New Blog!!!

I've decided to create a new blog...I'm slightly obsessed with a few blogs and wanted my own space not to brood or pout or fill out sophomoric surveys like I often do on Myspace. This blog is purely for the celebration of stuff that makes me (and others) happy. I think a lot of times I spend too much time stewing in the negative and need to actively climb into the positive. So here I am - let's see where this goes!!

PS - for the list of blogs that inspired this...

• www.cuteoverload.com - for pictures and videos of cute animals and occasionally cute products
• www.icanhascheezburger.com - not sure if this qualifies as a blog, but taking pictures of cats and other animals and adding outrageously hilarious quotes = always a good time
• www.perezhilton.com - ok, this is the one I'm not entirely proud of since it's just Hollywood celebrity smut gossip, but he's funny, and I get caught up, so sue me.
• http://rarebirdfinds.typepad.com - this is an amazing blog filled with boutiquey gifty goods; awesome stuff you'd probably never buy yourself, but also stuff that's not entirely useless either. Check it out, they've got stuff from jewelry to banana-anti-squishers to USB toys to...well, everything
• and http://postsecret.blogspot.com - most everyone's heard of the PostSecret project by now, but if you havent...people mail this guy Frank postcards with their secrets written on them. They jazz them up and make true works of art out of them, and he puts them on the website every Sunday morning. He's made a couple/few books of them and goes on tours speaking (mostly?) at colleges about his experience with this project. Sometimes the secrets are funny, sometimes they make you want to cry. Some people write in that they themselves have found solace in reading others' secrets and have been saved from hurting themselves. It might've started as a novelty experiment, but it's turned into something bigger than anyone could've imagined. People are leaving their own secrets in the PS books in their local bookstores for other people to find, the freshman English instructors at Clemson are assigning PostSecret cards as a visual communication project...I'm rambling, but it's just really cool. :o)