if you’re lucky August 7, 2008
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It’s funny how this blogging thing can connect us to others in a way that we never really imagined. The people we meet, the friends we make, from all over the freaking world, it’s kind of amazing, right? I mean you go into blogging probably because you have an affinity for writing, you have something to say, you want to get your words out of your mind and out there, and something else happens as a really good side benny, if you’re lucky. Someone from somewhere far away (like Canada!) stumbles across your blog or you fall upon her’s first, (it’s hard to remember those small details) and you make a connection. You find someone that digs a man that layers as much as you do. Someone whose favorite character on the Hills is also Whitney (who else would it be?). You realize that you’ve both dated the same guy (I dated the Boston version of her Canada ex). You both find that you’d pick, out of 100 shoes, the same heels to wear as you sip margaritas on a patio in the summertime (both of your most favorite things to do). You realize that you’ve both been in love, and you’ve both been hurt, and in very similar ways. You both give your heart in the same way to your friends and family and lovers, wholeheartedly and you both love with full abandon. You find that you both have written pretty much dead ringers of the same exact post, only at different times and you both think the other person said it better than you. You make these connections, with certain people, when you’re very lucky, out of this whole blogging thing. You make friends on these here interwebs that you can damn straight picture being buddies with in your real life. In fact, you make plans for that exact thing to happen. You both email about flights and possible train rides and car rentals and anywhichway to get to spend maybe a good several few days on a beach in Mexico together (damn my lack of vacay time or I would have been there in a minute), you, she, and all your friends. And if that doesn’t work out? You will still find emails in your inbox from each other in between 2 for 1 margaritas that she’s downing where you’ll continue on discussing each other’s lives and your latest news and holy hell, who should the next HOH be?
Phew. That was one long intro as a guest poster at Brandy’s digs here. And I didn’t even really introduce myself appropriately yet. I’m Brookem, I have an affinity for men with good hair, I’m obsessed with shoes and reality tv (and Joel McHale). Fall is my favorite season, I love milk and a damn good martini or a Sam Summer , and I am an avid Sox fan. And if some you might be ready to barf from all the cheese I laid on pretty thick up there? I do not blame you one bit. But when Brandy asked me to guest post whilst she’s on her little vacay here, I kept wondering what I should bust out here. Wanting to write something that would reflect both her and what she’d write about here on the regular, but also reflect a little bit of me, so you’d know who you’re dealing with here, and I just couldn’t help but pay her a little tribute.
(I think she’s great, in case you couldn’t tell already?)
Anywhoots- rest assured that Miss Brandy is living it up in Mexico at this very moment. She’ll be back sometime next week and I’m sure she’ll have heaps of stories for us from her whirlwind adventure (she’s already been mistaken for Hillary Duff and hit on by “the Younger Men”). Oh and? Her birthday is coming up in five days! A George Clooney serenade, cupcakes, and tequila on me!
***Oops! I must have hit the tequila too early when writing this post, because I totally screwed up the date of Miss Brandy’s bday! It’s not in fact tomorrow, and actually the 22nd! ***
this was an excellent guest post brookem!!! brandy is lucky to have you : )
I heart B&B! You are both so adorable and I love that I have the two of you to connect with. I agree, it’s strage when you find yourself relating to people that you have never met!
Brandy~I hope that you’re having the best time ever in Mexico…pool boys, sunshine and tequila…how can you mess that up?
Brookem~Love the guest post!
Mmmm, Joel McHale nummy nummy…
Fabulous guest post. I think bloggers find blog friends because we talk on our blogs about what we don’t talk about in public (unless, in my case, you are wasted). Heart-on-the-sleeve in public is generally not a good look, but heart on the blog makes friends find you. It’s peculiar and beautiful.
From Billy
Faith in Jesus boils down to just one thing, will you trust Him in life’s greatest trials? Paul the Apostle was a prisoner on a ship, when a great storm arose.
The ship was in great danger of sinking, but God spoke to Paul by an angel who told him that if they all stayed in the ship it would not sink, and they would all be saved.
What trust this took, how many of us would have tried some other way, maybe by swimming, or clinging to some piece of old wood.
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alexa- aw, thank you lady!
sara jane- B&B! i love it! im sure brandy will have some good stories to recount for her upon her return!
rebekah- “heart on the blog”- so true. sometimes when you put it all out there for all to see, you find that you connect with people in a way you never thunk to happen. woot.
billy?- woa buddy, lotsa God talk for a little post about blog/margarita/shoe love, dontcha think?
Woo! Go Senorita Brandy.
I heart you both! (And that’s big, because I hardly ever say “I heart” anything.)
Great post! It’s funny how we find so many people who are so similar, all through our writing!
