sad, so sad. I so love comments and I get so few. Would it kill you people to comment?

5. Did your blog positively affect your mind?
Did? Am I giving this baby up? I think it has...certainly it gets stuff off my mind at times, especially during that whole thing with William , and all my problems with the almost teenage daughter. The comments too can definitely make you think. Are you guys getting the hint?

6. What does the number of visitors to your blog mean?
I've said before that blogging is much like high school...a gigantic popularity contest. I wasn't popular then and I'm not popular now. However, does it make my day when someone I have linked to links back to me? Hello! I love it! Seriously, it was like a year and a half before Red Mum finally linked to me.

7. Do you imagine what other bloggers look like?
It's like reading a book...there's always a vague image in my head. Sometimes it's wrong, sometimes it's not.

8. Do you think blogging has any real benefit?
I think it's opened my eyes. I've discovered that I am not the worst mother in the world. Americans are really quite nice :) And most of the ones I read don't like Bush either so isn't that a huge plus?

9. Do you think that the blogosphere is a stand alone community separated from the real world?
I think that it is an incredibly strong community as we have seen politically and in the entertainment world. When the American government is concerned with what you are writing (obviously I am not talking about myself!) it would be hard to say that it is separate from the real world.

10. Do some political blogs scare you? Do you avoid them?
I don't really read political blogs but I don't seek to avoid them. And why would they scare me?

11. Do you think criticizing your blog is useful?
You can if you want. I'm use to criticism. Do I listen? Rarely.

12. Have you ever thought what would happen to your blog in case you died?
Well, I am now. I would hope that William would leave a message saying I was dead. I guess if I stopped writing altogether there might be a few people who wondered what happened to me. I have wondered that if I were very sick would I blog my illness and I think I would. That would definitely be a situation in which I would have to give someone access. And no, I'm not normally morbid but my friend's friend has breast cancer and I have wondered if she blogs and what would happen if she did die.

13. Which blogger has had the greatest impression on you?
That's a hard question to answer. There are blogs I am impressed with for different reasons.

14. Which blogger do you think is the most similar to you?
Another hard one. There are bloggers I readily identify with because we have children that all turned 2 in November (Boliath, Tonya, Alissa)but that is just one aspect of our lives and for the most part my sitaution is totally different than theirs. There is probably some small similarity with every single blogger I read, be it due to my Irish obsession, my country of birth, my left leaning political views, my love of books, but probably the major similarity is parenting and children.

However I will say that the majority of blogs I read (especially the mom ones) are very, very funny, which is something I admit I am not. Though I would love to be. As I said once before in my head my posts are fantastic. What the hell happens when I put finger to keyboard? No idea.

15. Name a song you want to listen to.
Ummm...not sure what this has to do with blogging. In One Day by Lir. I love that song.