Now Appearing On A Need To Know Basis

Hello, testing 1 - 2 -3; is this thing on?

Allow me to introduce myself, I answer to many names; Lady Enchantment, Your Highness, Chief, Witchy Poo, they are too numerous to put down here all at once but take my word for it the list is long and varied; for simplicity's sake, you may call me Valerie.

My arrival here has been a long and debated time in coming. You see I come from: http://2china4love.spaces.live.com/ a land where I started my blogging life and where I was comfortable and seemingly unaware of the apparent deficits associated with my comfortable home domain.

I had suspicions of course; I had been blogging for well over a year when the obvious lack of comments/responses to the ratio of visitors became a thorn in my proverbial paw.

Let's face it people, none of us do this for our health; we put it out there trying to engage the masses via words of honesty, intimacy, sarcasm, secrets revealed, humor you name it and I've tried it. Hours spent weaving a tale that would hold the audience's rapt attention all in exchange for the applause of cyber space the ever elusive "comment" a bit of praise or recognition for a job well done.

I don't want to say I'm needy; but I do have needs and they are plentiful.

I have logged over ten thousand visitors and if I bothered to tally the comments in that time; I am embarrassed to say they would add up in the several dozens at best.

When I cry out in vain, "No fair!" I hear the following as a sad excuse for why: "It is too much trouble to sign into spaces. I don't want to get "spam".

A few strokes on the keyboard to validate a fellow human being; tsk tsk people.

I held out a long time; truly I did. I ventured onto "Blogger" several times; spent hours trying to make sense of the codes and rules and all for not - I always returned home to the welcome arms of http://2china4love.spaces.live.com/. (Where everybody knew my name (although chose not to acknowledge it out loud).

Well, I am waiving the white flag with big orange B across the front. I signed up for blogger welfare, and my friend Christie helped to set up a page for me (it's humble - but I have big plans for the future). I am not going to abandon my old friend @ http://2china4love.spaces.live.com/
as you never know if things will actually be greener on this side of the pasture.

She actually approached it like a drug dealer: "Psst, I hear you want comments. You want comments I can get you comments and lots of them and the good kind too."
Me: "You can, really, but I've never had those before...I heard they are really good, but you can get addicted to them!"
Her: "What?! No, they're good for you, you'll feel so good after you have your first one...you won't want them to ever stop!"
Me: "Well, OK, what do I need to do?"

I invite you to go back and get to know me via stored posts at my old haunt http://2china4love.spaces.live.com/ and leave the ever elusive comment for me here as I wouldn't want you to be inconvenienced by too many strokes on the keyboard - whatever you do don't strain anything.

I hope we'll be very happy together - I'll try to give you what you want and I hope in return I receive positive feedback to give me the encouragement to keep on going.

I'll just be sitting here and observing - no pressure!