Showing posts with label hiatus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hiatus. Show all posts

Monday, September 27, 2010

look around and what do you see?

If you are here right now there's a 95% chance you read my blog before i took a hiatus. If you are new feel free to read the archives and take a look around.

So i took a hiatus after my grandfather died. I didn't do it intentionally, i was grieving and i'd fallen out of love with blogging. I started my first blog on 9.4.2004. Not this blog another one where i wrote under a pen name. i closed it when i turned 30 as well as some group blogs i had when i turned 30, i decided to just maintain this one. What happened? lots of stuff, my daughter's autism was overwhelming our lives, i lost my maternal grandmother who i lived with till i was 18 and my paternal grandfather who i loved more then air.

you know life.
and death.
but mostly life.

Even so with all of those things blogging stopped being important. You see i write for me, and to condense my feelings in one place for my friends. I'm busy way busy and all over the place, so blogging was originally a way to let everyone know what i was doing. Sometimes i ranted sometimes i put my heart on my sleeve, frequently i talked about my sex life and what i watched on TV. Exciting!

So for the 3 years this blog was live i was sporadic at best because of life and my drive to update was gone. i have been flirting with coming out of hiatus for several months. But something changed. The blogging word changed. mommy bloggers are no longer a phenom, everyone is working on the next deal, sponsorship, monetization, and followers. When i started blogging at most people wanted book deals but now there's reviews, and contests with 84 ways to get entries, and conferences. Now don't get me wrong I love me some conferences, or should i say i like social events. and conferences are social events, with a purpose, i may or may not care about.

So the question became do i bother to return? Do i get in the game i never played? Do i scrap and start all over again? what do i do????

At the end of the day i'm still me. I'm still going to be in it for my personal reasons, and blog because i feel it again. I'm still not capitalizing my i's, and will still talk about anything, everything, and nothing. In the end i'm still me and that's what counts.


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