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I so look forward to opening up the laptop in the morning. I'm trying to get up an hour before Maggie does in the mornings so that I have a little bit of time to do things that need to be done and things that just make me happy. So when the laptop snaps open at 6:30, I eagerly look down at the dock of program icons.
There is my email program with a counter that tells me how many new messages I have. It's not an account I use very often; I broadcast my other address to most friends and companies and online sites. But this one I use for the blog. Whenever someone comments on a blog entry, the little light goes on and a number 1 appears over the email icon. Sometimes, if I've been an especially good girl, there's a number 2, or once a 3!
So I open up my email to see which entry was commented on and go straight to that day on the blog. How fun that people are reading about our lives and interacting with us all the way over here!
Except no. For the past two months, there have been maybe three friendly comments and the rest are internet scam comments. People phishing (if you can do that via a blog), advertising themselves or their stupid business, leaving bogus comments that have nothing to do with what I've written. Here's an example that I got today: "Hi buddy, your blog's design is simple and clean and i like it. Your blog posts are superb. Please keep them coming. Greets!!!"
And I find myself singing an old children's song: "Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, guess I'll go eat worms." Are any of you peeps still out there and interested? Do you still like us?