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January 12, 2009

Do You Know What Day it Is?

delurkingday2009That’s right. Today is national delurking day!

(I know because Chris told me so. I think he might actually be in charge of the internet but I’m not sure.)

A lurker is one who reads a blog but does not comment.

What this means for you is that if you are reading this I expect you to leave a comment even if it is just this once to let me know that you are out there and that I am not just talking to myself.

Which is what my mother has suspected all along.

I want you to say hi if it is the first comment you have ever left on a blog or if you comment on my site every day. Show yourselves. Please. (This includes you people who read in a feed reader. I know, I publish my entire feed so you don’t have to but click over and say hi. It won’t kill you.)

You don’t have to be clever. You can just say hi. You can tell me what your favorite color is or your birthday or your favorite song by The Beatles.

Thanks,

Sarah

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149 Responses to “Do You Know What Day it Is?”

  1. Oh Hai! Just following the “rules” and de-lurking. I thought this day came later in the year and I had more time…oh well. I never really know how I come across my fave blogs but I always read yours and laugh, a lot. I have a friend with twins and we would get on the phone and share the funny stuff-good times!

    Wow….I hope I don’t have to do this all night-I’ll never get anything done. Oh wait-that’s why I read all these blogs instead of anything else, including my own blog! Nice!!!

    Well..off I go….lurking around……

  2. My favorite color is blue. My birthday is Dec. 30th. My favorite Beatles Song is either “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for me and my Monkey” or “Here Comes the Sun” depending on my mood. I comment all the time, but I follow directions faithfully.

  3. Howdy. I’m not sure if I have commented here before or if I have merely thought of commenting and then been sidetracked. Anyway, I am a regular lurker here but I’m not so good at following instructions. Today my favourite colour is green! Happy De-Lurking Day.

  4. I comment all the time.

    Well most of the time.

    But a lot.

    Wish I knew about this. I can just do it any old day right?

  5. Hi.

  6. We all talk to ourselves all time. That’s how we stay relatively sane.

  7. I just want to say thanks for publishing your entire feed. For whatever reason your blog is blocked at school (I teach first grade) so I appreciate that I can read it in my reader.

  8. You are a gem. And it’s worth delurking to tell you so.

    My favorite color is a complicated question. I like yellow Because a friend pointed out to me that it must get it’s feelings hurt because it’s never picked as a favorite. But my house and clothes are mostly blue and green. So do you think it’s the color that I pledge my allegiance to or the colors I use?

  9. Happy delurking day! My favorite color is yellow and my favorite Beatles song is probably “Blackbird,” though there are some other contenders.

    And as you know, I am a communist who doesn’t like beer or bacon ;)

  10. Hi

  11. Woo! Not that I’m exactly a lurker, but oh well.

    And clearly, I jumped the gun and did it last week! Ah, interwebs, how you confuse me. ;-)

  12. I really got nothing.. I comment all the time. You know when my birthday is, my fav color is purple and I’ll never be able to pick just one Beatles song.

  13. Hola

  14. Maybe this will be the year that I count how many annual de-lurking days there are. I can mark De-L on my calendar and then if/when something happens to me, my family can ponder into eternity what that notation means. Works for me!

  15. (clearing throat)

  16. Hi Sarah!

  17. Thanks for spreading the word re: Delurking Day, I had no idea. I comment pretty frequently but am happy to share these fascinating facts: Birthday= January 29 (sneaking up!) Color = Green and Favorite Beatles Song? It’s hard to say but today it is Norwegian Wood. Or all of Rubber Soul.

  18. Hi, I’m De. My favorite color is green.

  19. Hey there. My favourite colour is green also.

  20. I was going to say green, but it’s so popular on here that the other colors feel left out.

  21. First, I love your blog, and not just because we have in common that we were married on exactly the same day and that I am a twin.

  22. Hi Sarah! I’m sort of a lurker, I haven’t commented in probably over a year but I still read all your posts.

    My sister in law, who’s a twin, just had twins (boy and girl) a couple months ago, so I’ve especially enjoyed reading you in recent weeks.

    My favorite color is blue. My favorite Beatles song these days is probably Within You Without You.

    Happy DeLurking Day! I would Delurk my blog, but I’ve totally lapsed with writing anything since I started a new job …

  23. Oh hai!

  24. My favorite color is purple.

    Beatles song = Here Comes the Sun.

  25. Happy Delurking Day! There are way too many great Beatles song to possibly pick a favorite, but I love “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.”

  26. I’m here!!

  27. i could sit here and try to decide my favorite beatles song ALL DAY. and now i probably will.

  28. No delurking. Just saying hi and stuff.

  29. Yo, yo!

    As opposed to ‘yo-yo!’.

