Ask MCB/CG Day – 15
Today is ask MCB/CG day. We try and do this once a month for any new readers, but we were busy last week and forgot about it. Here is the belated post for October. Everyone is welcome to ask a question. This is the sixteenth time that we have done this; so we don’t expect everyone to have read all of the earlier questions. It’s usually been pretty fun. Here are the rules for any new visitors. Feel free to ask us anything. You can ask a question in a comment or in the Shoutbox. We’ll respond in the comments or, if the answer is long, in a separate post. We will answer anything that is asked, usually before our next post. If you don’t read this when its first posted but still have a question, go ahead and ask it. There isn’t a cutoff date. So please leave us a question if you’ve got one.
Always enjoy your site! Wondering what the conversation was like when you two first decided to put it together. Who brought it up first, what were/are some of the rules, have you ever been “recognized” by any of your online fans??
Sorry, might be too many questions…!! Keep up the great work both of you… You’re a great inspiration!!
I found you blog by happy chance, looking for blogs posted by happily married couples. It is truly inspirational. I truly hope you will be happy for ever. Do you think blogging has brought you closer together?
Valerie: It was originally my idea. We saw a lot of blogs on line but not very many his and hers blogs by happily married couples. So we decided to try it and see what happened. We were originally on Blogger but decided we liked it well enough to get our own domain. That gave us more freedom to post pictures and multimedia. (Blogger has gotten better with pictures but it is still sometimes problematical.)
So far as rules go, we have one very simple one. Never, ever, ever post anything on the blog that we haven’t said in real life. If we have a problem with each other, discuss it in person, not online with dueling posts. It’s important not to post about disagreements in the heat of the moment because even if we forgive and forget, Google never does.
We don’t talk about our blog with people we know in real life. We pixillate our faces but anyone that knows us would be able to recognize us very quickly. We’ve never been recognized (that we know of) but we both know it’s bound to happen one day. We have a number of visitors from the local area, including some that we have met in real life but have not been recognized unexpectedly. We’re not shy, but it might be strange depending on where we were when it happened.
Thanks for the kudos. It’s people like you that make doing this fun.
Alfie: Blogging has definitely made us more communicative. I don’t think either of us realized how much went unsaid until we started blogging. We like doing things with each other and having this blog is one more thing that we do together. We wouldn’t do it if we weren’t both having fun. We’ll stop as soon as it’s not any fun any more. I’ve mentioned in posts that we do a lot of things together and have a lot of matching stuff. It’s corny; but it’s the way we like it. Having a blog has been and continues to be a lot of fun for us.