I started this blog a few months ago as a way of keeping in touch with the rest of the world.  Sharing stories and experiences that an average (well I think I’m average anyway) house wife has.  What I have noticed however is Blogphobia rising up in my house hold.  I’m not talking about a fear of blogging, or a fear of reading blogs but a fear of being blogged about.  My children and husband seem to be walking on eggshells around me…. not wanting to say or do anything that could end up in one of my blogs.  I have discovered that the threat of being blogged about is a great discipline tool, better than time out or the naughty corner.  “Pick that up or I’m blogging about it” can be heard by the neighbours I’m sure.  In fact I have even blogged of neighbours gone by and I’m sure I will blog about future neighbours as well.  I don’t want to criticize anyone…I leave that as an after dinner activity…. I just want to share.  So I will continue to blog for years to come, I just hope my families nerves can hold out that long!

Is possible to have a blog about nothing?  Seinfield was a TV show about nothing in particular and that was very successful.  If I was to just dribble on about nothing would anyone read it?  I guess if just one person is reading this then I could say YES it is possible to blog about nothing.  But would you come back?  Perhaps life is so full of nothing we expect nothing more therefore you would not be disappointed with a blog about nothing thus returning for more nothing is not that far fetched!  Are you with me?  If companies can produce gifts of “nothing” I don’t see why I should feel restricted to blog about something when perhaps I have nothing to say.  Well that’s my blog about nothing completed…….see you again tomorrow.

As a stay at home mum I find that most people think negatively about that being an occupation. They make you feel less a member of society because you don’t have a formal occupational title. It’s wrong! In fact I have had to fill out forms with no allowance for a stay at home roll. It forced me to tick a box “not in the work force”. I’d like the person who wrote that form to see just how much work I do. Sure it doesn’t pay but it’s work none the less. In fact it’s more than a job because it is a 24 hour seven days a week position. So the next time I have to fill out a form which includes an occupation section I think I’m going to tick “other” and write stay at home mum. If I have enough guts I may even include a little attitude and write “one bad mother blogger!”

The other day I saw a man with a t-shirt I quite liked, it read  “When I’m alone I google myself”.   I must try googling myself one day, I’ll put it on my life goals list.  Actually hang on I’ll go do it now……well that was interesting.   Apparently I take music lessons from Bob Ferry and I live in Liverpool.  Maybe the fabric of time and space tore and I was googling an alternate reality version of myself?  Ok…perhaps it’s just some seventeen year old chick who happens to have my name.  Anyway, now I can cross that off my life goal list.  What was I saying before I started googling myself?  Nothing….oh right.  Well in that case,  “GO BLOG YOURSELF!”