Wow. Yesterday was a tough one for me. Not only the one-week-my-oldest-baby-starts-school countdown, but also the one-month-until-my-BABY-baby-turns-TWO countdown. Hard on the mama heart, let me tell you.
It's funny - I feel like like things have been awfully serious around here lately. In fact, sometimes I think the whole tone of SortaCrunchy comes off as a lot more somber than I am in real life. Does it feel that way to you? Somber? Serious? Because really, I love to laugh. I don't consider myself a particularly funny person (hence not many funny posts from me), but a sense of humor is the number one thing that draws me to other people. I think Kyle is one of the funniest people I know, and he makes me laugh (a lot) on a daily basis. My sisters and I constantly crack each other up, and when I get together with my three best friends from childhood (high school counts as childhood, right?), my face often aches from laughing so much.
Honestly, in life offline, I am more likely laughing than not . . .
One aspect of blogging that often gets me tickled is checking out the Google searches that bring people to SortaCrunchy. How do I know what Google searches bring people here? Well, I personally just use trusty old Sitemeter. Most bloggers use some kind of stat tracker that tells them where people are reading from, how long they stay, what pages they view, and what incoming link brought them to the blog.
Now I get lots of rather mundane, completely logical Google searches. "Dr Sears delayed vaccination schedule" and "oil cleansing method" come up a lot. Ho-hum. Glad to have provided the information, but where's the fun in that?
I rather enjoy searches like
"warts are gross" I KNOW! Aren't they? I'm so ashamed.
"baby oversleeping" Can a baby oversleep?
"Why is he talking about marriage?" If I may . . . perhaps this question might be better posed to a close friend or maybe even ask him yourself. I personally wouldn't trust the advice of Dr. Google, PhD.
"International country potty training" Is that like IHOP for the potty ready? There are so many directions I could go with this one, I don't even know where to start. Feel free to take a stab at it.
"attachment parenting opposite of" And Google brought you HERE? Well, that just hurts my feelings.
"how to make aquamarine" Um, I'm no expert on the topic, but maybe mix blue and green?
"baking soda and apple cider vinegar shampoo" No, no, no! Wait a minute. You are going to want to separate the two. Mix them together and that's not shampoo, that's an elementary school science experiment.
"sleep training vaccinations" Well now. A Google search that combines the two things that will get me fired up something fierce in a heartbeat. I do believe I have found my nemesis.
"when do twins get into birth position" Gosh, how should I know? Go ask Carrie.
And as you can imagine, once you write about poop, there will be repercussions. Some of the poop-related searches that have come here lately are a little too crass for me to repeat, but here are three that made me laugh.
"my baby poops in bits and pieces" I think that's pretty standard, actually.
"buried treasure poop blog" Wait. What?
and honest to goodness, this might be the most puzzling, most hysterical Google search I have ever come across. Ever.
"the library makes me poop" Aliza Joy? Is that you? Who taught you how to Google?
Thanks for indulging my less somber side.
Bloggers, have you had any weird, funny, or puzzling Google searches come your way lately?
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