no BlogHer09 in real life for me...

Okay, so Princess M and I were fully intending to go to BlogHer09 in Real Life in July. I'd already cleared it with B and pretty much told everyone I knew that I'd be going and I was seriously psyched about it (yeah, I still say "psyched..." so what?). And then a few days ago I went to register and get my act together about buying my pass, reserving a room, and booking a flight because it was now only three months away, only to find that the conference has sold out. Yup. I'm too late so I guess what they say about good intentions is pretty much true.

BlogHer has some contests to try to win a pass and I may try, but really, I don't have too many good money saving tips (but I'm happy to accept any you might have) and the recipe contests are not really up my alley, either, considering some of my previous attempts at dinner creativity have not really gone down all that well.

So unless I get really lucky and I'm the only one entering the recipe contest, I may have to put off attending my first BlogHer conference for another year. But you can bet I'll be one of the first in line once they start selling tix!

I'm not going to Blogher and this is why...

There about a million bad reasons why I'm not going to Blogher, and I'd thought I'd come to terms with the big ones:

1. 1. It was logistically too hard to hand off the kids to B while he's against a deadline.


2. 2. The tix and airfare are too expensive.


3. 3. San Francisco is such a boring city to be in.


4. 4. I didn't really want to go, anyway.

Actually, #s 3 & 4 are blatant lies (unless, of course, you happen to have an extra ticket for me since San Francisco is too boring for you), so really only #s 1 & 2 are true. Still, if I'd planned better, I could've gotten it together. I am lame that way.

Because now I'm sort of feeling like that girl who didn't get a date to Homecoming, but plays it off like she's too cool to even want to go, anyway. But really, you know she totally and seriously wants to go. She's pining to go. And not just because everyone she knows is going and she's going to sit home alone in her old sweats and watch reruns of 90210 all night while digging into a couple of different flavored pints of Ben and Jerry's. No, she wants to go because it's HOMECOMING! It's a milestone. You've got to do it. It could be one of the highlights of your life!

Um, no, this totally did not happen to me at homecoming. And I didn't end up going with my brother, either (fingers crossed).

So since I've decided that all my excuses were lame, I've been futilely looking for tickets to go. Next year, no more excuses. I'll see you there with my corsage on! (I'll leave the poufy Gunne Sax dress at home, though.)