Before NaBloPoMo, one of the reasons I didn't post very often was for fear that the proposed entry's topic wouldn't be substantial enough to justify my absence. In my mind, every day I went without posting was another paragraph's worth of content I owed to my wee readership; then, suddenly, a whole week had gone by, and I still didn't have anything pretty to show for my hiatus, but I would force myself to post about something, anything, so that you all wouldn't think I'd gone and died from Baby Envy disease.
It's only day seven of my month-long posting marathon and I'm already worried that I'm boring you. I mean, the last really juicy post I had was on Friday, and since then I've given you a few sentences about Internet love and the status on my weight condition. Surely you deserve better than that?
Yes, you do. But today is not the day for making it up to you.
Instead, I'm going to steal Beth's idea and ask how in the world you stumbled across this blog. When answering in the comments section, I was surprised to realize I remembered EXACTLY how I found her. It all started in 2004, months after I had completed an autobiography class for my graduate degree, and I was surfing the Web to find blogs I could relate to on a personal level. I came across Blogger and its handy dandy, will-probably-score-you-a-virus "Random Blog" feature, and after an hour of incessant clicking, found The New Jan Brady, where this post knocked my socks off. It wasn't long before Jan posted about a new site she was writing for, a site where she and a couple of friends would snark on pictures of batshit-crazy celebrities, which I also visited, and which is also how I found Amalah. I followed her on and off for a month or two until this post earned her a permanent spot on my blogroll.
After reading through all of Amalah's archives, I was still bored at work, still hungry for more of The Funny, so I rummaged through her recommended links and found Rockstar Mommy. Then I perused her blogroll, found a link to So The Fish Said, thought, "Hey, that's a weird title," clicked, and the rest is history.
Your story doesn't have to be as detailed (mine sure wasn't on Beth's blog), but if you could play along and explain how you found me, I will eat a bowl of raspberry sherbet in your honor.
Thanks.
Well shit, I can't remember exactly how I found you but I'm 99.9% positive it was through Amalah. I think she mentioned you in a post or did you ever ask her a question for the Wed. Advice Smackdown that she answered?
Posted by: Silly Hily | November 07, 2006 at 04:42 PM
I think through Isabel? It's sad, because it wasn't that long ago but I am enjoying your site. People (myself included) always lament "boring entries" but the fact is that everyone loves reading about someone else's life. I mean we know all the boring inane details about our "real life" friends so even a boring post is like getting an email. ANYWAY. Don't fret.
Posted by: Erika | November 07, 2006 at 04:46 PM
Hilary - yes I did! I submitted a WAS question earlier this year about caring for an old shoulder burn. You know, because my shoulders are so fascinating to read about.
Posted by: Frema | November 07, 2006 at 05:05 PM
I popped over here a couple of times over the last year or so from Isabel and Amalah's blogs. I just recently started reading you regularly after you left a few fabulous comments on my blog. Your comments reminded me that I'd been meaning to add you to my blogroll, so I did and have read you every day since then. I haven't spent much time in your archives, but for the record, I don't think you're boring at all. And I also absolutely love your wedding dress.
Posted by: audrey | November 07, 2006 at 05:31 PM
This makes my brain hurt. I think it was either because you left a comment on my site, or because you showed up in my referrer logs. Or something like that.
OK, I give up: I have no freaking clue, but I do know it was approximately a year ago.
Posted by: Dawnie | November 07, 2006 at 05:35 PM
This is entirely too much strain on the brain. I think I followed a link from a comment you left on another blog. That is often how I find new blogs to read. I was quickly hooked after I noticed that we had the exact same hair (at the time anyway).
Posted by: Dee | November 07, 2006 at 05:57 PM
So there was this crazy girl at our high school...
...and after all of that you convinced me to start blogging, and yours was the first on my blog roll, of course. :0)
I can't wait to read all of your responses. This was a great idea!
Posted by: Lost A Sock | November 07, 2006 at 06:27 PM
What silly hilly said. I think. The internet is such a "6 degrees" type of place 'round these parts.
Posted by: Kelley | November 07, 2006 at 06:43 PM
I haven't been reading your blog for very long (a couple of months?) so I can remember how I found you since my short-term memory is actually quite superb. The story goes something like this: I blogged. Then I clicked on "next blog" at the top of my blog, and within about five to ten clicks, I finally found an interesting blog that I could relate to and wasn't in a foreign language so I added you to my "bloglines". Voila!
Posted by: Marriage-101 | November 07, 2006 at 06:45 PM
Oh the PRESSURE! How did I find you?
