It's amazing how much of my time and life was consumed with The Boy, Asperger's, and the ordeal of getting him through high school (kindergarten, elem school, middle school, life). This ordeal made even worse by the fact that over time I had become worn down, depressed, ADD, and a host of other yet to be diagnosed issues that have popped up and become worse over the years of stress and not having time to deal with my own stuff. Just dealing with The Boy's issues was enough. Who has time do deal with their own issues when they have kids with issues?
I went from 250 mph to 20 the day we moved The Boy to school and hired a tutor to basically take my place while he was there. And all the accommodations were lined up and soooo easy to get. (unlike the other school). AND best of all, The Boy suddenly, miraculously, started doing things on his own and taking some initiative. Now why couldn't he have done that all along?? Before my hair turned gray and my mental state collapsed.
Well anyway, with him gone, for the first time in 19 years, I had free time on my hands so the Konabarbie blog was born. I had just gotten back from doing Ironman 70.3 in Hawaii with The Murph, so that's where the "Kona"part came from. The barbie part came from me and The Murph always joking that we're "Ken and Barbie". Lame, but I do love Barbie and Ken and I do love Kona (it's Hawaii, what's not to love!) so "Konabarbie" became the name of my blog.
KONA
+
BARBIE =
KONABARBIE
Surprisingly enough, none of my cat antic posts are all that popular. Only to me, but that's okay! I love all my cat pictures and cat blog posts.
My all time most popular post, which to this day (even now), is on in the top three page views is Rain Boots And Rolling Bags. Number two top blog post is Woody Woodpecker and number three is Love These MK Rain Boots.
I do love those Michael Kors Rain Boots! Looks like I'm not the only one out there who does.
Finishing up in the top five are The Not So Great Baby Chick Idea, when I discovered I couldn't raise chickens in the backyard and The Dolly Parton Bridge , which is a very unique structure we encounter whenever we go to visit The Boy at school.
Hauling Out The White Clothes is hanging in there at number 6. It seems like there is always someone googling the key words "Why never to wear white clothes in San Francisco". Poor folks probably wonder how the heck they ended up on Konabarbie's porch.
I always enjoy seeing what key words bring people to my blog. The most unsettling was when I saw that someone found my blog by typing in "lulumon ass" because of this picture that The Murph took of me when we were at the park.
When I first saw "lulumon ass" I freaked out. I didn't know if I was on some kind of porn site or why the heck my ass was involved in a google search. I still don't know if I like my ass being out there on the Internet, but The Murph and I joke about it every time I wear those lulumon tights.
Now whenever I wear these Lulumon tights....
The Murph (rather sarcastically) "Lulu Lulu Lulumon.... asssss!"
Me (defensively) "Leave my ass out of this! I didn't want my ass out there all over the internet! YOU are the one that took that picture!"
The Murph (Laughing smugly) " Ohhhh.... but you were the one who put it on your blog! You're out there all right! Lulumon ASSS!!"
Followed by an extremely evil laugh....
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I guess you just never can tell what will happen to those pictures you post out on the internet and which ones will bring you blog traffic.
I'm looking forward to another year of blogging!
I guess you just never can tell what will happen to those pictures you post out on the internet and which ones will bring you blog traffic.
I'm looking forward to another year of blogging!
