you're nice!
what's wrong with that?
and you thought up the saturday sky :-)

I often wonder the same thing about why people read. I just think it's nice to see what everyone else is doing and get inspired by all the different projects.

Why anyone would be mean in blog comments is beyond me. It's like some people don't realize there is a real person behind the blog.

It's funny,as I was reading your post, I kept thinking about the terrible scary refrigerator-kitchen-spill-no-paper-towels post. It was great, I loved it. Now...if my mom had called and told me that story over the phone. "Oh, gee, that's too bad Mom." I think blogging brings the mundane to life. It's wonderful to share in all the minor trials and triumphs of each other's life as well.
And I like you, the way you are, this just wouldn't be the same if you weren't...well, you. So if someone has made you feel bad for being that wonderful you. Well, what I was about to say wouldn't be very positive at all now would it. ;)

Oh I love the mundane too. I am a nosy person and I love the opportunity to peek into other people's lives. For instance, I know that you are kind, have a fun cat and a new washer. I also know that you LOVE the sky and I love that! So I can't say that you suck because you don't.

My Sandy is funny and real and beautiful. And, I'm very fond of my own opinions.

Like your blog just the way it is!!

This is the first time I'm reading your site. It's like reading about a mirrow image of me, except I'm a lot older by twenty years. Basset Knitter is my third daughter and she has just got me started blogging. I crochet more than knit. I also just read your 101 things about you. I love it.
I like what you write and since I'm just starting in this "bogging world" your comments have made me feel less apprehensive about this whole idea of why write, who reads and who cares.
Thank you.

Dear Sandy,
Unlurking to say, if I ever move back to Massachusetts (I was raised in Marblehead) I'd like to meet you and knit with you. Yours is one of the safe, gentle, grown-up pleasant internet places the knitting world needs. thanks for being you.

You solved your own mystery. Why do people read your blog? Because you're positive. You're real. Thanks for that!

That Cara's got quite the bounce. ; )

I enjoy reading your blog just because you are positive (as well as the rest of your description of yourself...could be me!)I don't need nasty, I deal with nasty in real life. I don't need negative either, (although everyone has their moments...and those need to be forgiven) because that's all around us all the time anyway. I read blogs for a sense of other knitters who might have something in common with me. I don't always comment, because I don't necessarily always have something to say. But I just wanted to let you know that I enjoy your boring positive writings ;).

I too am a "I'm a middle aged overweight woman who happens to love knitting and living a totally boring existence. And I like it that way! I don't travel. I don't meditate. I am not famous, nor beautiful and sexy."

I think that is why we read each other's blogs....not only for the knitting content...which is always great....but for the sharing of the lives of each other....kindred spirits!! It is so wonderful to feel connected!!! There are SOOO many of us that make ONE!!!!

Go, Sandy! :-)

I admire skywatchers:)

I am sending you lots of good and happy energy. It's not a good idea to invite all the negative:) I think your blog is great! You and Claudia were the reasons I started blogging. I have always respected how open and candid you are here.

I wonder the same things about readers of my blog, then one of my readers mentioned my beautiful photos and witty dialog... OK, what does my sister know? LOL! I noticed that the blogs I enjoy reading the most are from ordinary people, near my age who often put a funny twist on the ordinary.
Keep it up!

Oh. Don't start with me, Missy. Do I need to say it? Huh?

:D
LXOX

Not boring! Clearly we find the mundane of your life to be interesting. Do you know I couldn't wait for the amaryllis to bloom? Besides that, you're a crack up. There was a blog that used to make fun of knitting designs. People would email or IM me daily with how hilarious they thought it was but I only visited it once. I think reality TV has made it de rigeur to hurt people then laugh at their pain. It sucks and besides that, it's unintelligent. Using the internet to be a jerk is equally stupid. Can you imagine if all the energy put into that hating, snarky stuff was put into something like cleaning up the environment? What a waste.

Don't change a thing. THAT would suck!

The only negative thing I can come up with would be the days I travel to your blog life via the internet only to be terribly disapointed with no new blog entry. I don't often post comments on any of the blogs I read but Sandy, I feel like you are one of my friends. I've never met you but we are truly kindred spirits and I loke forward to hearing about your ordinary
positive life. It's the ordinariness of it that's so charming.

The button in your sidebar sums it all up so eloquently: "Are you kind?"

For as long as you're here writing, I'll be here reading. :-)

Your life sounds like mine, but, I still enjoy reading your blog. LOL The reason I read it? Cause you knit, your middle aged, your overweight; all the reasons I wonder why people read mine.
Happy Knitting!
Sheri in GA

It's interesting that you would post about this, I was talking to a real-life blogger friend just last night about blogging, life and being positive. Living in a huge city in a foreign country as Berlin is, I encounter more than my share of negativity. I began my blog as a way to get away from it all. I wanted to meet people who only see the good that we all can do. I wanted to let the horrible mean things that people can do outside of this little world, and up until a little incident this year, I've been able to keep it that way. Why do we have to bring negative thoughts into this blogworld we have created? There's just too much all around us and blogging is my way to get away from it and help me feel good that there are good, caring, wonderful people still out there that I can have contact with.
I can tell you why we are here reading. Beside the fact that I've found you to be a wonderful, caring person, you write fun posts. You're talented, creative and have a lot to offer. I will always be here, and like you, if I don't have anything nice to say, I won't say it either. Don't worry, I have yet to even have a negative thought while reading Sandy's Knitting, you always make me smile. Keep being you!

