I like milk with my serial
Posted by Isabel on November 9th, 2007. Filed under: Addictions.I’m pretty good about blogging everyday, Monday-Friday. Ask me to blog on the weekend and I curl up in a ball, start breathing hard, and then die. Seriously, there is something in my brain that can’t fathom blogging on the weekend.
Hence me not participating in NaBloPoMo. Not only am I not participating, I never even gave it a thought, let alone a second though.
The thing about this whole NaBloPoMo craze is that there are just too damn many people participating in it. Hello, my blog reader was already full before November 1st came. Now it’s extra, extra full. (I’m not lying when I say I have 1049 unread posts in my reader.) I should just give up now and mark them all “read”. There is no way that I can get to all of them while you know, having a life at the same time.
So while that is the downside to all of this, the upside is that I get to read some of my favorite bloggers everyday who don’t usually post everyday. And not only that, I get to read posts from bloggers that I hadn’t heard from in a while.
While attempting to get caught up on blog reading during a break at work yesterday I noticed I had seven unread posts over at mooshinindy. Since meeting Casey in Chicago this summer at BlogHer, I’ve become a fan. She’s spunky, cute and fits in my pocket. Dude, she tiny. Anyway, I also realized we have a lot in common. Her husband is always gone because he’s in law school. My husband’s always gone because he’s building us a new house. Which hello, it’s always fun to find people you relate to.
While getting caught up on the goings on over in Indy yesterday, I saw that Casey was posting a serial about how she went from being a lush (her words, don’t hate) to becoming a non-drinking, non-cursin’ Mormon. All in three short weeks. And all for the love of one hott Radio Shack employee.
Dude, I love serials.
I think my love for blogging serials started when Lizzy posted her story about her (non) relationship with her father. Reading that prompted me to write my own serial about my older brother coming out of the closet. Then Lizarita posted about how she and her babydaddy broke up and got back together again, in a serial. And then Sillyhily wrote about her brother’s engagement, again, in serial form.
Of course the serial I hold dearest to my heart is Frema’s weekly serial called (appropriately enough) TragicLoveFriday. Which is tragic. All about love. And posted on Friday’s. Yummy.
What’s my point here? That I’m a sucker for what ya’ll have to blog about.
And I like it.
So tell me, what are some fun serials that you’ve read on the Interweb? Dude, share the wealth.
November 9th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
OK, reading this entry, I was all, “Gee, I should totally come up with a serial post,” and then you mentioned TLF, and I was like, “Oh. I’m a moron.”
That is all.
November 9th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
i like reading Ree’s torrid love affair with “Black Heels to Tractor Wheels” on Confessions of a Pioneer Woman
http://www.thepioneerwoman.com/
November 9th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
I’m going to second (big time!) the previous commenter on Black Heels to Tractor Wheels. If you’re not reading that, you’re missing out on a fantastic serial.
Also, the posting on the weekend thing is not great, at all. I’m doing my best, but it aint easy.
(You’re one of my favorite bloggers too!)
November 9th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Since I’m not all super smart with Blogger stuff (you think I would be by now!), I’m guessing a Serial is a story told over multiple posts?
If I’m right, I’m gonna have to say I read one from The Girl Who (not sure her blog address, but it’s on my blog scroll) about her mom and dad’s love story. It was really good. I also really enjoyed Brittany’s love and marriage story.
I should totally do a Serial post…
November 10th, 2007 at 12:11 am
Cheeseburger Brown did trimester reports during his wife’s pregnancy. They were totally addictive and complete torture since they only happened every 3 months.
November 10th, 2007 at 5:08 am
Aw, I’ve always wanted to be called pocket sized, how did you know?
November 10th, 2007 at 5:52 am
I love the discipline of posting for thirty days. I don’t like to over think it and I don’t like to post just for the heck of it. But hey! it’s fun to try, sometimes, although I definitely hear you on the weekend post anxiety. It’s brutal.
It’s funny; I actually wanted to use Nablopomo to write a serial of sorts (I don’t think I thought of it as such, but it would be as such)about our honeymoon and the adventures therein, for entertainment and posterity’s sake. I just have yet to start it!
November 10th, 2007 at 6:42 am
I do love a good serial.. but I’m not clever enough to write a good one myself.
Love Tragic Love Friday though!
November 10th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Dude, I post like, 5 times a day – even on weekends. Send your readers to ME on the weekends. LOL.
Except… I really had very little to blog about this morning so maybe today is a sucky day to send them my way. I posted about my SFC (stupid f-ing cats). LOL.
November 10th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
Pioneer Woman’s — I look for updates daily. Also, I heart TLF. I mean, how could I NOT?
November 10th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
I am the exact opposite. The weekends are usually when I CAN blog because it’s the only time I can get away from the kid. I feel so rushed when I post during the week, but on the weekends I get at least an hour or so to myself if I ask for it. The only problem is that the interweb totally shits down for the weekend so I don’t post anything after all because no one’s there to read it. I should post date it for Monday. That would be smart, wouldn’t it?
XOXO
November 10th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
Oh my heck! I just re-read my comment! I meant to say ’shuts down.’ oopsie!
November 11th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
I’d never heard of a “serial” (in this form) until now. And thanks to you and other commentors, I’ve now got some cool new serial posts to read. (I do remember the post you did on your brother. You did a wonderful job telling that story.)
November 12th, 2007 at 6:22 am
Ah – it seems the world is reading Black Heels to Tractor Wheels – only found out about the others this morning.
And hello – try going away for the first week of November and coming home to 2,300.
November 15th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
[...] Second, I can’t believe it, but we have a tie! I ended up having to decide for myself anyway. I’ll tell you the alien story today and the ghost story(ies) tomorrow. Then at the end of the month I’ll tell the story of how TTO and I ended up together in an epic serial (thanks to Isabel for the idea). [...]
November 17th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Audrey from Sangrialover.com does Wednesday Bensday each week. Ben is her dog and it’s always about him. You’d think that it might get boring, but she keeps it fresh, funny and interesting.