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Jul 17, 2008 Randomness

So today is Wednesday and normally we would be enjoying Working Wednesday, but not today. Because today…SURPRISE…it’s moved to a new site. I’m now writing over at Iowa Moms along with a bunch of other wonderful Iowans. Come on over and check it out. I’ll be spilling all about balancing work and family and whatever else pops in to my head. Be sure to go back daily.

Since we aren’t talking about working today let’s talk about what everybody else is talking about; BlogHer. While thousands of women (and a few men) were at BlogHer last year, Mrs. Flinger and I vowed nothing would keep us from the big conference next year. Well here we are at next year and I’m not going. (But Mrs. Flinger is so at least one of us kept up our end of the bargain.) I thought I was ok with my decision not to go this year. But now that everybody is talking about it I’m kicking myself. Decisions are so hard. Be a good mom and spend time with the kids or go to San Francisco and get drunk with a bunch of great bloggers. I think the choice is obvious. And I obviously made the wrong choice.

Oh I kid. (Sort of.) I’m not going to BlogHer because Keaton and Justis are in Texas. At church camp. You know what a basketcase I am when the kids are at church camp. They come home on Saturday. And we have tickets to see High School Musical the play on Saturday night. Justis has been with his mom for the last month. Then he’s in Texas this week. He’ll be home for one night (Saturday night) and then back with him mom for another three weeks. So I figured I’d better stay home so we could all spend time together as a family. I’m such a sucker for family.

But the good news is I’m going to BlogHer next year. (I know I said that last year and here we are. And honestly I’m not making any promises, but I think I’m going next year.) I might be going with my mom. She’s thinking about starting her own geeky blog. About being a Business Analyst. She hasn’t started her blog yet, but she’s already thinking of going to BlogHer with me next year. So I’m holding her to it.

In the meantime I’m following Erika’s “I’m not going to BlogHer” survival guide. I’ll be stalking her on Twitter and I might even call her to see what’s up. Because I must know what’s going on. I wish she would just carry around her laptop and do some streaming video for the full weekend. But I’ll take what I can get. Also, I’ve informed Java Jenn that she needs to drunk dial me to keep me updated. So I should be well informed.

Until then I’ll just be over here crying in my yogurt Cheerios.

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