"I'm a middle aged overweight woman who happens to love knitting and living a totally boring existence. And I like it that way!"

OMG - you're my long-lost twin!!!!!!

I think you are special.

you suck!

but i like you anyway ;)

Yes oh yes!! I just can't do or say anything negative on my blog either. Of course we are all faced with negative stuff every day. I do have negetive thoughts in RL but I do try to control them. Life is hard enough. I've been called on the carpet (by my own sister) for being so 'nice' on my blog. But, my blog personality is to show the beauty of knitting, my landscape and the good side of life. Go Sandy. I love you just the way you are.

Sandy, I love your blog for its positive voice...that's why I read it daily!

Sandy,my first opinion: you are so a lovely person. Special just cause you are you. When something hurtful or disappointing or malicious or otherwise negative is going on in life, reading the sweetly mundane is sort of like getting a hug. Those silly chickens made me smile when the big things in my life right now just make me dissolve in despair. So keep posting, 'k?

well said, Sandy, well said. I just expressed that very same opinion on a blog I usually read...one with good knitting content, but filled with mean spirited behavior.
I made up my mind to stop reading, and feel better for it. Too much negativity catches up with your soul!
Pam

I just don't get this whole leaving nasty comments thing. I'm of the "if you don't like it, turn it off" school of thinking. Or in the case of blogging, stop reading if you don't like it. I love your blog! If I didn't I wouldn't read it. And the only reason I would ever choose to comment on any blog is to tell someone how much I liked something, whether it's a project or a picture of your family or something you said.
Or to tell you how much you don't suck, like now!
There is an old bumper sticker I believe sums it all up...Mean People Suck!!

Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard
A discouraging word
And the (Saturday) skies are not cloudy all day

Sorry for the earworm, but that immediately ran through my head! It's a pleasure to come here and read your friendly and amiable posts. Encouraging people are hard to find in today's world - keep on truckin', baby!

Sandy, I read many, many, many blogs. Yours was one of the first I read regularly. Very few days go by when I don't check in on you. You were the first blogger who appeared in one of my dreams (In my dream I was talking to you on the phone.) You were the first blogger who made me feel welcome in the knitblog community.
Of all the blogs I read, yours has always been the least likely to suck!
xx

Dear Sandy,

Whether you realize it or not, you are on a lovely path, my dear! It is imperative that we carefully choose those with whom we spend time - virtually or otherwise. Like begets like, and if you were to surround yourself with negativity, it would only be a matter of time until you feel into the pit...of...despair.

I'm new to your blog. Thank you for this lovely, heartfelt posting! Please remember, a life well lived will never be boring.

Warmly,
Kelly

I agree with those comments that disagree with your assertion that you are no one special -- au contraine -- you are one terrific woman.

As for negativity, I agree with Heather (fieldofheather.blogpot.com) -- it does spread. I'm for a more positive approach as well.

:-)
xoxox

You know, sometimes I think it's the mundane that defines us. After all, most of us are never going to do anything spectacular, so it's our day to day activities that make us who we are. And that's why we like to read each other's blogs. We learn new things, but we also find out how much alike we really are. And I agree, there should be much less negativity and a lot more positive action in all areas of life. Thanks for being you and sharing yourself with all of us.

Hi Sandy. I'm Laura. And I've never thought you sucked. :)

I do, however, enjoy reading your blog because I think you're one of the flat out funniest people I read. Honest. when it's about buttons or yarn or nothing at all you make me really crack up. That's why I keep coming back! Just keep being yourself. :) (enough smiles yet?)

Do not make me tell you why I love, admire you and know you're amazing. Because I will and it'll make you cry. Yes, I'm that good. :p

How can I not read you? You're Sandy! No, I don't e-mail you my snarky thoughts, but you put up with my silly side and singing daffs. What's not to love?

I've lived long enough to know that life is far too short to spend time on people who do not bring you joy. Life is too hard and icky to go looking for the downside. That comes around on it's own sooner or later. The points of light and goodness are the ones that we need to seek out and love.

And, no, I do not currently have PMS. :p

Waitjustadamnminute, somebody stopped being your friend because you're too happy?
That is just... wow...

I take exception to one thing you said, the part about being no one special. You are an incredibly special person to me. Okay?

I think you solved the mystery of why we read in the sentence before the big Q, I think I like reading your blog because I am a lot like you although I travel quite a lot and am mean sometimes :) oh and your photos are another good reason!

For the record, I've never kicked a puppy. ;-)

You know, I was just thinking about how somehow blogging is all positive - getting the words out feels good, taking pictures does as well, and the comments are always encouraging and nice. Where else in life can you find that? And I'm just as happy to go read somewhere else and see glimpses of another life. Makes me happy, too. So all in all, it's a good thing, isn't it?

I'm glad you choose to be positive. That's one of the reasons I keep coming back. I will admit to reading some of the negative blogs, but not for entertainment, more to keep an eye on them in case they're saying something mean about someone I care about. Which isn't really the right attitude to approach someone's blog with, is it?

My comment on Cara's post was that I choose not to type anyting negative I may be thinking in a comment because as blog free citizen of this community, a comment is all I have for people to determine whether or not they'd choose my friendship. If I'm commenting, it's because I want them to choose Yes.

Of course, after you make the choice you get to learn what a little stinker I really am... Heh...