{"id":121,"date":"2005-02-18T19:38:16","date_gmt":"2005-02-19T02:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2006-04-03T18:12:19","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T01:12:19","slug":"my-mom-is-reading-your-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"My Mom is reading your blog&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"My Mom is reading your blog...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/5031300\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"My Mom is reading your blog...\" src=\"http:\/\/photos5.flickr.com\/5031300_1c85b930ca_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSince I&#8217;ve been sick this WHOLE stupid week, I&#8217;ve found out that I am letting my mom down as far as my blogging goes.<br \/>\nEveryone knows, you don&#8217;t let down The Fonz.<\/p>\n<p>She called me today, somewhere in the middle of Tylenol Flu, The History Channel and chocolate ice cream. It&#8217;s been a rough week for me and all I can really focus on is this pain in my face. I think I have got to talk to my kids for all of 5 minutes in the past week because Nurse Hitler won&#8217;t let me out of the bedroom. I&#8217;m useless and my mom called to tell me to get better because she misses me.  What she&#8217;s really is saying is, &#8220;Hurry up and come up with something good to talk about on your blog.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The thing I find funny is that she talks about you guys, my blog friends, like you&#8217;re part of our family. She, at one point last week, was telling me a story about one of my ex-boyfriends. I had NO idea who she was talking about until she said, &#8220;Oh wait, that&#8217;s your friend, Dave&#8230;the Closet Metro guy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The best part of it is that YOUR blogs are now actual PLACES.<br \/>\n&#8220;Did you hear that Stephanie is getting a new couch? I heard about it at Sissychongs&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dooce is just &#8220;Heather&#8217;s blog&#8221;. She doesn&#8217;t quite grasp the concept of how big &#8216;Heather&#8217;s blog&#8217; is. She just goes and reads and thinks she&#8217;s just one of my friends.<br \/>\nHey mom, I promise if Heather and I hang out someday we will stay REALLY far away from any BBQ sauces M&#8217;kay?<br \/>\n(and who is it that says, &#8220;M&#8217;Kay&#8221; because I swear that cracks me up every time I hear it.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been getting up and around for a few minutes at a time. Mostly going and checking everyone&#8217;s pages and seeing what fun the healthy people are having.<\/p>\n<p>And now, I need to go back to bed because Nurse Hitler is going to be home and if I&#8217;m not in bed cuddled up with my roll of toilet paper, Vicks vaporrub, remote control &#038; Telephone (AND NO ONE IS EVEN CALLING ME!) he&#8217;s going to be really pissy.<\/p>\n<p>There mom, I blogged. Am I your favorite again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;ve been sick this WHOLE stupid week, I&#8217;ve found out that I am letting my mom down as far as my blogging goes. Everyone knows, you don&#8217;t let down The Fonz. She called me today, somewhere in the middle of Tylenol Flu, The History Channel and chocolate ice cream. It&#8217;s been a rough week for me and all I can really focus on is this pain in my face. I think I have got to talk to my kids for all of 5 minutes in the past week because Nurse Hitler won&#8217;t let me out of the bedroom. I&#8217;m useless and my mom called to tell me to get better because she misses me. What she&#8217;s really is saying is, &#8220;Hurry up and come up with something good to talk about on your blog.&#8221; The thing I find funny is that she talks about you guys, my blog friends, like you&#8217;re part of our family. She, at one point last week, was telling me a story about one of my ex-boyfriends. I had NO idea who she was talking about until she said, &#8220;Oh wait, that&#8217;s your friend, Dave&#8230;the Closet Metro guy.&#8221; The best part of it is that YOUR blogs are now actual PLACES. &#8220;Did you hear that Stephanie is getting a new couch? I heard about it at Sissychongs&#8221; Dooce is just &#8220;Heather&#8217;s blog&#8221;. She doesn&#8217;t quite grasp the concept of how big &#8216;Heather&#8217;s blog&#8217; is. She just goes and reads and thinks she&#8217;s just one of my friends. Hey mom, I promise if Heather and I hang out someday we will stay REALLY far away from any BBQ sauces M&#8217;kay? (and who is it that says, &#8220;M&#8217;Kay&#8221; because I swear that cracks me up every time I hear it.) I&#8217;ve been getting up and around for a few minutes at a time. Mostly going and checking everyone&#8217;s pages and seeing what fun the healthy people are having. And now, I need to go back to bed because Nurse Hitler is going to be home and if I&#8217;m not in bed cuddled up with my roll of toilet paper, Vicks vaporrub, remote control &#038; Telephone (AND NO ONE IS EVEN CALLING ME!) he&#8217;s going to be really pissy. There mom, I blogged. Am I your favorite again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}