Attending Kelly’s wedding, I interacted with the most elusive of all peers – people I know in real life who read my blog.
Not that my blog is a secret.
Just most of my friends and family prefer to spend their Internet time watching The Good Wife on Hulu.
Yet, somehow, I’ve suckered Maggie’s family into reading my blog. I’m not going to say mind control played no part.
(For those playing along at home, Maggie is my childhood best friend. Kelly is her older sister whose wedding I attended last weekend. You know, the one where I exposed myself.)
Yes, he looks silly in this photo. No, I don't feel guilty for putting it on the Internet.
I attended a Labor Day party earlier this year (it was on Labor Day), where their dad mentioned he’d been following Best of Fates. He hadn’t necessarily wanted to read but “it’s like a car accident, you can’t look away.”
Thankfully, my blogging goal has always been to earn comparisons to scarring collisions, so I was far from offended.
Maggie draws hobos. It's an up-and-coming hobby.
In the midst of the wedding reception, Maggie mentioned she also read Best of Fates.
“Kelly told me about it – she was like, ‘you’ll be shocked at how funny it is.’”
“Ah, yes, the idea of me as funny is quite strange” I laughingly replied.
“Well, she’s known you since you were two,” said Maggie.
The question of whether I was an amusing child has clearly been answered.
This is the expression of a person regretting their guest list.
Later Kelly leaned close to me, saying “your blog is f-ing hilarious.”
“Maggie was telling me you read it,” I banally replied.
“Oh yes,” said Kelly “It’s one of those things that if I didn’t know you, I’d read it and wish I was friends with that girl.”
The real life disappointment of my friendship remained obvious yet unstated.
Black and white pictures expose a 1940s scene
A psychotic flashback
Or a middling photographer,
Megan
A Blogger at a Wedding
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Your blog IS hilarious! Gotta love gettin some real live compliments!
I agree !!! Your blog IS Hilarious, the way you describe people and things, like “oh, I say nothing but …” we always end the reading with a BIG smile on face !!!! Look , you’ve got a “far away” addicted fan !!!
It actually does make me feel all weird and giddy inside to be Internet connected with people around the world – I’m SO grateful I live in the age of such technology! Though at first I read that you were a Far Side addicted fan, and pictured you sitting in an armchair reading my blog while making a humorous reference to outside cows, which would have been just as awesome.
A grasshopper told me about your blog, maybe the grasshopper knows Gerald! Your blog is funny and your photo’s are always great! I always look forward to checking your site out.
Aw, shucks, thanks.
Gerald is quite the friendly groundhog, he would be getting all friendly with the insects.
Look at that gorgeous bride. Now THAT is a dress!
I like the way Kelly put it, that’s how I felt when I read you. It makes me wonder, how would you use all this talent if blogging didn’t exist?
World domination.
Or start a used book store.
Depending on my mood.
You are f-ing hilarious. I’m telling you, you should be a comedy writer for TV. Do people still use the word “hobo”…
My dad grew up next to an abandoned hobo camp from the Depression, so interest in hobos runs deep in my family line.
1) You are, indeed, hilarious.
2) I always find the adjective “f-ing” causes disturbing mental images. I need to be less literal.
3) Best wedding dress I’ve seen in ages and I watch a LOT of Say Yes To The Dress.
I actually debated my use of the word “f-ing” as that’s not what she said in real life, but I both don’t swear on my blog (as it’s my real life voice, in which I don’t swear) and felt like I was changing her voice by leaving it out. But now I’m super glad I used it, as I can’t even figure out what your mental image is but I love it.
I read your blog and wish we were friends. Does that make me a creepy stranger?
No, that makes you awesome.
And we are friends.
Just in that fake Internet kinda way.
They are right, you are f-ing hilarious and I totally want to be your friend.
Whoa, I thought we were friends.
You know, in that fake Internet way.
But that’s cool – I’ll find some other hilarious mother of triplets to be my friends.
That’s cool.
Ignore the tears.
There’s something in my eye.
Your blog is hilarious. I LOVE her dress!
Isn’t it just gorgeous?
It suited her perfectly.
You rarely fail to make me giggle.
Wait, so I fail sometimes.
When?
Why?
Now I’m going to have a complex!
(And not a fancy apartment, a mental issue.)
“The real life disappointment of my friendship remained obvious yet unstated.”
Ha, I sometimes wonder if I’m more interesting on the blog than in real life!
I can’t believe you are anything less hilarious in real life. And your pictures are gorgeous, btw. x
I know, I can’t believe it either!
Really, why do people fail to recognize my genius?
I’m like Van Gogh, but of middling blog humor.
Man, I love that photo of a man with wine dancing.
Ask him to share with me, please.
Isn’t it fantastic?
I’m so glad I used it to give him his blog introduction.
Megan,
For some reason, this is one of my favorite of your blogs. And I’m not really sure why!
I get that response all the time. I finally wrote a post called I’m pretty disappointing in person. {sigh}
(Im including the link because I hate when ppl refer to posts without providing a link. Feel free to not visit. Seriously. http://www.lateenough.com/2010/09/im-pretty-disappointing-in-person/)
love all this…
Aw, thanks!
And thanks so much for inviting me – it was a fantastic wedding!
(If your wedding was a cheese, it would be smelly. But only because I like smelly cheese, not because of any odor issues.)
(Sorry, my friends and I rate boys according to their corresponding cheese, so it’s somewhat of a habit now. You know, rating things by cheese.)
You are like knee slapping funny but without the cheese factor. Does that make sense? Probably not. But I like you.
But…
but…
I like cheese.
Cheese is delicious.
Especially sharp or smelly.
(Though I guess it’s best I’m not smelly.)
Awesome photos, Megan!
“Black and white pictures expose a 1940s scene.”
And that’s exactly what they look like! I have a “thing” about the 40′s. The music, the fashion, the glamour! I truly think I must of had a previous life in the 40′s because it feels so familar to me.
Enjoying your blog!
I think everyone has a “thing” for the 40s – it was just the classiest decade.
i totally see why they think it’s hilarious. cuz it IS.
do you think you aren’t funny IRL?
Oh no, I’m freaking hilarious in real life.
Sadly, no one else seems to think so.
You never stop being hilarious and the pictures (as always) are amazing! I know with every post I see in my reader I am guaranteed a laugh.
Aw, thanks!
Though in this case, I feel the humor was just given to me, like a wedding present!
First congrats on getting some IRL to read your blog
I have a few but I dont think they admit it! So glad I met you at Bloggy Bootcamp, you blog always makes me smile 
Aw, thanks!
I only found out they’re reading it at the wedding, so maybe you also have IRLifers reading who just having exposed themselves yet!
(So many things about that sentence sound wrong, but I’m too lazy to re-write it!)
Awww, come on, I read! And your blog makes me happy that we are friends in real life! I think she meant it as a compliment.
I told a coworker about some of my random blog posts…She said “I think you are much funnier than people realize.”
Hmm. I think it’s a compliment?
I think you should take it as one – anything else just gets awkward! (Though that is my particular niche!)