Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Blog please, my dear

I don't think Allen minds too much that I blog. Our house is usually presentable, and he eats a good dinner every night. The kids are happy, we get school done. It doesn't take that much time, really. It's just a place for me to nail down my thoughts, document feelings and events and put things I want to reflect on.

Well, I was up last night with Zane, and on ABC World News tonight, which has saved my nights the last 2 years, there was a story about a lady who blogs, for a living.

It started when she made fun of her boss online. :( She got fired, and then really started blogging a lot. She got lots of hits, and suddenly became sort of an internet sensation. She allows advertising on her blog, and she makes $40,000 a month.

Yes, you read that right. $40,000 a MONTH. No, I didn't add any extra zero's there.

Can you imagine?

Her husband quit work, duh, to "help" her. He "manages the money." I think that means he's sit around and counts it all day.

Now let me first say that I don't have any desire to be that rich. None at all. But I'm just thinking of all the good I could do with all that money.

And I can imagine Allen's surprise. And other people's surprise.

"What do you do for a living?"

"I blog."

"Oh, okaaaay..."

I don't have any sorts of deluded grandeur that this little tiny spot will ever become that famous. It's not meant for that. I'm not really interested in it becoming that anyway. I don't have that talent in me. Or the desire. I just want to have some record of my life, since I seem to be forgetting things as quickly as they happen.

But I lied in bed, after getting the child back to sleep, and the number $40,000 a month kept bouncing around in my head. I could just hear Allen.

"Honey, did you blog yet today....?" :)