So it’s my first post, encouraged by Paige and motivated by Cat (who is making me think I can do stuff). They both have really cool things online, and I realize that a blog is very basic, and yes people have been doing them for years, but because I am the original barnacle butt I am slow to try something new and terrified of change, this feels like a big deal to me.
You probably already know that a barnacle is that little ocean creature you find stuck to the rocks in the tide pools at the beach, or stuck on the hull of a boat, or even stuck on a whale. The thing is, we barnacles don’t like to move, we like things how they are, and we get all freaky-deaky when we can’t have our way. Okay, so that part is just me; I’ve never actually seen a barnacle get freaky, but you know what I mean.
So how much do you have to write to call it a post?
I kind of just want to click publish and see if it works because I usually can’t do computer stuff. Really. The computers around me get the “cricketts.” Does that happen to anyone else? Any computer that has to deal with me on a regular basis will start chirping after awhile, and act stubborn in other ways too, but the chirping like a crickett is the most mystifying. It’s been happening since I worked at WMZ/Novatech back in 1987.
Anyway, the universe is not impressed with me being a barnacle. Apparently it is time for me to get over it! So that’s what I think I’ll be writing about. I hope it’s fun.
P.S. I love tidepools!
cat said,
June 3, 2008 @ 8:57 am
Yay, Shelley! Or BB! Whichev! I am so excited that you are jumping into the Blogosphere. SWEET.
Mom said,
June 3, 2008 @ 12:52 pm
When I gave birth to you, I didn’t know I was bringing a tiny barnacle into the world. As it turns out, though, I adore being the mother of something that lives in tidepools — which, by the way, you used to call “tad poles” when I took you to the wonderful ones in Ocean Beach when you were a little girl. Exploring the tad poles and sticking our fingers in the sea anenomes to torture them and make them close was heaven for both of us.
I love that you’re a blogger, Michelle. Living on the West Coast, I feel too far away from you. Reading your blog, I feel connected. You’ve made me, and all your other fans, very happy. Blog on!
shelleykennedy said,
June 4, 2008 @ 12:31 am
haha mom, i like it. good luck with this
shelleykennedy said,
June 4, 2008 @ 12:32 am
^ that was madison btw
shelleykennedy said,
June 4, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
This is Kate mom, I love your blog but I’m not sure your that much more of a Barnicle Butt than me, but sense you are a few yoear older than I, you probably do have a few bath tubes full of very exciting barnicle butt stories, please do not use this blog too too much as a new evil way to torchure youre absolutly perfect children AKA me!!!
Jan Signore said,
June 12, 2008 @ 3:24 pm
you are amazing, Shelley, not enough on your plate already, hmmmm?
Your Kate was texting my Kate when the beach/Ellie incident happened, we knelt down and prayed right away. We are so glad it turned out fine, I would have been a raving lunatic!
So happy for you, life is good!
Diana said,
June 16, 2008 @ 4:18 am
Shelley! How amazing to see a bit of your life on the big screen! I am so enjoying your snippets, and adorable *pictures*. I totally commend you for figuring this thing out, and doing it extremely well, I might add. If you hadn’t said so, I’d have thought you’d been blogging forever.
(I’m honored to be on your blogroll, too – thanks!)
Love,
Diana
Leslie said,
June 26, 2008 @ 1:01 am
this is megan btw
if kate can read this, what i her blog address???? i wanna read it!!!!!!!