My PRIVATE Story

When I started my blog there were many features I didn’t know about one of which was making your blog “private.” When I first learned of this security feature I thought “Why would anyone want to make their life musings private? Shouldn’t I share my life anecdotes, words of wisdoms, and/or ranting and ravings with whoever wants to read them?” And isn't going private merely a clever way to find out how many people actually read your blog? Then it happened….

After a holiday weekend filled with fun I sat down at the computer to go through my regular routine of clicking through my bookmarked sights. I caught up on the local and national news at ksl.com and msnbc.com. I got caught up on everyones status at facebook.com. Then I clicked onto my blog to see who had updated. Upon arriving at my blog I noticed someone had commented on my last posting which was activities from Handcart Days.

Now I don’t know about everyone else but I LOVE comments. I think most people do. It’s like getting a letter in the mail and don’t we all need a little validation that in fact our children are “so cute” and our weekend was “really fun,” etc., etc.

Well I click into the comments to see who had responded and to mentally give them friendship points in my head (bet you didn’t know I did that). Much to my pleasure kraftykash had commented “Looks like you had a blast!”

My reaction: “Oh how nice…What the?...Who is kraftykash?” There is a picture of krafty kash and as I study the 30-something who is sitting on a bench with her two toned hair (black on top blonde underneath) holding an ice cream I realize I HAVE NO IDEA WHO THIS IS!


From clicking on her little profile link I learn she is a 34 year old Scorpio from Lincoln Nebraska. She loves her “morning coffee, being a mom, listening to good music, crafting, knitting, and hanging out.” She lists her job status as “Domestic Goddes.” On her page it asks What would you wear for camouflage if you were hiding in a gingerbread house? To which she replies
I would definitely wear a suit made of frosting. I would try very hard not to eat it!
So after learning all this a few thoughts came to mind:
1) I do not know this woman!
2) After ascertaining that I did not in fact know kraftykash I wondered how she came upon my blog. I myself am a closet “blogstalker” who will look at blogs linked from other blogs but most of the time I do know the person associated with the blog.
3) For a short moment I considered that possibly my blog had become a very popular site looked up by thousands of readers like themeanestmom.blogpsot or nieniedialogues.blogspot…this thought of course was fleeting.
4)Why, even if kraftykash had viewed my blog, would she feel the need to comment?
5)How come kraftykash was the first to comment on my posting?! (you all should be ashamed of yourself)
6)Why does she call herself kraftykash? Does she sell her homemade crafts and knitting goods? Or in this case does "krafty" mean skilled in deception? Or Is her given name simply Kashana Kraft?
7)What should I do next?

So in the end I decided to do the passive aggressive thing and NOT ask kraftykash to stop viewing and commenting on my blog and instead just go private.
So tonight there is a woman in Lincoln Nebraska who is sitting on a bench crying into her ice cream cone because her FAVORITE site has gone private!

Side note: In your defense kraftyfash was probably home with her cats logging onto my blog while knitting and listening to good music after a hard day of domestic goddessing while you all were out doing more productive and/or fun things but still I will have to subtract one friendship point from all of your accounts (all except Kari who was the second person to leave a comment).

Side note: Friendship points are kept track of in my brain in separate accounts sorted by the date I met you. They are FDIC insured and if you are wondering about the conversion rate 1 friendship point is equal to 1 Schrute buck. The points never expire but are non-redeemable!