I was in love with blogging at first. Hooked from the moment I started.... I had no idea that there was this cyber world out there.

I started it to walk myself through my emotions of the day... hoping to keep the external world from having to deal with my anger, frustrations, and saddnesses that I was feeling.

Then, I stumbled on one after another Blog. Again... completely hooked!

Until my ex's best friend stumbled on the site. I was doing "ah... okay" with the ex but not when he started bringing his friends into the mix.

I moved, tried fake names, but nothing really felt right after the original place. UNTIL NOW!

I don't mind if the band of stalkers come along for the ride.... I've long since realized that there isn't anything on my blog that I would also admit to outloud. So what the hell... but would rather them keep away.

However, thanks to www.adelle.net , I have this great new beautiful site that I'm in love with all over again.

Crazy... isn't it!
-d

nice post. i pretty much feel the same way about my blog.
i originally started out blogging on my own personal domain and i eventually felt i was limited on what i could say since it was tied to info on me and my family. so after about a year, i switched over to a free journaling site so that i could be more "anonymous". and with the new found "freedom" i did write some personal posts but eventually some of my friends ran across my site and i reverted back to the mundane.

I first started out reading blogs. I was hooked! Next, my boyfriend and I broke up. It was mainly because I never did express how I felt. I would keep it all inside. Then when I had held it in for so long, I would just blow. I would take out all my anger on him. Needless to say, it didn't last. He did open my eyes though. I realized I did need to get my feelings out some way. I shouldn't worry about what others think. That is when I decided to start my own blog.

For a while, I was with Blogger. Then I decided to get my own domain, www.divadiversion.com. That is when I felt that I had a home. A place where I can say whatever I want.

I love the state of my blog. Thanks to BlogMoxie. Joelle came up with my design. I loved it the first moment I saw it.

I am happy with the way things are going on my site. Sometimes it is happier than others. It just all depends on my mood. The main thing, is that it got me to express my feelings. Therefore, it is doing its job.

It's still pretty early to say for sure. But so far, so good. I like the content that I have. I think for the most part it says what I want it to. I'm most surprised by the number of people that keep coming back.

Technically I started "blogging" when I added Blogger to my Everquest Guild site as an easy way to update news items. It was several months before I even thought of creating a blog for myself.

My blog started out as a way for me to document my attempt to get organized in life, but that was short-lived. Now it's more of a place for me to muse about whatever is on my mind. It has unintentionally become a way for out of town relatives and friends to keep up with my life.

The funny thing is, I was just thinking my blog lacked a gimick. I don't know why I crave more readers, I have a small but loyal band of people who read my blog daily and I love them all.

If this looks familiar to anyone, it's because I'm reposting it on my blog.

Good post!!!

This is what I want it to be, with the exception that my family reads everything. I would like to have a space to be able to talk about them sometimes. I feel like my blog is my journal, my way of getting things out and expressing myself. Sometimes, I don't have that opportunity with some of my family reading it. It's not that I am not honest with them, but I do not want to hurt their feelings, either.

However, I do have to agree with you on the people thing. I have "met" some of the most awesome people who I consider to be friends, even!

I'm going through a fairly ambivalent phase with my site at the moment. After passing the 6 active months phase I still really enjoy the idea of blogging. However I am feeling an urge to fine tune it more. I'm not sure how. I think I need a major redesign. I also feel the need to theme it more but my own interests are so eclectic I find it difficult to think of a particular theme that will keep me interested.

Plugs and Dottles is turning out about like I expected it, an extension of my suburban and middle class life. And just like my life, most entries are mundane occasionally punctuated by something better. Like me there's not a lot of deep thought in it. But overall I like it and I do have fun writing. Comments thrill me beyond repair. What I enjoy the most is visiting blogs from people all around the country. I love seeing how talented, creative, funny, poignant, angst-filled, and nutty my blogging confreres are.
K-

I like to keep track of my family through blogging. Little did I know that I would adopt lots of "friends" that I like to keep track of as well.

Like you, I have avoided politics, religion, abortion, whale’s rights and pretty much anything else controversial. I wonder if that's a family thing.

I started Blogging just because. And thought that if all I ever did was put in recipes, that would be just fine. I really didn't care if anyone read my blogs.

Well, I have now entered posts into my blogsite 99 times, and feel like I might be getting the hang of it.

It's fun. Thanks again

Excellent observations! I found the same unexpected thing; meeting lots of the coolest people through blogging. I wrote about how amazed I was by that after I'd been at it just a few months.

My site is going along pretty much the way it always has, except that when I started, I never would have imagined I'd last 23 months.

It's a work in progress, but I hit the subject line right on the head. Incoherent Rambling...

it's exactly what i wanted. i had a friend who blogged and just kinda posted little blurbs of stuff. that's exactly what i wanted to do. that's exactly what i do.

some of it's personal, some of it's observational, some of it (hell, most of it) is stupid. i can post pictures, songs, whatever.

i do it as an outlet mostly, so that's what it is.

of course, i hope that my "tuesday is chooseday" meme will someday rule the world, but otherwise i'm happy with it!

I think its turning out well, though on any particular day I may think "I put out complete crap" or "I'm wonderful! Woo hoo! Dance with me!"

I don't know if I've kept up with the whole SJ persona thing, I think my real personality has crept through. But I like how things are going and I like how JAVAMAMA has made it all pretty and stuff.

I'm still surprised every day when someone actually reads it.

Kazoofus is a million times better than I ever dreamt it would be.

Of course, it is also NOTHING like what I planned for it to be.

I planned it to be a private log of stories (fiction and non) for my friends and family.

Kazoofus has expanded that list of friends significantly.

I have been pleasantly surprised at how much I am enjoying blogging. It started as a way for me to just ramble and commit to write daily. But of course, put me on a stage, and I want to entertain. There are days I worry that the mundane that is a soccer/PTA mom bores people, but then again, I know it bores me too. Such is life.

I guess the biggest thrill is the fabulous people that I have met through this. Comments just absolutely make my day. I love hearing what people think. And if I make people laugh (or think) then I really get happy! And of course, through those comments I have found some great reads!

I've never had a goal for my blog. I started doing it because it seemed neat and I've just been going with the flow ever since. It's all about me. I don't focus on politics or a hobby or anything like that, except as it pertains to my daily existence. I confess I enjoy having traffic. If nobody read me, I'd probably not blog so much, but it's more because I enjoy the interaction, as opposed to just having the attention.

Which leads me to the awesome people I've come across while doing it. I never expected that to happen. At first I pimped my blogspot site out to my friends and only a couple of them paid it any attention. Now I don't bring it up to my real life friends at all except for the people I that I know already read it. It almost feels like a parallel life.

I never thought it would become so important to me.

I haven't had nearly the time to "dress up" my blog as I'd wished. Now that autumn lawn maintenance is almost complete, and the days are shorter, I may finally get some time to do just that. The current 'minimalist' appearance doesn't satisfy me, and I'm too stubborn to contract out the work. Heck, I want to do it myself, I'm capable of doing it myself, I just need to make the time for it.

As for content, well... I'm afraid I rant too much about work. Again, with cooler weather upon us, I'll probably start cooking more, and post a few recipes along the way.

I think I'm pretty OK with the state of my blog, which still lives up to its name as The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Person, and I'm more than a little delighted at having met so many funny/kind/clever bloggers out there from all over the effin' place. It's still so much fun I have a hard time imagining I would ever get tired of it.

P.S. Your site is a lot of fun and is very much a reflection of its owner. I could just reach out and squeeze you (in a non-sexual kind of way...or whatever).