Jeans and Sneakers

A while back I had an idea for a website that might have been worth more than my initial side-project-hoping-to-become-a-business might be if I ever took it seriously. I was pretty excited about it (about as excited as I was when I first hatched my initial side proj.), and pretty much convinced myself that my initial side project, even though I already own the domains for it, won’t fly because someone’s kind of already doing it.

So I put all of my dreamy ideas into this new project. And then, just when I’d thought up a good domain name and was just waiting for my paycheck to come so that I could buy it. . .I found another site that already has the traffic, that serves the same purpose as my new project idea would.

So part of me is like, “so what?!! If everyone who had an idea was like, ‘oh, I can’t do this because I just found out so-and-so did it already’ then the world would be full of monopolies!” ( I know, there are some serious monopolies in the world, but there are MANY competitive companies out there doing things that other companies are already doing.) My question now to myself is, should I go ahead and try to launch this thing on the intArweb that someone’s already done? Do I think I can (or even would, considering my track record with spontaneous ideas and little to absolutely no follow through) make a site doing something that’s already been done, but still prosper with it?

I don’t know. The other part of me is scared to try to get into something new, knowing full well the likelyhood of me spending a little bit of time and money on it, and then just dropping it completely. I wish I had some kind of discipline, so that I could make myself really and truely work at something so that I can see the benefits of working at it, and enjoy the fruits of my labor. As opposed to just coming up with an idea and being like “yeah it would be so awesome if I could do that!” and then spending my entire afternoon and evening reading a book, or browsing the net. :[

But I have been cooking. Tonight I made my mom's awesome alfredo sauce, and even baked a loaf of banana bread. I have stuff to make regular bread too. I can't wait to try that. It's fun watching the yeast rise, and beating the dough back down.

Tomorrow is 2 and 10 with Rob. This year is flying by so fast. In two months, it'll have been 3 years!! Thank god I don't get bored with him as easily as I do everything else. :] Too bad no one will pay me to work on him. ;]

This morning around 5am, Turbo (our chinchilla) woke us up by chewing on his cage. I don’t know wtf was wrong with him, because Rob let him out for a good two hours last night. Usually after that long playing, he puts himself back in his cage and passes out for the rest of the morning/day, waking occasionally to eat and stare at us. But this morning he was relentless. Rob tried giving him treats, a lava rock, telling him to stfu, but nothing worked. He ended up putting Turbo in his old cage that’s still in the kitchen, just so that we could get the rest of our night’s sleep. What a pain in the ass. I hope he doesn’t do it again tonight/tomorrow morning, I’m running on serious lack of good sleep this week.

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