- You have more sticky notes around your work computer that relate to your blog instead of your actual job.
- You start referring to your fellow bloggers as your “friends” and use their name and location in conversation.
- Times in other countries is actually something you take into consideration when publishing a post or using social networks.
- You will wake up an hour early to write a blog…but won’t wake up an hour early to work out.
- You use your recorder on your phone to capture potential blog topics while driving so that you don’t forget them (of course only while stopped at red lights. I would never ever do this while driving…ever…).
- You compulsively check your blog stats like they are the Nielsen ratings.
- You make plans on the weekend around your blogging schedule.
- Your life becomes more entertaining as a result of needing things to blog about (and sometimes simultaneously more expensive).
- You get a 692 page book from the library entitled, Blogging All-In-One For Dummies…and intend to read every page.
- You gossip/complain about other blogger’s sites to your friends, and justify by complimenting yourself somehow (i.e. “I cannot believe that so-and-so stole my layout, I totally had it first! They are just jealous.”).
- You write a post about how you know when you need Bloggers Anonymous…and can fill it with multiple examples (I surrender!).
I’m sure there are hundreds more…let’s hear them…
LOL… great post! And thanks for visiting me. Sorry to add a link, but if you’re a stats checker, you should read this: http://brownroadchronicles.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/boobs/. I wrote it after compulsively checking my stats page early on when my blog just started. It’s not about what it seems to be about, but it’s funny! Have enjoyed reading your stuff!
Thanks for sharing and visiting. I will definitely check it out!
Ok, I totally reblogged that as I laughed so hard, I almost cried. I love the BOOBS acronym. I had no idea there was an “OBD!?”
Love it, and so true! We can’t be too hard on ourselves…there are worse addictions to have!
Cheers,
Courtney Hosny
http://www.oneweektocrazy.com
This is true! Great way of looking at it.
Oh no! I’m a total blogaholic too!
I’m not on my way to curing my addiction because my first reaction after reading your post wasn’t ‘hum, maybe I should stop checking my stats so often” but “Blogging all in one for dummies? I need that book! Where can I find it!”
Hi there- I picked it up from the library but bet it would be on Amazon!
Busted…where do I sign up for the first meeting?
Love your post. I actually have stopped checking my stats precisely because it had become my addiction.
Also, I needed to stop writing for the sake of posting. The writing itself needed to be all that mattered. If I post today, fine. If I don’t, also fine.
Anyhow, love your blog. Count me in. Tom
Ha ha, love this post! Can personally relate to so many of those points!
loved loved loved the post……….I was so this when I started off with blogging.
Luckily, the kids have decided to take up most of my time, to keep me out of blogging atleast for few days a week
So what you are saying is… I need children, lol!
well, yea…….may b…..lol
Far too many of those “when’s” apply to me but too bad, I’m hooked
completely and utterly true
LOL…this is totally cool…every point is like some way or the other so much applicable to all bloggers
5 years of blogging has done this to me too 
I’m only at a year and a half! Oh no! Whatever will I be like in another 4 years!?
hahaha don’t worry you’ll be just fine
this B-town is a lovely place 
enzoi!
I love this! It’s so true. I recently bought a purse-sized notebook and pen so I could jot down blog ideas on the whim, I am frequently concerned that my readers will abandon my blog and I will essentially be “cancelled due to low ratings,” and I was just talking to a fellow wish granter yesterday about… well, you actually and how you volunteer at Give Kids the World. =)
*stands in front of the room* “My name is Jessica and I am a blogaholic.”
(Group says) Hi Jessica!
LOL!
hmmmm….. I may have a problem…….
Lol, welcome to the group! We will be hosting rehab sessions on Monday night at…totally kidding…LOL!
I feel like you wrote this post just for me. LOL! I went on vacation with a plan of things to do just to blog about them and started taking pictures again so that I can have original photos for the blog. Kind of sad really. Thanks for stopping by the Jotter’s Joint. Hope you stop by again.
Gail
Hey, if it makes our lives more fun and adventurous, than I see it as a great motivation! I will admit, I do the same. But what’s better than having fun times, and be able to share them!?
