Themed Out

OK my blog friends, I have officially taken a ride on the Crazy Train ( little nod to Ozzy, there)!

I’ve just spent the better part of the evening and my lunch hour working on the look and feel for this blog. I’ve downloaded and tried six different themes. The reason? I don’t particularly like the spacing in my current theme.

It was really simple when it began. Just find a theme that was close to Paalam only with more readable spacing. You’d think that would be doable! NOT!

Every theme I tried had things I liked … and all of them had 1 thing I didn’t like. The 1 thing changed with the theme. In the end, I discovered that I really liked my original theme best.

So, after I don’t know how many hours and a bunch of CSS work on 6 themes, I re-activated the original ding-dang theme!

All Aboard … ah .. ha .. ha .. ha

Why Do People Blog?

This is the question Husband asked me last Friday night. Of course, his timing was brilliant as usual. He asked this immediately after reading my blog and the new About section.

Important Husband Note: Husband sometimes states things in a way that, at first glance, warrants a smack in the head. 99.99% if the time it’s just delivery – he doesn’t really mean it. I’ve been with him a long time. I didn’t take it personally.

But alas, that’s a rabbit trail for another time! Back to the question. Why do people blog?

What I found interesting is that I didn’t really have a good answer for him! How do you explain the blogosphere to someone who uses the Internet rather than lives on it?

So, right. There are

• marketing blogs – “let me tell you a pithy story and tie it back to my product or service”
• advocacy blogs – “let me tell you why you should see things my/our way”
• information blogs – “let me tell you what I know about…”
• personal blogs – “let me tell you random things about myself”
  • personal blogs for income – “I have lots of readers and have put ads on my site to support my blogging habit”
• family blogs – “let me keep you in touch with what’s going on in my family”
• picture blogs – “let me show you some pictures I just took”

Ahhh … yes, great. So, why is this blog worthy? I have no idea. It’s probably not. It’s Monday, I’m tired.

So, I guess that probably the biggest question he had (politely unspoken, thank you) is why do I blog.

It’s pretty simple really. I need to have a place to write simply to write and play with writing. Anne Lamott (one of my favorites, btw), says that if you want to be a writer, you need to write every day. She also says that most of what you write will be … well, let’s just paraphrase and say, “not good.”

It doesn’t matter if folks read what I write or not (although it’s always great to have feedback) … it just matters that I write … everyday! Who knows? Maybe a fabulous nugget will suddenly appear and I’ll expand on it and make millions.

It could happen … as long as I keep blogging!

About, The New Page

It’s late and I’m really tired. I must go to bed, but I wanted to quickly explain the “no post” for yesterday! I did not go visit my former slacker blogger universe again.

For the past few days, I’ve been working on that traditional bloggers post … you know, the one where we sit at a keyboard and try to write 100 things about ourselves. 100 things that paint the picture we want folks to have of us.

It was an interesting thing to do, that’s for sure. There are so many more things that I could have put – and of, course I reserve the right to go in and change out and entry if a better one comes to my attention! Check out what this is all ”About“ in that section.

Anyway … it really was a fun thing to do. Try it! Be honest, but not too hard on yourself. Come on … do it … even if you aren’t a blogger.

Good News – Bad News

So, I’m back and I’m excited about blogging again. Since Facebook, I’ve found that there are lots of little things that I want to say – even if nobody reads them! This is the good news …

Here is the bad news – at least for me!

I’ve lost every blog post I’ve written since switching to WordPress in early 2006. Now, I’ve been known to be slacker blogger so this isn’t a ton. But, there are a whole bunch of really cute Little Man stories that are just gone … wisps of memory for me.

“Don’t Panic”
“I can’t see Odie’s business.”

I’ll have to let them go or try to piece them together!

Well, at any rate … generally things are in good shape and I can’t really ask for more than that!