I feel like I’m in a limbo haze. The little space one resides in before jumping off the edge of comfort… and landing at the bottom of another possibility. More simply put, I’m experiencing the apprehensions and excitement of change.

This will be my 3rd journal home in less then 6 months. The first home, I realized to late, I was merely a tenant. A renter if I may. But,  I had paid my bill on time, I was loyal, I had resided @ Intheshadowoftheiris, for 5 years. Long enough to have dust bunnies under the couch and a thread bare welcome mat outside the door. And then, AOL served me an eviction notice without cause, or provocation. Homeless without a reason beyond, “we are closing the AOL hosting of journals and will be sucking your words into the abyss of the Internet without a second to spare. We suggest you go to Blogspot.” My guess is it has something to do with the impending world domination of Google.

So I went to Blogspot, pulled up a some cardboard and created alittle home for myself at Latentthoughts. I have no complaints with Blogspot and feel grateful I had a place to stay out of the cold and rain. However, I don’t like taking chances. I learned my lessons with AOL and the fact Blogspot is a piece of Google, who can shake things up and make changes any time they rightfully feel like it….because fact, I am only a renter there…….well, I’m not interested in rolling the dice with my home anymore. A renter I am not and I’ve realized that extends to my writing space as well.

I’m not interested in starting over again, ever. Which brings me to Provocationofmind. I own it. Signed the deed, paid the money, experienced every possible agony in the new construction of it, and it’s all mine. Google can send it’s spiders through to check content, but there’s no way Google can stick an ad in it, unless I decide I want to entertain the potential of adsense. That will be my choice. No one can shut me down because they don’t have the budget anymore, or force me to move to another blog site via yet another takeover. The way I see it, the only way I can experience a foreclosure here is to forgo paying my domain fee a year from now. I imagine, no matter what, I can handle that 7 bucks~~

I think I’ve tweaked, tailored, adjusted, hammered and nailed everything to my satisfaction here at my new home. Now I just need to hang some curtains, stock the fridge and go pack up at my other house. Hopefully, when I post the notice of desertion on my door over at blogspot, my friends and neighbors see I’m just in another subdivision and not on another planet.

For everyone coming over from my blogspot site……Welcome and Thank You! For anyone else new to the world of my words, Hello, my name is Rebecca…and your name is?