Katie’s Beer

This one is circulating the M.O.B. circuit. It’s pretty funny. I deleted the stupid/offensive questions. I tag Lutheran college student Brian Braatz of NonPareil, eternally newly weds Suzi from Swansmith and Tim from Blobjects by Timman, and Wisconsin neighbor, Mary-Eileen from Stand in the Trenches.

1. Do you try to look nice when you go to the grocery store just in case someone recognizes you from your blog?

Being part of the Minnesota Organization of Bloggers (M.O.B.), the thought of meeting a fellow blogger does cross my mind once in a while. However, my thought is usually that I would be standing next to a fellow MOBster at Target Ridgedale and never even know it. I could show up at Keegan’s for trivia and then I would know what people looked like. My goal these days is not to look revolting or embarrassing; hot is not even on my list.

As far as my Confessional Lutheran brethren, I’m thinking that I will meet most of them one day…one way or another.

2. Are the photos you post Photoshopped or otherwise altered?

Not that I am aware of…

3. Do you like it when creeps or dorks email you?

Thankfully, this doesn’t happen to me…yet.

4. Do you lie in your blog?

Haven’t needed to yet.

5. Are you passive-aggressive in your blog?

No, I hate passive-aggressivity.

6. Do you ever threaten to quit writing so people will tell you not to stop?

I wouldn’t be so presumptuous as to think I would get a barrage of replies.

7. Are you in therapy? If not, should you be? If so, is it helping?

No, should I be?

8. Do you delete mean comments? Do you fake nice ones?

I have deleted spam. Don’t need to fake nice comments; I’d give myself a nice comment if I felt I needed it and I’d sign my own name to it!

10. If your readers knew you in person, would they like you more or like you less?

I suppose I’d get both. It’s so easy to control what people see of you online.

11. Do you have a job?

Yes, thankfully. I work while the kids are in school. I am able to do some quick posting at work on breaks, but save the majority for home

12. If someone offered you a decent salary to keep a blog full-time without restrictions, would you do it?

Absolutely, without question, but I would tie it into other professional writing endeavors.

13. Which blog-keeper do you want to meet in real life?

That one is easy: Bunnie Diehl

15. Do you usually act like you have more money or less money than you really have?

Neither. I’m bad at faking anything. I also don’t believe that money determines lifestyle, beyond the basics. There is usually a way to get the things needed/desired without going into debt.

16. Does your family read your blog?

I sometimes print up my posts to show them.

17. How old is your blog?

About a year and a half.

18. Do you get more than 1000 page views per day? Do you care?
No. Yes and no.

19. Do you keep another secret blog in which you write about being depressed, slutty, or a liar?
Please shoot me if I ever do that…seriously. As theTerrible Swede once wrote, your blog is NOT the window to your soul!!!

20. Have you ever given another blog-keeper money for his/her writing?
No, although I would buy a book written by a blog-keeper if I were interested in reading it.

21. Do you report the money you earn from your blog on your taxes?
I don’t believe that people really make money from their blogs.

22. Is blogging narcissistic?
Anything can be narcissistic, or pietist, or self-promoting. A blog is merely an electronic sheet of paper. To attach labels to it is ridiculous. Blog-keepers will be whatever they were before they began keeping a blog.

23. Do you feel guilty when you don’t post for a long time?
No.

24. Do you like John Mayer?
Who is that? Is he that guy that sang the Daughters song? If he is, then I like that song. I don’t know if I like him.

25. Do you have enemies?
Besides myself? My only real enemy is Satan. Otherwise, I consider myself to be, by nature, an enemy of God, reconciled solely, by God-given faith, through the blood of Jesus Christ who continues to justify and sanctify me without regard to any action of my own.

26. Are you lonely?

Stupid question.

27. Why bother?

I hate that attitude and don’t have much patience for it.

28. Favorite Blog-keeping tip

As in every endeavor of life, do whatever you love with all your heart, do it in truth, love and with responsibility.

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