BlogHer-larious!

Admittedly, a stretch for titular wordplay---it beat the inapplicable, yet highly tempting alternative: BlogHerpes.

Since laughter was ever-present in my BlogHer experience and a sexually transmitted disease (even though I did sleep three nights in a row with a special someone I'd just met) was not, BlogHer-larity prevails.

Posts opining on the edifying sessions are already out there. Posts lauding the caliber of the keynote speakers are already out there. Posts basking in the Sodom & Gomorrah-esque swag gluttony are already out there.

This post---my post---celebrates long-awaited meet-ups, a few overdue first introductions and a couple of real-life reunions---with some of my very favorite bloggers.

With the outrageously funny BlueViolet from A Nut in a Nutshell ...(We're quite confident Kim Kardashian is not a blogger...wax or otherwise...)

With divine dancer and fellow multiples mama, Goddess in Progress (also of HDYDI?)

With lovely Lolli of Better in Bulk and stunnning Safire of Waterfalling Up

Adorable Janine of Twofer Mom and fellow Richmonder Linda Sellers of Born to Be Wild

At long last, meeting the exuberant Tonya of This and That!

And last, but in no sense of the word least, the incomparable inhabitants of the room that reads like a bust and a waist measurement, Hilton #3526....

With Nicole of Cute Culture Chick...

...and with Jen, aka Momma D and Da Boyz, and Sarah of Tech4Moms (a keynote speaker, nonetheless!)

BlogHer'10 reinforced the importance of strong, thoughtful, humorous writing on blogs. More importantly in my view, it reinforced the importance of strong, thoughtful humorous blog writers---many of whom I now feel blessed to consider "real-life" friends.

In the coming days, I'll plow through the reusable Hillshire Farms sandwich box filled with the business cards of bloggers whose sites I want to explore, and will undoubtedly add many to my blogroll. But for now, the new Jimmy Dean alarm clock will be waking me sooner than I'd like....