Sure, kids may blame the dog for eating homework, but we parents can blame our kids for stuff that we’ve flaked on, too. Especially when they really are responsible for it.
I had good intentions of cleaning out my Bloglines. With over 800+ posts to catch up on, I spent part of this afternoon plowing through it to whittle down that number to something approaching reasonable. I’ll admit I read too many blogs, but I love keeping up with so many people, even if I don’t always have time to comment.
So at one point Mira was sitting on my lap, when she suddenly took an interest in the laptop that she was sharing the lap with. She loves pushing buttons, and kept reaching for the keyboard in an attempt to appease her addiction.
And then she got frustrated when I kept intercepting her button-pushing fingers. With one quick movement, she slapped the keyboard.
And just like that, my Bloglines went to 0.
Z-e-r-o.
She somehow marked all posts as read.
Over 700 posts, no longer marked for me to catch up on.
Damn.
I suppose she did me a favor by forcing me to start fresh. Still…argh.
I do that every so often to myself, on purpose though. I have a ton of stuff to read now, do you think she could come to lunch and I can let her have a go at my reader….LOL!
yikes!! that is a lot of blogs to catch up on. i think i would thank her 🙂
Yeah, that’s why I hesitated using the feed readers. Just more guilt for all the stuff I don’t have time to go and read…
But things are settling down to a loud roar, so I’ll hopefully get back to reading… in 2009.
Oh my lord… 800 is just too overwhelming. Maybe Mira somehow did you back handed favor.
But I hear ya, I would have been totally p.o.’d
Sure, blame the kid. None of us are falling for it.
Seriously, though, don’t you feel all rejuvenated now?
It’s kind of a blessing!
I had a boss who would send out an email every 6 months saying his PC crashed and to resend any important recent emails. Then he’d dump the old email and start over fresh.
I’m sitting here looking at Google Reader that says I have 467 feeds to read…can I babysit your kid pleaseohpleaseohplease!
I thought I was caught up, but I just looked and I’ve got 624 on my reader. (I may have to push that little button, too!) I love to read all these blogs, too – but I do mark all as read once a week…but I hate to do it!
I am starting to get behind too. And yet I can’t cut any from my feed reader. At least you have a fresh start.
Oh my gosh! I thought it was bad when I had like 100 in my feedreader! I just deleted 9 out of there today, so I guess I’m doing well!