My first blog post.
Tori, Tori, Tori. She’s one hell of a wordsmith, all right. Like Rapunzel’s hair, Tori’s words spill effortlessly out, seemingly without end. And they don’t even get split ends. So when Tori designated me as the “hilarious Renee Fisher” and gave me the 7 Posts Award: Share Your Best Posts With Your Readers,” I got a little queasy. I mean, this is a big. Really big.
After having this award bestowed, I asked myself the following: What defines “best?” Is this not a subjective analysis resulting from mankind’s ongoing battle between the forces of good and evil? Or is it actually closer to Zhou era Chinese thought? Or even logical positivism? This internal dialogue was broken only by frequent trips to the refrigerator, in which sadly, a can of Turkish olives remained the only thing even vaguely worth eating. At last, the dialogue was interrupted when the house started shaking violently, things flew off the walls, and I had concrete proof of something I have always suspected about myself: When the going gets tough, I will run for my life and the hell with everything else.
Back to the assignment. The truest thing anyone ever said about me was that I was a cross between the Lil Rascals and Mother Teresa. That just about sums up my life (including my marriages and my record as a mother) and defines my writing. My writing, as my legion (“legion” being a loose term that can be any number that starts with at least a single digit) of followers, might have realized this by now. With me, you never know what you are going to get. I’m the writer, and most often I don’t know what you are going to get, either.
After I stopped ruminating, and after all the olives were gone, here are the seven posts I chose:
My Favorite Funny Post: Snuggling Babies Across Borders
My Favorite Serious Post: My Friend Bill
The Post That Thousands Should Have Seen But Was Written Shortly After I Started the Blog and so Hardly Anybody Read It: The Seven Myths About Women Over 50
The Post That Still Has the Capability of Being the True Meaning of Life for the Entire Planet: Finding my Future in a Trashcan
First Post to be Freshly Pressed: My GPS Has A Different Accent Than Yours
Favorite Rant Post: 60 isn’t the new anything. Except 60.
Favorite Post About Who Might Be Stupider, my Cat or my Cat’s Owner: Cats Flying Off the Roof of My Car
And, last, I hereby bequeath his honor to the following bloggers:
BugginWord: Simply because if Elly’s brain were a ride at Disney World, I really would stand in one of those lines that snakes around forever and it’s 100 degrees outside and every small child within earshot is screaming at ungodly high decibel levels.
The Good Greatsby: because Paul lives in an alternate universe and wears glasses, which makes him totally a off-the-charts kind of guy.
Reinventing the Event Horizon: because I do know a couple people who could have a book made of their lives, but I don’t know anyone but Kathy whose life could be four completely different books. Plus, she refinishes furniture.
The Absence of Alternatives: because I tend to have brilliant insights about issues, but I don’t know I have them until I read these posts. Then I can say, “Wow, I feel that way too!”
My Parents Are Crazier Than Yours: because you can do two things when life hands you lemons: You can make lemonade or you can paint silly faces on the lemons, put them in the refrigerator and have entire conversations with them. And then, when they eventually begin to get weird looking, they just might start talking back and be really hilarious.
Carole
August 24, 2011
Damn! and I thought I was going to be taking a ‘Nanna nap’ today but I guess I will be reading these posts instead.
lifeintheboomerlane
August 24, 2011
Thanks for visiting Life in the Boomer Lane, Carole. Oh my, that sounds serious. I hope my words are worth giving up your much-needed sleep!
Carl D'Agostino
August 24, 2011
Yes my favorite or what I think were my most well crafted posts were in the beginning with tiny readership.
lifeintheboomerlane
August 25, 2011
You should re-post them. I’ve seen others do that.
Kathryn McCullough
August 25, 2011
How fun, Renee! And thanks for this lovely award. Unfortunately, I won this award last month and did my own 7 Posts response, but I will see what I can do. I will stop back by with the link to that post.
Thanks for the recognition, my friend! And for acknowledging that I refinish furniture. Hooray for furniture repurposing and for Renee Fisher, as well!
Kathy
Kathryn McCullough
August 25, 2011
Here’s the link to my “7 Posts” post–
It’s called “Notes Toward a Blogger’s Bible: Saving a Blogroll, Redeeming a Meme.”
http://reinventingtheeventhorizon.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/notes-toward-a-bloggers-bible-saving-a-blogroll-redeeming-a-meme/
Kathy
lifeintheboomerlane
August 25, 2011
Wow, so you mean the world continued to go on while I was in London in Maine? Hard to believe. I’ll check out your post!
omawarisan
August 25, 2011
You don’t know what we legion are going to get…I think that’s what makes things good.
lifeintheboomerlane
August 25, 2011
Thanks for your comments, Legion. I knew you were out there somewhere.
Tori Nelson
August 25, 2011
You ARE hilarious, hula hoop. And, I am proud to learn, a champion olive eater 🙂
lifeintheboomerlane
August 25, 2011
Thanks, Tori. I’m a champ at other food products as well: ice cream, chocolate, and tuna. Not sure how tuna made the list, though.
The Good Greatsby
August 25, 2011
Thanks for the mention. I’m considering dedicating a page on my blog to nice things you’ve said about me. The offer also stands for anyone else who might want to say something nice about me.
lifeintheboomerlane
August 25, 2011
Can I have the home page?
izziedarling
August 25, 2011
Congrats! Can’t wait to hit this reading list. x iz
lifeintheboomerlane
August 25, 2011
Thanks, Allison!