Project Mom Casting

Dear Casting People:

I want to be a part of this new TV venture about moms and blogging. Does it help that I watch more reality shows than any other human being on the planet?

You want to know my end game? Watch my Vlog first.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l619c1E6KK4

Seriously, though – my blog is KludgyMom. It is my snarky take on motherhood, with a little sap thrown in so people don’t think I’m totally cold and unfeeling.

A bloggy friend told me last week that my blog and I should rule the world. So here I am. World, meet your new ruler.

What’s my story arc? I’m your classic comeback kid. I already ruled this world once.

I first surfed the Internet in 1996. I am a charter member of match.com – I was on version 0.1 of their website. Most of today’s bloggers weren’t out of high school yet. (If this whole casting thing doesn’t work out, maybe I could sell my highly-coveted match.com screenname, “girlnextdoor”).

I ran an online store for a Fortune 500 company at the height of the dot-com frenzy. My life WAS the Internet. And I kind of ruled.

I quit my job to have kids. I wasn’t as plugged in to all things Web anymore.

And 2 years ago, the bottom fell out. Big time financial struggles.

My husband put a moratorium on eating out, and I had to learn how to cook. Fast. I started blogging about learning to cook. I immersed in Facebook and re-establishing old connections. This year, I decided I had more to talk about than food.

You see, I was vexed to discover that what defined success in corporate America does not help one whit in parenting. Damn kids, they don’t follow a project plan. So I patch it all together. It’s not elegant, it’s not pretty, but it works. It’s kludgy – a term used in high tech for, basically, a half-assed solution.

And my blog, KludgyMom, was born. It’s about the art of living haphazardly.

With my background, one would think I could’ve started blogging with a substantial headstart. Only I entered Web 2.0 to discover that I was now somewhat of a newbie all over again. I was an expert at Web 1.0, but now that information is common knowledge. 

Twittering and bitly-ing and meme-ing? What the hell was all this? It was a young chick’s game, and I was a veritable senior citizen in Web terms.

But I’ve ruled this world before, and I made a crapload of money doing it. And guess what? I want to do it again.

Because I’m not ready to go back to an office full time. Because I want my husband to retire early. Because it’s what I love to do. And I’m damn good at it. And I’m good at helping other people do it, too.

So, with the force I once used to apply toward  making a company tens of millions of dollars, I now Twitter, Facebook, post, comment, read, network all day. It is my full time job, currently non-paying.

I gave myself one year to succeed. I will do it without this opportunity or not. But I’d like to have the opportunity. Dancing with the Stars awaits!

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