I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl

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Blog of the Week #2 -- I have ordinary addictions

Allow me to introduce you to Mandy, a 28 year-old dreamer and idealist from Dallas, Texas.

For some reason I thought that finding good blogs for this feature would be really easy. How hard can can it be? There are millions of blogs out there, so it stands to reason that there must be some good ones, right? All you have to do is find them.

Ah. But that's the rub, isn't it? To find the good ones, you have to wade through oceans and oceans of turgid shite. How many knitting blogs can the world possibly need. I must have spent bloody hours trawling around looking for inspiration. I tried the "Next Blog" button, I tried using the interests in my profile, I tried using the directory on Britblog.... I tried loads of stuff. Just as I was on the point of despair though, I wandered into this one.

You know how when you are looking for a house, and you walk into somewhere and it just *feels* right? You get this feeling in your gut, and the whole place just feels, well, comfortable? I got that feeling here.

I have to say that I wasn't initally sure why. There's nothing wrong with the last couple of posts, but to a passing reader, I suppose there isn't anything obvious in them to make you want to hang around. Blah blah blah, the weekend, blah blah blah appointment with the urologist blah blah blah.

Something made me keep scrolling though... and I found a list of the albums of 2005. Hmm. Always worth a look. The White Stripes? Gruff Rhys? Sigur Ros? Clap Your Hands Say Yeah? Kaiser Chiefs? Bloc Party? Maximo Park? Clearly no ordinary resident of Texas.... a thought that is confirmed by a look in the biography.... she likes to sing along to Belle & Sebastian? Yay! (not to mention an apparent love of reading.... Becket, Hardy, Wilde, Salinger)

I sense a kindred spirit and I'm sold.

She also once baked cookies for the Super Furry Animals. Not a lot of people can say that (although whether or not they were the type of cookies that I imagine that lot *usually* eat, she didn't say....)

Blog of the Week.

Go say hello.

[Previous blog of the week: Delrico Bandito]

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