Look at me, I'm blogging, I'm blogging

It turns out that I am a person who is motivated by external rewards (who knew?) I have been working on starting my blog since May. I would look at it occassionally and wonder how to make it all work. I would think of how cool it would be to have a blog but really I just couldn't make it happen until this week. You see, I need to win a free prize being offered by a fellow blogger. (It is wrong for me to say "fellow" blogger because that implies that I am in her league somehow, which I am not.) This woman is quite possibly one of the funniest women I have never met. She is my sister's friend and I have been reading her blog for several months now. She has offered a free prize for recommending her site. The free prize is a stupendous refrigerator magnet which I have not even seen but has motivated me to sit down and spend several hours figuring out how to enter this brave new world of blogging. Amy is the name of my sister's friend. And while I am recommending great blogs let me also say that my truly brilliant little sister, in who's shadow I alternately shiver and shine, has an equally fabulous blog. Her name is Sarah. She is great. I would know.