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Much ado about nothing

Here I was, all siked up over people learning of my blog, and what emotions might be stirred up from it, as it turned out, Thanksgiving dinner with our nieces and nephews can best be described as uneventful. While many more people are aware that I have a blog, not everyone is aware of the content, nor do they seem interested enough to read it.

It appears, even Naomi (see my last post) failed to inform anyone just yet, since the two people who I would have expected Naomi to say something to, did not give any indication they talked to her, when I met them for a bike ride yesterday morning.

So now I don't know whether to be relieved or disappointed? Maybe I'm not psychic after all! :)

Comments

Becky said…
I have a lot of people comment to me about my blog, but they never post anything they just read it like lurks.

So, they might have read it and not known what to say.

Which is just as annoying.
Mark VanKirk said…
I am Marc's nephew. We hosted Thanksgiving Dinner and I wanted to clear a couple things up......

It was not Marc and Edie's niece that told me about Marc's condition. It was old information that I heard from her husband.

I purposely did not tell anyone about the health issues because I didn't want to consume their entire day with questions from concerned relatives. In addition, Aunt Edie hinted that she didn't want it to be the focus of discussion.

I didn't tell anyone (except Lauren), including my mother which is Edie's sister. Needless to say, they were all quite shocked when they received Aunt Edie's revelation email over this past weekend.

We found out about your website a year or two ago when you had the pictures posted of your new BBQ and we looked at it on my laptop on Thanksgiving. In addition, Aunt Edie announced that her new email address was edie@livingwithmcl.com.

I hope this clears up some of the reasons that there was not an emotional show on Thanksgiving. I didn't tell anyone so that you were more comfortable.

It is only now 12/10/2006 that the family is reading your blog. Not because they don't care, because they didn't know how.

Love you guys! Mark

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