All Google-y eyed

'Tis a funny thing, this blogging world. Two years ago, I'd never heard of a blog. Had you asked, I would have thought it sounded like something you should see a doctor about. Something that should have ended with "ectomy."

And it's all Google's fault that I'm here. I found the first blog purely by accident. I don't even remember what I Googled or why, but one of the hits led me to a blog written by a mother in the US and from the first I was hooked. I followed a link from that blog to another young mother in Toronto and from there across the Atlantic. At first, I just lurked and occasionally commented. Slowly, I built up relationships with other commenters and the bloggers in whose comments boxes we'd met, until now I feel as if I have friends all over the world, some of whom have evolved from blog friends to email and/or IM friends. Although I've yet to actually meet any of them, their friendship and support adds an element to my life that I could not have imagined when I first ventured out into the big, old world of the internet.

I was encouraged to start this blog and dragged my heels, doubting anything I would write could possibly be of interest to anyone but me. But I bit the bullet and here I still am nine months later. Sometimes it's silly and sometimes it's serious and I am still always amazed and touched when anyone takes the time to read it and still more when they comment. But enough serious crap.

Now that you know how I got here, here's how some of you have arrived. And all I can say is, some of you need help.

• 'photo sexy de dawn april' (yes, this would obviously lead you to me [insert extreme eye rolling here])
• 'stacey's country jamboree'
• 'anacin commercial canada'
• 'wrath emoticon'
• 'nobody likes me everybody hates me' (why are so many people Googling this?) and just plan 'everbody hates me'
• 'quidi vida' and 'quidi vidi Latin'
• 'cat killed with car is bad omen' (especially for the cat) and 'cat omens'
• 'norks' - from UK MSN
• 'notify-blogger sea-sick june-2006' - from Greek Google (but why would you need to notify Blogger that you're sea sick?)
• wolfgangerl