Blind Date

Has it happened to you that you've seen someone you know only slightly, or only know of through a mutual acquaintance, but it's someone you've barely ever spoken to, and that person has said, "Oh, I read your blog! I love it!" when you never dreamed that she would even would care that you had a blog, or would care to read it, and then after the thought, "Oh, that's so sweet! How flattering!" comes the thought, "Oh dear, I am so much less interesting than my blog." So you want to hug her around the neck for expressing her appreciation even as you're thinking, "Prepare to be bored, honey!"

You still with me? Right. But looky loo, internets! I met The Stiletto Mom last week, and SHE is even funnier, warmer, and more charming than her blog. Bitch.

I kid! I was thrilled to get to meet her. She came through Hotlanta for work, and I got to to have dinner with her. My first bloggy blind date! Y'all, I straightened my hair for her. That's how excited I was. When I was walking up to the restaurant, I saw a very dejected woman, hunched on a bench, angrily smoking a cigarette and obviously waiting for someone. I could tell she was waiting because she kept checking her phone and then huffing loudly while looking up at the sky. I thought, "Um, is that Mary Anne? 'Cause she looks REALLY different from what I expected." Total blind date panic moment.

But of course it wasn't Mary Anne (she lets me call her Mary Anne, y'all). The real Mary Anne was totally adorable and waiting at the bar (duh). And she even had on the embroidered jeans from this post. That was weirdly exciting, like if you met Abe Lincoln and he was wearing his big stovepipe hat. Okay that's the worst comparison ever, but you get me. Maybe more like if you met Jon Armstrong, aka Blurb, and he was wearing Crocs. The jeans are way hotter, of course.

And we had such a nice time! I am amazed at all this woman has got going on, and she still finds time to have such an active blog life. She has been blogging for less time than I have, but somehow she knows everyone and everything. We talked nonstop for like three hours, and we could have gone on for many more. There were several things I didn't get to ask her, mostly about clothes, boys, and the Twilight books.

Seriously though, I want her to post over here about some of her suburban matronly experiences. She has room mom war stories that would turn your hair white. And so much to say about work/life balance and marriage and parenting and more. Mostly I just wish she lived closer, and I'm beginning an active lobbying campaign in that direction. It is so fun and different to meet someone you've been following from afar. I would love to get together with more of my blog friends, so anybody else passing through? I tried to get Mary Anne to agree to start a blog feud with me, but we couldn't really think of anything controversial enough to disagree about. Maybe next time?

Oh, and in addition to straightening my hair, I put on eyeliner. Mary Anne, all for you, honey!