When I clicked on the "Post an entry" button for this entry, beneath it read "Last entry posted 102 weeks ago." Apparently, I used to keep another blog long, long ago, when I was still just a single, childless, heavy-drinking, chain-smoking, poem-writing English grad student. Sigh. Now I am merely one of those things (no, not heavy-drinking) but so much more (mother, cleaner-upper after the Love of my Life, etc.). Bear all this in mind if you choose to read the preceding entries. I barely know that person anymore.
BUT, if you're here just for the contest, WELCOME. Here's the deal. Swistle is promoting this around the web, and I won a non-blogger prize, so I'm spreading the love, paying it forward, if you will.
The rules:
Easy enough, enter in the comments (by answering the upcoming question) and if you win, you get a surprise in the mail from me. Then you create your own contest on your blog, and send a present in the mail to your winner and so on and so on. However, you don't have to have a blog to win. You just have to want to enter, be able to type, and enter in the comments to this post. To read more about it at Swistle, click here, here, here, and here.  Seriously, if you're curious, go read them. She writes about the contest much more eloquently than I ever could.  Also, she's got solutions for all kinds of questions, such as how do you throw a contest if you don't have a blog, etc. However, I imagine many of you are coming to me from Swistle, so you'll already be familiar with the contest.
So, the reason I haven't posted here in so long is because I grew to loathe livejournal (sorry to the enthusiasts), and in composing this post  am remembering why, so I quit blogging for a while. Then I got pregnant, unexpectedly, and started Baby Momma over on VOX. Eventually, I also started Baby Liam over there too. Then I became addicted to the world of Parenting Blogs and realized I would rather read other people's wisdom than spend the time composing my own. I'm lazy that way. I'm also cheap (and a broke grad student with bills and a baby); thus, I have only used "free" blog sites so far.  However, I am currently considering starting up a new, improved, World-of-Clarabella blog. So, here's the question you can answer in the comments to enter the contest: If I'm gonna cough it up and pay to post, what blog site (is that even what you call it? Sheesh.) should I use and why? Thanks, and I hope YOU win. I really do.

P.S. This contest will close Friday, July 18th, at midnight. KTHX.* EXTENDING DEADLINE INDEFINITELY UNTIL ENOUGH  FOLKS ENTER TO MAKE THIS DAMN CONTEST FAIR!

P.P.S. Closing contest for good Sunday, July 27th @ midnight.