Some readers might be wondering why I've chosen to start a new blog, under a new address. Let's just say this: when a random, tea-partying IT person employed by your husband's company asks for a blog address, is not given said blog address, and then takes the opportunity to find said blog address while updating your husband's computer and choses to share said blog address with secretary's at your husband's company so your husband finds his secretaries looking at pictures of HIS children on their computers rather than working, it's likely time to either shut down a blog or make it private.
Indeed, when a random Southern Baptist daughter of preacher comes across your blog and, instead of comforting you about what you have written, chooses to share your blog address with other people, making a bigger mess than you intended to create, it's likely time to either shut down your blog or make it private.
When you write stories about your LDS neighbors, even when said stories are true, funny at times, and frustrating at times, and said neighbors scour the internet, looking for clues to determine your blog address and find you "so fascinating" that you have to create a fake blog so you can participate in neighborhood blogging, it's likely time to shut down your fake (and real blog) or make it private.
All that to say, while my intention has never been to poke fun at or hurt people's feelings with my blog, it has also never been my intention for people I hardly know to read it. I have purposely made the blog open enough that people can find it-and comment on it-but have also made it so search engines cannot find it. And, when I comment on other people's blogs, my blog address is not listed unless I chose to give it out.
So, if you're here, and along for the ride, great! If I tick you off now (or in the future), I'm sorry. Now that I'm back in the Motherland, I feel I know a bit more of what to expect culturally and socially. Hopefully I will avoid the hidden landmines of Southern Baptist culture and will make friends with LDS people (including the missionaries! Did you know I was regularly visited by missionaries in Texas because I always gave them something to eat, drink and knew a lot about Utah?). And, hopefully this blog is here to stay.
Finally, feel free to pass the address onto people you know and trust. This is the internet, afterall. I still love comments and love knowing people are reading. This time around, however, I'm going to be more careful about who knows that I write, especially busy-bodied people who have nothing better to do than to think I'm fascinating and/or who want to stir of drama. Or a cultural uprising; but that IT guy really was weird. Thank goodness I'm done with Texas.
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