10 Top Blogging Addiction Signs + Recommended Treatments
Blogging | Posted by Jannie on 23 November 2009 @ 7:29 AM (73) Comments
Blogging Addiction Sign 1: If you are not first commenter on your favorite 20 blogs you are depressed all day.
Treatment: Design and implement a subcutaneously-implanted device connected by wireless to your feed reader to shock you the moment your friends post. Make sure it has tons of voltage if you’re a deep sleeper!
Blogging Addiction Sign 2: When you lock your keys / baby and / or laptop in the car, your first thought is… OMG this will keep me from my blog!
Treatment: A “hide-a-key” on the outside of your car, preferably 3 of them at various points on the undercarriage. This can also apply to locking yourself out of your house, for which I recommend the following placed by your front door — no one would ever think to look for a key in this ultra-realistic-looking rock… 
Blogging Addiction Sign 3: First thing in the morning, do you log on and check your blog’s status even before going to the potty, only to end up peeing your pyjamas?
Treatment: No liquids for you between the hours of 1:00 p.m. to the following noon (Yes, that’s a 23 hour stretch, but well worth it!)
Blogging Addiction Sign 4: Does the mere thought of a raindrop on a cloudless day strike terror in your heart, as a storm could temporarily disrupt your Internet connection?
Treatment: Move to Yuma, Arizona — sunniest place on Earth.
Blogging Addiction Sign 5: Is the main reason you keep yourself super-healthy so when your youngest is finally off to college you’ll be able to blog for 16 hours a day, rather than your current paltry 5 to 8 hours?
Treatment: Keep eating right, exercising, taking vitamins, learning, loving and laughing. People blog well into their 90s and beyond!
Blogging Addiction Sign 6: Have you created a fictional but handsome (pretty?) “bloging manigir” 
who now roams the Blogspot realm leaving kommints with his (her?) own “teknologee grabatar??”
Treatment: Recent comprehensive studies show the optimal number of fictional bloging manigirs is at least 3, so go ahead — create some more!
Blogging Addiction Sign 7 : If one of your beloveds is ambling in the general direction of the household computer (even if they are only going to fetch a donut or a beer) do you suddenly sprint from wherever you are to flop yourself in front of the screen before they can?
Treatment: Separate computers for each household member at all times.
Blogging Addiction Sign 8: Has a loved one accused you of loving your online peeps more than you love them?
Treatment: Every time you see your actual flesh and blood human companions, smile at them. Jump up and give them big hugs. Write them love notes constantly. Bake them an occasional cake.
Blogging Addiction Sign 9: Do you sit down at the computer for “a quick 10 minutes” to arise 3 hours later in a glazed-eye stupor?
Treatment: That’s fine and dandy, as long as those 3 hours are spent at MY blog! 😉 Just kidding! just kidding! So many WONDERFUL blogs, never enough TIME.
Blogging Addiction Sign 10: Do you sometimes feel guilty about recommending fellow bloggers to each other because there’s a good chance they’ll end up as addicted to blogging as you?
Treatment: Don’t worry. Be happy. There will always be more than enough blogging love (and time!) to go around. And then some! (Hopefully?) (But, of course!) 🙂
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(If I were a more conscientious blogger I’d Paint out that balloon string and those funky-weird green shorts and boots in the background. )
Suzie: Amber and Emily’s mom and one of my bestest friends.
