Loyal Blog Readers.........
Wow...I guess you all ARE ready...here's a secret...we are ready too...we missed you guys...well...we know that we've forced many of you to keep up with our daily drama because you follow us on Twitter (umm, one of the more amusing moments of editing this blog..was re-reading our posts about Twitter in the very beginning...as if it was this big challenging process we had to master...we are such dorks..but then again..many of you already know that...) but Twitter forces us to limit our ramblings to 140 characters...loyal blog readers...do you know how many important words you have missed out on from us...nobody should have to limit the words they use...) (and you missed out on sooo many (...s-Dane Cook told us these are called Ellipticals :) ) and parenthesis...loyal blog readers...it is tragic...you all have been deprived...) Anyhow...the world has changed a lot since we took our little hiatus...well...at least the NKOTB world has changed...the tour ended (was Houston really almost 5 month ago) the boys do a great job of keeping in touch with everyone on Twitter...solo stuff has been released...we are being teased about what is upcoming (did everyone catch Donnie's tweets tonight about the next NKOTB album...(please picture that high pitched shreiky thing that the two of us do when we are together...if you haven't been subjected to it in person, please go back and watch our Tobin Bridge videos and you'll remember...and no...its not a pretty noise) The point is (so rare that we actually have one of those...) things are different now and so we are not completely sure how we will use our blog now that we are back...we used to use it to post information that we had...uh...come across (oh my, I do believe there is a certain someone out there (whose name rhymes (shame that I still don't know how to spell that word) with "red" who is NOT excited that we have returned...) but now the boys can share the information themselves on Twitter...or we can tweet it out to everyone...we used to talk about our shows...but...the boys aren't really doing shows on a regular basis right now...we used to talk about random nonsense...and well...we still plan on talking about random nonsense...but you can't fill a whole blog with random nonsense...well...at least not when you are the type of bloggers that may..or may not...post 9 times on the same day (yeah, I'm not kidding...we realized that when we were editing last night...silly silly SILLY girls...why do you all put up with us!) but in all seriousness...we are asking for a little patience as we try to figure out what exactly we are going to do with this forum...we plan on still sharing info we find..still posting pictures and telling the wild tales of our many adventures that we are positive are in our future...and of course we will share our opinionated thoughts on random things...we're just not sure how it's all going to go...so bare with us...please...we'll try to make it worth your while...
The other thing we wanted to address is why we left...and how that affects the blog going forward...we feel awful...because for many of you...we pulled a disappearing act..we were in the midst of our Jam-packed June Tour (I mean...who comes up with these ridiculous names...and why do we think we are funny...) and one morning you logged on to check for an update and we were gone...poof...without an explanation (please don't think its because our tour ended, oh no, our tour continued, right up to the last show!)...well...we want to give you a little bit of an explanation now...but first...we need....(can anyone guess what I'm about to type...five points if you can guess it...) a little backstory...
For a long time we (ok...hold up...this is a major moment...a big secret is about to be revealed...this is big....would the historian secretary for the World Blogging Association please be prepared to mark this down and file it in the archives...are you ready...are you sure you are ready to know this...it might change your worlds forever...stop reading if you don't think you are ready...ok...deep breath....the "we" I am referring to...yeah...that we (not to be confused with Wii)...the two people that make up that we....yeah...they aren't named Meghan and Michelle...ooophhhh....there its out...you guys are surprised...right? Don't anyone cry...here's another little secret...our names don't even start with "M"s...we're Kerry and Holly...yup...(and that is an appropriate use/placement of the word...I'm not attempting to copy Mr. Wahlberg...) We are well aware that many of you already know that...because...well...we've met a ton of you (which is also something that makes doing this blog so different then it was in the beginning...def cool) but people...this is huge for us...for the past year, we have used (on an incredibly frequent basis...) different names...no, I'm not kidding...its kinda crazy...do you have any idea how many times we had to answer the question "Which one is Meghan and which one is Michelle" Do you know how many perplexed looks we received when we said...well...actually....I'm Kerry, and she's Holly....) ooohhh...wowsers...it feels good to have that out there officially...in a way I'll miss M&M...afterall...it was kinda fun having an alterego (don't you worry, 13 year old Meghan, she's still around, her name is just 13 year old Kerry now...) and if we didn't sign off as M&M every night, we would've never put M&M's on the back of the the Missing Sh*t Shirts...and they were a huge part of our past year...so yeah...M&M...they were fun...they will hold a spot in our hearts...but they have been put away...at least until we slip up and sign off w M&M because we are so conditioned to do that... (is anyone, anyone at all, surprised that it has taken me 22 lines to begin talking about what I said I was going to talk about in this paragraph...) Anyway, the reason I unloaded that secret is because I wanted to talk about how this all began...we (quick no peeking, how do you spell K's name (Good Job Loyal Readers! you were paying attention!) had talked about doing a blog forever...a year ago, we sat down and committed to doing it...it was supposed to be an anonymous forum where we could put down in writing our many adventures...for us...not really for the world to see...but so that we would have them and be able to look back upon them...it wasn't just going to be about our NKOTB adventures (I'm not sure we even realized at that point how badly we had been bitten by the "bug") (ok...someone out there is currently saying "no really...they flew to Seattle for a concert, and didn't realize they were a little bit addicted...but really...if we had stopped at that point...I don't think it would've been classified as an addiction...we probably would have just said we were enthusiastic...enthusiasts..yeah...I like that word...but regardless...we were going to write about all types of things...our crazy daily experiences...and because of this we chose to make it anonymous....we took different names...we renamed everything in our life...this wasn't something that we were planning on sharing...and then we met Donnie and so many people wanted the story and so we introduced our blog to the NKOTB world...this was a wonderful thing...we found ourselves a nice little niche and had a blast getting to know all of you loyal readers...but our desire was still to keep this separate from our "real life" personal worlds and certainly our professional lives...and here began the problems...
