Santa Squid from Squid Art Too by Tagsforkids

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!

I’m finishing this year feeling I’ve accomplished some things that I really wanted to do. There have been some disappointments and sad times too – just like many years, in fact.

At the beginning of the year, I was making very few new lenses on Squidoo. I’d become a Giant in October 2008 by making 50+ lenses. After that I just lost inspiration for writing. I’d start a new lens, think about it, then delete it because I couldn’t think of more to write or I was bored by the subject. Worse still, I sometimes finished a lens, read it the next day, decided it was rubbish and so deleted it. Although I made a few lenses, they were a struggle.

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I know… it’s incredible that Squidoo has made me an Angel when I’ve been a bit of a pain occasionally over the last 18 months. I’ve argued when I thought things were wrong and done so quite vehemently sometimes.

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I’m feeling guilty because I haven’t updated my blog for nine days. I try to do it once or twice a week.  About a week ago I decided to go for membership of Squidoo’s Giant 100 Club, next deadline for which is June 30th. That means I have to have at least 100 good quality lenses. Then I had just 77, leaving me at least 23 left to do and it’s a good idea to have a few more.

Since I made Giant with fifty lenses at the beginning of last October, I needed a break and was fresh out of ideas for new subjects for lenses. The incentive was one of my Squidoo friends, Willow, was one of the Angels who had started one of the teams for aspiring Giants or Giant 100s. It is a competition between teams so I joined hers – Willow’s Wonder Squids. Now I have a responsibility to the team to reach the 100 lens target.

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