(or); I have my eye on you…
This is an important announcement to all my followers… (That word still makes me nervous with its culty overtones)…
I am not ignoring you!
I am just caught in what I call the blogger’s dilemma.
Doing a blog takes time, even a silly little blog like mine. We all want followers to validate our work. But all of those followers… (yes, I mean you)… want their work to be appreciated as well…
I am well aware that when you click on my,… (or anyone else’s)… follow button, you are hoping that that person will return the favor. We all despise those wham-bam-thank-you-mamm, whir-blur-thank-you-sir pop in people who just go down the blog list clicking the like button without reading anything… (yes, I am talking to you… no, not you, good follower… that guy over there that just whizzed by)…
Just because I am not following you yet means absolutely nothing. I go through my follower list whenever I have time. Do not be surprised when someday soon I begin to make comments on posts you did years ago. And then I will get all excited and giddy about your brilliant observations and beautiful artwork, and in the passion of the moment I will click your follow button and consummate our relationship… so to speak…
I do all this quite randomly because that is the way my brain works. Just please remember that if my brain worked the same as everybody else’s, you most likely never would have followed me to a free buffet, let alone into my crazy blog.
So be patient with me. A true follower, like true love, is worth waiting for.
Admit it, you sort of like the way my mind works. The way it bounces around like a crack squirrel… (see my earlier post, the one with the picture of the bug-eyed squirrels on my head, to learn about the danger of these particular rodents)… The way I talk about things that nobody else seems to find interesting and still find something funny to say about it. The way I ask stupid questions that you didn’t even know you wanted an answer to. And the silly pictures.
So this then is the blogger’s dilemma; If we spend too much time reading other blogs, we will not have any time left to write our own.
There is a balance.
And I will find it.
Pouring My Art Out 
Also, I like the touch of eyeliner on your eye up there…
sigh
I know that’s why you wear shades.
yes it is
YOU READ MY MIND… 😮
(read yer email)
Appreciation here…definitely not whizzing 🙂
You have gone deep into the archives to find this post… thanks…
There is a balance. Sometimes you have to sacrifice either writing or reading due to a particular circumstance.
No art form left behind!
Just some on a break sometimes…
I have been thinking about all your comments. I do come across as a spoiled kid whining for attention. Begging never got anybody to read my back story.You are a kind, nice person, and dare I say, a friend.
Of course a friend. You are whiny though. I started to type that you weren’t, but I couldn’t blie today. 😉
What ever I have done on this blog, I have met some great people.
You are hanging out with some of the best.
I found you, didn’t I?
Lol
Dear pmao,
I find it hard to keep up with reading too. I won’t comment or press the Like button unless I’ve read a post properly so it’s time consuming, like you say. Oh well, that’s the price we have to pay I suppose.
Love Dotty xxx
It would be nice if less people were interesting.
Um…this.
And this. And that. And that other thing. And that one other thing you said over there.
Yeah. This whole post, basically. (oh, and that whole pesky work thing)
I thought I was the only one that did this, nice to know I have someone to car pool with now…
I do my own blog, and then every couple of days I’ll go read a ton of blogs at once and make comments on them. Or take a whiz. z.
a wonderful wonderful whiz it was…
Reblogged this on Nae's Nest and commented:
Pouring My Art Out….One heck of a writer & entertainer. He is whitty and quick. Don’t tell him I said all of this, he & I try to out-whit each other and I don’t want him to know how great I think he is. lol
You are so amusing. I promise it wasnt me who “whizzed” by. I believe it was LIttle Johnny though
Do they call hem ‘little G’, cause that would be funny.
I am a flighty blog reader .. but do try to read my “usual” blogs most .. and whenever I can, trawl thru the ones who follow me ..
I also sometimes wish I had more time to comment on more blogs but then again some of the commenters (is there such a word?) are so clever I feel like a schlep posting something not as funny, so I just “like” it instead.
Funny you should post this tho cos I had been feeling and thinking similarly this morning .. We’re all suffering from blogstress!? 😉
It is also funny that you were replying to my new post at the same time I was making my little joke in your comment box, if you will forgive me for being so forward.
I have certainly typed more words to you today than I put in my post. I hope at least some of them made sense.
hahah yeah I saw that just now .. Nothin’ to forgive, it was funny!
I wish I had words to explain to you the depth of my lack of knowledge about this stupid magic box and the interwebs and such… (That might do it)…
I once formatted our hard drive installing a game… (That might also do the trick)…
I want to take your advice, but until I figure out how by stumbling around poking at buttons, which I am afraid to poke, I will just have to keep playing with it till something happens… or the computer crashes again…sigh.
But thank you so much. You are kind and patient.
I comment more on the blogs of people who follow me than those who I follow. It seems easier and I hope that at least one of them feels the same way people feel when a celebrity talks to them directly on Twitter.
I will never wash this monitor again.
We all have a secret stalker. Don’t you forget that.
Hey, I haven’t been keeping it a secret.
sometimes i whizz, sometimes i linger…wait, that doesn’t sound so good…:)
I always linger when I whiz…
haaaaaaaaa!
I clicked the like button and then I thought, “Hmmmm, I’d better leave a comment or he is going to think that I am one of those whizz-by people.
I would never think that about you.
well then i shall feel especially appreciated that by blog has been followed 🙂
You should be touched, honored and not a little aroused. (Well, not really, but you know what I mean).