"I am Z, and I am a BLOGAHOLIC"

Some of us lost our blogs yesterday. We couldn't get into them at all.

I needed a blog! I wondered if the blog bar down the street was open..........I needed A BLOG! "Bartender...give me a BLOG....straight up.." "..oh, and with two olives...."

Emails were flying, advice was given, sitemeter was taken off our sites to see if that would help, it worked for some, not for me. We didn't know if it was Blogger or Internet Explorer. Some got notes from Blogger saying it was a spam problem, I didn't get that note. I got emails from blogger friends advising of what other blogs were down. (thanks!)

Tired friends who work at night (you know who you are) took the time to try to help between getting up and going back to work and even called from their car on the way to work to continue to help. How could I ever thank friends like THAT? One very dear friend was manning BLOG SICK CENTRAL and trying to help us all out even though it was later for her on the East Coast. I even got a call from someone we all blog with now and who's become a friend, someone I've known since my early Frontpagemag days but someone I'd never spoken to before, and there she was on the telephone trying to help. It was so good to talk to her! Other friends wrote us careful instructions on how to do a certain computer procedure which worked for some but not for me...So many were trying to help everyone! Thanks, ALL.

Which is, basically, what prompted me to write this.

We all have 'real friends' in 'real life' and we have full lives (okay, except maybe Ducky). But, this blogging thing has widened that circle and enriched me...it gets to you, doesn't it! Through blogging, we've all met good Americans from all over the country on the blogosphere (yes, even you, Ducky...though you and I've battered each other since early FPM days!). Except for Ducky, we have seen that honorable traditional values are still beautifully championed by many fantastic people. Doesn't it give you hope? It does me. Doesn't this go against the media hype?

Yesterday, at my most bereft, I thought I'd need to start a Twelve Step Program for bloggers without blogs........My husband even brought a glass of red wine up to my computer and me. I'm not sure which needed it more after I'd exhausted everything I could do trying to fix the problem, me or the computer! The drink wasn't enough....I NEEDED MY BLOG!

Thanks to all of you who have become blogging partners, commenting here, accepting my comments at your blogs so graciously, writing me privately, even meeting me at Starbucks (you know who YOU are! I wish all of us could do that..except you, Ducky..just kidding, sort of!), and I'm looking forward to meeting a Florida blogger when she comes to California soon, and another blogger who's moving nearby from another State. This blogging business is an amazing thing. Some of us even pray for each other...how great is THAT? Being in daily contact makes us closer....as conservatives these days, we need to stand together and share thoughts and buoy each other up. And I think it helps. I know it does.

I needed my blog to stay in touch with those of you I don't privately email with or don't talk to on the phone...commenters who come here often, whose sites I visit, people I only 'know' through our blogs. Yesterday was tough! I missed you!

So, now that we're all back, we've had our blog fix and we're feeling better..at least I am. It was nice having you commenting without me, but FRUSTRATING! Thanks for manning the site...

It's good to be back.

z