Do those of you who write blogs, or FB start find yourself thinking in what I have come to termed, "blog-ese?"
Like this morning I saw 4 inches of snow and thought "Wonders when will winter be over!" as a Facebook status and immediately thought of a blog post that started something like, "Good thing my tailbone is feeling better, because I am about to hit the trails later today. Not sure how I feel about that, considering it is April."
Like this past Sunday I dropped off cupcakes to some friends of ours, who happen to be empty nesters, and I marveled at how quiet and beautiful their home was. What ran through my head? This little narration: "I know some day that I will miss them. But right now an endless string of blissfully quiet days, without the constant whining (mostly from children 1 and 3) seems like an goal I would like to attain."
And after getting toothpaste on my shirt in the exact same spot two days in a row I seriously almost ran to my Ipod on my nightstand to type: "Can't solve the mystery of the reappearing toothpaste spot on my shirt."
I refrained.
The point I am trying to make is that I think blogging has effected the way I think. First, I think it has made me more positive. Because who wants to read a downer blog or facebook post. My thoughts, thus, tend to have a positive spin on them. Second, I think it is developing my writing skills. Meaning, I think in complete sentences and can often develop a thought past just merely wondering about something.
But I forget everything that runs through my head and vaguely sounds like Sally Field. I don't write a 10th of what I blog in my head. I need a device that can just read my thoughts and type them up for me and post them with the related pictures.
I think Apple should make an app for that!
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
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If apple made an app for that, bloggers would be out of work. :)
Haha Nicole! I have thought the same thing. I can't wait for the day when we all need therapy because we have either aired all our dirty laundry to the public or because we have carried the whole world's burdens on our shoulders through fb and blogging. I'm proud of you for refraining. I usually post and then in a day or two wonder what the heck I was thinking.
I do the same thing! Especially when something embarrassing is happening. I think, "This sucks right now, but it will make a great blog post." It usually is true. And these things tend to happen to me more often than not. I am so glad you are a blogger. It's very refreshing to read an intelligent, well-written blog!
I do that all the time! sounds like you are not alone on this. I also feel like I have taken way more pictures than I ever would have because I think "I want to put these pics on my blog or fb" which I view as a good thing, because now I have tons of pictures to document each year. Have you noticed in our own family albums that there are really only pictures of birthdays and christmas? I realized that as I was going through our old family photos last year. I don't want that for my own little family.
It's a sad truth. We automatically want to relay our simple every day discoveries and experiences with others. Why? Because it's fun to connect with other people! It's a nice feeling to know that we brought a smile to someone's face, that other people relate to us. I think "facebook status" all the time! It makes the small things we do every day interesting!
I was taking my Rottweiler Nahla on a walk around post(I'm an Army wife) a while back and usually people cross to the other side if they change sides at all while we walk. Nahla is a sweetheart of course and loves EVERYONE! But people don't know that, nor do they care. So this one day I'm walking with her and a man crosses over to our side of the street and I thought to myself, "Someone actually crossed the street to walk on the same side as Nahla and I today; of course he's wearing full body armor and carrying a gun, so we're either making progress or taking on challengers." needless to say I kept that in my mind all the way home to put it as my facebook status!
Too funny! Reggie often asks me what I'm doing as I'm sitting on the couch staring off. The answer, "Writing a blog post in my head"!
Yeah, it's kind of creepy sometimes when I catch myself thinking like that. And sometimes I take the time to scribble it on a pad only to look at it later and turn it everywhichway to figure out what in the world I wrote!
And I'm with you on the Nyquil thing. When I was a kid, I'd be-he-heg for Dimatap just for the grapey taste:)
Glad you had a great trip. I love NY.
i just started mines, but im the same with my facebook lol
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