There are actually two separate issues...first, our personal lives...somehow...whether it was us not being careful enough with who we talked about the blog with or our friends being super interested in seeing what we were so excited about...the fact that we had a blog got out to people in our personal life...and here's the thing...its not that this was about keeping secrets from our loved ones...its not that if anyone of them were to ask us questions, we wouldn't answer them...its not that we were ashamed of anything we were doing...its just that sometimes...when things are anonymous...you can be a little freeer...a little sillier...you can forget that you are in your thirties and gush over a "boyband" as if you were still 13...its safe...its all in good fun..its supposed to be anonymous...its like writing in your diary when you're thirteen...or making wishes when you blow out the candles on your cake...its something you keep to yourself...you don't expect your brother to be reading excerpts from you diary at the dinner table...you don't expect your mom to be explaining to you how it is not realistic to wish for the things you wished for...this is bad enough when you are actually 13...when you are in your 30's escaping to a world where it's safe to play 13 again..well...its especially bad...so again...were we mad that our loved ones discovered and started to follow our every move on the blog...no, not really...the purpose was never to block them out of anything...but did it change things for us...absolutely...the 13 year old playground...it was different now...not as much fun...but ultimately...our loved ones...they know us....really well...they heard about our adventures firsthand...they know we are dramatic, spontaneous, a little crazy...and they love us anyway, and so while we weren't thrilled with them following along, we accepted it...and were ok with it...
What we never expected...was that our little silly anonymous blog...would wind up in the hands of people in our professional lives...and that these people would pass it on to other people, and that it would continue to be passed on...we are both young (ish?) professional businesswoman who already strive on an everyday basis to maintain a professional image with the many "clients" we come in contact with. The childcare field is not always looked upon as a profession...some people degrade it, pretend like we are just babysitters versus managers of a business...a successful business (knock on wood) being young, adds to the challenge...so when we realized that so many people had been introduced to something in our lives that was supposed to be an escape, something silly and fun, something that we should have been able to keep private...we were honestly quite shocked...and immediately decided to shut it down...again, not because we thought we were doing something wrong, or were ashamed but more because this information changed things a bit for us...the fun had been sucked out of it...you know...everyone has someone that they vent to...you come home from a crazy day and you call your best friend, your sister, your mom or grab dinner with your husband and you share the crazy stories about your day. These people listen to you, joke with you, try to make you laugh over these stories but for the most part can't really appreciate them...its rare to find an audience that can appreciate the daily stories, gripes, etc. We were lucky enough to find that audience in you loyal blog readers...you appreciated the stories, the gripes...you logged on each day to check in, shared your comments...you made it fun...but having all of these people from our professional life not only mixing themselves up into that audience, but feeling as if they should be able to pass judgement on it...it ruined it a bit and we didn't want to continue...
This made us really sad..especially as we would talk to you at concerts, Donnie's parties, on twitter and you would ask us to bring the blog back. This really touched us and we began to talk about whether it would be ok for us to bring back the blog...whether there was a way to keep the fun, knowing that as soon as the blog came back, some of those people from our professional lives would be one of the first ones back following as well...it took us a long time...and many conversations....
But we decided that its a task we would like to take on. We are aware that people from all areas of our world are going to start following us again...but we really enjoyed being bloggers and despite some of the negatives...are hoping to capture some of that enjoyment again.
As we mentioned, we don't know exactly how we will use the blog going forward and are still trying to edit the blog a bit to get it to where we want it. Over the next few weeks, you'll notice some changes being made and some of our older posts coming back (yeah...we are SOOO sorry you Loyal Blog Readers who are followers, that you are getting a new email each time we bring back an old post..we wish we could get around that happening ...:-( ) You will also notice a lot of things that don't return. A lot of the silly things that happen in our every day life that we won't be able to discuss any longer because its not appropriate when it is no longer an anonymous forum (and the last 5 months are chock full of stories involving the people in our work life that I wish I could share with you!). It really is sad that we will have to censor ourselves from now on and in a way, your fun was taken away too. But, we hope you will want to keep checking it out...we promise to still post fun stuff, to share information as we find it out, to apparently, as we proved tonight, ramble on for hours about random topics :-) ...we hope you still enjoy it...we hope you will continue to comment (yeah, we are currently putting blogger in blogger jail (we still like making up jails and assigning people to them..) because blogger STOLE all of our old comments!).
And our hope for those people that have come back, who are going to continue to follow our blog...those who may not be here for the right reasons, is that you are able to find something to add to your life, something that you enjoy...that makes you happy...that isn't at the expensive of someone else's happiness.
Thanks so much for coming back to us...
Kerry (who is commemorating blog anniversary week by revisiting her whooping cough-esque illness she had last year when the blog began)
and
Holly (had a REALLY hard time NOT typing Michelle!) who is wondering how long it will take for the Grammar police to reappear in the comment section...we know you continued to keep up with us...welcome back... :-)
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