This Old Blog - aka So Two Thousand and Late

So you know this is one of the oldest blogs in the blogosphere, right?

Yep.  Yep.  Been typin' round these here parts since way back in Oh-Five.   'Course, back in the day, it was a lot more photos and a whole lot less of my own take on the world.  At that point,  with a three month old baby and a two year old, I was celebrating more than four hours of consecutive sleep in any one night and speaking in full sentences once in a while.

Now.  By the standards of modern blogging in 2011, this here blog is downright homely.  That's right - I said it.  Homely.  Not obnoxious, with huge blobs of multi-colored scrapbooking paper strewn about.  But just... plain.

I've been stewing over this sad & homely state of affairs for quite some time now.  Never mind that I have a posting schedule that could only generously be called haphazard.  Never mind that I go long stretches where the cleverest thing to cross my head is by jove, I've got it! Oatmeal for breakfast! I just keep pretending that if my blog was high-class, high speed and self-hosted (dontcha know) then I would absolutely be inspired to post every day.

So here is where I share exciting news:  do you remember katdish, who so kindly invited me to guest post last summer? At this very moment, she is hosting a giveaway on her blog - sharing the giveaway, in fact, with Peter Pollock - that offers the chance at a new life.  A new blog life anyway.

If I win [she fluttters hands over her chest excitedly] Kathy & Peter would help out with getting me switched over to Wordpress, sorting out my very own domain name, and getting the whole site hosted.  There are 3 separate prizes, and if you're at all interested I'd strongly suggest going on over there to check out what's going on.

Here's there deal:  I saw in my tea leaves the other day that I am totally going to win the Big Enchilada.  But... if you enter too you may be almost as lucky as me and win like, second or third prize.  And I promise I won't lord it over you on the winner's podium.  Scamper on over and check it out.  Tell 'em I sent ya.   But don't delay - the giveaway ends tomorrow!

In the meantime, I will carry on with my fake Gold Rush Miner accent and massacring metaphors here on my homely site,  counting the hours until I hit the bigtime.

So.  I'll let you know if the tea leaves were telling it straight.