Preparing for BlissDom ’09

I would greatly appreciate your prayers this weekend. Tomorrow I’ll be driving roughly 8 hours to Nashville, TN for BlissDom. I started to say that the BlissDom Conference is for women, but they don’t actually target women — at least not on their site. I know there will be men there — a few any way. One I’ve heard is supposed to sing to us. Maybe the others are just coming for the PJ Party or the karaoke?

Anyway, I’m starting to get a little nervous. Last year at She Speaks I felt weird in the Bloggers Reception room. I mean, there were several bloggers in that room that I read — and because I have read their blogs, I felt like I knew them. But it’d be really weird to just run up to them and start talking to them like they are your best friend. Know what I mean? I figured most would look at me like I’m totally crazy and all like “who are you? you blog where?” — that sort of thing.

But this time there are a few bloggers who I know I’m going to meet up with and I hope that it won’t be weird. I mean I hope I don’t feel all stalkerish for talking to them.

I met Dawn @ My Home Sweet Home last year at She Speaks and she’s going to be my roomie for this weekend. Robin @ Pensieve is also going to be there. She’s so sweet and very easy to talk to — if she thought I was a freak last year, she didn’t show it Shannon @ Rocks In My Dryer is going to be there too — and while I’ve talked to here a little bit here and there, she was one of the superstars last year that I felt really weird to talk to. Actually I sat around listening a lot. I’ve found you learn a lot when you listen!

Then there’s Melanie @ Don’t Try This at Home and Blogging Basics 101. I have a feeling she and I will be talking geek all weekend I hope she’ll be ok if I attach myself to her. Ok, maybe that would be a little too stalkerish.

Duck’s being very supportive and telling me to relax and just go and meet people. It’s awesome to have that kind of support at home, because he’s going to have to do the routines with Doodle. I think if I’m not home, things will go a little smoother for them because Doodle won’t be trying to manipulate me for more time playing games, or not doing her homework.

A lot of women who are going to be there have been Twitterin’ about being shy, stuck in the corneer, etc. I can so relate. I think I used to be an extrovert “back in the day” but since I’ve been at home for so long, I think I’ve lost some of my social skills. So if I happen to meet you this weekend and do something socially faux paus, please forgive me. I’ll blame it on the nerves or being out of practice!

I’ll be Twitterin’ during the sessions and trying to blog too. I’ll also be scouring the corners. Since there’s probably only 4 corners to a room, not everyone can be by themselves. So move over and share some space

I’ve got a new Twitter ID: lisaboyd — you can check out that page and see what I’m doing. But if you would, send up a prayer or three for safe travels. I’ll be driving there on Thursday and driving back Sunday. Thanks