Blogger's Block

I had a great post I was working on, then I decided it was too depressing so I scraped it.  Outside of that, I've had what I can only classify as Blogger's Block.  Fresh out of blogging ideas.

If I blogged about more of my personal life this wouldn't be so much of an issue, but after my blog in college where I blogged about my personal life waaaay too much, I've tried to reel it in.  My blog in college was more like my diary.  On one hand it was awesome, because now I can look back at the posts that I have saved and remember all kinds of awesome and not so awesome things.  On the other hand, I started working in social services and my mom read my college blog and told me it was too personal for my professional career.  She has a point if any of my clients found my old site they could have crossed some serious personal boundaries.  So I shut my old site down and started this one.

But where is the line?  I could use the rule of thumb that I only blog about things I would be comfortable talking to my clients about - but then that would lead me to where we currently are, which is a rather impersonal blog.  Hmm.

Maybe I should ask myself this...what's the purpose of my blog?  To share my life with my friends?  To bring tech goodness to my friends?  I think this maybe the real source of my problem...a blog without a purpose.

Good blog therapy session.  Thanks.

Oh.  Let me know your thoughts on this...I'm curious and impressionable about where to go with my blog.

Too much experimenting?

So I've been experimenting with my blog design recently...as I've been inspired by my friends cool blogs.  It's been fun, but I must say I'm grateful for rvblogdesigns.com because I know when I finally get to the place that I have irreversibly messed it up I can pay them to make it look cool.

So bear with me as I play around in the mean time.

And for you're viewing pleasure...here's the cool stuff RVBlogDesigns.com can do...

The first...

So this is my first post of my new journal (for some reason I don't like the word blog...so I call this a journal). Last one I had chronicled my years during college and then first years in the real world. I put all my posts in a book and shut down the site. Now it's time to start new. Start fresh.

I will make one note...I'm writing this journal for me and my friends, not for the rest of the world. And thus you ask, why did you put it on the open internet for all to see instead of on facebook or on one of those super protected sites? Because there is still something freeing and wonderful about putting my thoughts out in the true open. And I can make it so much prettier :) So if you stumble upon this, or don't know me very well, take what I post on here with a grain of salt.

For your humor for today...
A real comment I made to myself while driving to Target this evening..."...don't buy (another) light saber until have someone else to play swords with." I think it was much funnier in my head. Especially since it was a needed conversation as I had just been looking through/playing with some of my toys in my toy draw. I love living alone.