HPFF Weblog: My First Blog Post.

I know that blogs aren't supposed to be scary, and yet it took me nearly 24 hours to work up the courage to make a post! Should I be the first staffer new to the blog who does it? Should I conform and wait for someone else to blog before I do? And after pacing back and forth, poking at the blog with a stick, and basically doing a lot of soul searching, I decided...why not? What do you have to lose?

So here I am! I'm excited to tell everyone about my interesting life and the time I spend validating! Well...maybe not interesting...but you know.

I shall begin my time here telling you about my afternoon, which I had set aside to work my way through the queue. After a hardy lunch of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, I made a big pitcher of lemonade and set out to work!

And as I was knee deep in a 14,000 word chapter (sheesh! I don't know how you all do this!), my sweet 'lil doggie Izzy wanted to sit next to her mommy! So I helped her to the couch, only to discover two bumps on her back. After several text messages to my husband...I learned they were ticks!! I almost threw my computer (and as a result, the queue) across the room! Ticks?! EW!

After completing the mighty "There are ticks in my house and on my dog? Gross! I hope they aren't on me! Ewewew!" tribal dance of the natives, I put poor Izzy outside and waited for her Daddy to come home to fix the situation.

But no worries! She is now all better and I am back in the queue. I just thought that you all should know how quickly distractions from validating can happen! At the drop of a hat, in the blink of an eye!

So, in conclusion, I'm excited to be here, and hopefully (fingers crossed) my next blog post will have everything to do with my success as a validator and NOTHING to do with ticks!

# posted by Anonymous @ 7:34 PM

Comments:

My dog keeps me from validating sometimes, too. He likes to chew on things in my computer room.

# posted by

JLHufflepuff : 8:16 PM

My dog, Gracie, curls up in my lap. When she was little, she fit in my hand so it was easy to manage. Now she weighs 80 pounds.... I don't think she understand that it just doesn't work like that anymore :P

Glad you got up the nerve to post. And I imagine Izzy is going to end up being a regular around here :)

# posted by

timeturner : 8:28 PM

Ahaha, your blog made me laugh. I can only imagine trying to get through a 14,000 word chapter. *blanches*

Hope you get rid of the tick problem Dx

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:39 PM

14,000 WORDS?!

How do you do it and come out alive? I would be like: x_x

And gross, ticks are so disgusting. I feel really bad for you for having to encounter that. *grimaces*

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:49 PM

Yay Ash for being the first non-timeturner blogger! :P

I'm still so amazed at how you staffers manage to get back to these ridiculously long chapters after distractions like that one. Keep up the great work love!

# posted by

Anonymous : 9:12 PM

Yuck! I hate ticks. My cat(my 18 lb cat) never leaves the house so he doesn't have any critters. My daughter on the other hand, she spends most of her days rolling around in the dirtiest, tallest grass possible. Needless to say, I've pulled TWO off of her in the past month.

14,000 seriously? Amazing, really.

# posted by

Anonymous : 2:45 AM

you are so brave! I'd never have the courage to tackle a 14,000 word chapter!

I hope your dog is tick free soon! and congrats on your first post :)

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:41 AM

I'm going to sound psychotic, but be careful of Lyme disease! My dog is a tick magnet and has consequently been infected, as well as all the human members of my family.

But I salute you for your validating courage and prowess! I have no idea how you guys do it. xD

# posted by

gryffindorseeker : 4:03 PM