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That's about all I have to say about that.

I've commented once or twice before, so not exactly a lurker, but since you specified that lurker-ness is not necessary for a comment here, I'll answer the questions anyway. And briefly. No, I'm not afraid of vampires in any location. Yes-ish, I like babies but I'm still getting to the officially "crazy" state. Yes, I write about my personal life on the internet. No, I do not own even one kitten-size party frock. This last thing strikes me as tragic.

I've commented a couple times but mostly I'm a lurker. As for similarities between us (even though I don't really have a blog) .... um ... I too have a black cat. My black cat is named Molly, even though Molly is a he.

We have a love of champagne very much in common, or so your flick stream would like me to believe.

Also, I grew up in the Bay Area and although I left when I was 11, the soft spot I have for the area remains. And so aside from your incredible grasp on the English language, I come here because it's nice to be reminded of a place I didn't get to know too well but will always remember fondly.

What international travel plans are you cooking up?

I was so not 'um, yeah!' I was excited! And we talked about how lovely you are and so blonde! and so tall! and so pretty! and what a dork I was! and then, whoops, I fell down the (metaphorical) stairs and completed the total embarrassing event where I declared my love for Leah, the internet queen.

Martha--My aunt has a boy cat named Betsy and my grandma had a girl cat named Bingo. My brother and I call my dad's big boy cat Mindy, but mostly just to be pests.

Jennie--We're going to England for Thanksgiving to see the new niece! SO EXCITED.

Lulu--I miss you. What up?

I'm a relatively new reader, and I think I came here via a photo of you with Kristin at Blogher. Is that out of the realm of possibility? Because if it is, I have no idea how I got here. Where are my pants?

Kristin is a great thing for two people to have in common!

You KNOW I love you baby!

I'm *constantly* nodding in agreement with what you say/do and that you must another one of my soul sistas!

Except for the clothes for your cat. I totally don't do that ;)

But you know I love babies, or I wouldn't keep popping them out :)

I've posted a couple comments in the past. Not sure how I found you - I think through the SlackMistress, but I'm not sure how I found her either. I adore your writing, Leah! I am also a Bay Area resident. Sans cats, but have a giant dog who thinks she's a cat. Keep on being you!

I don't know if I'm a lurker or not... I can't 'member the last time I commented here.

Here's something we have in common: we end some of our casual sentences in 'yo.'

That just our steelo.

I love reading your blog but have yet to comment.
So here I go ...

I can relate to your elevator situation. I can't even talk about it without getting massively frustrated so I'll leave it at that.

I don't have cat dress up clothes, but only because my cat would never submit to such indignities without me feeling the wrath of her claws. But if she would, I'd dress her up in a heartbeat. I think she'd look especially fabulous as a tiny Queen Elizabeth, especially if I could get her to sit up and hold a sceptre.

I fear the makeup vultures. I suspect they'd be full of disdain about the minimal amount of foundation and lip gloss I wear and they'd try to give me a full on scary Prom Face.

That aside, probably the weirdest thing we have in common is that our man-partners look oddly alike. I'd post a photo as evidence but I'm not sure how mine would feel about being plastered all over the internet.

Cheers!

I just broke something. A glass something. It shattered all over the floor. And the Lancome vampires scare the crap out of me.

Hmm things I have in common with you, photography of course, (I believe we even have the same camera!!), love of sushi, living in the east bay (I am just across the hills) and tallness (I know the torture of trying to find pants that are long enough).

Makeup and perfume vampires scare me. But you know what scares me most? Makeup ninjas. Those women are so stealth!

I love tuna (as far as sushi is concerned) with a passion that does not extend to many other foods.

Holy shit Tamara is funny.

What we have in common:
- long legs
-intense appreciation for good Italian food, beautiful men, and inner geekiness
-empathy
-flakiness
-a tendency toward neurosis
-kind souls
-intense belief in small happiness.

You're one of my true friendships in the blogosphere. But you knew that.

I don't think we actually have much in common at all. I'm blatantly using you for a fix of living someplace else (such a lovely place, SF) and gorgeous houses.

I am terrified of the department makeup vampires though.

Hello, delurking is something I've procrastinated with.

So...

-we are both blond
-we both like making copious amounts of sushi
-we like pictures
-I lived in Berkeley once.

I think that is all I can muster for now.

