I spent yesterday at a scrapbooking event called "Memoranza" hosted by my friend Liesbeth and a half dozen other Creative Memories consultants. I was a little embarassed to note that the album I was working on was the same one I was working on at last year's event. I was a little surprised to look inside and think, "I'm pretty good at this! Why did I stop doing it? Oh right, the blog..."
I was sitting with my friends Claudia, Debbie, and Jean, who I see a couple of times a year at these events. They are the main reason that I go, since not a lot of scrapping goes on in this house. Three of us are former Creative Memories Consultants and like to compare the new products to the old days, when things were far, far simpler. We're like a crew of little old ladies reminiscing about how much acid we took at Woodstock. "Remember those really, really long stickers? What were they called?" Blank stares all around.
Claudia told me that the other day her husband Bob came in and announced, "There's something I need you to explain to me. What the heck is a blog?"
Bob and Claudia are retirees who have between them a total of nine grown-up children. They live in a retirement community, and are pretty computer-savvy (my parents, on the other hand, don't own a computer). Claudia calmly explained to Bob that a blog is a personal website where people write about what is happening in their lives. "I don't get it. Why would anyone want to do that?" said Bob. "Can't they just send an e-mail?"
Claudia took Bob to the computer, and showed him two blogs that she reads. One is for Project Linus, a group that makes blankets for children that she volunteers with, and the other was mine.
"Doesn't Glennia have a small kid? When does she have time to write all this stuff?" Bob asked.
"I don't know," said Claudia. "Maybe the hours between midnight and six am aren't taken."
"Glennia writes a lot of stuff here. Who reads all that?" She showed Bob the NeoWorx Counter at the bottom of the page.
"Apparently, thousands of people from 82 countries," She replied. Bob was still scratching his head at the end of the exchange, but at least one more person now knows what a blog is. It's only a matter of time before Bob starts to chronicle his adventures on the landscaping committee and Claudia's mahjong victories at BobandClaudia.com.
