PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo 2008, Day 3: Belgianwaffle isn't what you think

Thus far, I haven't been very clear about the criteria by which I'm selecting these blogs to blog about. That's because no real criteria exists. The first two days of PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo involved a lot of clicking around and browsing and brow-furrowing and yawning until I landed upon something suitable. Today, though, I deliberately scanned the "B"-list for blogs titles that seemed most indicative of potential awesomeness.

This led me to Beverley Blog, which I fervently hoped would be a somewhat (okay, alotwhat) un-creatively titled homage to Beverley Cleary. I was so excited! But so wrong! Because it was no such thing! It's not even the right spelling of Beverly, turns out. Sheesh. Beverley Viljoen, theater enthusiast and washer of USB drives, I'm sure you are a lovely person, but until you start waxing nostalgic on Ramona Quimby, Age 8, et al, your blog is of no use to me and my PaMaDoCoBloNaBloPoMoMo.

My next "B"-blog stop was Belgianwaffle, which I initially thought might be a breakfast food blog. I love breakfast, and I love food blogs, and at the moment I was eating a pretty sad turkey sandwich for lunch at my desk, so even the promise of photos of better food was enough to get me to click.

I was wrong-- no food in sight-- but I like what I did find. The author of Belgianwaffle is an "ex ex pat" who lived in Belgium before recently moving back to her native Ireland. And for NaBloPoMo, she's aiming to chronicle each and every place that she's lived in her life, from childhood to the present. My own version of the same list would be quite short and boring, which makes me even more interested in what she'll be writing this month. Also, she uses words like "sniggering" and "feckless," and has some really adorable children, so I'll probably be checking back in.

And I'll definitely be bringing a better lunch tomorrow.