So Blissdom Canada is coming up in a few weeks. Whenever there is a big blogging conference approaching, I go through this cycle:
- Get excited, imagine how fun it will be, imagine attending.
- Pay attention to when tickets go on sale, monitor the situation closely, load up the ticket buying page.
- Chicken out, don’t buy ticket, watch it sell out.
- See people on Twitter and Facebook talk about what they are packing and who they are rooming with and how thrilled they are, and get bitterly jealous.
- Read people’s tweets from the conference and see their blissfully happy child-free photos and feel extra bitter.
- Read people’s joyful post-conference posts and feel totally disconnected from the entire community and vow to give up blogging forever.
- Sulk around the house for a couple of weeks before reading something funny on someone’s blog and deciding not to give it up quite yet.
Repeat.
I have been blogging for over 10 years and have never been to a conference, but I am seriously trying to talk myself into going to Blissdom this year, just for the experience.
Here’s how serious I am: I told my husband about it. That’s MAJOR, people.
However, I still haven’t made any actual plans to actually attend or anything.
Still, the hope is there. Baby steps.
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Friend, if you don’t post in the next week that you have registered, I am going to register and sign up as you. 🙂 GO ALREADY!
Get your butt down here. I’ve only been doing this for like 5 seconds and I’m going. The weekend away will feel fantastic.
I did it! I bought a ticket. Definitely come and say hello when you see me there looking all cringy. 🙂
No no no. You’re gonna love it. I don’t know a soul but it’s gonna be fun! We should meet up!
GO.
Oh my gosh…seriously – it couldn’t be easier! I’m terrible at getting away but if I were you I’d do this for sure. And take the train…love the train!
Well, I still hope you’ll come, whether you stay with me or with someone else. I know almost no one! But I figure that at least a few dozen other people don’t know anyone either, and I’ve handled scarier crowds 🙂
I”m going. I’d love to meet you too, in person, I mean. I’ll be the one hiding behind the big plant in the corner too shy to come out and play. 🙂
I bought a ticket! It’s non-returnable! So I guess there’s no getting out of it now :). Really looking forward to meeting you, Leanne!
Great! I’m looking forward to meeting you too. We’ll have to carry a red rose or something to find each other. 🙂
Have fun. I’ve never gone either.
People from the savvymom office will be there, so come and say hi to us, we love to meet our bloggers! Enjoy the conference!