Level Two

I’ve made it to Level Two!

I started this blog in May 2010:
Just to see how long I could keep it going for
Just to see if anyone would call by to read
Just to see if I could write about almost anything
Just to see if I could try to add a Feel Good vibe to the internet
Just to see if I could write about something different everyday
Just to see if I could create a world within a world
Just to see if I could…

Since May 2010:
I’ve posted at least 1,131 times
I’ve been protected from 12,324 spam comments
I’ve used over 460 megabytes of space
I have over 15,000 comments dotted over hundreds of posts
I have over ten a hundred followers
I follow over ten a hundred different blogs
I’ve visited thousands of other blog pages on different sites (millions, even!)
I’ve commented umpteen times here, there and everywhere
I’ve liked tens of thousands of posts and comments
I’ve met some wonderful people, virtually, throughout Blogland

Oh, and I’ve just received 100,000 hits!

Breaking through the 100,000 mark means I’ve now made it to Level Two in this most compelling, diverse, creative, confusing, descriptive, occasionally moving, comical, awe-inspiring computer game to have ever been invented.

I’m addicted to it. I wake in the night thinking of what to write next (I fall asleep soon afterwards and promptly forget again, but hey ho!, I’m not a professional blogger!) I get visited in the early hours by characters wanting me to write about them… I DO ask them why they want me to write their story when there are many other, far better, writers out there – they simply want me to have something to write.

I have a cast of thousands in this head of mine, in this world of mine, in this game of mine, that pop up from time to time, whether in tale or rhyme, which is fine most of the –erm, while…

The Mansion in the Grinds is the setting, in my mind, of the most surreal escape from reality that has most probably ever or never existed. Things go bump in the night, clang in the light, and vanish from sight on a daily basis. Rooms move, views change, times overlap and odd things happen every now and then, but everything is always normal here. Always welcome. Even the oddest of the odd. A surreal reality if ever there was one, but one that always has a Feel Good factor (well, mostly always, anyway!)

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So, to start off Level Two, I’ve decided to list my top one hundred thousand reasons why I like blogging so much. Sit back and relax… make a cuppa… it’s a long list!

1) The Escape
2) The joy of writing anything
3) Feeling good at completing a post
4) ‘Meeting’ other bloggers from around the world
5) Making and replying to comments
6) Feeling inspired at least 80% of the time
7) Exercising the brain – it’s the most exercise I get!!!
8) The feeling of adding something different to the world
9) The joy of being creative
10) Reaching spectacular milestones!
11) Adding perspect

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99,998) Being able to see the world through other people’s eyes
99,999) Just the enjoyment
100,000) The anticipation of the next 100,000 visits, and the progression to Level Three!