  30. Hi!

    Apparently, I’m indecisive because I can’t pick a favorite color or Beatles song. I can say definitely that my birthday is February 17th.

  31. Hi Sarah – We missed you at the Christmas party.

  32. Hi, my favorite color is blue, my favorite birthday is the 10th birthday, and my favorite Beatles song is While my Guitar Gently Weeps.

  33. De-lurking ’cause you told me to! ;o) I’m really bad at lurking at blogs & never commenting. I love yours!

  34. Hello :)

  35. I’ll delurk if you will ;)

  36. Boo :) Delurking just for you today! I’ve been reading for about the last two years, but I read off a feed reader. I enjoy your random days especially.

  37. delurking here for a sec….hi!

  38. I could be naked right now. Intriguing, no?

    You make me laugh and I love that!

  39. Hi! I’ve read your blog for a month or so, but I’m always at work when I go thru my Reader so I don’t comment in case they might find my blog. And um, my favorite color is pink, my birthday is in November and I love the #1’s cd of the Beatles :)

    - Emma

  40. NOM NOM NOM NOM I EET YOU I love ya so much!

  41. My favourite colour is orange, my birthday is Oct 1st and my favourite Beatles songs are Hello, Goodbye & Lady Madonna.

  42. Will de-lurk for beer.

  43. I’m not delurking, but I’m sooooo glad I came by! Delurking day is the one day of the year where my comments exceed 5! Thanks for the reminder.

  44. I’m here. But then, I’m always here. It’s irresistable.

  45. (does her best Arnold Horseshack impression) OOH OOH! Miss Sarah! I’m HERE!

  46. Hi! Happy Monday. I’m just reading around the web as the clock clicks toward that tragic hour when I must cast aside my comfy wonderwoman pajamas and transform into worker-mom rags. Have a good day!

  47. Hi Sarah!

    I appreciate you!

    I like the Beatles vey much and since I lived in Liverpool for a year, I feel like they’re my peeps.

  48. I don’t know if I would say it’s my favorite color, but I certainly wear a lot of black.

  49. I love you, that’s all. Have a wonderful day!

  50. [...] I have Sarah to tell me when these things happen. She has Chris and Aimee, who made the pretty Delurking Day [...]

  51. Holla, Chika!

  52. You know I’m always here! ;)

  53. Hi! I’m Jennifer, short-time lurker (and enjoy-er) of your blog.

    My favorite color is cerulean, because it was always the brightest crayon.

    My favorite Beatles song is “Happiness is a Warm Gun” because of the lines “A soap impression of his wife which he ate and donated to the national trust” and “lying with his eyes while his hands are busy working overtime.” I like them for completely opposite reasons, and yet they’re in the same song. So perfect.

    I was a former music store worker, and for a very long time it was hard for me to walk through a CD section and not start alphabetizing or unconsciously pushing all the CDs back so they’re standing upright instead of leaning out toward the aisle. It was a compulsion I’m slowly getting over.

  54. my color is purple. Now, back to feed the baby.

  55. Hi. :)

  56. Hi. Blue. 12/19. Eleanor Rigby. :)

  57. Sigh. Total lurker here. But not in the creepy way. Really.

  58. Howdy, Rowdy.

  59. ‘Ello! Blue.

  60. I’ve been lurking on your blog for a little over a month now. Keep up the good work!
    ~ FC

  61. Oh hi!

  62. I always suspected Chris was in charge of the internet!

    oh yeah, HI! I read often, rarely comment. My favorite color is black & orange and one of my favorite Beatles song is Yesterday.

  63. I’m so glad that Saved By the Bell is over and that I still have time to comment. It’s funny you mentioned 16 Candles…just this morning my husband said, “No more yankee my wankee the donger need food”.

  64. I was in a skydiving accident when I was 19.

  65. Hi!

    I have been reading you blog and laughing for quite sometime. I can’t remember if I have ever commented…. My favorite Beatle’s song is Hey Jude.

  66. hi-delurking and typing one handed as my 2 month old is in the other arm

  67. I love reading your blog! I am a mom of a four year old son and soon to be baby daughter. I can really relate to your kid’s comments on life : )

  68. Sometimes I say hi, sometimes I don’t. My favorite color is Red, my birthday of record is April 3 (but I say everyday is my birthday!) and I don’t like the Beatles. Please forgive me?

  69. Ok, so I don’t comment as often as I should. :( So here I am in all my naked glory. Well at least my naked boobs, cause I am nursing and who the hell doesn’t get to see them? :) Come by and say hello!

  70. Hi! From NoVA…

  71. [...] I got that fancy badge from Sarah [...]