I have no idea...quite honestly, I think it was after you commented on my blog and I clicked to see who you were and fell instantly in love.
Yeah...that was it... I'm sure of it...
Posted by: PaintingChef | November 07, 2006 at 07:35 PM
I believe that I found your blog because you sent me the link and said, "You better comment on it or I'll beat you something awful."
That was a few years ago, so I can't remember the exact wording but it was something along those lines.
Posted by: Luke | November 07, 2006 at 08:03 PM
I'm pretty sure I found you via a comment posted on Amalah's site. That's how I've found all of my faves....you, Erika and Ms. Squirrel...the list goes on.
Posted by: Isabel | November 07, 2006 at 08:36 PM
Well you know...we are related. I think that Luke probably encouraged us to read your blog, and then, I became one of your many protegees with a blog of my own, which is gone for now. I do post ocassionally on a team blog called Mama Said, Papa Said.
Posted by: mjd | November 07, 2006 at 09:45 PM
Probably directly from knowing that you write. You have two college degrees and know that writing stuff. It was awhile ago, but I think that was the way it happen. If not, then this is what happen, I just want to know that very thing is moving ahead with your lives. Reading your posts helps do that keeping up.
Posted by: daddy d | November 07, 2006 at 10:33 PM
I found you on Isabel's site. I was like, what do you mean what am I looking at, biiiaaatch?? :-)
Posted by: Lindsey | November 08, 2006 at 12:02 AM
I'm so honored that I had something to do with your bloggin'. Aw yeah.
Posted by: Jan | November 08, 2006 at 01:31 AM
I just foudn you today, via the nablopomo randomizer. I'm gonna go poke around your archives.
Posted by: lips | November 08, 2006 at 01:50 AM
By way of Number Twelve!!!
Posted by: butterflygirl | November 08, 2006 at 02:19 AM
I believe I must blame SillyHily for my new obsession with reading Frema every day. SillyHily and LizzieP have discussed you in our daily email chats and I started reading and was hooked.
I too was a bookworm and have a love of writing, so your blog clicked with me.
Posted by: takin chances | November 08, 2006 at 02:49 AM
I found you via Liz's Quiet in the Stacks blog. I kept looking at all your crazy pictures in the comment section and finally had to check you out. Been coming back ever since. :)
Posted by: Roxanne | November 08, 2006 at 03:54 AM
This one is driving me crazy. There isn't that much left of my brain and this is pushin it. I am pretty sure that I found you through "USELESS CLUTTER".I think I found Luke through something odd like Snarkywood. But now I see no signs of any connection. Who the hell knows? I remember the first thing I read was one of you describing a fender-bender and duck pictures. I had no idea what a "Blog" was. I became hooked on your posts. Kinda like being a peeping tom. Through you I am now addicted to "Lost A Sock" and "Back In The Day". Thank you Frema dear.
Posted by: debi | November 08, 2006 at 04:04 AM
I can't be sure, but it's how I found most of my readers, so I'm guessing it's how I started reading you as well.
I think that you commented on my blog after I sent Amy Noah's baby blanket. And then I started reading you and from then on you have remained on my blogroll.
Posted by: Bethiclaus | November 08, 2006 at 12:54 PM
You started leaving comments on my blog, and I had to find out who the girl in the graduation cap was. ;)
Posted by: Liz | November 08, 2006 at 01:01 PM
Through Amalah, in her little sidebar thing, you made her some mixtape?
Please don't ask me how I found Amalah. I can't remember the chain of blogs.
I think it started with Dooce, and then seeing a comment from Nothing But Bonfires...
Posted by: culottefolle | November 08, 2006 at 01:19 PM
Erm... I want to say Fraulein N??? Amalah??? I don't know... I know that I've checked in a couple of times over the past year or so, but didn't become a regular until the shoe posts. You had me at the shoes.
Posted by: Angela | November 08, 2006 at 05:52 PM
It's a little fuzzy...I think that I clicked on some link, and found White Robin (mjd). I saw you linked there, but didn't click on it. But from mjd, I did go to lost a sock. And after falling in blog love with lost a sock, who also had you as a link. I finally clicked on it, because I just kept thinking, "Frema. Who is this Frema?" And I have enjoyed you ever since!
Posted by: Stacey | November 09, 2006 at 01:07 AM
It has taken me a few days to comment on this one because I wanted to go through your archives and see if I could find when I started reading your blog. I found you on Isabel's blog, and I started snooping around October or November of last year. I was sevretly there for your wedding, and I started commenting shortly after that.
I'm so glad that I found a fellow Zach Braff lover!
Posted by: Britt | November 12, 2006 at 10:45 PM