You kind of forget how invested you are in the lives of the people behind the blogs you read until one day you click on their link in your feed reader and BAM! Rejected, blocked out. “This blog is open to invited readers only” and you weren’t invited somehow.

Dude, Kelly, what’s up? I get a little behind on my blog reading, and suddenly you’ve gone all private on me. I don’t even have your email address to tell you how desperate I am to be invited. I can see that you’ve posted twice since I last stopped by, and one of them is titled “TOTAL DISBELIEF” in all caps. What? What is total belief? Why? What happened? I must know!

Good thing I’ve got this little tool called my own blog to write a public statement that says: I’m pretty sure we’re friends. Right? Can I be an invited reader or what? Help me out girl.

As for the rest of you, if I find a similar message on your blog with no warning, I’ll either cry or punch you in the thigh. Depends on my mood that day. So just don’t okay?