Well, it seems I came in third. It was oddly thrilling to be a finalist in a contest I didn’t really know existed, yet I cannot express too much disappointment over losing. Because of the not knowing it existed thing. The winner seems very nice, although I find the appeal of mommy blogs fairly limited, it warms my heart that it’s a lesbian mommy blog as opposed to some bizarro world arch conservative I have ten kids because birth control is against God oh my God I’m tired mommy blog.
Inasmuch as awards like this can be said to have a purpose, I suppose the purpose is to increase traffic to small blogs like ours (me and Liza, the lesbian mom, I mean). It would be nice to have picked up new readers from this.
Meanwhile, things here at the blog are going to change. I suppose it would have been ironic to win for a blog that gets revamped the following week. I have been concerned about the mixed-use nature of my blog. Seems like I don’t have much of an identity as a blog. The blog confuses people as much as I do. Well, there was some synergy in that notion because my publisher wants me to start a James Bond blog. That’ll break off the Bond stuff from Property of a Lady (itself ironic, since this blog’s title is Bond-derived), and leave us here with politics, movies, feminism, cats, and Wicca. Already plenty mixed-use if you ask me. I’ll probably also cross-post at least some of the Bond stuff to both blogs.
I’m in the process of setting the Bond blog up for launch. I’ll be back here with more announcements as that happens.