I'm a definate lurker here. Quite certain I found your blog through Kristin's TallnLucky (Hey there!) and then found her again through a comment on your blog...weird.

I guess the thing we must have in common is a love of good writing (Yours and K's), there are various other things I'm sure, but I'm not a good on-the-fly listmaker.

You were my first.
I found you via a misguided google search, before I had ever heard of blogging. I fell in love with your site, many of your links, and then started my own blog.
Thanks for popping my blog-cherry.

I have no choice BUT to be baby crazy. And I stole your decorate-a-onesie baby shower idea.

You like cats. I like cats. OMG! ^..^

Delurking for today! Hello!

I used to comment quite regularly but a few months ago changed my job and with that came a much longer commute and less chance to get online. So I might be a lurker again.

Things we have in common:

Mostly it's about you and I being in sort of the same phase of life right now and you write about things that I'm also going through and I can relate with.
Besides that I think we could totally go on a photography shoot together. I love your pictures.
We're both blonde and fair.
I also eat cereal for dinner and I love it.

Hmph...well, I do love cats. And cereal for dinner. Actually, any kind of breakfast for dinner. I take pictures. And I'm creeped out by the sound of someone using fingernail clippers. Oh, and I'm afraid of dolls, clowns, and puppets.

Delurking--

Definitely scared of the makeup vampires. As I often remind my mom, "Do you really want someone who looks like that to help you with your makeup?"

I also often eat cereal for dinner.

And! And! I live in an older, (relatively) crooked house.

Found you through Amalah.

Hiya!
Delurking at last!

I am a picture-taking, cat-loving mama here in NYC. We have two cats, sadly lacking in wardrobe and one human baby who has plenty to wear, and I have been tempted to put some of her clothes on the cats.

I also once went to Tiffany's imagining that I was buying jewelry for the kitties.

Bye-ee!

Makeup vampires give me the heebie-jeebies!

Hi! I don't comment much, but read the blog daily. I started reading when I found out you used to live in Utah with all the Mormons just like me and I love the way you write.

Some other things we have in common: I love my job, my toenails are always painted and I kick ass at Tetris.

And I'm super excited about sweet juniper's one on the way, as I'm sure you are... :)

I can't remember how I found your blog! It was a long time ago.

I've made a lot of friends (and will marry one of 'em) through the internets but you're my first real friend I made through blogging I think. As for similarities? You're living where I used to live, in the industry in which I used to work (only you have the job I wanted, not the one I had). And we both have a predilection for rule-following.

Happy delurking day! Does that make me a mofo?

Hey!! I'm not sure if I have ever commented before. I have been reading your blog since pre-Simon days.You are a very talented photographer. I too love babies!! Especially my beautiful 7 1/2 month old daughter. I also have one siamese cat named Kobe.

I am De-Lurking. I do in fact write about my personal life on the internet. Which at the moment includes trying to contact The Governator for a charity event and being the clerk at a liquor store. I want a kitten. And a puppy. have you tried humming a tune while waiting with people for the elevator to see who hums, taps, sings with you?

Considered me de-lurked...

I too love the sweet little kitties. I have two and a rambunctious puppy. It's a household of puppy-kitty love!!

However, do love the make-up vampires, especially the ones at the MAC counter. I love to go, target the most twacked out makeup guy (always the guys) and let them do their thing. It's always a good time.

...and now back to lurking.

I'm baby crazy, but crazy because I can't have anymore. My fiance was 'snipped' 19 years ago--so the plumbing has been turned off for some time and probably won't work again.

So I love to sniff the baby heads of all of my friends and occasional strangers.

Hi Leah!!

Well, unlike you I have only recently (and somewhat hesitantly) started writing about my life on the Internet. I recently posted about having cankles (even though the rest of me is slender), which marked a HUGE step in baring my soul to the Internet :). However, much like you, I tend to make somewhat quirky observations of the world around me and I love sharing them with other people. While I don't know you personally, I think we are both fiercely appreciative of (and loyal to) the wonderful people in our respective lives. We also both love martinis and despise beer. We are also both totally addicted to your blog :)

Oh, and if you happen to have double-jointed thumbs, that's another check in the "things we have in common" slot....

There are vampires behind make up counters???

