Guess what I finally did tonight? I watched the final episode of the last Amazing Race! Yeah, yeah … it aired a month ago and it has been sitting on the Tivo waiting for me. I was so tired earlier, worn out from the new temp job where I’ve been working hard – plus I have to leave the house by 7am! Ugh. Not good when you’re used to staying up until 1 or 2 in the morning!
I don’t have a lot to say about the final leg other than this – if Flo had said one more time “I want to quit” then I would have to hunt her down and kick her ass. If you’re going to quit, don’t wait until it’s down to the final 3. You could have quit earlier and given someone else a chance. Zack truly carried her weight in that race, and she was such a twit it was amazing.
The winner of the Amazing Race got a million dollars. There are other races though – or rather contests – where the stakes aren’t so high, and 24 hours after finding out who the finalists are for the Bloggies, now I’m finding all sorts of chaos, discord, and “you cheated” in the Blogosphere. Hello? People? As absolutely thrilled that I am to be up for a Bloggie … it’s a Bloggie. You know what? I bet there are 10,000 blogs out there run by people that don’t know the Bloggies exist. Remember that whole “Inner Circle Syndrome” thing I talked about a few weeks ago? One of my points that got lost in the shuffle was that there are circles. I have my close personal circle of friends, then the circle outside of that one made of people I talk to but that may not know the me quite as well, then it builds from circle to circle, growing larger & larger – eventually I hit a circle of blogs that I’m just a Blurker on, and then finally there are the sites that I don’t even know about. The Bloggies are a small measure in a vast universe. I realize this. I told Mike last night that I won already, because I’m just that happy to be in the finals. If I don’t win my category, that’s ok. (By the way, check out his Big Pink Cookie photo…) There isn’t a million dollars at stake – this isn’t the Amazing Race. This is the blog world. I love the friends I have met through my blog and the people I haven’t met yet but will someday. Meanwhile, I will go on blogging.
It’s the Bloggies. It’s not worth a scandal, and I hope the people that are turning it in to one will stop instead of causing more people more pain. Otherwise, it’s time to call in the Spork Posse!
UPDATED: I wrote this post after getting a phone call and reading three blog posts. Then I discovered all sorts of things going on as I started reading my daily reads. Wow. Damn.
Let me just say it again – I have a life outside of this website. We all do. It brings me a lot of joy, I won’t deny it. If I let it, it has the power to bring me a lot of pain. But … I don’t want to do that. I’m just going to focus on the many things that make me happy about it – that would be YOU, the people reading it – and the chance to say what I want when I want to say it. Awards, no awards, nothing is going to change here for me.