Tou-shay

The P-Dawg and I got on the subject of memes tonight.

P-Dawg: "I think you're pronouncing it wrong. I think it's pronounced, 'Me!Me!'"

Me: "I always thought it was pronounced "mem," like the French word that means "same."

P-Dawg: "I don't think the French even know how to get on the Internet." (You must understand that, back in our dating days, I broke up with the P-Dawg to go live in France for a year. But I don't think he's ever been a fan.)

According to the research I conducted on the world's foremost authority on everything, the word is pronounced "meem" and originates from the Greek, "mimeme" (something imitated).

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My 100th post came and went last week, and it was about puke.

But Miss tagged me for this blogging meme today, which seemed easy and fitting enough in light of my 100 post landmark for me to give it a stab.

How long have you been blogging? Not quite six months.

What inspired you to start a blog and who are your mentors? I discovered that any fool could get a free blog on Blogger, and that was enough to inspire me to foist my thotz upon the world at large. But once I started writing, I realized that I very much enjoyed painting what I see as my quotidian existence in a humorous light. One of the first "journal" type blogs I discovered was, of course, Dooce, soon followed by Suburban Bliss and Oh, the Joys. Of the three, I'm sure it comes as no surprise that OTJ was/is a mentor figure.

Are you trying to make money, or blogging just for fun? Just for fun, but I've entertained the thought of trying to earn a monetary reward. My husband thinks I'm crazy for not slapping up an ad or two. I tell him I could probably find more change in the couch cushions than I could ever make from blogging, but we'll see.

What three things do you love about blogging?

1. Before starting to blog, I was a very private citizen of the Internet, lurking on a few pregnancy and parenting message boards, but never jumping in. I thought I was too private a person to do that. I didn't realize that I would end up feeling so connected to my bloggy friends, and that has been the most rewarding part about it.
2. Stuff I write looks pretty in "published" form.
3. There are people out there who read my posts and leave comments! This makes me infinitely happy.
   

What three things do you struggle with?

1. Feeling as though I "can't keep up."
2. Feelings of inadequacy for posting mainly cotton candy in the face of so much thought provoking and gorgeous prose in the blogging circles I frequent.
3. The occasional fleeting sense that I am back in high school. And I'm wearing headgear.

I think I'll tag MamaGeek for this one. And, of course, anyone else who's interested - this meme is yours for the taking.

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Yes, I've been playing with my banner again. I can't help myself. However, I think this one might be a keeper, at least for awhile.

The J-dog is now healthy and no one else has fallen prey to the puking illness. (I am fully aware that I have just jinxed myself. What is the statute of limitations on this bug's incubation period, anyway?)