I comment quite frequently, but I still wanted to be apart of the mofo'ing commenting.
To be honest we don't actually have much in common at all. Our lives are pretty much completely opposite and I think that is part of the reason I am so smitten with you and your life. I love your honesty, and your house, and your easy going yet hectic life, I love your garden, and your prince that treats you like a princess, I love how much of a grammar nazi you are and that you are close to your family. I mean hey, can this comment be anymore about you! you! you!? haha :) Thanks for letting us all share in the life that you and Simon have created for yourselves.

Hmm I'm in love with an American guy. Thats about as similar as I can figure we are. Oh and we have that same cardigan that I pointed out once :)

I too write about my personal life on the internet. I don't have kitten frocks but I do dress my dog up for a Halloween contest every year. You can see all the craziness at www.fortgreenepups.org, click on events and pick a year of "The Pupkin" and enjoy!

Aside from having general demographics in common (age, cat clothes collection, baby lust), you're an editor. I think that I should have been an editor. Instead I do legal research. You see, nothing sounds more appealing to me than getting paid to remove an unnecessary comma.

reading you for years. like the honesty. (also i broke up with bf same sort of time you did. and then hooked up with a guy called simon around the same time you did (do realise your simon isnt called simon in real life)).

delurking to say that i am also tall. and i know you drink champagne, so if you like brut or extra dry, then we have everything in common that's really important in life.

For the Venn diagram:

I live in sin (though I am not religious so it's not MY sin) with my boyfriend and our big black cat named Biggie Purrs. We are about to buy a house together.

I am not normally baby crazy, but I watched Knocked Up last night and damn...I sort of want one.

One of the makeup counter people at the only local dept. store is obviously trans-gender at 6'+ and with a prominent adams apple. (S)he makes the regular makeup counter vampires seem downright cuddly by comparison.

Oh yeah, I'm delurking to share that important bit of information.

Not a lurker but I would like to think that we have the love of our separate houses and gardens in common. Meaning... you love your house and your garden and I love mine, but yours is pretty cool, too. ;)

I'm not falling for this, off season, one day, delurking business. Traditional, January, week long, delurking is preferred. (Remind me then.) --- Thank you very much.

Okay, okay, you got me...I've been lurking! I first found your site linked from another blog (can't remember who that was anymore), and one of the first posts I read was about how you had discovered workout videos on demand. That prompted me to explore my recently acquired on demand cable...and it was so exciting! Granted, I tell myself I'll take advantage of that feature much more than I actually do, but it's nice to know it's there. And I have you to thank for that!

I started reading your site regularly when you were writing about rearranging the shelves in your library. You have a library! I even found myself browsing your shelves (two copies of Atlas Shrugged?). It's nice to see someone else who likes to be surrounded by a fortress of books.

But this is a bit more specific: "25. I cannot leave this life until I have at least tried out for Jeopardy." I auditioned for Jeopardy, passed the test, but was never called to be on the show. (I blame the fact that I panicked and took too long to answer the "tell us five things about yourself" portion of the form we had to fill out, and ended up leaving it blank.) The weird thing? I'm glad I was never called, even though I had always wanted to audition. Somehow it was enough just to pass that test.

When do we get our nerd awards?

Not a lurker, not a mofo - just stopping by to say HELLO.

Good thing it's not Read Every Comment You Get Week. You're so popular!

Yo, blondie, meet me on International Blvd with that dime bag o' nip. I'll keep the look out for the po-po, you slip me some stash.

Uh...I'm a day late. Is that okay? And because I'm contrary, I'm going to list some common points, but with a twist. Woo!

Common ground: I edit.
Point of divergence: I miss my deadlines regularly.

Common ground: I once worked at a major bookstore chain.(Haven't all editors, more or less?)
Point of divergence: It was Borders. And I kind of liked it. I still miss it at times. Ah, the sweet luxury of leaving work with stories about crazy people, rather than extra work to do at home.

Common ground: I love sparkly white-grape-based alcoholic beverages.

I can't remember if I've actually posted or just wanted to. I grew up in West Jordan and I thankfully got away. I live in Las Vegas now but I'm always looking for "greener" pastures. I love having parties but not getting ready for them. I love taking pictures, good friends and good food.

I haven't had a chance to comment lately. It has been a busy summer! I think that we are more different than similar. You are probably a foot taller than I am, and you eat when it is absolutely necessary and I eat based on what time it is and if I have a craving (I need to work on that). I wish that I could baby crazy. I do admire women that enjoy and excel at being mothers (like Amanda).

