I am constantly inconsistent, I started this page with the hope I would post more regularly but as anyone can see that has not been the case. The notion of just closing up shop has been creeping in, why do I do this? I have no real direction, very little if no interaction with this site.
I was once a fierce blogger, and what was cool about it was the amount of engagement. I made real connections with real people who some I have actually meet in real life and still communicate with to this day on various media platforms. But with having your own site, it is more like talking to yourself with the hope someone will see…..that your are crazy and they would like to join!
I am aware that if I want to get more traffic on a stand alone site I will have to do more of my own marketing to find an audience were as with the blog it was easier to find people. One of the parts of the blog host I used was the ‘Next Blog’ button. It would take you to a random blog and this was where I met many other bloggers talking to themselves. I have been thinking about going back there and trying to relight that fire. I was actually surprised it was still there! It was free site so I kind of figure they would have deleted it after all these years of inactivity.
My last post was almost 3 years ago! Here is the page: https://feelingstoopid.blogspot.com/
I started that blog in 2005 and post all kinds of stuff, all of which are written like a spaz with very poor grammar and peppered with inappropriate things ha! I have wanted to go back and clean house; some of the post links are dead, some of the picture links/URL are broken, some of the posts are so cringe that I need to either edit them or just delete them, but there are tons of life moments and fun memories.
As I look back on this site I see all the post that I started with in 2005 and how the amount of post just started decreasing as the years went on. I started the blog when I had a desk job that was pretty chill, but as the years went on the job got more and more grown up with more responsibilities and my free time to blog got tighter and tighter. The want to write about nothing and everything is still there but the discipline to do so has about dried up.
But it is not dead, I am going back to my blog today to see what I can do to try and breath life into a past hobby I used to love…and still do. I will not beat myself up over the lack lusted grammar, the lack of actual focus and or general direction. I love seeing some of the old post and where I was to where I am. I also have numerous hand written journal that I have been working on through the years. One of which is a work journal; a book that I started when I first moved to California, and yes it is poorly written and sometimes hard to read but it was fun to read where I was….which was bad…to where I am now….which is good.
I need to create a scheduled time and day to blog, just like I do with all my work tasks. Set up a meeting with myself, for myself. And since today is Sunday and nothing planned today seems like a good day to start……