Facelifts and Rainbows

This is for all 2 and a half of you that frequent this blog.

Firstly, Thank You. It's fun to feel like people want to know what you have to say by choice, and not just because I am standing in front of you and you're too polite to tell me to shut it. So Thank You, even if your intentions are purely to analyze my thought process as a means to your evil and diabolical plans - and Good Luck.

Secondly, as you must have noticed, I've taken advantage of Blogger's new design templates and got to work making this page vibrant and colorful. The tool has a lot of really neat designs and defaults. Unfortunately I haven't figured out how to add my own picture to the background yet, and don't know if I even can, so I had to settle for one of the defaults, and immediately jumped to the Travel section - if you know me then this is no surprise, if you don't know me, then start following me, and you will be astounded by depth of my amazingness - or not.

Instinctively I went for the picture of the Eiffel Tower; Paris, a city which enthralls and beckons to me, is owed a long overdue visit - and blog post. And then I started playing with the other designs, from something coastal as an homage to my Bride of the Red Sea, Jeddah, to the long skinny palm trees of California, depicting my yearning to past senses and tenses. I even contemplated that big 'Welcome to Las Vegas' theme, a discreet message to all those who read it. Then I thought I had settled for the green hued photograph of the Manhattan skyline from the Brooklyn Bridge. Although I ashamedly admit that New York is a city I have yet to visit, I felt that the bustling traffic depicted somehow fits in with the inspiration, if not always the direction, of this blog, i.e. Keeping Track of Time.

And then I clicked on the colorful technicolor carpets, and I smiled. I actually physically smiled. The colors literally brightened my day. True this is my blog, and yes it is a reflection of my thoughts and ideas, but why must I always be so concentric? Just as I am able to contribute to the Universe, the Universe constantly influences me. Even if I have sadness in my heart, I prefer to allow happiness into my soul from the outside in.

So I chose to keep it. Yes, it may not be a reflection of what I'm thinking right now, nor have anything to do with what I'm writing about, but let's consider it one other way that I choose to Thank You my loyal readership. I hope that even if you don't like what I'm writing, I can in someway still brighten your day.

And if there really is nobody out there, then I guess Dina, this is for you.