Being new to blogging, I have been visiting other people’s. At first, I was randomly just hitting “next blog” on blogspot.com. While interesting, that method was very tiring. Weeding through all of those blogs! I had no idea that there is so much pornography in blogs! Call me naïve, but I was really taken aback. Now I’m all for First Amendment, freedom of speech and all that jazz but that kind of stuff really is not what I was interested in viewing.

So many blogs are written in foreign languages too! I took French in high school and college but I’m not enough fluent enough to decipher the language completely. Frustrated, I began to search blogs using certain words and phrases. Bingo! I found some terrific reading material. These blogs led me to a treasure trove of even more great ones! I could not stop reading! I commented in a good many of them (and some of you have been kind enough to come visit me – thank you). I really have bookmarked these sites and feel as though I am at the precipice of making some new friends here – even if we just write back and forth. So far this seems to be working with nice commenters as well. If I don’t care for your blog, I don’t comment. I am old fashioned enough that if my grandmothers are looking down from heaven, I sure don’t want them to be disappointed in what I am writing.

I watched Survivor last night and thought of the similiarities between outwitting, outlasting and outplaying this wonderful yet overwhelming windfall. Look at Richard Hatch, the first Survivor. Winning a million dollars plus endorsements! He has now been indicted for tax evasion – imagine that! I mean did he think NO ONE from the IRS watches Survivor? I simply cannot believe it.

Think of all the people who have made it big and lost it all – P.T. Barnum, Dorothy Dandridge, Walt Disney, Mike Tyson, Eddie Fisher, Isaac Hayes, Mickey Rooney, Mickey Rooney, Mark Twin, M.C. Hammer, Kim Basinger and don’t forget – Donald Trump! It’s scary scary scary. That is why I am being so ultra conservative. I mean I have the chance of a lifetime for my family, friends and others. I just can’t mess it up. I just can’t.