What To Do. What To Do.

>>>>Picked up house to my liking.  Check.  (which is a tough feat in itself being the perfectionist ahhummm OCD that I am)

>>>>Laundry started.  Check.

>>>>Floors swept.  Check.  (for the billionth time today)

>>>>Two children at a baseball game at nearby park.  Check.

>>>>One child crashed out on the couch. Check.

<<<<Me. Essentially alone with a computer/keyboard at my fingertips.  Check.

What To Do.  What To Do.


BLOG!

I have missed you.  I really have.  I find when I don't blog I am more anxiety ridden, even if it is about stupid stuff that I am blogging about.  It is an outlet, a hobby if you will, that allows a space just for me, my thoughts.  Nobody else can touch it.  It is all mine.  Do you think that is weird? 

I used to blog almost daily.  I would even get ahead and blog on the weekends and schedule the posts during the week if I knew I was going to have a crazy week (which was more often than not)...but then I think I got a little burnt out.  Which happens to us all, I know.  So I toned it back a little bit not totally by choice, it just happened naturally but now over the last couple months I have really wanted to blog more often, but for some reason was missing the inspiration as well as the time which ultimately made me grumpy.

I don't have many hobbies.  Blogging is one.  And I just started to neglect it and I really need to get back into the saddle because it allowed me MY time.  I crave that time.  I want that time.  I need that time.  Even if it is just 1/2 hour a day writing crap stuff that nobody is really reading, you know.  Or maybe they are.  I still do have some loyal followers/readers, although my numbers have gone down considerably, rightfully so.  Somebody still reads me.  So I shall still continue to blog.  I think I would blog even if nobody read it. 

Why do you blog? 





Keepin' It Real

I was reading one of my favorite blogs today, Inspiration To Dream, by Fi from over in the Down Under and she was quite terse in her words about people judging others, judging others anonymously especially which I agree is the most cowardly of acts in the blogosphere.  Speaking from first hand experience, I know when I have been 150% authentic in my posts about my dreams, my passions, the direction in life our family is going, etc, I have received some not so nice comments i.e. judged.  I think that right there is the reason why so many people in the blogosphere are not TRULY authentic.  So often we (including me at times) are in fear of ruffling feathers, stepping on someones *fingers*, offending someone and I say ENOUGH is ENOUGH. 

If you are brave enough to have a blog, putting yourself out there for ridicule, BE WHO YOU ARE, without the fear; it is YOUR blog! You make the rules.  Like I have said a few times to the people that have left unpleasant comments, if you don't like what I am writing about, if you don't agree, fine, but you don't have to be a jerk about it.   The solution is simple: DON'T read my blog.  Turn off the computer and move along.

Even with critics, I, for one, will continue to blog about the good, the bad and the ugly of our lives trials and tribulations because that is WHO I am and I can not be anybody other than that.  With that in mind, the blogs that I follow and comment on regularly are similar as well.  The people are real, their stories are sometimes very raw, they live and love life even with the ups and downs. 

Be true to you!  That is what really matters in the end.