Looking For Offramp Gets Facelift

Not me - the blog! Angie at Cup of Snarky took my very generic blog and gave it an extreme makeover. You may notice some little quirks now and then as I screw things up while getting the feel of it - that's my fault, not Angie's.

Even more than the newness and professional look of it, what amazes me is that Angie didn't know me at all, yet invested her time in doing this for me. And that gave me a pick-me-up a week or two ago when I was all depressed about some stuff that was going on, and my mouse hand was hurting me even when I wasn't mousing. Angie, you mentioned karma in one of your "I Love" posts and I'm going to try to pass it on somehow.

So this is about all I can handle today. I'm ramping up slowly, and off to check out a few of my favorite blogs.

Zebra, you may now comment.

Blogging Obsession

I was in the shower when I felt a blog post coming on. I slammed the faucet down, threw on a towel, and raced for the computer. The towel didn't totally dry me off and I slipped in my own drip dry water and fell flat on my butt. Broken and bruised, I crawled to the computer and with my last gram of strength, assumed the position and started typing.

I've been at this less than two months, but every night I spend a good three hours on the computer after a 9+ hour day on the computer at work.
My mouse hand is way sore.

Twice I've deleted posts that I thought were stupid, only to have my work buddies or another blogger say that they liked that particular post and ask why I deleted it. Maybe I should leave them in. Besides, even though I delete them, parts of them still appear on Humor Blogs, like vampires that refuse to die. (Note to self: buy steaks, garlic, and crosses)

The following questions remain unanswered:

• Is there such thing as blog ettiquette? If someone leaves me a comment or a smiley do I automatically return the favor, even if I can't think of anything intelligent to say or didn't understand the post? What about keepin' it real?


• If Diesel answers my email, do I write back to thank him or leave him in peace as he probably has buickloads of bloggers to process?


• What is going on with English? I visit blogs of the people who visit mine, but some posts go over my head as I've been out of the country too long and there are all these words - snarky, meme, etc., that were not there when I left, and stores and restaurants that I haven't heard of, and googling every other sentence messes up the flow...


• How many times can I vote for myself? Is it stupid not to? Like on America's Next Top Model which I never watch when Tyra asks Amberjessicait which girl she thinks should win and then when Amberjessicait says one of the other girls' name, Tyra votes Amberjessicait off because she "doesn't want this enough".