I remember an old Odd Couple episode. Oscar and Felix were fighting about something, and Oscar began to tear around the kitchen, opening the ‘fridge to make some food.
Definitely staged
Some people have a sense of what goes together in a dish- some people even may have a particular muse. How else would that first person have known to take that fermented wet flour, shape it into a ball, and heat it up over the fire? What I would call divine inspiration definitely exists for some people.
I would not say anything divine was behind the creative drive that inspired Oscar’s recipe. I tried to remember it, and saw several versions online, but I think this comes closest:
Fill salad bowl w/ sardines and pickles
Top w/ whipped cream
Garnish w/ crushed potato chips………..
I seem to recall Chocolate Syrup as well, but maybe it just seemed like it belonged. Oscar called the dish “Goop Melange,” and the name is appropriate.
Anyway, if I were to name this blog with absolutely full disclosure, it would probably be called “Goop Melange.” I started it a while back, and had had an ActiveRain blog for what seems like forever. I had also written personal blogs before, but this was to be more business oriented, and indeed I wrote about mostly real estate related topics.
I think as I got more comfortable with myself and who I was in the social media space I felt like writing about other things of more general interest- writing about things that interested me. If I was having a week of happiness or frustration, I am sure that at best you could sense it in my writing, and at the worse felt like recommending Prozac over Zoloft in a comment.
Last night, I was surprised- and thrilled- to find myself recognised with 11 others by Sellsius in this list: Top 12 Women Real Estate Bloggers 2009, together with Colleen Kulikowski, Mary Pope-Handy, Dru Bloomfield, Amy Chorew, Kaye Thomas, Jessica Riffle Edwards, Susie Blackmon, Elaine Reese, Genea (Gena) Riede, Kim Wood, and Monika McGillicuddy.
So I thank you Sellsius- for thinking my Goop Melange worthy of being served at this incredible Pot Luck of online writing. I love writing, it HAS helped my business(es), and has helped me- with the rest of the social media package- to meet the best people in the world. And as you said at the end of your article, I am happy to share my Goop recipe with anyone. You can find me online ;).
Some of Diane’s other blogs are HeyAm’s Playground, The Twitter Diaries, and a couple others that are experimental. She is a contributor to TQI Consulting and gets a kick out of writing about herself in the third person.
