This is my story.

I have two Dreamwidth invite codes up for grabs. If you want one, let me know where to send it.

Katie went to Vintage Vinyl (local new/used music store) yesterday to trade in some CDs and DVDs so she could hopefully get enough money to buy the new Utada Hikaru CD. She asked me if there was anything I wanted in case she had enough money left over to get it. I discovered that Lacuna Coil just released a new album last month, and Katie did end up with enough money to get the CD for me. I've listened to it four times since last night, and I have to say it fucking rocks! Love it.

My oldest sis and her family were in the area this weekend so all the family (except for my oldest brother and his son, who are in North Carolina) went to The Old Spaghetti Factory in St. Louis. Yummy food. We were a little bummed because due to our rather large group of 10 we were relegated to an upstairs seating area where it appeared they put all the big groups, and it didn't quite have the same ambiance as sitting downstairs. The ambiance was pretty much the main reason we went there. We could have had similar food for similar prices at Olive Garden and wouldn't have had to drive as far. Oh well, it was still fun. The kids were all pretty well behaved, and we all got to chat and visit. I was sitting next to my youngest niece, Anna, who is two. They brought out our spumoni, but they didn't bring us new spoons. Anna had used her spoon for her mac and cheese, so I wiped it off with a napkin and handed it to her. She immediately said 'Thank you!' without prompting. I was so surprised because usually with kids that young, they always have to be prompted by mom and dad to use please and thank you.

Worked at the Hut for five and a half hours today. Shipment day. Blargh. Then I mowed the front lawn when I got home. I think I can sufficiently count putting shipment away and mowing the lawn as my exercise for the day. You try lugging 20 to 40 pound boxes of frozen dough around and then using a push mower on a horribly uneven lawn and tell me you didn't get some exercise. :p

*pokes Imp* Tori's new album, Abnormally Attracted To Sin, which is due to release on Tuesday can be heard in its entirety, streaming on her MySpace page.

So I caved and got a Dreamwidth account. So far two pretty damn cool things strike me.

First, content importing through the DW site. No need for LJ Sec or LJ Archive. Do it right through the DW site. And it can import comments, tags, icons and profile info. The tags part really made me happy.

Second, cross-posting. You can cross-post to another supported blogging site like LJ, IJ, or Blogger. I only have a free account so I can only do one, but that does save me a little time if I can cross-post to LJ. Paid accounts aren't horribly pricey, although I can't afford one right now. Maybe in the future since Paid can do 3 cross-post accounts and Premium Paid can do 5.

So I guess I have another competitor for my journal home. Or maybe I'm developing ADD or some kind of compulsive disorder. Dunno. I know Inksome doesn't seem to be going anywhere. My account's permanent so I'll still mirror over there. My IJ account is permanent, too. Really the main competition is between DW and LJ, I guess. We'll see. I don't see LJ leaving my bookmarks anytime soon, though.

Poll #3677 Dreamwidth
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Do you have a Dreamwidth account?

Do you plan on opening a Dreamwidth account if you get a code or if they start open registration?

Tickey boxes!

If your Dreamwidth account name is different than your IJ name, please put it here. If you would rather not have it visible to everyone, comments are screened and you can comment with it.

So a handful of you folks out there in f-list land and others in my LJ communities have mentioned Dreamwidth, and I think at least one person on my IJ list has mentioned it, too. So I'll bite. Enlighten me on this whole Dreamwidth thing. Because I hadn't heard anything about it until all of you started popping up with the "So and so gave me a Dreamwidth code." and "Anybody got a Dreamwidth code?"

What makes this one so exciting and/or different? I'm already mirroring my LJ at 2 other journal sites. InsaneJournal is pretty nice, and the person or persons who maintain it make their presence known every so often. Plus I have a permanent account there. Inksome, the project formerly known as Scribblit, is nice but pretty much a ghost town, and the maintainer hasn't made a public peep in months as far as I've seen. But I'll keep mirroring because I have a permanent "Early Contributor" account there as well. Maybe there will be life in it again someday. So unless my entire (and I do mean all of you) friends list here on LJ makes a mass exodus to Dreamwidth--thus rendering my free LJ account pointless--I doubt I'll be signing up for a Dreamwidth account.

Or maybe there's something that's super-dee-duper special about Dreamwidth that I just have to have? I just really don't feel like mirroring on yet another site. I'm curious though. What's the deal, y'all?