Dear Readers,

You know those pinball machines in arcades, the one where you pull back the thingy and release it, then a metal ball goes wildly pinging around as you smack buttons with your hands to make flippers hit the metal ball and keep it moving at all times?

I feel exactly like that metal ball.

I have so much going on right now, it’s a little like being buried in sand and trying to dig my way out. And then I had to go and cause myself a bunch of blog drama. For the record? Yes, I did think Sweetney probably shouldn’t have posted those Twitters about Mrs. Fussypants. Should I have thought twice before just unleashing my wildly pinging thoughts about the situation onto a blog post? Yep. I could have emailed Alli, told her I was sorry about what happened and that she always has my support, then I could have emailed Tracey and said dude, what was up with those Twitters, and that could have been the end of it. Instead, I had to post it here for the world (or at least the feed subscribers I have left after a whole bunch of them unsubscribed) to read.

It’s like, if you mess up something at work, do you want your coworker to go to your boss or come to you first and say hey, you messed up? Most people would prefer to hear about a complaint directly. I should have emailed Alli to say I was sorry for what happened, and I should have emailed Tracey to let her know that maybe it wasn’t the coolest thing for her to do, and that should have been it.

To all the people who have commented, what I should do is email each one of you separately and reply to your thoughtful comments. But I can’t do that and I’d like to please explain why. You see, I have found myself in a situation that is requiring a Herculean effort to climb out of. I am expending an impossible amount of mental energy right now. See, I agreed to do a few product reviews and hold a few giveaways. And then I agreed to do a few more. And I started ignoring my email inbox to, you know, play with my kids and stuff. And now, I have over 1,000 opened and unopened emails and 23 reviews and giveaways that all HAVE to be done before I go to BlogHer in 2 weeks.

I also have to order business cards, buy an outfit for the Saturday cocktail party at Macy’s with all kinds of fanciness which means not a t-shirt and jeans, buy a new rolling suitcase I can carry on to the plane (I’d like to avoid checking a bag as well as hauling two suitcases from the airport to the train to the hotel), figure out how I’m going to get to and from the Detroit Airport, buy a sweater because apparently it’s kind of cold in San Francisco, buy two new bras because my current ones are doing nothing to improve my figure, OH, and use a $50 Meijer gift card I was sent for checking out the HP Photo Printer and make a photo book or something, which requires choosing and cropping the photos. And I’m sure a dozen more things will come up between now and the 17th.

So, dear readers, that’s what’s going on behind the scenes of Table for Five right now. I appreciate every single one of you who take the time to comment on any of my posts, whether you agree with what I’ve written or not. I still feel like I’m between a rock and a hard place on the whole Twitter thing. For those of you who unsubscribed, I hope you come back. I’ve been told that most of the time, Table for Five is a pretty nice blog to read :)

xoxo
Elizabeth

P.S. if anyone reading this is going to BlogHer and wants to meet up with me, please let me know and I’ll send you my cell number, which should make it easier to find each other in the crowd of 1,000.