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September 10, 2008

A meme is a total cop out post, for lazy writers with no inspiration — like me, right now. Work has been a little more hectic than usual, and trying to keep up with my 4 paying blogs has pretty much drained me. So I’m taking this opportunity to meme and discuss a few things about group blogging (below). Tell me what you think about my idea, and feel free to say it sucks. I won’t be offended.

I AM happy.
I WANT to always feel this good about life.
I HAVE the best apartment, husband and dog in the world.
I KEEP pepper spray in my purse, just in case.
I WISH I COULD own my own business and become a millionaire.
I HATE when people assume I’m cuica.
I FEAR flying and catastrophes happening to my family or friends.
I HEAR voices in my head, all the time.
I DON’T THINK I’ll end up permanently settling in any place that has winter ever again. REGRET â€¦ losing touch with some good friends.
I LOVE helping people when I can, comments on the blog, cuddling with my puppy, hugs from my husband, taking pictures, when the people I photograph tell me they felt beautiful.
I AM NOT a private person.
I DANCE like a maniac to Shakira and Michael Jackson.
I SING all the time.
I NEVER close the door when I go to the bathroom in my house.
I RARELY go to bed before midnight.
I CRY WHEN I WATCH The Notebook, The Little Mermaid, Schindler’s List…I could go on and on.
I AM NOT ALWAYS able to read all the blogs on my Google Reader.
I HATE THAT I don’t have time to spend all day catching up on blogs and commenting.
I’M CONFUSED ABOUT my future. What do I want to do with my life?
I NEED 35k more in the bank account for our round the world trip.
I SHOULD eat out less in order to save for the above, work more and workout more…both of which could only happen if there were more hours in the day.

Group Blogging
Rather than vote on the next topic, I was actually hoping we could do something that follows the theme of analyzing Chilean men and women. How about this time we let them analyze us? I was thinking we could write on the subject, How Chileans Perceive Gringos, (Or At Least How We Think They Do). Florencia, a Chilean woman has been kind enough to participate and give us her perspective (in English, nonetheless) in the group blogging so I think it’s only fair that we let her analyze us, don’t you think?

Also for the first group blogging topic, I really liked how most people zero’ed in on one specific trait they liked or disliked about Chilean men and went into depth. But on Chilean women, I think most of us, myself included, chose to cover the subject broadly. I don’t know about you guys but I sort of like what we all did the first time. I don’t want to narrow the topics down for you (like if we had all written on Chilean Men Are Chivalrous, rather than just Chilean Men), but I think this little experiment is a lot more interesting when we all narrow the topic down ourself and go deeper.

Thoughts? Feel free to tell me if you don’t think that’s a good subject for our next group blog and you’d rather vote on a topic again, or if you think I’m way off base with my observations.

Also, one last thing: Next Friday is during the long weekend for the 18th. I’ll be in Algarrobo with my husband and in-laws, probably drinking wine like a lush and in no condition to blog — and not to mention, we don’t have internet out there anyways. I was thinking we could either do the next group blog on Monday or Tuesday of next week or else just wait until Friday the 26th.

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Hey Kyle, I noticed the same with the Chilean women post, hopefully the next one will be a little more interesting. I like the idea of the new post, I kind of want my husband to write what he thinks of gringas, I’ll ask him. I am really interested in seeing what they really think of us!!

Comment by Shannon — September 10, 2008 @ 8:04 am

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i like the narrowed idea. i was thinking about that when i read matts post, because it does seem to be interesting that way to get varying perspectives.
i happened to have narrowed my last one down to…exactly the subject you are proposing, unfortunately. but thats ok, i’ll figure out a new angle and actually be more reflective perhaps (after that maybe we could completely swap to something unrelated though).

( haha also it seems were in the same time zone but you’re posting from the future )

Comment by lydia — September 10, 2008 @ 8:04 am

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Haha, Shannon, yeah I need to get my husband to post too, it would be pretty freaking hilarious.

Lydia, that’s really weird, I wonder why the time is changed on this post. Maybe my apartment is in some crazy time warp.

Comment by Mamacita Chilena — September 10, 2008 @ 8:06 am

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oops… sorry ’bout that, bad proof reading.

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ha-ha… great minds think alike. I was just about to post a meme myself (different topic, same idea — Me. burned out. No new topic for blog. For now)

Fned.

P.S. I really enjoy reading all you all’s posts on Chilean men, women, dogs, etc… got me thinking if hubby and I shouldn’t plan a trip to Chile next year… I so want to be called a “cuica” and have some dirty old man yell out a piropo at me on the street… so I can turn around and yell back “MIRA IMBECIL, TU PIROPO DE MIERDA TE LO PUEDES IR METIENDO POR EL…. well, you get the idea… LOL

Fned.

Comment by Fned — September 10, 2008 @ 1:31 pm

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I LOVE Shannon’s idea! I even think that could branch out very well into the blogosphere for that matter… everyone could have husbands guest post about their blogger wives.

Comment by Rachel — September 10, 2008 @ 2:48 pm

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jajaja. Funny. This is interesting. I like the idea of flipping it around and letting them analzye us. jejjeje. I like Fned’s idea of the husband guest post. jajaja. I think it would be hilarious since Chileans have such a good sense of humor.

I’ll also be out-of-commision for the next couple of weeks. TiquitiquitÃ… After the 18 works best for me.

Saludos…

Comment by Maeskizzle — September 10, 2008 @ 8:18 pm

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I don’t close the loo door either. It’s even got to the point where I leave it wide open with the ayi here now. And she’s started doing the same. I’m like, are we crossing a social boundary here?

Comment by Raybelles — September 11, 2008 @ 4:15 am

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Thanks for thinking about me for the column!
I’m honored.
I think it would be great if everyone wrote on the subject…It was VERY interesting to me to read the columns about Chilean women and I was surprised to see we are seen in similar ways by many people.
It will have to wait till Sunday, though, because now I’m away from Santiago, weeee!!!!
Saludos a todas.

Comment by Florencia — September 11, 2008 @ 7:19 am

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Oh, but the memes are so fun to read. I actually have one planned myself for the weekend.

Comment by Lori - Blondie in Brazil — September 11, 2008 @ 9:25 am

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Hello hello….well I do like the next topic as well and I DEFINITELY think we should delay it until the 26th just because weÂ´ll be dieciocho-ing it up and not thinking about blogging.

As for the using narrow ideas verus broad ideas, I think a mixture of both would be best because it makes for interesting topics and perspectives.

Felices Fiestas a Todos!!!

Comment by Tyffanie — September 11, 2008 @ 11:37 am

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I agree in skipping next friday for the holiday. Are we doing husband/boyfriend guest blogging along with florencia’s post on what she thinks of us??

Comment by Shannon — September 11, 2008 @ 11:54 am

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what about the 26th? I’m still in BA.

Comment by Sara — September 14, 2008 @ 7:52 pm

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the 26th works well for me as well.

Comment by Maeskizzle — September 16, 2008 @ 8:22 pm

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