Blog Review #1

I thought it might be fun to talk about the blogs that I love or blogs that I have just found. Share the wealth so to speak.

A few of you out there are familiar with MyBlogLog. It is essentially a community building site. A place where you can make contacts and links and find new blogs.

It is a nice idea. It focuses more on community instead of traffic building and rankings.

I have met some very interesting characters there and they have some fun widgets to add to your site. They have a free subscription and then a paid one where, I assume, you get more access and fun stuff to play with.

Through there this AM, I was sent a message to check out MySiteProfile.

This is a new site eager for new membership. Again, this appears to be a networking, community building site that focuses on Bloggers, Web Designers, and so on.

You can totally customize your profile page. And they have a contest for the nicest design. They have a mini blog section you can set up. Forums, groups, friends and much more. I have just started to explore this.

I like the layout and design of this site. I think people in the 'biz' and people starting out could have a lot of fun here and make some good contacts if enough people join up. It offers yet another place to promote yourself and your site and build up linkages and so on without the competitive feel of some of the rankings sites.

Check em out. Tell me what you think!

Greetings old and new friends

I am sure the old friends are a bit befuddled by my sudden disapearance yesterday.

After upsetting my husband twice over posts that I thought were perfectdly innocent I decided that while I have LOVED my blog, my relationship with him was more important.

So I deleted it. The whole thing.

I thought I would be REALLY upset over it..but strangely I am not. I am sad about it, but also know it was the right decision. I need to focus on my real life too.

However, be dammed if I am going to abandon the blog world all together. I am having too much fun and have made too many friends, who I hope to find again..or that they find ME again!

So I am going to scale back on the family stuff. There are lots of other things about ME that I can explore.

Two things that are really important to me is SQT's Fantasy & Sci-Fi Lovin Blog and Stewart Sternberg's House of Sternberg.

The first because I LOVE talking sci fi and fantasy with such a fun crew.

The second because Mr. Sternberg has given me the encouragement and permission to take his fun 'Writing Assignments' to hone our literary skills. I have done two of them and thoroughly enjoyed the process and the discussion that surrounds everyone's contributions.

This is good for me. I will post the two short stories I have already done when I dig em up from Word.

I have not given up the personal or 'mommy' blog. In fact I am working on and hopefully launching very soon Wet Coast Woman . This is going to hopefully be a meeting place for all the women bloggers lurking on BC's WestCoast.....you know who you are! So stay tuned.

So this new incarnation.....new for the NEW YEAR and all that.....will be a bit more esoteric. I think I am going to try and cover more issues and ideas, opinions and so forth.

I think I will still do the 'Inside the Brain of Adam'....people get a kick out of it and it cracks me up too.

I do hope this doesn't upset people.

I apologize to all the people who have linked to me.
I apologize to all the people that I have advertising 'deals' set up with.

I am sorry for the abruptness of it all.

I am sure people feel that I could have just 'edited'...but it just felt right for me to just sweep the old away.

I lay awake for hours last night thinking about this and realizing that it was the right thing to do and that I felt ok about it.

So. On with the new.

Happy New Year.