20 Ways to Know You’re Addicted to Your Blog

We’ve been blogging here for just over a month, and we admit it: We’re totally hooked.

We simply, for the life of us, can’t stop typing and cutting and pasting. Can’t stop posting.

I mean, we’re pumping out between 5-7 posts a day!

That said, we’ve decided to write something that both satisfies our blog jones as well as gives a little insight into what we’re going through with this out-of-control thing.

So…here’s our 20 ways to know you’re a blogaholic:

1. You’re terribly depressed, to where you curl up into a fetal position on the couch, when your monthly “unique visitors” goes down by merely a smidgen of a percent.

2. You check Google Analytics every five minutes just to see if you’ve gotten more page hits. Well, er, okay, maybe every three minutes.

3. You dream constantly of, if not obsess upon, the words “Digg” and “StumbleUpon” and “del.icio.us.”

4. You consider changing the font, the colors, the whole damn theme, a dozen times a day.

5. You’re utterly convinced that virtually everything you do is worthy of a post. Your edict: Life is a Blog; Blog is Life! And if, by chance, something you did that day wasn’t worth a blog, well, you vow never to do that thing again.

6. You think about your blog while eating out with friends, on the train and the bus and in your car, and sometimes even when you’re in the bathroom.

7. You Google the name of your blog at least twice a day to see not only who’s mentioning it but if you’ve climbed up a page in the Google rankings.

8. You get downright goose bumps when you think you’ve written a totally genius post. Which, of course, is most of the time.

9. You thoroughly and secretly loathe people who refuse to visit your blog, especially after you’ve invited them to check it out.

10. You scroll up and down your blog 20 times a day just to stare at it lovingly. Some may call this narcissism. We call it dedication.

11. You get completely apoplectic before creating the name of a new blog category.

12. You suffer withdrawal symptoms, such as the shakes or a twitching of the eye, if you haven’t blogged something in a half hour.

13. You take three seconds or less from the time you finish your post to tweeting it.

14. You consider psychological counseling if no one has commented on your posts for more than a day.

15. You wake up from a deep sleep just to post something, then go right back to bed.

16. You sometimes feel compelled, out of nowhere, to whisper the letters RSS as if it were a mantra. In fact, in a strange way, you’re deeply in love with your RSS.

17. You look at your bio or your “About Us” again and again. And somehow, it ALWAYS looks wrong.

18. You will do anything, even something a tad undignified- like BEG! – just for a little link love.

19. You break into a feverish sweat desperately searching for the perfect image to go along with your post. And when you find it, your body fills with so much adrenaline you’re scared you might pass out.

20. You know it’s all in your crazy mind, but you alternately think, sometimes minutes apart, that your blog is either absolutely brilliant or..

Totally sucks.