So I've been reading a lot of blogs. Friends blogs. friends friends blogs. Strangers blogs. Lots of blogs. Why? Ideas, mostly, I suppose.
I discovered that, with most blogs, there were a couple of common denominators that I really liked that seem, mostly, absent from my own.
One of them is a funny, touching, or entertaining story. Everyday life kind of things. Observations. Inspired thoughts. Family moments. The blogs I enjoy reading are seldom negative. I really enjoy the ones that could make me smile, or offered a thought or story I could relate to. I think I would like to add more of that to my own. I would love my blogs to amuse. Entertain. Or inspire thought.
Second, pictures. A picture can tell a story all by itself, with or without written explanation. A mother reading to her child. A couple playfully smiling at on another. It just makes you feel good. Like you want to be a part of whatever they may have been experiencing when the photo was snapped. Not to mention, a picture will attract attention quicker than endless line after line of cold, hard, black and white letters.
So, ya. Pictures. I think I'd like to use more of those.
I've mentioned a couple time that I feel my posts often have a rather negative slant to them. I complain an awful lot, I think. Maybe with good reason or not. But sometimes I'll read back over my posts and think "Cry baby! Who wants to read this crap?"
So you may have noticed I changed the name of the blog to "Note to self" The idea being that rather than any specific theme or venting medium, I intend to make it sort of an online journal. My experiences. My thoughts. How something that happened on any given day made me feel.
Who knows what you'll get. I did say I'd like to lean more toward positive, entertaining, and amusing stories and I will. But as I said, it's going to be a journal of sorts, so occasionally, I will likely still express frustration, anger, sadness. Writing has always been an outlet for me and I feel, and have also been told, that I can express myself so much better with the written word than I can with spoken words. And, for now at least, to my knowledge, I really have only 2 readers? Or followers, anyway. Three at best. Not sure if my buddy Nate ever still checks in or not. And those of you who do read are friends and I want you to know what I'm thinking and feeling and, really just share my life with you.
Soo, there you have it. More happy thoughts. More picture. More me. Are you ready for this?
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