Looking for happy

In the last year or so I've become acquainted with quite a few bloggers. The people I refer to are hardcore writers for whom blogging isn't just some passing fancy. It's something they work at, and quite frankly, it's something a number of them are making money doing.

Money certainly is not the motivation for this blog, but having said that, should some Hollywood-type read it and get the grand idea to write a script about my life I would hardly look that gift horse in the mouth...

No, the motivation for this is something of an exercise in self-motivation, or better still, searching for my inner-happy. You see, I've lost it. Some might suggest I never had it - that I've never been a really happy person and that I'm more of a clown who puts on a good front but is really a miserable fuck underneath it all. Oh sure, I can do miserable. I've got miserable down. In fact I'm fairly certain that at 41 and 11/12ths I've already yelled at a few kids to get out of my yard. It's happy that I need a little work on. Scratch that. A lot of work.

There are certain inherent truths about me that will never change. My glass will likely always be half-empty, and a little rain cloud may follow me around like ol' Eeyore, but that doesn't mean there isn't room for anything else. I can play against type. "Stuff I Like" will hopefully serve as an affirmation of all that's good, funny and decadent. This will be a forum for me to share things that make me laugh, smile and say "Yum!" There is good in the world - some days you just need to work a little harder at finding it.

So I hope you'll stick around for this grand experiment, and I hope you'll share it with others. A blog without readers is kind of like a burger without melty cheese: sure it exists, but it isn't half as good. I really like cheese.