Brain is a Twisty Pretzel

I haven’t blogged as much as I’d planned over the last two weeks.  I have a list of blogs.  Most of them are even ready to post.  The problem is that I’ve spent  most of the last two weeks writing flagship content for the new blog and trying to figure out the technical side of blogging: keywords, avatars, SEO, plug-ins, twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, etc, you name it.

During that time, I have come to one inescapable conclusion: I know nothing.

No, really.  No-thing.  Sigh.  The only thing I really know is how little I know.

Hence, the twisty pretzel of a brain.

Have you ever read a sentence, in a language you actually speak and purportedly understand, and honestly, truly have absolutely no idea what the in the sam hill it SAYS? This has been my life from 7pm to 10pm every night for the last two weeks and most of the weekends.

It got so bad I finally, practically in tears, emailed the instructor of a class I’m taking to learn how to blog to plead with him to point me in a direction because I had gotten myself firmly lost in the trees.   I’m taking a class called Authority Blogging given by a wonderful man named Chris Garrett of www.Chrisg.com.  If you haven’t heard of him, you should go read his blog now.  Then join his forums and take his class.  It’s a lot of money, but it’s worth it for a number of reasons.  (And, if I knew what I was doing, I could have a link to the class where I could be an affiliate.  Alas, I do not know this.)

First of all, the class is worth it because you get Chris.  He’s a GAM: A God Among Men.  No, really.

Secondly, because you get the wonderful people on the forums who are helpful and supportive and don’t make fun of those of us who have no bloomin’ idea what they’re doing.

And third, because you get a ton of information that hopefully you, and I someday, will understand and implement and have a fabulous blog.  I crave the day I can actually find the place on my dashboard where I can change “Blogroll” to “Friends of the Nest”.

Lastly, because when you’re really truly honestly lost in the woods you can email Chris in tears and he will lead you back out into the light by staying late and having a conference call with you.

So, if your brain is a twisty pretzel, go join Chris’s class.  Totally worth it.