Socks & Chocolate.For a long while now I've been wanting to write a blog that was not serious....just a regular old blog. What held me up was a technical problem. There was a template I wanted to use, but for the longest time I couldn't figure out how to use it. Squeal!!! I figured it out a few days ago. So, I have my new blog.
It is called Socks & Chocolate. I am talking about...well...nothing in particular. However, I have challenged myself to write about nothing in particular for an entire year. Self-discipline isn't my strong point so we'll see how it goes! Please come by. Both my new blogs are kinda lonely:(
I'm doing a series on my other blog called The Cat in the Bathroom. It is about my rescue cat Mia. She was very sick when we got her. She'd also been through a lot of trauma. The vet didn't expect her to live, but she did. I'm learning a lot from this beautiful little cat. I invite you to come by and read her story as I write it. I am posting about her once a week or so over at Alert and Oriented Times Zero.
This blog...Big Fat Kiss and my other blog... Alert and Oriented Times Zero are very serious blogs. Writing a serious blog takes a lot out of me. Writing Big Fat Kiss actually made me very sick there for a while. I had to see a counselor. I might come back here sometime. I can't afford to get that sick again though, so we'll see.
Because serious blogs take a lot out of me, I don't end up writing very often. Hopefully having a run of the mill blog and a challenge will get me writing every day. I need to write every day if at all possible. I've said here before that I'm 48...older than most of you. Before I got a computer and started blogging, I was beginning to lose words and occasionally forget where I was when driving. Scary stuff.
My brain is right back to normal since getting a computer about 3 years ago. See, I'd never had a PC until then. It was by choice. I'm just old-fashioned and like to keep my life simple. I didn't have a cell phone for along time either. FINALLY, after seeing every senior citizen in the universe loudly chatting it up on a cell phone, I broke down and got one.
I got a pay as you go Trac phone. Yep. I upgraded about a year ago though....to a flip Trac phone. Don't laugh. It works for me and I'm totally satisfied with it. Back to my PC. I like books and libraries. I prefer the smell and feel of a book any day over sitting in front of a computer. However, even with doing a lot of reading, my memory was starting to fail me. I needed to do something. I didn't consciously chose the computer to revive my brain. It all just sort of happened.
The library is actually where I first decided to try computers. Before that, the last time I used a computer was when there was no World Wide Web and MS DOS was the going thing. My husband had to go to the library with me the first few times I tried it. I didn't know what the mouse was, how to search, or what the *e* for Internet Explorer was. I new NOTHING. So ladies, when I started Big Fat Kiss, I had only been using a computer for about two years.
I'd heard of blogs but never read one. One day I decided to find out what blogs were all about. Got me a Dummies book, skimmed it, and had my blog up in a few hours. I've never looked back. I love messing with templates, widgets and HTML. I've pretty much taught myself everything I know about the computer and blogs. My brain loves it.
The reason I even go into this is to tell you that my goals for blogging are simple. Vent, express, keep my brain running smoothly, and practice writing. I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I joined the Fatosphere. I just knew from reading in Dummies that readers were a good thing. So, I decided I better get some readers. Boy, did the Fatosphere bring me readers.
It kinda scared me. I knew I was old and inexperienced compared to most bloggers. I wasn't so sure I wanted all that many readers after I got them. I hung in there as long as I could, but for a lot of different reasons, I had to give up this blog. It just wasn't for me anymore. I didn't consider myself a serious writer or activist. I had and have strong feelings about Fat Acceptance, but I just couldn't write about it from an activist point of view. It was and is personal for me. More of an emotional issue, not a political one.
I might come back to the Fatosphere someday. I don't know. In any case, I've gotta write and try to keep that brain hitting on all cylinders. For now I'm doing that at Alert and Oriented Times Zero and Socks & Chocolate . Hope you'll come see me there. I don't so much want or need readers just for bragging rights or anything else. I mostly want and need cheerleaders and encouragers. People to keep me motivated to keep me accountable and writing every day. Come on over and see me....help me save my brain!
