I know there might be a few things like this floating around the net, but I swear to God…whatever I wrote here is 100% from my own head and while there might be similarities between whatever lists are out there and in here…such similarities are purely coincidental.

You know you're addicted to blogging when:

1. You dream about blogging something that happened in the same dream.
2. You stay up until 5 in the morning trying to tweak not just your blog but other people blogs as well.
3. The existing blogosphere niche knows more about your own life than the entire real world friends and family combined.
4. You find a metablog and think its the greatest thing on earth to ping it several times a day.
5. You buy a camera specifically for taking pictures for your blog
6. You have 24 hour blogathons for absolutely no reason
7. You have 48 hour blogathons for absolutely no reason.
8. You join blogathons for charity and know you can pull off 48 posts in 24 hours because you've done something like that before.
9. You constantly argue the benefits of Do-It-Yourself Blogging Solutions comparatively to Hosted Blogging Solutions because it's "better".
10. You have gone on "hiatus" several times, one of which lasted no more than 48 hours.
11. You buy a camera phone specifically to start a mo-blogging blog
12. You actually know what mo-blogging means
13. You actually know what podcasting is.
14. You stop watching the news and reading newspapers because blogs have become your source of information.
15. Blogs have become your source of pornographic or erotic entertainment.
16. You blog about whether or not you should make important decisions such as what career you should take or proposing to your current girlfriend.
17. You spend time in trying to find chatrooms for bloggers.
18. You actually spend time in more than 1 chatroom for bloggers.
19. You make a chatroom for bloggers.
20. Your curse out loud when you have something interesting to say and there is no net connection in sight.
21. You start twitching and break out in cold sweat when you haven't been blogging for more than 24 hours.
22. You start writing things down on paper on your free time and claim no satisfaction because no one can comment on what you wrote.
23. You have actually weight the differences between WordPress and Movable Type on at least one occassion in your blogging life.
24. You actually know what WordPress and Movable Type is.
25. You have been a guest blog on other people's blogs.
26. You have the blogger's life cycle.
27. You write a list like this.
28. You actually understand everything that has been written here.
29. Your comments will be about more "Signs of Blogging Addictions"
30. You have read this ridiculous list until this point.

Well there, I got it out of my head.

Enough said.

So there.