Thank you Jen!!!

I want to publically thank Jen over at Jen's Lap Band Journey for inspiring me to learn more about the inner workings of blogs. I have been trying to learn more about how to do things differently with blogs for quite some time. Last year I bought “Blogging for Dummies” and being the completely anal retentive dork I am, I started on page one and started reading. After bashing my head into the table several times because I fell asleep from sheer boredom, I put it away.

I knew I wanted to know stuff, but I didn’t know what I wanted to know. It was too big, too much information. I didn’t know what I didn’t know if you know what I mean. So I’ve been trudging along with my unsatisfyingly boring blog knowing at some point I’d get back to it and then… Wham! Jen had her blog makeover contest. Sure, I thought about entering, but, I’d already spent all this time and had big bumps on my head to prove it, trying to figure it out. I couldn’t do it. I still wanted to learn about it myself. But Jen's contest was the key. She listed specifically what the makeover would include and that gave me the specific direction I needed.

I pulled my stupid, idiotic, lovely Blogging for Dummies book back out and quickly determined it wasn’t going to be remotely helpful and that my sore head had all been in vain. But then one thing led to another and I searched through other sources and while I am in no way in her league and I haven’t even attempted the header yet, I got a nifty little signature and a cute little font for my titles. I’m all kinds of proud of myself, but truly I owe it all to her. So thanks Jen, I totally appreciate it.