I can’t think of anything more fun. You’re right.
I look forward to reading about them too! I love living vicariously through others!
I’ve only been blogging for about a month and a half and I’m hooked and guilty! Here’s my addition: Your spouse is so tired of you trying to break stat records and having to hear about it that he begins to shamelessly plug your blog to his friends so you’ll just shut up about it.
Hahaha! That’s awesome. You dear, have an amazing spouse!
Indeed I do! For the record with his help, I blew my previous stat out of the water. Now I’m trying to figure out what to do to top it…
Wooo hooo! Congrats! Aim higher friend! You can totally get there.
When you wake at 2.30am and your first thought is “i should check my stats, it’s still mid evening in the states”
Like i’m doing now!
LOL! That’s classic. I do the same around 3am but that’s because it’s a new day for half my followers already. Good one!
And then not going back to sleep straight away in case your comment gets a reply
Do you mean hitting “refresh” every 5 seconds hoping that the reply will pop up, lol?
Yep
You turn off “likes” to force people to comment because you want someone to talk to.
Ahh but your likes are on now! Had they not been, perhaps you wouldn’t have ventured back here and we wouldn’t have “talked.” So I’m glad your likes are on. And thanks for the return visit.
Today wasn’t a lonely day.
I’m glad it wasn’t. I wish you many more.
So true…I keep looking at people’s faces now to see if they are people I “know” that is follow on wordpress lol. And conversations with people are subject to consideration for blog posts
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Lol, love that you say people “you know!” The conversation turned post…I forgot about that!
Brava. Sooooo true!
Thanks Fred!
Glad to follow!
Glad to have you sir!
Cheers, lass
You start to say something interesting or clever in conversation, then stop yourself and think, “On second thought, maybe I’ll write a post about that.”
Guilty! That’s a good one…
Oh no. I lost on the very first one. All I do at work is blog and read blogs and check my stats. Oh no.
Well admitting you have a problem is the first step!
LOL! That it is.
I’ve only got a minute to comment because I’ve got to stick to my blogging schedule. (Do I have a problem?) Love the post! So funny, and, sadly, so true! Thank you for reading my blog! Am happy to have “met” you! Can I call you my “friend” now, too?
Of course, what else would you refer to me as?! LOL! Nice to meet you as well.
Thanks, friend!
I think I need Bloggers Anonymous! Is it good or bad when you can relate to all points in some way? LOL Great blog and thank you for checking out BikerMonkeyBlog! BikerMonkey
Well good in the sense that I feel better as I’m not alone. Lol! Thanks for the return visit.
You know you need BA when your “stats” are high and you feel like you have more friends and when your “stats” are low you wonder what you have done to upset all your “friends”
Bahaha! That’s awesome! So true.
OMG, I think I need help!
I actually get up earlier in the morning not to blog, but to check reactions on my blog… And to read other blogs as well 
I’m guilty as well…it’s ok. You’re not alone!
I keep a tiny logbook of my everyday events so I can keep track of everything! Whatever you said was absolutely true!
Cheers,
Ivan
Good idea. That may be better than collecting my sticky notes at the end of the day and trying to keep track of them all. Thanks for the tip!
As a native Floridian and a new blogger I hope to learn from bloggers like you. Really humorous post! Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed! Thanks so much for visiting.
Reblogged this on Not So Skinny Genes and commented:
See what my “friend” Stephanie from Florida has to say aout us bloggers
Bahahaha! I was just talking about my “friend” Laura from Canada this morning…too funny!
that’s awesome! kindred spirits indeed.
Bahaha, can I reblog this? I take your silence as unspoken approval
My life definitely seems more interesting because I have to work harder to make it more interesting
I don’t worry about the weekends though, I’m so glad I set out from the beginning that I would be a Mon-Fri blogger!
LOL! I approve, but LOVE that you took my unspoken silence as approval. So Gemini! I do a lot of pre-blogging on the weekends, as weekdays with work/gym time can be tricky!
Haha excellent.