May 31, 2013
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For My Good Xanga Friends, Or Even My Less Good Ones, But Not For Anyone Mean or Weird (update)
EDITED TO ADD: weird friends are fine if you’re weird in a good way.
With six weeks to go before Xanga Doomsday, it seems prudent to wait until July to make any decisions.
I can be imprudent.
Plus I’m tired because people keep throwing up in my house in the middle of the night and even though the youngest is nearly eight, none of them can seem to make it to a toilet.
It’s not that I don’t think fundraising is a perfectly legitimate activity, and it’s not even that I can’t see myself participating in fundraising efforts for good causes, and it’s definitely not that I don’t think Xanga could be a good cause, maybe.
It’s just that I don’t want to get into a whole weird credit card, personal information, pledge, WordPress thing with members of the Xanga Team who, as anonymous friends go, are even farther removed from my daily life than the newest assortment of new-to-me usernames who stop by my blog and comment on a regular basis.
Do I regret the money I paid for Premium so I could archive my posts and blog in peace during the remaining months or years I anticipated Xanga might stay alive? Not really. I have nine years and some months of posts on my laptop and I couldn’t have anticipated a free archive option. Nine years, a little money, it was worth it.
Comments (39)
While you’re shut in with a kid throwing up I thought you might enjoy reading this.
http://jenhatmaker.com/blog/2013/05/30/worst-end-of-school-year-mom-ever#.UaivMFY5kg8.facebook
@VallejoGirl - okay, that was FANTASTIC.
I completely agree. I wish you the best!
writerscafe.org seems to be a pretty good alternative. It’s got a simple interface, easy to use, and I hear the community is phenomenal.
in the slew (sp?
of posts that i already see popping up about the xanga death, this was one i was not going to miss. thank you for link to you, ms. obl. …why do i feel like we’re at the wake, already? gah.
Xanga has been dying a slow death for years already. Sadly, there is nothing else quite like it out there. I think you made the right call.
Wheaten? Hamster? I’ve always thought of you more as a camera with newscastery hair.
It’s good to know you’re not completely unavailable like some deeply imbedded CIA agent. My recent attempt at facebook was a miserable failure. I just can’t do it and no one cares anyway. Like you, I’m tempted to think of this as a gift. A horrible, horrible gift.
i’m following, soon. i think. though i’m not sure. but probably. don’t want to lose you, your words, OBL. though i never say much. probably never will. but i would miss you. so. i’ll probably do that thing where you are. maybe. since i am such the decisive thing that i am, may just be the rain and fall. gently. quietly. onto that good earth. and flowers will grow wherever. or not. but for now, i’m around, as are we all. change. the only constant, right?
I’m going with you, but have too much real life stuff going down this evening to do it now.
Did you archive? I can’t get it to work and it’s freaking me out.
imbedded. spellcheek haz faled.
@turningreen - I switched to premium a year or so ago and archived then. I haven’t done it yet for this, but it’s only a year I’d be missing so I’m not freaked yet.
@chronic_masticator - but they seem so serious about their writing over there. gah. not that I’m not serious. I could probably use a writer’s cafe spot AND ALSO a blog where I randomly ramble. @Bels_Kaylar - awww, thanks! I appreciate it. I hope you get a wordpress too. @transvestite_rabbit - thanks. @distractedbyzombies - I think it’s going to be just fine. Just make all your friends come over to wordpress. It’ll be fine!!!@be_the_rain - aww, I hope you let me know when you arrive at wordpress!! thank you for such nice sentiments.@turningreen - you should blog about that.
@turningreen - :( I haven’t yet, either.
@ordinarybutloud - they seem to be doing it on their own. I am prepared to use force if necessary. probably sanctions first.
@distractedbyzombies - I hear sanctions are diplomatic.
@ordinarybutloud - I didn’t mean to click back over here so immediately. Now I have to make some sort of witty reply.
I’ll get back to you. How did things go this weekend?
@distractedbyzombies - uh. no witty requirements. I wouldn’t have known you clicked back over immediately. Is there a wit clock around here? I should float that idea for the new Xanga.
@distractedbyzombies - funeral, check. girl no longer throwing up, check. kid made 90 on science final, check. new blog on wordpress, check. good hair day, check.
@ordinarybutloud - you don’t check footprints obsessively? not that I do. they’re just there and sometimes I see them. they don’t need a wit clock. chat already failed.
@ordinarybutloud - I mostly meant the funeral, but you can’t beat a good hair day.
@ordinarybutloud - I like that there’s a blogging section over there. Makes it feel a little more relaxed to me.
@distractedbyzombies - hahaha. witty. see? yeah, I don’t know what I’ll do without footprints. Oh, wait. I know. Not think about them ever again and continue being anonymous.
@distractedbyzombies - I know! It was like…worst day you can describe, best day you can describe. Funeral! Great hair day!
@ordinarybutloud - You must have felt so torn. Witty? Nah, I think the coffee kicked in. I hope I can get to sleep tonight. Forever remain anonymous…hmmm. This is working out remarkably well for you. Are you sure you didn’t plan the whole thing?
@distractedbyzombies - it’s shocking how well it’s working out for me, actually. I shouldn’t say that. It’s unseemly. I’m feeling a little crazed from all the driving and praying and looking at my hair and stuff. Don’t mind me.
@ordinarybutloud - Oh. I thought wine might be involved. I feel the same way. I am determined, DETERMINED, to join writers groups and take yoga and lessons and things. Just not sure how to work it into a summer with the kids.
@distractedbyzombies - oh yeah. and the wine. writers groups and yoga and lessons and things will have to wait for the fall. Oh, wait, we’re talking about you. so yeah. I hope you can work it in!
@ordinarybutloud - I have one week to hire a maid and a babysitter for the summer. the maid is doable. er, I mean, possible. likely, even. I’m not sure how to find a qualified, trustworthy person in a week’s time. Or fifteen years time, given that I’ve yet to find one.
@distractedbyzombies - qualified and trustworthy and willing to babysit for money = really hard to find, which is why I’m paying my babysitter for her two week vacation to central America right now.
@ordinarybutloud - 8O
Like, unwilling to for money? what else are they asking for?
@distractedbyzombies - for blood relations or their own grandchildren only, for example. But sure, there are probably other trades that would work.
@ordinarybutloud - vampire blood? they want V, don’t they?!
I think I need to look into being adopted. For the babysitting.
@distractedbyzombies - just watched the liberace movie yesterday with Matt Damon. Adoption came up.
@ordinarybutloud - ha! yes it did. I saw a lot of it last night but stopped watching when I got sleepy. Can’t be too careful about strange dreams.
If Xanga’s dying, guess it’s time to blow all my credits in minis. Dang. I hardly ever come over here anymore, but I liked knowing it was here. And you got a True badge? Finally. I wonder if I still have mine.
I’m still “True” to the end. Nice.