I am new to blogging as you can clearly see by my very meager archive.

If you had asked me three weeks ago about blogging, I probably would have laughed at you . Who has time for sitting here and typing daily psychobabble when there is work, laundry, carpooling, house straightening, errands, homework, obligations and a shot at sleep to handle?  And why would someone want to read about anything I have to say in the first place?  To me, it’s up there with entering contests all day and trying to get free samples sent to me.  Two other things I don’t get.

I’m working on a marketing program for a client of mine. A difficult client of mine, actually. Big ideas, and absolutely no budget for anything beyond an ad in the local shopper paper. (Not that bad, but it may as well be.)  

I read about the influence bloggers can have and started searching blogs.  Google “blogs” and you get 765,000,000 results. Can you imagine this????  But I still didn’t get WHY it’s such a big thing. What’s in it for the bloggers? Why are marketers and businesses clamouring around them?

The best way to understand it would be to “live it”, right?  So here I am giving it a go for myself, which is why you’re even reading this post in the first place. Unfortunately, I think you are all stuck with me now.

Blogging is……cleansing. I get to vent my thoughts, stupidity and obsessions. It may even prolong the length of my 16 year marriage , because I have greatly cut down on the amount of senseless yapping he must endure.  It’s an online diary and unless I forget to renew my domain name every July, I can have it for eternity.  (Not sure if that’s a positive or a negative yet).  I am enjoying it.

So here I am…….make it  765,000,001 results for blogs on Google

I do want to share with you some of the more unusual blogs I found along the way:

• My Life is Average is one to check out  if you want a quick laugh or just the opportunity to see your day isn’t going as bad as you thought.
• Indexed is a collection of graphs, that my brain is too shot to comprehend at the moment.
• Oddee: Strange Names
• Oddee:Photoshop Mistakes.  Oddee has a big collection of “oddities” besides the two I mentioned here. Entertaining

If you have any you’d like to share, I’d love to see them

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