I was recently introduced to his blog. I was greatly impressed by his words and wanted to share his latest post along with my comment. I believe it speaks for itself.

Grandmaster’s Blog and my long ass comment(Scroll up to read his words first)

P.S. Pardon Grandmaster’s typos, he’s a pretty old dude. (But wise! Oh, so wise!)

Onto new things… I got a new job!  I’m finally moving out of the consulting arena and into a full-time, permanent position with benefits.  Not necessarily what my “dream” was a few years ago, but dreams are often overshadowed by reality.

More new things… you could win a $500 Apple Gift Card!!  Yep, it’s true.  I found out about this contest through the awesome CecilyK, so as a way of thanking her and also entering myself into the contest, I am blogging about it here.  Good luck, all you Apple-heads!

I’m posting this to enter a contest offered by Cashier Live, a point of sale software company, at Indie Biz Chicks. Enter to win here: I want to win a $500 Apple Gift Card from IndieBizChicks!

or here:

Win a $500 Apple Gift Card!

Even MORE new things… my wonderful sister, my other half, my everything… is pregnant with her first baby!  Words cannot describe how terrific this is, or how happy I am for her.  She and her husband deserve this, and have tried for a long time.  This is one very wanted baby and the amount of love he or she will have will be insurmountable.  I’m also psyched to get to know my sister as a mother, since I’ve been one for almost 6 years now and she has yet to experience the fantastic, terrifying ride.

hooray for new things!

I am frightened. I am unsure and unsteady. I am hurt and am the cause of others’ hurt. I am broken. I am damaged. I need help. I need love. I am optimistic and terrified.

I am alive and I am going!

A note to Alan Ball, if for nothing else, and I mean NOTHING else… thank you for the gratuitous eye candy during last night’s episode. What a beautiful bunch of men you’ve hired.

I’m posting this to enter a contest offered by Buy More Contacts at Uppercase Woman! I want to win the iPad 2!  Enter to win HERE!

Thanks for loving me.

Apologies for the selfishness, but I will promise to the, what, 2 people who read my blog that I’ll come back soon and post all sorts of grisly, gossipy stuff. Oh, I KNOW.

so, i might switch to Tumblr. Unfortunately I’m aware of some wrinkles that Tumblr’s been going through, and I don’t even really know where that leaves the site and its network of thoughtful authors. I think I’d be better suited to a Tumblr-like situation, nonetheless. My thoughts and experiences come in drips and drops, like inkblots and spaghetti sauce splatters. I don’t have the time to devote to creating banners or making phone calls and begging for sales and behind-the-scenes codes and scripts and shit. I rarely have the inspiration to write anything at all – sometimes I just want to share a funny YouTube video or song that’s been running through my head. I really wanted to be something BIG, but I never gave this desire enough effort. In my defense, I really don’t have the time or energy to. Two children are essentially all-consuming, so whatever hours are left over for “me” are spent trying not to think or do much of anything. Quiet time for the gray matter, if you will. Dreaming about blogging was fun, and the hope for creating a masterpiece was real. Obviously WordPress was the simple way to do it, and from what i have here already it was an enjoyable and easy little journal of sorts to play around with. Perhaps there’s a better avenue, though, for the subordinate like me… one where I won’t feel sad if I leave it alone for weeks on end. I want to be okay with not posting often. I want to know that the design I participate in doesn’t offer me a myriad of templates and add-ons, of domains and virtually unlimited media potential to cast away and leave out to rust, like the plaster-molds of trophies that never had the chance to build something golden. I want the remedial version of blogging. I’m just not in the same class as the valedictorians that I read and follow on twitter, whom I secretly wish I was more like (at least I wish my blog was more like theirs with all the clanging bells and melodic whistles). Part of me really wants to be able to brag about getting 400,000 page hits an hour and have upwards of millions of twitter followers. I want to be funny and anticipated. I want to be worth the attention. I want a life I don’t have.

I am me, and I’m not sure I belong in the big, bad vast society of privately-owned domains and fan mail.

So do I keep this up, however overlooked and delusive? Do I give Tumblr a go? Or do I continue to act dejected over an enterprise that has always rested on the back burner? It’s time I find something to fire up, I just don’t know what that is… yet.

Good things are happening. And yes, I am fully aware that October has already passed. Hush, yeah you there in the back, I see you.

So what’s cookin’ in your neck of the woods? I just finished off a couple batches of raspberry jam, thanks in part to a local farm that grows everything wondrous and resplendent (including their raspberries).

Now I’m off to get myself into trouble, I have some potatoes itching to be boiled.