  72. Hi! I have twins, too! Frat boys, 19 months old. And a 3 year old girl. Fun fun fun.
    I read your other blog too- Loser Moms. Love it!

  73. Sorry, no lurking here, I have been soooo behind on my blog reading. Happy new year!

  74. I’m not a lurker! I’ve met you in person. I even have your bottle opener on my keychain!

  75. Want an 11-month-old baby? I can bring him right over.

  76. Hi! My fav Beatles song is “Let it Be” :)

  77. Somehow I got to this site through a Google search about the red monster on Yo Gabba Gabba looking like a dildo.

  78. [...] is National Delurking Day *when everyone who reads blogs but never comments is supposed to ‘fess up and say a quick [...]

  79. I’m starting to realize how lately I’ve become a COMPLETE lurker. ican sux.

    Love to youuuu!!!

  80. I really like Help! But I liked the movie too. It was cheesy and funny and had feindish thingys which totally made it awesome.

  81. HOWDY!

    I followed your comment on my blog back over here and, what luck! I see it’s the best day ever to leave a comment. Yay!

    The White Album changed my life. Just so you know.

    XOXO!
    Steph

  82. Hi, I lurk a lot, but I comment sometimes too. I have 4 kids age 9 and under, so I don’t have much time. My favorite color is blue, but that’s boring so I like to call it azure sometimes. It’s still blue.

  83. Hello, I too lurk alot and very rarely comment. I also have four kids, two under the age of five. (the other two are teenagers and yikes! just wait until you hit THOSE years!!)

  84. I’m trying to remember if I’ve ever commented here or not, but I’ve been a reader for well over a year now! My birthday is in early September, so I sometimes get a 3-day birthday weekend otherwise known as Labor Day. :)

  85. I’m not sure if I’m ever left a comment or not. Probably not as I click over to all the blogs I read so quick…
    Love the blog and I so appreciate the humor!
    Back to my lurking!

  86. i am making pot roast for dinner.

  87. Favorite color is green, birthday is August 16th and hmmmm “Here comes the Sun”… Feels like I was just doing this… I guess a year goes faster than I thought.

  88. Okay, I only lurk half the time, but here I am saying hi.

    My favorite color is pink and Hey Jude is my favorite Beatles song.

  89. Favorite color is blue, birthday is May 2, and though I don’t have a favorite Beatles song, I have one I hate: I Am The Walrus. It’s too creepy for words.

    So is lurking, so I will try to change.

  90. Hi.

    My birthday is September 11. My favorite color is blue. I like long walks and holding hands… oh wait, that’s not what you were looking for, was it? :)

    My favorite Beatles song? I like several. The one I like best is Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, mostly because I remember when I figured out to what they are referring in that song and I was so excited to be in on the joke.

  91. Blue. Or deep, deep red.

  92. See I am here…but I am definately a lurker as I can not always figure out how to leave a response but my skills are improving…

  93. I’m flashing you!!! Sorry I don’t stop by more. It’s a part of my resolutions this year–stay more in touch with bloggy friends!!!

  94. I feel like singing, “Here I am baby, signed, sealed, delivered . . . “

  95. ‘been here before, and to think I almost missed this day… My favorite color is blue!

  96. Lurker no more. I have never commented. Ever. I am no longer a comment virgin.

    Yellow. November 19. Hey Jude.

    That wasn’t as hard as I thought.

  97. Not exactly delurking (because I have commented in the past), but I haven’t commented in a WHILE…. I really enjoy your blog, thanks!

  98. Loving that avatar pic you were using a petroville. Look at you, all svelte.

  99. Hi –

    Blue, December 6th, I don’t know the name of the song (Melissa is goign to kill me) But it goes “Come togehter, right now over me” I would run up to Peaches and sing it to you, but you aren’t there anymore, Oh, they aren’t there anymore either.

  100. I lurk sometimes and comment sometimes. (I wish I’d known it was Delurking Day so I could ask my readers to delurk! Oh well.) My favorite color is green and one of my favorite Beatles songs is “Yesterday.”

  101. Hello…

    My name is Paula and I’m a lurker. Is there some sort of 12 step program for us? Oh and my favorite color is purple, and my birthday is December 31 and if anyone knows of a legal way to “move” your birthday – I’m listening.

  102. I’m not just commenting, I’m wearing a trench coat and flashing you.

  103. Bonjour from the south of France!
    Birthday – 18 May
    Favourite colour – yellow
    Favourite Beatles song – tough one, but probably “While my guitar gently weeps”

  104. Hi!
    Favorite Beatles Song: Hey Jude.

  105. Delurking to say hi.
    My favorite color is purple. :)

  106. Hi Sarah! Revolution 9.

  107. No. You can’t make me comment. I won’t. So there!

  108. Wow! Jealous. 500 hits on my site today and only one comment. I think I’ll delay my delurking day and announce tomorrow.

