I cannot believe I have reached post number 500 on this blog.
I began this journey with my f
irst post on May 28, 2009 back when my life was so very, very different than it is today. It was at the insistence of my friend Gina, who every Thursday for an hour while our sons’ were at a class, I would make her laugh with my stories. “You need a blog! You are hilarious!” she kept telling me. She was apparently very convincing!
So I did it. I paid for website hosting and started archiving the amusing stories from my past and my life and my unique perspective on things. It proved to be a wonderful outlet and something to look forward to every day. “Did anyone comment on the blog posting?” became a constant hope, although few people actually did comment. Truthfully, I get more spambots than readers but I don’t really do much to market myself nor this blog. Probably due to what I’ve realized is my serious lack of ambition!
Its been a long and interesting road since that first blog almost 4 years ago. I tried my hand at writing; doing it by writing a novel & sequel (wayyy too long! lol) and learning about the business and using the blog to hone my craft and find my voice. In the process I discovered its a lot of work to publish. Its fun to write tho, so I’ll probably still do it for fun. Also, since I started this my children got a little older, I realized my life wasn’t on the track I wanted, I got divorced, I started dating. Basically a life change when I realized I couldn’t live for the rest of my life in the mold made for others that wasn’t really me. So I changed it and discovered more about myself and what makes me happy.
And I blogged it all. Heeheehee
Well, at least until I got onto Facebook. And THAT just kind of began to eat up a lot of my humor & need for attention! I did get up to 100 friends and some of them DO read the blog, but like I said…. serious lack of ambition!
But can you blame me? I’m actually out LIVING my life and not writing a fantasy of what I might WANT to have happen. Not that I’m putting down authors. They are different. They are driven by the Muse and the need to write. I enjoy writing, am not to bad at it (I like to think) but it doesn’t drive me. Being admired drives me. And to be honest I can get that from my friends, my lovers or strangers I sit next to and begin to chat with for 30 minutes or more!
Because when you like yourself, have a quick wit for the humorous, accept others for themselves with as little judgement as you can…. well its impossible not to be entertaining!