Friday I'm in Love: Postalicious

I swear the idea for this post did not come up just because I wanted to spend an afternoon reading the internet.

Though it was a contributing factor.

I decided I wanted to read some blogs. And I discovered that a lot of my favorite bloggers had stopped blogging. My first instinct was just to delete a bunch of people from my "Blogs I Love" page, but that seemed really negative. Plus, that wouldn't give me an excuse to spend hours reading blogs.

I decided to try something completely different, too. When I've discovered new bloggers before, it was generally because they were somehow affiliated with other bloggers I read. Either they guest posted, or they were on a blogging friend's blogroll, or they wrote on a group blog that I either contributed to or knew someone who did.

This time, I used the power of Google to discover completely new blogs. Well, new to me, anyhow. Apparently a lot of these people were popular already. It was harder than I'd thought, to find blog posts I loved this way. But I found a few:

• I loved this post about raising three by Dudemom. 
• This post from Rants from Mommyland about being in The Sweet Spot of parenting is full of awesome. 
• How have I not discovered Writing, Wishing before? 
• Introverts unite! Great post at Things I Can't Say. 

But then there are my precious favorite bloggers, some of whom I've been reading since I discovered this whole blogging thing back in the aughts. 

• I don't know how Tracie says so much in just a few words, but she totally does. 
• Reading just about anything at My Mommy's Place makes me happy, but I loved this post about geocaching especially. 
• My favorite thing on Dawn's blog is all the cool posts about music. They help me pretend I am hip. 

What posts did you love this week? Link to them in the comments - and yes, it's totally cool if you link to one of your own posts. I'm serious about this blogroll overhaul thing.

I May Go Crawling Back to Blogger

So I spent hours over the weekend reorganizing the blog. I tried to customize my theme - yeah, I realize that it's not the most exciting theme right now, but I tried, okay? I also upgraded my Wordpress, which should require just pushing a button but naturally it never works that way for me.

But I don't want any of you to focus on that. I want you to notice that my blogroll is gone. I made it into a separate page at the top called "I Would Actually Clean For These People". Someday I hope to have little blurbs about everyone, but I ran out of energy yesterday. I'm sorry. If you are reading this post and you are not on that page, let me know in the comments or in email (jen@jerseygirl89.com). I will add you. Unless you are that guy who comes here after searching "sex with dirty socks". I don't want to SEE your website, let alone link to it.

Anyway, I thought a page might be more noticeable and flexible. Of course, you'll have to wait until I figure out why my damn page rank and such disappeared (BEFORE I messed with anything, I swear) for it to help your blog get noticed, but I assume by Christmas everything will be back normal.

Also, you might want to sign up for my rss feed or email subscription over there on the right since since searching for "jerseygirl89" will first lead you to my Blogcatalog page from 2007. But you don't have to. I will still link to you if you leave me a comment because I appreciate you stopping by.

As long as you're not the guy with the dirty socks fetish.