Actually… I’ve got nothing. I just typed that title hoping something would occur to me. Kelly Sedinger has been blogging for 10 years now and is still going strong. My own 10 year “blogiversary” is coming up in a couple of months, I think. I forget the exact date.
It seems like for the last several months I’m almost never in the mood for this. Most days I just throw something up here for the sake of keeping it going and sometimes I think maybe it’s time to give it up. But I don’t really want to. I keep thinking one day I’ll have something that I really want to say to the world and I will want to still have this place to say it. And, actually, I do often have things I want to say but I always think, “later, I’m not in the mood right now,” and usually end up changing my mind or just forgetting about it.
After being on Facebook for – how long has it been? Not even a month yet, I don’t think – I have 12 Facebook friends most of whom are family and most of those are not really “into” Facebook. A lot of the activity that goes on is not what I consider socializing; it’s just “sharing” funny pictures and “posters” and such. It seems like most people have forgotten how to really communicate with each other. Of course, I’m guilty too. Just like I often don’t really have anything to say here, I don’t have anything to say on Facebook either. Or Twitter. It’s been months since I have regularly logged on to Twitter. But still, Facebook is kinda fun so far. I wish the site was better organized and worked in a way that made more sense. It seems so cumbersome and illogical to me.
This is interesting: Chihuahuas may have been raised for food in the southeastern US in ancient times. There are all kinds of things I could say about that but very little that wouldn’t get me into some kind of trouble.
And in the So Wrong department: Hello Kitty Kiss. Somehow, I just can’t hate this. In fact. Hello Kitty never looked cuter.
I really, seriously, need to work on the quilt top more and get it done. In the few years since I started quilting, at the beginning of the year I’m always full of ambition and enthusiasm and have visions of finishing as many as four quilts in a year, then it’s “Well, maybe only three” and I actually only manage to get two done. But this year I decided I’m going to take the pressure off myself and only try for one, all year, but so far it’s not even looking very good for that one.
I’m more interested in sewing clothes right now. I feel like starting things but I think what I might do next is some of the altering and re-making I’ve had in mind for a while. I put that off because it’s not as much fun as starting new things but I think it will feel good to get that stuff done.
February 16th, 2012 - 10:15 am
About the Chihuahuas: tasted like chicken? (Sorry, that’s the least-inappropriate joke I can come up with).
And I like Hello KISS-y. It’s funny to me now to think about how scary and countercultural KISS was seen as being when I was a kid, and how they’re now nearly normal and mainstream. (Maybe “scary” is a better word than “funny,” I don’t know)
February 16th, 2012 - 10:58 am
Chihuahuas were bred for food in Mexico (in “ancient” — that is, pre-conquest-by-white-people-who-love-dogs-but-not-for-dinner — times) so I’m not surprised they were eaten in other parts of North America too.
Also? They still eat guinea pig in parts of South America. I saw it on Bizarre Eats a couple of years ago when I still had cable — that Andrew Zimmern guy thought they were delicious.
February 16th, 2012 - 11:54 am
Given the many unusual things modern-day Mexicans eat, that bit about Chihuahuas doesn’t exactly surprise me. It couldn’t have been more unusual than, say, goat meat or nopales (cactus parts). Just the same, I’m glad that such dogs are no longer on the typical Southwestern menu.
February 16th, 2012 - 11:59 am
I’m thinking guinea pig (once you could get past the OH NOES ITS A PET thing) would not be that bad of a meat – after all, they’re vegetarians, they don’t bottom-feed or eat carrion or anything awful like that.
I know there’s a push in Louisiana to encourage people to eat nutria, which are an introduced pet. I think I’d eat nutria were I given the opportunity. (I’m told it’s a very “clean” meat, as nutria are vegetarian animals that live on grass…)
I’d also eat goat – well, at least YOUNG goat – I’ve been told it’s not unlike lamb, which I like.
February 16th, 2012 - 12:12 pm
I have eaten goat. It’s a very stringy meat but otherwise not bad.
February 16th, 2012 - 8:48 pm
I’ve eaten goat too. They raise them around here. My friend and I got some goat meat at the farmer’s market last year and made a stew in the crock pot. I found it a bit like a cross between lamb and beef and a tad greasy. I later made a soup from the bones from an African recipe I found on the internet. We might even still have some bones in the freezer that I was planning on making another soup with at some point.
I don’t think I’d care for chihuahua, though. Not out of any sentimental feelings towards dogs, but I’ve known people who owned chihuahuas and after you (or at least I) have seen an animal pee and lick it’s own butt, the thought of eating it just becomes rather disgusting.
February 16th, 2012 - 9:07 pm
I know what you mean. I have a similar problem with tilapia since I saw that episode of Dirty Jobs.
February 20th, 2012 - 7:12 am
Lots of us have eaten goat – without knowing it. What appears on menus is “lamb” (or the equivalent in whatever language we’re dealing with), but the meat itself may be lamb or goat or both. This probably doesn’t happen in the US, but may in ethnic restaurants. The tastes are similar, except goat is “more like lamb than lamb”; i.e. if you like lamb, you’ll really like goat. (I like both.)
February 21st, 2012 - 1:01 am
Having read your blog for most of those 10 years, your “not having anything to say” is reliably more interesting to me than most people’s “this is my most important post EVER!”
You have an aggressively thoughtful mind, and you find things that tickle my intellect, but that I would never find in the course of my typical politically-dominated headline-reading/blog-surfing. You provide much-appreciated food for my mind & soul.
Bless you for keeping the place running. Sincerely, I love you for it.
February 21st, 2012 - 2:50 am
I wondr how people may not like dogs and other animals, I love animals and I will never refuse to have one even if it is the ugliest one.
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February 21st, 2012 - 7:49 am
Aw shucks… thanks, Harvey.
I have two conflicting feelings about this blog at the same time: “Why does anyone even read this stuff” and “Why am I not more popular.”
February 21st, 2012 - 10:50 am
“Why am I not more popular?”
I’m coming to learn that “popular” is not a hallmark of “quality.” See some of the popular shows on television…
Besides, if you were more popular, you’d be getting a lot more awful comments. I’ve kind of made my peace with my blog being a quiet, low-traffic place, because while I may not get tons of adulation, neither do I get the aggressively stupid and mean comments that some bloggers (even craftbloggers) seem to get when they’re popular.
March 4th, 2012 - 12:45 am
Lynn – count your blessings. Your blog celebrates a lot of things that haven’t been cool for over a hundred years. If word ever got out about this place, you’d be swamped by hipsters sipping Pabst Blue Ribbon and liking you ironically.
By the way, “hipsters” explained (in quite entertaining fashion):
http://badexample2.blogspot.com/2011/08/evolution-of-hipster.html