Pick Me! Pick Me!

So I wake up this morning and it's relatively no different than any other weekday morning. Alarm goes off, wake kids up, get coffee, doing all the "goings on" that get kids ready for school and drop them off. Come back and start working because I'm extremely *lucky* enough to be able to work from home.

Of course, my morning work usually starts with a quick scan of the internet. Morning news homepage, pop over to "entertainment" to see which Hollywood stick figures have embarrassed themselves this past week then, of course, to read two of my favorite blogs: NicoleIsBetter and TheBlogess. One of the reasons I like them is they have such real-life scenarios they write about and make fun of themselves (and others...love that) constantly. I also like that they say it like it is. The way I'd say it if I weren't so damn nervous about offending everyone with the language I'd really like to use sometimes (if you click over to their sites, you've been forewarned so don't get all uppity).

But, I digress...

I quickly notice Nicole (as we...D and I...refer to her, as if we actually *know* her) has changed her blog design. "Holy crap!" I say. "Nicole changed her blog design!" To which D says, "What? I didn't give her permission to do that."

I'm instantly engulfed with a wave of jealousy as I've recently written about how my ADD and lack of html graphic design skills inhibits me from designing my own blog and propel me to change the background of it constantly. I have to go to various websites that supply "free background blogs" and if you know me at all...you know I DESPISE cookie-cutter design things. I prefer custom. I can't do custom blog designs. Logos...I can do. Ads, billboards, notecards, magazine layouts...all done. But I can't design a webpage or, in my case, my blog design.

THEN...I see that her and her roommate (apparently a guru at design-related matters...I kneel at your feet, Jamie) are giving away a custom blog design. Whaaaaaaaat? A few steps are layed-out to have a chance at winning said blog design and I find myself navigating over to my blog to write a post basically saying, in my best Arnold Horshack (hello Welcome Back Kotter) voice, "OOOOH! OOOOH! PICK ME! PICK ME!"

Surely, if they visit my blog, they will see I desperately need this design! If more followers are what I need, just let me know ladies! I'll do what it takes. I know I'm new in the blogworld and my inadequate blog design is killing me! (For you left-brained people...you don't get this desire and never will so just move on).

February 15th is the big day they will announce the winner (:::uh-hum:::...me) and along with my plans of winning the newly introduced Power Ball Lottery to the great state of Texas...this looks like the makings of stand-out month for me.