I gave my other blogsite a much needed facelift. It's still a work in progress, nonetheless a whole lot better than its lackluster status. Just a few color tweaks and some googled images but none of your typical digiscraps -- because first, I haven't dabbled into that and perhaps never will, and second, I don't have that much time. However, it's a notch away from being dreary now and I'm so proud! It's about time I get the alcohol juice flowing over there too. At this point, a post is only an occasional muddy spring in the middle of a drought HAHAHA. Here it is [CLICK ON THE BLUE MARTINI PHOTO],  but PLEASE PLEASE come back to finish reading this post...it is (tooting-my-own-horn) kind of interesting!

So anyway, I recently realized (only now???) that though I'm still probably in the mild end of the blog obsession spectrum...I am, clinically a Blog Addict. I don't like that A word so let's just say I'm a Blog Afficionada. Still an A word...

Based on some thorough self-examination and observing people and posts in the blogosphere, I found out some signs and symptoms of this syndrome (some are exaggerated -maybe- but nonetheless true):

1. You want to check your blogsites every moment possible (hourly? every 20 minutes?) more than you check your email for comments, tagboard messages and visits. Stop checking! Give them some time to finish their own!
2. You "itch" to keep tweaking your blogsite, and you obsess on designing it down to the smallest corner, shuffling images around and you are fixated on whether that small microscopic dot on the header makes a big difference. YOU OBSESS ABOUT IT IN YOUR SLEEP.
3. You are an author of multiple blogs. Three at the least. (I have 5 but 2 didn't take off well due to negligence)
4. You want to set up some more blogs even if you don't have a single clue what else you're going to be writing about, just because you like the "high" from coming up with a new theme and color scheme, a totally new hip statement in the blogosphere, and a new befitting title for yourself or your thoughts -- "The Future Renaissance Woman" (I tried that once)...the "Empress of the Universe"..."I think therefore I blog" and other philosophical smarties (my, don't we just enjoy them!)
5. You get fidgety if you don't get to check out the blogs that you follow, visit, blog-hop or subscribe to.  You are budget-conscious but you totally dismiss the data charges on your celphone in reckless abandon just because you need to get into that friggin internet inside the toilet!
6. You have the compulsion to report everything that happens to you to strangers (the last meal you ate, the cactus that died on you and the pimple on your elbow) 
7. In connection with #6: Something is currently happening to you or around you and words and sentences for your blog are already SIMULTANEOUSLY whisking in and out of your head 100mph like they are two long-time synchronized swimming partners.
8. You take crazy candid photos not for the sake of posterity, not for your friends or family but for your blogsite!
9. You are in an important conversation with an equally important person but you are a thousand miles away, trying to find another good idea to write about...or already composing it in your head. Along with a nagging irritated feeling when someone or something like a phone call interrupts your thoughts.
10. You have lost a lot of sleep or have blown off a task...like cleaning the bathroom or folding the laundry (*very guilty*) because you had to finish your post first. This is in the same category as burning something on your stove or giving your bladder a torturous "hold that pee" command, all because you have to proofread and finalize your post, and then click on SAVE first.
11. You have a lot of blogfriends that you know so much about (or you think you do) and who know so much about you (or they think they do) that they can probably beat your long-term BFF in a trivia quiz about you now.
12. The blog earns you money on the side. ("A friend of a neighbor of a friend of a classmate's cousin has used THIS [*advertising link* ] and THAT [*advertising link*]" -- Realistically, does that seem note-worthy at all? Maybe not. But it's an accepted practice in the blog culture...)
13. And...You are smarter now because you're more observant now of things and current events around you and you've probably done way more extensive research than non-bloggers out there. Come to think of it, you have have acquired some programming skills and  you navigate and cruise painlessly through different platforms in more ways than you've ever dreamed of; you have probably achieved a higher level of writing eloquence -- constantly awaiting that perfect opportunity to show off something your vocabulary has acquired in the past; you have certainly gotten better in expressing your feelings and have gone a long way in effectively communicating your thoughts. Which is actually a good thing. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

#14 and #15 are waiting for you! I'm running dry of other signs and symptoms. These are all based on my personal experiences, observations of myself and some bloggers I've bumped into in my 4 years of being an active "blogling". I'm either way too deep into the hole or a mere nano-particle compared to you...

So, if you have anything to add about yourself and your bloglife...you are very welcome to do so!

(Remember, I check for visits, comments, fingerprints, footprints, shadows, dead-skin cells and other DNA...any clue that you've been here...every 15 minutes!)  *LOL*

ARE YOU A BLOG ADDICT TOO???