  109. I’m not cool enough to blog myself, but I read extensively.

    And I totally admire your devotion to football…what you are to football, I am to baseball. But I love football too…

    And we share an alma mater!

  110. My birthday is February 11th. My feet are currently freezing. My favorite Beatles song is Ob La Di. There are so many to love, but that one really cheers me up.

  111. Hi! My favorite color is green and at the risk of causing an uprising, I’m not all that big a Beatles fan.

    My favorite Stones’ songs are Wild Horses and Under My Thumb. Still get credit?!?

    Happy Delurking Day. ;)

  112. My favorite color? Pink

    I actually went to see Paul McCartney in concert back in 2001. It was AMAZING.

  113. Happy Delurking Day!!

  114. Thanks for the tip. I mentioned how you turned me on. http://www.dirtandnoise.com/2009/01/delurking-day-lurk-no-more.html

  115. Delurking to say hi and tell you that I’m here and I read you everyday!

  116. Hi! Love ya and read often.

  117. Long time lurker first time commenter!
    I have enjoyed reading about you and your family. Thanks for keeping me entertained!

  118. Hi. I am commenting because you told me to and I am a rule follower. OK so I am also a liar. Is it called delurking day because “coming out day” was already taken? LOL

  119. Hi – I love your stories of the goon squad, always puts a smile on my face. Am I done delurking now?

  120. Hi Tiffer. I’m here.

  121. I’m possibly delurking, as I don’t remember if I’ve ever commented here. I’ve been reading for quite awhile and I love your blog!

    So Hi. Blue. Not a Beatles fan (I know, I know).

  122. Hi. Lately, my favorite color is brown.

  123. Hi Sarah.

  124. I totally missed it this year on my blog. Oh well. I’m delurking here, not that I’m a lurker.

  125. Hi, I’m from NZ, and my favourite colour is pink. Fav Beatles song is With a Little Help from my Friends.

  126. I only very very rarely really know what day it is.

  127. Not sure how I found your blog many moons ago….but I read it. You make me laugh :) Thanks.

  128. Copied this from you. Saw it on your Facebook. I just put it on mine. Why am I always a day behind???

  129. I’m always here, even if I am quiet most of the time.

  130. Cold Play fan? I didn’t know there was such a thing

  131. Haven’t commented in forever…. so, “comment”. :-)

    ~rob

  132. hi there. I haven’t commented since you asked some really random set of questions this one time a long time ago. (That was SO SPECIFIC so I bet you know EXACTLY who I am now)

  133. Sarah – However did you manage to reply to yourself from 132 other e-mail accounts???

  134. happiness is a warm gun.
    best. beatles. song.

    even though i’m not a lurker..

  135. I read frequently but comment rarely.

  136. Thank you for reminding me that it’s time for my annual comment on your blog. :)

    http://floridatransplant.blogspot.com/

  137. A day late as usual, but still reading! Hi!

  138. hi Sarah!

    My favourite colour is green, my birthday is the 1st January and my favourite beatles tune is Norweigan wood.

  139. Son of a BITCH, I missed it. This was my chance to actually get a few comments. God I SUCK.

    But you, Dear Sarah, are the bees knees.

  140. Dang, I missed it! :)

  141. Let it Be or Sexy Sadie come to mind.

  142. [...] appears that in all the craziness that is life, I missed the fact that MONDAY was DeLurking Day! I discovered it when I saw all my favorite blogs mention it! Blast! I detest being late to things [...]

  143. Hi Sarah- I am a lurker from Tampa. Not sure if you remember me or my twins (Brady and Katie) from the MOM’s club in Tampa. I have been reading you for awhile now- gives me a smile and also some insight as to what could be coming soon for me. Hope you are doing well!

  144. I’m going to officially *start* lurking now. I’ve popped in before, but I’m setting up camp with mah trench coat now;)

  145. Oh crap. I leave the internet for a few days and all the important things happen. Anyway, hi!

  146. I can’t believe I missed delurking day. I love delurking day. I may have to do a belated day just for myself.

  147. Hey, Thanks for delurking so I could expand my lurking.
    Fun blog.
    I’ll be back!

  148. Hey, I read your blog. I’m a little late telling you because I’m a big procrastinator, but I think you knew anyway. I’ve commented before.

    I think you’re totally funny and on my list of bloggers to woo should my love affair with Karly at Wiping Up Snot ever go sour.

  149. A week late. Does this still count? Hope so, or I’m wearing my thumbs out por nada.

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