Hi How are ya?
I'm back from my blogger vacation. I took a vacation because I wasn't feeling very good about this blog and the direction that it was headed. I took some time off to think about it and get my thoughts in order (they still aren't in order, btw). It basically boils down to why I started blogging and what I had intended for this blog to be, which, in it's current state, is not at all what I had envisioned it to be at this point.
I was looking over some post from the past few months and I realized that I was completely and utterly bored with the whole entire thing. Post after post that I read I became more and more bored with the whole thing. This blog has become a boring journal of my life, which is not boring at all, (at least I don't think so) and not at all what I had envisioned when I started blogging a year and a half ago.
I have to make a decision.
Quite the whole thing all together. Which would mean I would have to explain why I was quitting, and force me to revealing some more intensely private aspects of myself that I'm not comfortable revealing to the entire world. It's one of the pitfalls of having a blog like this one. A "slice of life" blog as they call it. (I don't know who "they" are, btw) How much do I reveal about myself and still keep it semi-anonymous? If its even anonymous at all at this point.
I've looked into switching to WordPress just so I could password protect certain post, if I wanted to, and then I could control who would read particular post. But then that would just end up pissing someone off because I would have to deny them access to certain post. I'm not about to start making enemies, that's not what I'm about. I would still give access to the Lurkers and the Stalkers, because I don't give a shit what those people think of me. Their opinion makes about as much difference to me as whether or not someone flushed the toilet after using it in Antarctica or not. It's the people who I know who read this blog, I care what they think, and I care about their opinion of me. To the point of censoring myself. And I'm not very good at that.
I could start another blog, abandon or delete this one, and start all over again, with a new blogger ID and a new blog. Sort of a do-over or as they say in the NFL "replay the down". But I really don't want to do that.
I could just make some changes to the kind of stuff I blog about. Stop talking about certain things that might be a little too personal. Stop with the TMI.
I'm going to try #4 until I go on my two week Christmas break from work, which I MUST take or I lose all that vacation time, on the 17th.
On a good note Mizzou lost! HAHAHAHA, CHOKERS!!! You never had a chance against Oklahoma.
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