Inaugural Blog: an Ode to Blogging

Well, e-world, I've finally done it. Become a producing member of the blogging sphere. I have to tell you, I love blogging. Some people have described blogging as logorrhea (def: verbal diarrhea), done by those who have a specific need for those around them or those never met to know what they are thinking. For passive-aggressive people out there, blogging can be a way for those of us to get our irks out in a non-threatening way. (When i need to vent a little passive-aggression, i simply go online to craigslist missed connections and let it fly.)

However, for me, I love blogging, yes I do, because it helps me to reflect on my life in a way that reminds me that:

1. i have way too much fun than is necessary. (side-discussion: can one truly have too much fun? i don't think so, but I'll leave it up to you to decide.)


2. i love sharing my quirky times with those around me so that you can laugh too. (side-discussion: bringing over my blogs from myspace to blogger. worth the time? those were some dang good blogs, if i don't say so myself.)

For a long time, I had resisted going over to blogger from myspace. While myspace is so comprehensive in attempting to get at a person's personality (side-discussion: myspace pages really are how you want to be perceived), my blogs on myspace are complimentary to the rest of my profile. Kinda like "hey, these are my pictures! Hey, oh, there are my friends! And, there, for your viewing pleasure, is my blog, all my random moments and thoughts on the things I encounter on a daily basis. Moving over to blogger, however, now is only about what i write. Am i defined by what i blog about, how often i blog or how good I am at blogging? No...not really. But i still can't get over the fact that it is a little intimidating. When I start something, i want to be the best. So, the perfectionist in me screams: "you will never be one of the favorite blogs on blogger's main page! so why even try?" Well, I try because often, the joy is in the process of trying and failing, or, what's better, trying and succeeding. So, perfectionistic tendancies be damned. I am going to write in spite of them.

And, to answer my previous question, i think i will bring over my blogs from myspace. Or attempt to, at least. To give you, my viewing public (which in reality is probably only one or two of my friends) a background on my life. And, selfishly, so i can read all those old blogs and laugh again (and again).

In unrelated news: when I was blogging today, underneath my text box it has a "labels for this post" option and the examples of good labels are "scooters, vacation, fall". Being my first time to blogger, I've never experienced labeling a post, and who knows, its probably always those same three words. However, today it strikes me as funny that two of those, when paired together, have had such an impact on my life, specifically scooters and fall (not as in the season, as in laying it down). Love that scooter. Love the bum knees that i have because of the scooter.