Do you have the post-BlogHer blues?

My blues are different. I had hoped to go to Blogher last week in what would have been my first, since I've only been blogging about 4 1/2 months. The timing wasn't right and I couldn't go. I keep reading about it on everybody's blogs and then today I opened the NY Times and there was an article in the style section on the conference (of course they put it in the style section because it was about women, but that is a whole different topic).

If anybody in the NYC area ever wants to start a local group, count me in. 

As a new member of the blog world, I am so disappointed that I missed the opty to attend BlogHer. As it was getting closer, so many of my favorite bloggers were sharing their plans to go. 

There are a number of blogs that I read regularly, and have recently started my own, it would have been incredibly inspiring!

Next year for sure! 

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Oh, I do. I'm trying to translate the offline buzz into online good, but oh, I feel it.

 I miss you!

WhyMommy 

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I am turning my post-BlogHer blues into action, though. I just read up above how others have made actual groups near their homes. I belong to a Hot Chicks Book Club Meet Up that I've been ignoring, but I will definitely be going to our next outing... Mamma Mia! Who knows... there might be some BlogHers there, too.

So, I have had some personal reality checks after coming home. A friend said it so poetically... you hit some real lows after coming down from those big highs. My lows aren't that bad... just a little melancholy, I suppose:

http://livingintheory.blogspot.com/2008/07/still-f...

 Coming home was both a downer and a relief. Does traveling affect
anybody else like that? As I was changing the sheets and then mowing
the lawn today, I was thinking things like "I love to make my home
lovely and good-smelling, inside and out," whilst simultaneously
thinking things like "If I lived in that hotel, I'd NEVER have to mow
the lawn, someone else would change AND wash the sheets, and I'd get to
sleep with Monty ( http://brain-soup.blogspot.com/ ) every night!" Because, of course, in my fantasy world, BlogHer is still going on and will never stop.

As are many other things in my many fantasy worlds. . . .

No, I do not have the BlogHerBola, but I do have the BlogHerNostalgiaBlues. 

I am looking forward to next year like a child looks forward to Christmas morning.  More, even.  It was just simply wonderful, and I don't have a single complaint.  Except, of course, that it's over. . . . . 

"Don't be content with being average. Average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top."

I came home from BlogHer still on the HIGH, but the letdown came in the middle of the week. I call it going from MIND-BLOWING to MIND-NUMBING, because, seriously, it's just boring to do menu-planning and grocery shopping and laundry after having been in the company of such interesting women (and men), and to have learned so much, and had so much fun.

Can't WAIT for next year!

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I was honestly so flipping overcome with warm fuzzies that I think I kissed every person I walked past this weekend.  Fortunatly, I also drank every drink I walked past, so I did NOT catch the BlogHerBola.  Darn it, I wish I had *something* to take home with me. :) 

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I seemed to have missed the BlogHerBola virus, thank goodness!  Next year I am planning on having NOTHING on my schedule for the week after BlogHer, it takes that long to get over post-BlogHer letdown and back into normal family life!

 Elizabeth blogs at:

Table for Five ( http://table4five.net )
MomReviews ( http://momreviews.net )
MomCooks ( http://momcooks.net )
( http://getmyblogon.com )

It's worth doing a women-centered meetup for a lot of reasons -- including, say, having it be a coffee-n-blog morning with kids welcome, instead of an after-work get together in a bar!

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Liz Henry ( http://www.blogher.com/haystackprofile/viewprofile... )
lizzard@bookmaniac.net ( http://liz-henry.blogspot.com/ )
Contributing Editor, World and Latin America
( http://www.blogher.com/blog/liz-henry )

I'm in Kansas City where we have several active blogger groups ( http://kansascitybloggers.blogspot.com/ ) and a social media club ( http://www.jeffisageek.net/blog/2008/07/25/social-... ) which grew out of a Tweetup in May with Queen of Spain. I'm sure a lot of cities have similar groups - or could have them with a little coordination.

Those post-conference blues could be a sign to start your own local blogging group - get together specifically to talk blogging with other women in your area and see how it goes. Besides the gossip and mutual admiration society effect you could share tech tips and become a useful network for each other!

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Liz Henry ( http://www.blogher.com/haystackprofile/viewprofile... )
lizzard@bookmaniac.net ( http://liz-henry.blogspot.com/ )
Contributing Editor, World and Latin America
( http://www.blogher.com/blog/liz-henry )

I've been feeling a little stuck and blue myself. It was a real high to be around all that amazing energy, connect with so many women - who are writing on so many different tracts. There is nothing like being with a group of people who share your passion.

I got together with Cynthia Samuels (Don't Gel Too Soon) this week and we discussed precisely this--how much we missed it.  Being there is a little like visiting Wonderland.  On one hand, I definitely wanted to come home to the twins, but on the other, I wanted to stay there indefinitely with all of these cool people who you can only visit at other times of year via a computer screen. 

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and we're not talkin' cowgirls...

Love that you borrowed the term and that others are feeling it, too.

Thanks for the link.  I am sooooo missing my BlogHer friends.

merlotmom