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I almost got sucked into the marketing mecca that blogging has become these days.

Maybe I have a computer that is so out dated that it does not block the bombardment of banners and pop-ups suggesting that if you "click here", there will be money there.
But when enough of that type of solicitation kept appearing on my screen,  I finally succumbed, and began trying to sell things on my blog.

forgive me.....

Even though finance is at the forefront of most endeavors these days, I forgot that blogging should be to comfort and inform and most importantly, expose. Blogging experts (of which I'm not) will contend there are many other reasons for blogging -and there are - but those 3 - *comfort*, *inform*, and *expose* will be mine....OK?....OK.

Blogging comforts me in knowing that there are so many more happy people out there than the unhappy.  Maybe , I am biased in that opinion, but I surf many blogs, and most of them I just click "NEXT BLOG", because those blogs are about happy and peppy and bursting with love....people.

Blogging informs me on the life style and customs of other cultures, and allows me to experience the world from my tiny office.

And finally, blogging exposes the inner most thoughts and feelings - good or bad - of my fellow humans, on the events in the world that affect all of us.

I have to confess that I was very frightened of asking that my blog be invited to join other blogs because mine was not all blessed and perfect and happy and peppy and bursting with love.  My blog was going to be about all the everyday crap in my life, and consequently, how it got to be so crappy.

So when I saw that along with all the happy and loving blogs I was reading, there were, also,  just loads of ...."Why Don't You Buy What I'm Selling" blogs, amongst the selections, I tried to tweek and conform.....and maybe I could get accepted into the blog society.

I haphazardly refined my blogging techniques to where I was revealing some of my crappy life, and combined it with marketing techniques on selling an affilliate item , with someone else's website. 

A simple review of my previous posts, (though perhaps cleverly disguised in the Title) will suffice as an example of how I was willing to desecrate the sanctity of the blog.

Starting today, I am going to return to writing about my dreadful life.  The first and foremost reason for this decision, is that I love to write.  "Please tell me"  -kind reader- 
"Isn't a blog just a diary for the world to be able to access"?

My blog posts will always be truthful, yet not always cheerful. 

The very first comment I ever received for my very first blog was from a reader that (in so many words) said.... "I needed some professional help".  And she didn't mean golf lessons.

The commenter, who herself has a wonderfully visual and expressive blog, helped me to realize that at least there was no "bull-s**t" coming from my brain to these written words.

So, I invite you to drive by my place every now and then, and stop for a cup and a dish of whatever I'm serving that day.  And until I have enough money to be able to agree with others who profess that "money can't buy happiness", you're going to have to share some humble pie along with a couple of anecdotes of a poor man's survival in America.