Creative Compulsion

So I decided to stop fighting my self-diagnosed adult ADHD. No, I don’t say that mockingly, I’m actually dead serious. My daughter concurs with my diagnosis. I just have to being doing 10 million things at once and can’t concentrate on anything for very long. I flit from one project to another (well, except my “real” job on eBay/my sites) and stop and start all kinds of things. Mix that with a healthy dose of OCD… whew, I tire myself out.

But, I digress…

I’ve been making web templates for around 10 years now. I used to design blog templates regularly for a site called Blogfrocks.com (don’t bother visiting, it’s now defunct). I started selling auction templates on eBay about a year and a half ago and also here on my site. I got too busy with other things and kinda let it fall by the wayside (sorta like my jewelry which I create regularly but only sell when the mood strikes).

Anyhoo… the name of my blog, Creative Compulsion, pretty much says it all. When you’re an artist, any kind of artist, you have this kind of inner drive or compulsion that just doesn’t let go. This week I suddenly found myself desperately wanting to draw. That led to re-opening some of my archived templates. That led to saying “Hey, why not sell a few”. That led to a new category in my main eBay store.

I doubt I’ll offer them for sale here on CC so if you’re interested in seeing/purchasing, send me an email to sarah [at] creativecompulsion.com and I’ll be happy to provide you with a link to my store. AND… I’ll also give a 10% discount off BIN/Store Inventory Templates if you mention my blog when you purchase

I haven’t paid too much attention to the comment spam that my blog gets mainly due to the awesome plugin for Wordpress, Spam Karma 2. For whatever reason, I decided to go through the log today to see what spam has been left recently (actually, the reason is probably because the Wagglepopper’s have launched their latest spam campaign and got me thinking about it).

I noticed that the majority of the comments are referring to pharmaceuticals. Interesting. Well, sorry bot-boys, I don’t really have much use for Cialis. Tramadol sounds interesting, but my allergy to codeine is probably going to keep me from trying it any time soon. Viagara, well, same as Cialis - but I promise to visit your site if I change my mind. Ambien - got that already, but I will be visiting you soon to see if you can beat my pharmacy’s rates. Damn insurance company has issues with Ambien all of the sudden. All in all, I truly appreciate the time you took to initiate these bots to offer me several drugs that I can obtain on the DL. Your marketing strategy clearly works and I have actually decided to follow in your footsteps and try a little spamming of my own:

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Wow… somehow that was bizarrely therapeutic

Unconscious Mutterings - Week 235

1. Voices :: Schizophrenia
2. Have to :: Needful
3. Machine :: Cog
4. Seventh grade :: My son
5. Beach :: Cape Cod
6. Roommate :: College
7. Cyclone :: Twister
8. Theater :: Loge
9. Pregnant :: My sister
10. Phoebe :: Cates