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HEH.
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I'm hardly bold enough to think that I could start a annoying daily posting festival movement like some folks who hold much power (and for good reason) in their rapidly typing fingers. However, I realize that after reading the blogs of those soon-to-be-baby-having bloggers who have now had their babies, there's something that happens when they don't post.
Oh-my-god they had the baby!
They must be in labor right now.
I'm going to email her to see if she's in labor.
Yeah. It's already started when I call people.
Like I'd be calling YOU, telemarketer who happens to know my due date, when I was in labor.
What is it about people? Seriously. I'm not even sure I'll be calling anyone. Not even my husband.
Heh.
But anyway, I'm going to challenge myself (read: keep my mind off the fact that I still too clearly remember the feeling that I would literally split in half when the baby came out of me) to post as often as possible. Yes. And the posts over at my other blogs don't even count.
I'm talking real posts. None of this "Hey. Do you like my new toenail polish I'm just trying to say I posted when really I have nothing to say but hey it's a post" posts.
(Whatever the hell that means).
But please. I beg you. Don't feel obligated to follow suit. In fact, post less. That's right. Unless you've got something hilarious or incredibly touching, feel free not to post. Why not enter my baby pool instead (or in conjunction with your lower than average posts)?
Because the second most feared post-partum act behind the awful first poop and pee is visiting my bloglines unread list.
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I'm giving away a really really really cool thing here. Read it and then enter. Good luck!
Hey, I don't want to burden you with yet another comment. But you should probably know that, seven weeks after I had my baby when I gave my friend a baby shower, I made maternitinis and credited you for the term. (We also had materniritas. My friend now has some interesting baby shower photos showing her imbibing with a giant bright blue drink, let me tell ya.) So here's a toast to you for a quick, easy, pain-free labor and for no one asking you if you've had that baby -- or telling you how to go into labor to hurry things along.
Posted by: Damselfly | January 06, 2007 at 11:56 AM
I'm considering the opposite tactic - just stop posting/emailing/calling/answering the phone until Junior arrives (due in 9 days, let's hope he is punctual). This means I don't have to hear the questioning tremor in the voices on the other end of the phone ("Hi...is everything all right? What's going on?) or the obsessive blog-checking.
Posted by: Blythe | January 06, 2007 at 04:31 AM
So you want the rest of us to slow down our posting? Well, I can certainly do my part, seeing how I can't seem to be healthy so far in 2007.
Posted by: Christina | January 05, 2007 at 03:50 PM
Ha! I look at my November posts and crack up at all the false alarms and waaiting. I say drag eveeryone along on every drawn out mundane minute of it. I did! (well, in my 3.2 posts that month).
hang in there, chicky. i will now be stalking you zealously (and knitting. to stop from eating chocolate. and fries.)
Posted by: joy | January 05, 2007 at 02:45 PM
Can you even see your new toe nail polish at this point? I'm thinking no, unless the bottle is sitting next to you because you can't see your feet enough to put it on.
Posted by: Mrs. Chicky | January 05, 2007 at 01:50 PM
Hey, so you haven't posted for a couple of hours. You're not in labor are you?
Oh, I know. That's not even slightly funny. I will go wop myself upside the head and get back to work.
Still -- I'm thinking positive, quick, easy labor thoughts at you and yet hoping that we still get to do the radio thing on Monday first. Mwa ha ha ha.
So, are you in labor now? How about now?
Posted by: Francesca (Stuntmother) | January 05, 2007 at 11:53 AM
So, if I write a post that says I have nothing to write about, that wouldn't really be a post? LOL
Posted by: Robina | January 05, 2007 at 11:16 AM
Yeah but now if you don't post like ever 6.6 hours we'll be wondering...
Posted by: Mom101 | January 05, 2007 at 11:08 AM
The title of this post is freaking hilarious.
Posted by: krista | January 05, 2007 at 10:46 AM
Every time I posted anything the last month of my pregnancy, I started off the post with "Yes, I'm still pregnant" Because for that last month the first thing anyone said to me is "Have you had the baby yet?" Except for my mom who asked "Are you in labor?"
Posted by: ktjrdn | January 05, 2007 at 08:51 AM