Category: Around the Web

I’ve been thinking a lot this week about what I write on this blog.  As I get more and more interested in writing I find that my need to expose this blog is becoming greater.  This is the largest collection of my writing that exists (even though it is actually quite small).  The majority of my thoughts written with pen and paper have been destroyed at some point (usually in fits of rage), with the exception of a few research papers that were written for school.  Even though many of the posts here are quite mundane, I love seeing the progression of my writing.  I think I have drastically improved since the beginning of my first blog (I wrote elsewhere before I came here).

The thought of my real life family and friends reading the words I have written here absolutely terrifies me.  Opening it up to Hubby was hard enough.  I am not they type to talk openly about my feelings.  In fact, I generally try to hide my true feelings even from myself.  There are parts of me that not even my closest friends know about.  Blogging has helped me to express thoughts and feelings that previously only existed inside my head.  It has helped me discover so much about myself and to come out of my shell a little bit.  It taught me about self-expression, and about how good it feels when someone else really gets you.

Blogging has helped me to branch out and explore possibilities that I never would have considered in the past.  I applied for online writing positions and actually got one.  I have become much more interested in photography, even though I still don’t have the equipment to be able to branch out much with it.  I even started knitting after reading about so many other bloggers that were making such cool things.  It has even pointed me to books that I really need to be reading. 

I’m not sure where I’m really trying to go with this, except to say that blogging has done so many good things for me.  It has become increasingly harder not to mention my blog in casual conversations.  It is even more difficult not to mention all of the really great people that I have “met” through blogging.  I find myself saying, “I was talking to this online friend today…” entirely too much and eventually people are going to start wondering who in the heck I’m talking to.  I think I am closer to my online friends than my real life friends these days.

My fear and lack of confidence in myself have kept me from sharing this web page with the people in my life that I care about the most.  As time goes by I feel my false sense of privacy that I once had here closing in and I wonder if I should not just go ahead and tell them all Plain Jane style.  Regardless of whether I tell them or not, it is going to come out, at least to those that live near me-if they are paying attention.  The thought of that makes my heart sink and my head get a little dizzy, but I think perhaps it is time.  I’m a little tired of living in the closet.

Can somebody please explain to me how it could be 70 degrees and sunny yesterday afternoon and be snowing today?  Somebody seriously needs to whip Mother Nature into shape around here.  I really find it funny that it was 70 degrees in February, and now in March it is cold enough to be snowing.  Is that really funny or is it just the sleep deprivation showing through? 

What is not funny is that the dang weatherman interrupted my viewing of Lost last night so now I have to wait for the ABC station to re-air the episode.  Did we really need to know about all of the flash flooding, hail, and tornadoes in the area?  Well, maybe so.  But can’t they just scroll it across the bottom of the screen like they used to instead of taking the show entirely off the air?

I finally finished up that blog design project that I’ve been working on and Not So Pregnant switched over to the new site today.  I’ve still been tweaking a few things here and there, but it is nice that the site is finally live.  I just feel bad that it took me so long to finally get things going over there.  Fortunately, she is very forgiving and hasn’t made a big deal about my slowness.  Go check out the new site, say hello, and let me know what you think.

Speaking of blogs, I mentioned last week that Hubby has a blog now.  He’s only written one entry so far, but I thought maybe if I could get some people to go give him a little comment love he would be encouraged to write some more.  That means go comment.  Now.

Ok, I’m done being bossy and sending you away now.  No really, come on back.  This may be a boring blog post but if you stick around I’ll show you a cute picture of Toddlers!  In the tub!