What we seem to have in common is an interest in pictures, traveling, writing, and cats (and we both recently moved). I guess that's good enough.

What Carrster said.

This is definitely not de-lurking (hi! comment slut!) but I thought I'd say hi anyway. I think I found you through Krissa, but I don't remember where I found Krissa. I started reading her just before she met Stuart, and you very shortly thereafter.

We have in common:

blond hair
blue eyes
kitty love
baby lust
inherent anti-social tendencies

Have a good non-seasonal, day-long(ish) delurking party!

We have in common:
- An obsessive need to take gratuitous photographs
- A thing for dark and handsome men
- A love of older homes
- A jonesing for giant burritos

and, finally

- That we both took Holly's advice about the CG Lipslicks. I've been obsessively reapplying for about two weeks now.

Not quite a virgin, but certainly not a commenter slut. Perhaps a commenter-prude?
Yes, I am afraid of the make-up vampires. (But not the fake goth-I "really" drink blood-moody vampire types.) I am also baby crazy of both the cat and child varieties, but no cat clothes because that is just weird. I too have dance nights but I don't regret all the time I wasted on So You Think You Can Dance. And you aren't alone when it comes to waiting to eat until you are about to pass out. Lastly, I am not an editor in real life, but deep in my heart I long for the possibility.

uh-oh, i think i'm a late mofo!

I haven't exactly been lurking lately (so is it considered delurking?), but this would qualify as the first comment. Only one day late.

And I can only think of one thing: those damn tofutti cuties.

Hey! The name was my idea. I like to add mofo for everything.

p.s de-lurk
p.p.s i love you

let me count the ways...

i think i first felt a connection when i recognized a beautiful, smart, witty, talented and utterly fabulous woman who shares some of my insecurities. plus a mutual appreciation for jen and tonic and will. i'm often the woman behind the camera, too. and i don't know which i love more - champagne or honey martinis.

really, i'm living vicariously through you - your job, your house, your boyfriend, your cat, your garden, your hot tub, your wardrobe, your camera, your travels, your friends. *mwah!*

rock on, yo.

Delurking. I blog while at work and like vegetables. Also, living in sin. ; )

What is this makeup of which you speak? Department stores? hmmm, sounds familiar but I just can't place it.

I don't blog. Why bother when there are so many other talented people doing it so much better than I could. Besides, writing a blog would take away from my time spent reading blogs. as if

I'm from the Bay Area, and love hearing about it in your posts.

I don't have kitty-sized frocks. But that is only because I can't handle the frantic running with the ears pinned back that happens when we try to put (say, a headband with antlers) on anything adorable. I wish we could, but no.

I've commented a few times...I've also given sushi recommendations for you and Simon. Anyhoo, hi again--back to lurking!

I found your blog a month or so ago. I now read it often, for a glimpse of how organized, tidy people live. I don't know how you do it. (But I want to figure it out, or just at least borrow the experience of it for a few moments here and there.) I adore your house and garden, and your photography. And your photography of your house and garden!

I have my blog as an alternative to writing too many letters home to various family/friend types, as I'm currently living overseas from Canada. I'm discovering it's a lot of fun to write a blog.

So yeah. Thanks for the entertaining writing and jealousy-inducing photographs.

/delurk

hmmm... I didn't want to comment, because the comment indicator said there were 69 comments already.... and I really didn't want to ruin a good thing...
I am a lurker... and now I'm outted... I've read you off and on for a few months, and found you thru slackdaily :)

err.. I forgot to answer the questions... :(
vampires... yes super scarey...
I can't walk past a new baby without trying to sniff it's tiny little head...
and...
I do write about my personal life too... and when I don't, I find myself increasingly stressed for not having the time to process...
no kitten sized party frocks... but an assortment of bunny sized hoodies.

I found you through mollykath who I found through Amalah who I found through a job at a nonprofit in the DC area. It was a horrible job but we had wonderful 3 hour cocktail lunches.

In common.. the new house and photography and hopefully a +1 in the not so distant future.

I love your photos, feel free to share more postings.

Hey,

I'm a million days late but I just found your blog today (via justJENN). So far, from what I gather, we both have kitty babies, we work in the same industry, and we both blog. Also, I am dying to move to SF!