Comments on: Time To Close Up Shop…….

By: KathyB!

KathyB! — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:40:27 +0000

THANK GOD! It seems you moved beyond this. You are, without a doubt, one of the best blogs. I love that I don’t know you and yet I KNOW you. And I feel as though you know me. Please don’t ever let anyone silence you.

That would truly be a crime.

By: Yaya

Yaya — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:24:59 +0000

That’s weird.
My in laws hate my blog and I’m always like ‘SO DON’T READ IT!’

By: Jenn @ Juggling Life

Jenn @ Juggling Life — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:03:48 +0000

Where was I when this happened? You are positive and upbeat and I have been around the blogosphere long enough to know there are some idiots out there. Don’t let ‘em get you down.

By: SuprisedMoom

SuprisedMoom — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:24:09 +0000

Please don’t go. I just found you (through Half-Past Kissin’ Time). I’ve even started to read you regularly. Please don’t let one bad apple keep you from writing and commenting. It’s too bad people have to tear others down. Please feel better soon.

By: Hyphen Mama

Hyphen Mama — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:00:40 +0000

NO! NO! NO!!! Exactly what everybody else has said. You can’t leave. You just CAN’T.

I think it’s part of blogger initiation. I first found a hilarious mommy blogger a few years back and never commented, because I didn’t have a blog and didn’t even know “how” to comment. One day this woman blogger wrote a witty little post about how a $5 stuffed toy had accidentally fallen into her stroller at a HUGE retailer checkout counter. She didn’t realize it until she’d gotten to the car with her 2 sleeping children and she didn’t return to the store with the toy. All of her readers wrote in supporting her and understanding that she had to make a choice. A few stray holier-than-thou readers suggested she was amoral for not returning the toy. I decided to comment. MY FIRST COMMENT EVER, in support of the woman who’d written the post, that sometimes we have to weigh our options and choose for ourselves. Another commenter called me out BY NAME that I was amoral AND was going to hell. I stumbled on this woman’s reprimand of ME and shook and cried, and couldn’t sleep… and ended up going back to that post a dozen times watching the comments. I ended up leaving a comment for her that said “thanks for the laugh today”. It took MONTHS for me to comment on any blogs after that. I finally decided she had no idea what she was talking about. I followed her link to her blog, and she was a real loser who presented herself to others as better than anybody else.

Please don’t go. This person who called you a ‘hater’ has no idea who you are.

By: kokolotus

kokolotus — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:18:37 +0000

so so sorry that you got hurt. there is a minority of bloggers who fail to realize that there are real human beings behind these words on the screen, with feelings that can be hurt and hearts that can be broken. it’s such a shame that you had to had to experience that, but I hope you see that you have a good lot of bloggers who got your back!!!

By: Futureblackmail

Futureblackmail — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:08:43 +0000

Whoa…..this is what happens when I take one day off and don’t read….this is bullshit. I don’t know you and yet found it necessary to spill my crappy beans to you. You are way better than this person. I expect to see more posts, dammit.

By: Violet

Violet — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:25:48 +0000

Yeah, what they all said.

Don’t let the eejits win!

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:37:58 +0000

NOOOO!!!!!

Ok, first of all Z, you are more woman than that. Seriously, you are going to let ONE person who took you the wrong way MAKE YOU STOP?
Um, no. You are a redhead, you have too much fire in you, and YOU SHOULD BE LIKE SCARLET AND FRANKLY MY DEAR NOT GIVE A DAMN! You are a wise woman and know its impossible to people-please in real life…. why should you do it online? Kick the dust off your feet and keep laughing. I can assure you, you provide a lot more sunshine to people’s lives than you do pain.

Also, this person who was upset by you must not have a thick skin. If that is the case, frankly, they should not be blogging. Unless you can handle a certain amount of criticism (not that you were criticizing this person) then WHY are you on the Internet, revealing yourself piece by piece for any random person to find you and pick apart the tiny segments you choose to reveal to them? Z, please don’t quit. Besides, I need your comments…. you’re one of my blogstalkers who is interactive!!

Please reconsider.

Love from another firecracker,

(who SERIOUSLY loves you and the correspondence we’ve shared)

By: Aunt Becky

Aunt Becky — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:47:48 +0000

You know I don’t want you to leave. I get hate mail all the time, don’t worry, you’re not the only one.

Love you and wish you’d stay.