Veronica’s list of 25 bloggers you should really be reading.

I don’t do resolutions. I never have done and honestly, I forget/fail/ignore enough things as it is without adding resolutions into the mix.

Instead, I present, Veronica’s list of 25 blogs that you should really be reading if you aren’t already.

1) Veronica Foale: Yes, I know this is my other blog. I’m allowed to whore it out here.

2) Julia {here be hippogriffs}: She has twin toddlers and a 7yo. Julia makes me laugh regularly and she can write about the most mundane bits of motherhood and leave me wanting more. Sometimes, I save her posts until I have time enough to savour reading them. She’s good.

3) The Bloggess: Do I really need to say more? Surely everyone knows who she is. Her stream of consciousness reminds me of mine. I just can’t write mine or I really would go insane. Awesome. Enough said.

4) JoBart: Previously known as BSouth’s 365, or Barbaras blog. She had a tough year in 2009, her son was diagnosed with a severe peanut allergy and now she has to carry an epipen everywhere. I thought learning to live gluten free was hard, but living nut free? So much harder. Barbara is one of those women I am proud to count as a friend.

5) Magnetoboldtoo: Awesome. Australian. Enough said. Kelley had a shitty shitty 2009 too. A minor stroke, a torn achilles tendon and damn emos swarming all over her house. I hear that God smited her. Her son, Boo is autistic, just to throw into the mix.

6) Anne Nahm: She has three children, regularly makes me laugh and recently posted photos of her nipple. I mean, what more could you want?

7) Bad Mommy Moments: Need confirmation that you aren’t the only one fucking up your kids beyond repair? Look no further. I love her writing. (And she isn’t really fucking up her children. Not at all.)

8.) Benefit Scrounging Scum: Bendy Girl also has Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and it is thanks to her that I ended up diagnosed. Living with EDS in the UK and making us all laugh along the way. I’m glad I’m not the only one who vomits post-sex.

9) Softthistle: Love Marylin. She recently started up softthistle after her husband left her, but was busily stalking her blog. She is another lady I would love to fly across the world to meet. She’s been a bad bad blogger lately. I blame her new boyfriend. She’s too busy snogging him to worry about the rest of us.

10) Callapippertree: Ali lives in South Australia. Her twitter updates on ‘The State Of The Pelvis‘ normally leave me gasping for air. I know exactly how she feels. I’m not sure if buying your pelvis flowers helps with the pain, but it doesn’t seem like it could hurt.

11) Frogpondsrock: I’m obliged to include her, seeing as how the woman pushed me out of her body 21 years ago with no drugs. It’s my fault that she is blogging at all, so the least I can do is link her. Hehe. No really, she takes amazing photos and I know first hand that her recipes are delicious.

12) Miscellaneous Adventures of an Aussie Mum: Karen is currently reading through an untold amount of submissions for her upcoming book Miscellaneous Voices: Australian Blog Writing 2009. I submitted some pieces to her, so sorry Karen, I’m contributing to your current busyness.

13) Everyday Stranger: You all know I’ve got a minor (major) literary crush on Shannon. I’m always thrilled when I see she’s updated her blog.

14) Flotsam: Alexa got a book deal midway through 2009 so her posting has been a little light lately. I hear her mother has been chastising her for that so I probably don’t need to.

15) Mogantosh: I started reading Mogantosh after she left a comment here. She makes me laugh, lots.

16) Hyphen Mama: Recently gluten free. I vote her most likely to kill her inlaws, probably sooner rather than later. Her inlaws have some serious issues. Serious ones. She still makes me smile.

17) Ordinary Art: Beautiful words. Another literary crush.

18) Ruhlman.com: More famous than anyone I normally link to. I requested his Charcuterie book for Christmas and it arrived the other day. It’s still at Mum’s house, it came in the post the other day. Beautiful food and beautiful photos.

19) The Blog of Becky: How not to live your life: I found Becky recently and devoured her archives, giggling the whole time. She lives much too far away in California. She should really move to Tasmania.

20) Three Ring Circus: I’ve been reading Tiff  for a long long time. Her writing is fantastic and she is mother to eight children. We won’t even mention her photography. I’m a little jealous.

21) The Tensile Times: Achelois keeps claiming that she isn’t a writer, but I always look forwards to her posts. A lot. She also has Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and it helps to be able to commiserate/laugh about it with someone else.

22) Troutie: I found her when The Bloggess linked her. I’m rather thankful for that.

23) Whoopee: Antonia has a daughter about the same age as Amy and another on the way. Her drawings are hilarious and so is her writing.

24) The Buffoon Blog: I only found him recently, through Kristen, but I’m glad I have.

25) Wanderlust: Kristen. She’s collecting flags you know. Yep, you should go check her out. I think she’s got a little bit of snowfever at the moment. Better than heatstroke I suppose.

And lastly, and unnumbered because 25 sounds better than 26, there is Xbox4NappyRash: He’s expecting his first child in February, after a long haul trying to get his Irish Catholic wife pregnant. Really, he should have just been able to look at her sideways and have her ovaries tremble, but alas, it didn’t happen like that.

Oh crap! I forgot Brenda at MummyTime. I’m fairly sure she won’t mind not having a number. Not that the numbers mean anything. Brenda was recently pointed out as one of Bloggers ‘Blogs of Note’. Incidentally, she got a lot of spam. Brenda and Trish are the only 2 blogspot blogs who have captchas that don’t make me want to stab something because I know they’re getting spammed.