Diary of a Mad, Mad Housewife

While searching for a website to look over and write about, I stumbled across a funny blog called "The Diary of a Mad, Mad Housewife." This weblog is written by a 40 year old woman who just voices out her random thoughts and opinion...on nothing important, just whatever comes to mind. I never thought a webblog would interest me, or that I would ever waste my time following one. But this one is pretty funny and I could see why someone might follow it (if he or she has time to waste that is). I first read the profile of this blogger because I wanted to gather as much background information about who she was before I actually read her posts so that I could put a "face" with posts. Rachel turned out to be a former newspaper editor and reporter from Massachusetts and now a mother or two. Maybe she stopped working for the newspaper when she had kids, I don't know, but obviously she still likes to write for the public even if it is just through a humorous webblog. I think read on to discover, or atleast for what she said I gathered, that she did quit work to stay at home and take care of her kids and do housework. But now she is wondering if that was such a good idea...I mean after all, "nobody bothered her while she was in the bathroom at work." The most up to date post that she had written was about when she went to a liquor store to get wine and she was carded...again she is 41...and stared at by a bunch of ole men who were trying to guess her real age. The post was really funny and Rachel is a very humorous and interesting writer so I decided to read many of her other posts. Her next post talked about how she seemed to be the only alumni for her class who has done absolutely nothing with her life for the past 20 years, except for make a blog which was posted next to her name under the accomplishments of her other classmates who became big-time lawyers and such. She seems to be proud of her blog, although it may not seem like a big accomplishment. I think this webblog is a place that Rachel can post her true feelings and escape from her busy reality and relax in her own world without having to worry about her kids or her chores or all the other things in her life that she is constantly doing. Throughout her many posts I have found that she somehow always incorporates the fact that although she may only be a stay-at-home mom, her job isn't as easy as it sounds. At one point she even doesn't post for awhile and then later comes back to say that she hasn't had time because she has been so busying worrying about what has to be done. She even uses pictures that she has taken to show her readers what she is doing. One of her posts is simply a picture of an overflowing laundry basket with extra clothes lying all over the floor beside it. Many readers made comments just about this simple photo (31 to be exact) so I read them and discovered that most of Rachel's blog readers are women who stay at home and do the chores that she does and can relate to everything she is constantly rambling about. Readers are going to read blogs that they can relate to, and this definitely proves it. This webblog also shows that writers can freely express their feelings and thoughts on the internet and blogs and other sites like these can be a great way and place to relax and excape from their busy lives.