I am the Savvy Blogging Summit Attendee who:
- Has not updated her blog in a whole week.
- Has kept a blog longer than anyone else in the room.
- Has done less professionally with her blog than anyone else in the room.
- Had her introvert show up for dinner at the Mexican restaurant we went to tonight.
- Realized upon arrival yesterday that she had forgotten everyone’s swimsuit but her own. Ahem.
- Actually got in the hot tub tonight with her four kids (they in shorts/t-shirts).
- Got back out 30 minutes later and remembered it’s cold in the mountains at night.
- Walked out of the session on CSS and seriously considered 1) switching back to WordPress and 2) hiring a professional blog designer.
- Walked out of the session on professional business law and seriously considered 1) hiring a lawyer and 2) canning the whole blog altogether.
- Will forever be remembered by everyone in attendance when they listen to the audio recordings of every session and hear her coughing. And coughing. And coughing.
- Got schooled by another blogger on the proper pronunciation of the word “niche.”
- Looked it up online later and decided she was going to keep pronouncing it the way she’s always been because Professor Google doesn’t lie.
- Don’t tell her otherwise. She doesn’t’t want to know.
- Had a serious deadline due on Wednesday.
- Knows it’s Friday and still hasn’t finished it.
- Can’t stop coughing.
- Only got 3 hours of sleep last night and is about to die.
- Is going to bed really really soon.
Night.
Half-Pint House 
I’m sorry that it’s been rough, Megan. I’m praying that after a good night’s sleep, things look brighter for you tomorrow.
If it helps, I was very overwhelmed by some of the things I learned today. I was asking myself, “Why am I here?” I think that once we get home and back into our routines, ideas will come and we can implement them one at a time.
Get some sleep!!!
Bonnie
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Meghan, I am crying I’m laughing so hard at this post! Hilarious. Especially since I was there when you were “schooled” this morning.
~Robyn
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AND you are that conference attendee that brought the cutest ever business card holders! Thanks again!
So absolutely thrilled I’ve gotten to hang out with you some. 🙂
-Lauren
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Well, I say “niche” so it rhymes with “quiche”. Oh, who am I kidding? I never say it. But I would totally say it that way if I actually had one.
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Loved chatting with you at dinner. So sorry you are a litle under the weather, and for what it’s worth, I think the niche think is sort of like tomato tomAHto. Like how some people say short lived and some say it with a long I. Or Route/Route 🙂
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Loved this post! Thanks for your honesty! I felt so bad when you were having that coughing fit on the first night. 😦
Oh, and for the record – you already know my stance on the whole niche pronunciation, and I think you’re just fine. I had never, ever heard it pronounced to rhyme with quiche until I started hanging out with bloggers. LOL 😉
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Look! I have comments! Yay!
The blasted cough is still sticking around, but at least I doubled the amount of sleep I got from the first night…
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i laughed so hard when i was reading your blog today that i tho’t i’d fall off the couch! re the cough: maybe it turns out you are allergic to colorado after all, you know, with all that fresh air, aspen trees, beauty:) your body has adjusted so well to city life in st. louis that it just couldn’t take it. well, either that or the altitude!
re niche: we were in dallas for the day yesterday and i bo’t a blogging for dummies book so i could read about it w/o needing a computer. i was reading aloud to my husband in the car so i actually had to pronounce the word. we got into a discussion re the correct pronunciation and laughingly observed that it might be the way angie and smockity described, but we just can’t do it with a straight face…or w/o felling like we’re putting on airs.
at least if i know you will be in the building, i could go to the relevant conference and find someone who could intrepret? still trying to decide…and learn to be brief:( not today.
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niche = nitch around these here parts.
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Well goodness now I wonder if I pronounce it right. I have always pronounced it to rhyme with B*tch! Am I right or wrong? Anyway it sounds like the conference was thought provoking any way you look at it! LOL
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Hey, at least you’re at a conference about blogging. That alone impresses me!
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I love the business card holder, but now feel bad that you hauled the machine with you.
I really enjoyed meeting you and your girls at dinner last night.
P.S. Really, someone “schooled you?
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i hope someday she will be wise enough to be embarassed.
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I’m assuming that someone told you that it’s “neesh”? Because I hate it when people say it that way. I’m all for the hick pronunciation of “nitch.”
Also – I have done WAY less professionally with my blog than anyone else who was there, too. So we were in the same boat!
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