A Post About Buying Business Cards

In less than two short weeks I will be at BlogHer '09. Pretty much everything is ready for this trip to be made. Except for a little thing that I kinda forgot. Sorta.

Business cards.

What's the big deal, you may ask? Who cares if you have business cards are not? And why do you need a business card? You have a pitiful, wannabe blog, not a business.

(Oh, if you actually said that last sentence to me, I might cry a little bit. And then get a box of tissues. And some chocolate. Chocolate makes everything better.)

I quickly found out after winning my trip from JVC that if you want to quickly exchange information such as blog and email addresses with other bloggers, you buy business cards. It is much easier to whip out a card to hand to someone you meet, rather than "Oh, excuse me while I dig in this bottomless pit called a purse to find a crumpled up piece of paper and half a pencil to write my info on." Unless you want the info written on baby socks. I seem to have lots of those in my purse.

Now, folks, I have had over a month to order some business cards. A month. More than. Yet, I like to live on the edge until there is less than two weeks. And so, this morning? Yeah, I decide that today is the day. I will easily pick a business card, fill in the necessary items, and have it shipped before I leave.

I love my dream world. It is such a fun place to be.

Did you know that if you wait to order business cards when you have less than two weeks before your event that you'll need to get 3-day shipping? And did you know that 3-day shipping costs a little more than *gulp* $30. Thirty dollars.

As I am sure you have guessed, I will not have beautiful, professionally-made business cards to hand out to those I meet at BlogHer. They were pretty. Had a little bird. And some pink. And brown.

You never know, though. I may start the next trend. Black and white home printed business cards will be all the rage before you know.

And hey? At least my business cards did not originate from a place with a goofy monkey.

Just sayin'.