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July 30, 2005
Closing the blog doors?
So I'm feeling a bit sheepish for ignoring my blog for too long now. I've been wondering why I lack the motivation to blog. Here's what I think. I'm an external processor through and through. If I'm thinking about it, well, its coming out of my mouth. I have to talk things through in order to know what I'm thinking or feeling. Bob knows this by now, that's for sure. So once I've talked something through I feel little need to write it down. I've never kept up with a journal either, and I think that I lack the energy or motivation to write a lot about something I've already talked about.
Another reason, I'm just not funny. I love to laugh and have a good time with people, but generally speaking I'm not a funny person. So my blog's role can't be to make people laugh.
Also, Bob takes care of all the family updates/photos, so my blog doesn't really need to keep the people happy because Bob is already doing such a fine job at that.
So I'm thinking of shutting it down. Unless you (all 3 of you!) can come up with a good reason to keep it going. I guess I could do something like start a recipe blog, I love to cook and love food and love other people's great ideas of what to cook. But that's the only thing I've come up with to keep me going. I know not looking like a winner yet. (hey anyone out there have a good ziti casserole idea? I've just started eating whole wheat pasta and am wanting to make a ziti casserole)
The best reason I currently have to keep it up is so I can remember how many weeks and days pregnant I am. That little ticker comes in handy. I seriously often forget how far a long I am. Though I am getting so much more excited these days for our little girl. We have a name picked out and at first I wasn't completely sure that I loved it, but now, I really love it.
I love reading other people's blogs, seeing pictures of Katie's and Jeannette's babies makes me happy. So I'm sticking around checking, but up in the air about quitting my own. Ok, enough, I'm repeating myself.
(last thing, I lack the time at the computer to keep it up too. If I'm sitting here Caleb is crawling on my legs or under the computer to get me off of it, another excuse!)
Posted by michellew at July 30, 2005 04:09 PM
Comments
I like your blog's name.
Posted by: JosiahQ at July 30, 2005 04:22 PM
Hey Michelle. I think your idea about a recipe blog would be awesome! I could use all the ideas/help I could get and am always up for trying new things.
Posted by: Alison at July 30, 2005 06:00 PM
you're pretty much the funniest person I know, but I guess that doesnt come thru in print? I'll take care of the ticker for ya too, by the way. bloggy or no, you'll always be the best.
Posted by: bobw at July 30, 2005 07:23 PM
I use blogging as a way to feel "connected" with other folk, and to comment on topics that I don't get a chance to talk about much anymore (I miss college lobbies).
Since I already know you're funny, I don't need "Siempre Mire Arriba" to be a daily log of wit and glib humor (we have enough of that to keep us going).
Personally, you could start a baseball blog, and I'd read that daily :) - or when Caleb starts talking you could log his progress through the English language (this is both fun to watch and fun to share).
In any case, keep it up, even with just a post a month or four a year. It's always good to know what's on your mind or heart.
Posted by: StelmoDad at July 31, 2005 10:45 AM
I go through a lot of the same things every once in a while, I sometimes wonder if anyone really wants to read the things I write or is it just my mother-in-law and husband that read it to humor me, but I really enjoy reading other people's blogs that are just about everyday stuff, so I keep going under the assumption that maybe one other person out there enjoys it. Plus, I have never kept a journal more than a week or two, and I am really enjoying the record of everyday events that I have for myself.
Posted by: jlg at July 31, 2005 10:57 AM
I love reading your blog. It is one of the few that I check regularly. If it is too much pressure for you and you don't enjoy it, then feel free to quit, BUT please don't quit just cuz you feel like you need to do something funny or great. Post a recipe. Start deep conversations. Post spiritual inspiration. Tell those occasional funny stories. Post whatever is you, cuz that's why we read it. Cuz it's you.
Posted by: Sember at July 31, 2005 08:44 PM
Oh, btw, 6 comments? Hmm...that's a little bit more than three, and I'm willing to bet that most people that read blogs don't comment.
Posted by: Sember at July 31, 2005 08:46 PM
I enjoy reading your blog to get something other than my son's writings all the time. It's neat to get your inner feelings which come out in a blog. I can't imagine you'll have time though with 2 chiIdren but then it may give you an out in your busy day when both of them are sleeping like little angels. I have a good ziti recipe, by the way, but I don't think you can have my sauce because of the sugar : )
Posted by: Mom W at August 1, 2005 02:03 PM
so I guess I get boring, huh? :-P
Posted by: bobw at August 1, 2005 02:37 PM
I think that some times the more kids you have the more you need to do things like this. It's not so much a matter of-there is no time, but more an-I need more than ever to make this time. If not blogging than something else that is just for you and your inner creativity.
Posted by: Sember at August 3, 2005 03:08 PM
Thanks for all of your encouragement. Maybe I will keep the blog around for a little while and just not feel badly when I don't post. I think you are right Sember, I need some outlet like this to keep thinking and not just "do" all day.
Posted by: michellew at August 3, 2005 07:30 PM
Keep it open. I like your writing, and agree with what the other commentors have said. I just thought I'd add my voice to the mix.
Posted by: Krista at August 4, 2005 10:06 AM
Iblog while I nurse. ;) getting really good at 1 hand typing.
I love your blog! you're perspective/take/ telling will always be different from Bob's, so even if you were telling the same event, it would be different and uniquely you.
and, uh...you're not funny?? who you foolin'?!
Posted by: Jnet at August 4, 2005 10:11 AM
BUS!! I read your blog, so I'm a lurker, but I still check in to see how you're doing. Keep blogging, our website has it's slow times when life is busy...
Posted by: Kim at August 4, 2005 11:02 PM