The Transparent Hypnotist

Photograph by  .mands.

It is April 1st. There is talk of Entrecard being awarded a defense contract and I think I too should announce some monstrous thing here on the the Transparent Hypnotist. The cat is meowing at me as though she has ideas like telling the world that I am forever leaving the human hypnotism industry to work specifically with cats who want to be hypnotized. Her other suggestion is less enlightening. I should give up hypnosis all together and become a cat food manufacture (I suspect if I knew much more about cat food, just opening a tin of it would be harrowing).

So what to do about this April Fools Day?

Sigh.

I will merely think about it like a child looking wistfully at the impulse candy displays beside the checkout in the grocery store. I will let it go and enjoy the antics of others like those creative souls behind entrecard. I had a session yesterday and had enough trouble with the barrier of expectation (control issues, she just could not believe she would remain in control…no matter what I showed her and she experienced). It reminds me that no matter how mischievous I ever feel, no matter what day lurks about on the calendar, I need to keep what I do, yes, that would be hypnotism, on a good par with its realities. No joking around (without a million and one codicils).

Today in loo of said antics, I will instead continue my tradition of thanking my readers for sticking with me (ads, sponsors and all). Also thank you to the entrecarders who faithfully drop your cards here. Even if I lurk on your blogs without comment, please know that your words are being read and enjoyed.

Special thanks to ik.my/blog/ (thoughts of ik), that is a web site idea kind of blog who also offers the very handy service of shortening long urls andImamKhalid, a web tech sort of blog. Both dropped their cards here everyday for the past two months! Special mention goes to Mr Soleh’s Outburst, who in honor of dropping his card here everyday for four months has a special place on my blog roll this month.

Also, a huge thank you to Carly at confoozled.com for sending me an Amazon gift card! I won it for participating in her survey.

Even if I am not participating in April Fool shenanigans, if you see any good ones, please feel free to leave a comment. I still enjoy a good one…

In every life a little gratitude must fall. Fall? Hmmm. Let’s try another word. Fall sounds a little negative in this context. Maybe “uplift” is more suitable - uplift those people for whom we are grateful. In every life a little gratitude must uplift…or something like that. Hopefully, you get what I mean.

I have been doing way too much scholarly reading and writing as of late and find that it is all leaking into my everyday life, and rather than making me brighter, I feel like it is mushing me and making me less coherent in general.

Enough.

Let us commence with gratitude. I am so grateful to all of you who read and participate on this blog. You all really make me want to get up in the mornings and write. Thank you for that!!!

For the past five months I have been tracking entrecarders who visit here everyday (or at least drop their cards everyday). I am so appreciative of the commitment that I am in awe and would like to recognize them. The entrecards at the top of this post are both bloggers who have consistently visited here for three months. Please consider visiting them.

Also, please take a moment to visit www.computer-aid.com.au/blog/. Though I am a Mac person and this blog is more toward PCs, I really appreciate Luigi and Frank’s prowess and knowledge. Occasionally if a client comes in and mentions a PC problem, I direct them to this blog. These guys have been here everyday for two months.

And then there is Rambler at Lofty Matters. She has been a companion for four months now. You will also notice I have added her to my blog roll.

There are also several others whom visited everyday for February. I have sent them a token for my gratitude and hope they will continue to visit.

So, for the Sunday question - how do you show your gratitude?