Blog Explosion fan

I have recently (this last week) signed up on Blog Explosion to increase traffic here. Much to my surprise, it works! If you're reading this, I guess you know this, since all of my hits have come from Blog Explosion.
But as a side to this, I find that reading blogs is an insidiously addictive habit. It's like eavesdropping on conversations in public places, except you get the whole story instead of just snippets.
I remember riding on BART one time in SF, and sitting behind two women discussing a mutual friend and her trials and tribulations. My eyes were popping when something they said revealed the truth--they were talking about a soap opera. Whew!
Anyway, blogs come in all shapes and sizes and as I'm clicking through, I find that what catches my attention and what causes me to wait impatiently for the GO to appear is pretty consistent.
I click past all the religious ones, anything that starts with a bible verse. It's like listening to people critique stories about the easter bunny--too much fantasy for me (just my opinion!).
I click past most of the political ones, the deep division in this country after the elections is really disturbing no matter who you voted for. The opinions expressed by foreigners about our election are interesting, tho. Yes, 50,000,000 people can be that dumb.
I click past any blogs that deal with how much they drank, who they threw up on, what the other people were wearing at the party, you know the type. I'm not offended, just bored. I don't know why drunks think they are so entertaining.
I give the music review sites a quick scan, but I'm so ignorant of the modern music scene that I don't know enough to understand them.
I really like the ones with photos, not "art" photos, just the random snapshots of people's lives.
I really like the blogs from the UK and Australia folks, their slang sounds so new, and their lives so different from mine. Some of the blogs from other countries are readable too, if the English isn't too fractured. Some of the American sites suffer from bad grammar, spelling, and that annoying habit of sprinkling ''''' everywhere, possessive or contractions notwithstanding, and that makes them tough to read, I feel the need to pick up my red pencil and correct them, and it's so hard on the screen! I personally re-read my posts and edit them if I catch new typos, I think it's the least one can do.
I mostly read the "diary" type entries from women and men to whom I can relate: mothers and fathers with kids (well, duh), family life, job woes, pets, chores, and so on. I'd read a post on what happened when the deliveryman came anytime rather than an expose on some Survivor episode.
I blogmark any likely site and come back to read more when I am not surfing the blogsphere. Some of them are definitely worth a second look.
So leave me a comment if you feel moved, and I will try to do the same. This is so cool.

Addendum: I am amazed and thrilled at the way my site counter is climbing up there--Not a huge number, but plenty for me to feel good about. And real live people are leaving me comments, some of them quite complimentary. Woohoo! My birthday is tomorrow and this is an un-looked for present. I'm on my way to check out their blogs in turn.