A month or so ago, I was piddling away evening hours on Facebook when something
That was the easy part.
Then the hysteria began to diminish and the self-doubt speak started flowing. Was anyone even going to look at this thing? There had to be thousands of applicants… What am I doing? My shoulders hunched, but I trudged onward and began to plead. If selected, I promised not only homemade chocolate chip cookies but also a 5-course Italian dinner, complete with my famous tomato basil bruschetta and Amazeball’s meatballs (of course, famous here is used in relative terms). I sat and stared at the blinking cursor on the screen. It didn’t seem like enough–it wasn’t enough. I had no choice but to level with them, so I wrote “If given the opportunity to be a blogger for Urbanspoon, I’d probably poop my pants (in a good way, if that’s possible).”
Then I emailed it off, poop reference and all.
Days passed.
Weeks passed.
And one random day I got a ltitle email…
And holy hell THEY PICKED ME!!!! I’m officially one of seven new Urbanspoon bloggers!
I hope they don’t expect me to follow through with the whole poo thing…
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way to go girl! i could just feel the excitement in your post! yayyyy! so happy for you!
best wishes on this new journey!xo
Thank you, Terri! And you are right, I'm ridiculously excited :)
AWESOME!!! And another good thing is that anyone who responds positively to such a query letter (rather than to the "proper" verbiage of the typical query letter) must be cool to work for! Congratulations, Mare!
I agree! I'm super pumped!
This. Is. AWESOME! So excited for you!
YAY!!! Thank you!!
Woohoo!!!! This is sooo cool! I literally EEK-ed when I read this post. You soooo deserve it.
Awwww thanks Krista!!
Welcome to the team.
-Conrad from Urbanspoon
Thanks, Conrad!
Congrats! What a cool accomplishment!
Thank you, Erin!
PS -- oober jealous of your BlogHer Trip!