By the way, before the fracas started with that other post, I totally got an award from a cool blogger. Jenn at You are Flawed if You are Not Free gave me the Award of Distinction! Go me! Go you!

Out of curiosity, I did a quick stat check on my blog. Normally, I get 300-400 views. Now don’t get your panties in a bunch, because about 7/8ths of those views are from people who are looking for funny kickball team names. Seriously, I don’t have any interesting Googleage because the top 20 search items on my blog are always something team name related. It’s really spiked since spring team season has started.

But on Wednesday, when the lovely people at Reddit (pronounced Read it! Get it!? Clever!) decided to take a blog post out of context and use it as a launching pad to discuss everything they hate about women, I got 18,275 hits. Yeah. For the first time ever, I really wish I had some ads on this site. I probably would have made at least $25 off of those people, and that would have made the whole thing worth it, because I’m going to the city this weekend, and the train costs about $25. Oh well.

Maybe what I’ll do is install some ads for penile enhancement real quick and then write another post about how for fun and sport I like to sit in public places and be a flaming bitch by pointing out the flaws in every single guy I see then howl about the fact that I can’t get a date! Then all those commenters will come back and to assure me that my pickup methods will lead me to unhappiness, childlessness, and multiple cat ownership. If I’m lucky, the may even suggest that for good measure I should drink some bleach now to end it all. But joke’s on them when they click through looking for more information on “natural growth pills” and I’ve made enough money to pay for my next haircut. While they’re sitting at home willing their hairline to stop receding and their pills to come in the mail, I’m actually going out and being social (except the recovery nights when I’m watching Locke in Space Camp.)

I want to give Awards of Distinction right back to all of you who commented in the positive. Alas, arbitrary internet rules dictate that I can only hand it out to 5 of you. In no particular order:

Carter, Funky, for being the first to make it through the italics post and warm my heart.
Carnations, 3, for still being nice to me despite the fact that the only mean comment I can remember leaving was on her blog.
Creed, Apollo, for getting so many damn comments despite being a brand new blog that he inspired me to do more to promote this old thing, and look where it got me.
Ordinary, The Extra (Erikka), for understanding that I decided against doing a guest blog, and still leaving some cool comments.
Answers, Allie’s, for being a great supporter, and who has about 20 blog posts I need to catch up on. Happy Earth Day!

Honorable mention to everyone else who commented in kind, to Stefanie, who is totally is a real life friend now. May you all have 18,275 hits of love, I promise I’ll be over to your places to say hello as soon as I finish up this work from 2 days of being away from the office.

UPDATE: Hot damn, I didn’t realize that the awesome Mickey also gave me this award. That not only makes me feel special, but also makes me feel not so weird about the fact that of all the people I could have awarded, 2/5ths of them already had the award.