I am missing the 5M. I'm not saying she should come back. I support her in her new private life with R, and send her my best wishes. And, I am pleased that perhaps the ESIs -in some small way - played a part in getting her married off (ie. some ESIs suggesting she go on lavalife).
We must, however, move on to new blogs. We are, after all, metabloggers. There is much much work to be done. The problem is that in my cursory search for an interesting Ottawa blog, I have come up dry. I have identified several blog categories: hockey blogs (yawn!), hoser blogs, hoser/hockey blogs, smug married blogs, photo blogs, wanker blogs (but all bloggers are wankers...), knitter blogs (they are sweet, but how many pairs of socks can one look at...), self-absorbed/ignorant youth blogs (wankers in training). I'm sure there are plenty more, but this is what I've come up with so far.
In my quick search, I did see an interesting comment in the smug married category that suggests that bloggers are afraid to write what is REALLY going on in their lives: "...coming here and blogging all PollyAnna about how wonderful the children are and how great it is that the tulips are starting to poke up is just not me." (www.xerxia.blogspot.com). She says this, but - like most of us - is afraid to really put it all out there. Which is why we miss the Muse. She was brave enough to put it all out there.
