5,000 and counting...

i could spend all day watching my hit counter...

refreshing and refreshing my screen to see who has come to visit my tiny little corner of the world web web in the last 3 minutes.

and i could spend hours upon hours looking at the ip addresses who visit, what countries they are from, and what time they visit, and seeing how they found my tiny little corner of the world wide web.

there are some strange ways people find me, let me tell you that... how google would think someone searching for "school teacher flashing" would want to come to my site is beyond me. there are more, but this is a pg rated blog here, so i will keep the other strange ways people find me to myself.

and i don't know why it is so intriguing. i don't know if it's seeing the readers from canada, south africa, germany, frande, united kingdom, romania, india, australia, pakistan, and others, and feeling like i am more connected to the world than i ever thought i was. i don't know if it is knowing i am writing something that people want to read, that somehow i am touching people on some level. or thinking that people really care about my simple little life. i don't know if it is the joy of being connected to people i have never met-knowing we share little pieces of our lives, little pieces of our heart and soul.

and i don't know why i enjoy doing this so much, but i do. and i will continue to write, and share, and be, and occupy my tiny little corner of the world wide web. and i will continue to stalk my hit counter like no blogger ever has.


and i reached a new monument here on put on love, i reached 5000 hits yesterday! woot woot!

and that is thrilling to me, and because that is thrilling to me.

i am giving away $5,000.

just kidding... what do i look like, a rich girl?

i am not, but if you know someone who is, and is wanting to give away $5,000, i would gladly be a recipient.

but i am giving away 1 $25 gift card, AND 1 $15 gift card to barnes and noble.

because i love barnes and noble, i could spend all day wandering up and down aisles at barnes and noble sipping starbucks coffee, sniffing books, feeling books, reading book covers... i am in love. and also because i can send you a gift card to barnes and noble and you can shop online, and have it shipped anywhere in the world. (although it may eat up a big chunk of your $25 or $15, but that's your problem not mine)

and i am making this really easy on you. i have about 50 hits a day and only about 5 comments a day, that means i don't know who most of you are... and i want to know who you are. so all you have to do is leave me a comment on today's post.

don't be shy, leave me a comment by 11:59pm(cst) sunday august 30th, and you will be entered into the drawing. winners will be announced monday.

oh, and happy friday blog world! thanks for making me a part of your world.