What’s the deal with Billy up there??
great post! I also love that I get to meet people from all over. I’m from Chile so anyone I meet in the US, even though I live here, is “super exotic” to me. haha
Girl love, such a beautiful thing. Glad you’re a White Sox fan, someone has to cheer on the team from the southside.
I have to agree with Egan on the girl love!! It’s so great to see two girls that have so much in common and are such good friends! There’s nothing better than having someone who you can share so many things with even, if they are in another providence (Canada is consider a providence right, or is it a country?? hmmm). Anyway, love your post and the sox!!
Hi! I actually just found both of your blogs today… and I have to say that’s so cool that yall have developed such a friendship! I have to admit my favorite character is also Whitney (although Spencer and Justin Bobby are competing for second because they’re both just THAT ridiculous). And Joel McHale? I feel deprived if I don’t get my weekly dose of The Soup
Anyways, I look forward to catching up on both of your archives.. I need to at least look like I’m doing something at work!
Aw, this post is so sweet
And I LOVE Joel McHale!!!
justrun- aw, the “heart you” compliment. i mean, that’s big. so thank you!
ask alice- im not sure what his deal is? is that spam? i seriously dont understand things techy like that. isnt that supposed to go to some… other?, folder?
la petite belle- chile! so cool!
egan- i demand you take the white sox comment back right now!
semichrmd- ooohhh im not good with geography, so im not the best one to answer that question! but i get what you’re saying, none the less!
erin- glad you found us! what are your thoughts on justin bobby’s new do’? i like it better. he’s really one that grows on ya, huh? spencer is just one of those ones you love to hate.
rye- how can one NOT love him?!
Providence? Semichrmd, I like the providence thing, but those are fighting words. Canadians are going to kick your ass. I think you meant to say province. Good think I’m not one of those crazy Cannucks you read about in the papers.
White Sox? You said you’re a Sox fan. Well, there are two teams with different colours. You didn’t state your colour preference. Geez.
I still like this post.
I don’t mind a different writer. However, if you would only separate the first paragraph in two or three. It would be much easier to appreciate it.
yo Brookems, how about revealing your secret power…”blogospherical freak magnetism”…what’s up with post #4.
I’m thinking he’s a Cubs fan and realized (if you could just realize what I just realized) not a prayer will help his team.
Haha… what is Mexico if not the place to be hit on by frat boys!!
I totally agree with what you said about the wonders of blogging!
I agree with your bloggy comments too. I’m amazed at the incredibly kind and fun people I meet through blogging that I likely would never have met before!
Who let the God out? Who who who?
Whitey??!! She has almost no personality! Of course, given the choices….
Great post!
Egan – I think I am a total grammatical mess aren’t I?? I think I did mean province, I would want to upset any of my canadian friends! Now, I am going to google the difference between province and providence. Oh and as for the Sox – that would be red – all the way
Correction, wouldn’t want to upset not would! YIkes!!!
egan- i think semichrmd had a little typo. cut a chick some slack! you KNOW damn well which sox i was referring to. dont play coy with me.
gany- it is a long first paragraph, huh? kinda just how i roll- stream of consciousness and all.
evans- if you’d meet me halfway….
princess pointful- exactly!
nicoleantoinette- right! like you and brandy’s love for the west wing!?
jessica- it’s really cool for that aspect of it, isn’t it?
eganf- haha, good one.
ally- ha, you’re right. and she’s so BLUNT and so… dry. but that’s kind of why i like her. like she’ll be sitting there and she’ll just ALWAYS state the obvious: “lauren, you’re like, going to see jason at the party. that will be awkward.”
semichrmd- i figured it was just a typo! i do it all the time. and of course it would be RED.
semichrmd- you’re out of control lady!
LOVE the guest post! Your posts are always so great!
Awe bloggy friends are the best, aren’t they?
Someone’s blog is locked and I don’t know why.
I tried to read your latest entry as I normally do, and wordpress won’t let me. I realize I don’t comment that often but I love your posts.
what’s a Sam Summer?
rachel- thank you lady! and i saw your comment on my blog today- and now it dissapeared. wordpress is wicked f’d up right now, im sorry!
mel heth- yessss!
egan- i dont get it. i dont know what’s wrong with the whole thing, and you know how much this must annoy me. all the comments i had on there from today are gone, and it was locked for a while. weird. i think it’s better now.
e- ugh, it was being totally weird earlier- im sorry! but thank you… i hope it wont deter you from swinging back around and visiting again!
canadian sadie- oh it’s a sam adams seasonal brew! delish!
Heh – I started blogging cuz I’d just broken up with someone and needed something to do with my head! LOL – but everything else you say is true…
Had forgotten that Brandy was a fellow Leo, thanks for the reminder!