Coming Out (and then Sucking It Up)

It is, I've been told, Delurking Week in the blog world. This caused quite a conundrum for me, as I am an excellent lurker. I leave comments on very few of those that are on my blogroll. I check approximately 20 every few days. Probably leave comments on a quarter of those on a fairly regular basis.

But I'm nosy. And I am curious as to who reads here. 'Cept I learned of this Delurking Week here, at a blog upon which I lurk.

So I've "come out" to her. They say lead by example, right?

Come on, folks, anyone else feeling brave?


Moving on. I really do admire all those bloggers I read because they lead what I assume to be relatively normal, everyday sort of lives. And yet they write these witty, or inspirational, or laugh-out-loud posts.

I'm going to tell you about my vacuum cleaner.

Actually, I'm eating crow. Because that vacuum has caused many a temper tantrum over the last month. Last weekend, as I was hand vacuuming our living room floor of pine needles after giving up on the upright, Kevin took it apart and announced that it was the filter and that if we bought a new filter, it would work just fine. I was dubious, but I accompanied him to both Kmart AND Target, where we came up empty-handed both times and noticed we couldn't even FIND our model. We returned home with my grumbling something about still having to do lesson plans and having to crawl around on my hands and knees to vacuum. Kevin wisely offered to finish the floor while I worked on lesson plans and we ended on a fairly peaceable note. Later that night, Kevin announced he had found the filter online and that it would be arriving in the mail soon. I smiled...and assumed we would be buying a new vacuum soon.

Okay, Baby, here it is. I was wrong. I installed the filter that arrived today (do I get any points for tha??) and the thing now works beautifully. So wonderfully, I actually got excited about cleaning tonight. And that doesn't happen.

You were right, I was wrong.

I was thinking, as a prize, you could test drive your "new" machine through the whole house in about a week.

No?

I tried.