Thinking of ditching the blog?
Jen748
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I started it in an effort to document our lives, sort of a virtual scrapbook but I am feeling overwhelmed with it lately. Plus, with blurb not able to suck up blogger anymore, I am rethinking the whole shebang.
I want to have a written account of things in our lives, so I am thinking of just typing my notes and either use a computer journaling system or just using Word. It would be without photos but I could go back and actually, digi scrap or paper scrap the two together later. I end up typing a lot of my blog entries at work during down time or at lunch so this would still work with that process too.
What do you think? Am I over thinking the whole blog and memory documentation thing? I am slightly OCD and a Type-A personality so sometimes I over think! 
Do you keep some sort of memory/life record with stories and details and such? If so, how?
Re: Thinking of ditching the blog?
Oh, I love blogs. They are my new favorite thing in life recently. I became more and more into it as my pregnancy went on. I love to write so I always kept a paper journal. I probably have 30 notebooks filled with my thoughts through high school, college and so on. I love going back and reading over what I wrote. It provides me with a lot of perspective and I am able to learn from myself. Like now, I look back on some of my posts and think, "I don't give a flip about that now!" and I'm able to laugh about it.
It was only recently that I felt comfortable enough to share my thoughts with the public. If I ever feel uncomfortable I will just make it private. I used to take big long breaks and thought about deleting it about a year ago. But then I decided to make an effort to post more.
You could make it private if you don't like having it floating around out there. I, for one, like reading your posts!
I have thought about starting a blog, but then I wasnt sure what I would write about and who would really care to read what I have to say. I am also not very good with writing down my thoughts so I dont think blogging is the thing for me.
It sounds like you really enjoy doing this in your down time, so I think go ahead and keep it up.
Do you still write in a paper journal? I think I am trying to write too many places...I have a paper journal and then the blog...plus some stuff gets put to FB and MS to keep peeps updated there too.
Most of what I keep on paper is my poetry. I write a lot of poetry. And I mean a lot. It has always been my outlet since I was 15-years-old. I sometimes get overwhelmed writing/updating so many places. I mean, with blogger, FB, MS, the Nest and another specific support forum I am on it gets tough to keep up. I spend much less time on FB and MS now. My blog is where I keep most of my daily/weekly thoughts. It also helps me organize my photos since I'm taking a freaking ton now!
In my teen angst years I was a poetry writing fool...I kept most of them...I reread them a few years ago and I swear, I lived in a state of depression and oppressive thoughts for awhile!
I feel like I am not able to write in my journal b/c I am overwhelmed with other writing...so it feels like I am duplicating my thoughts. I love to elaborate and dive into personal thoughts/conflicts in my journal, more so than my blog. I guess I have viewed my blog as the life happenings but then I am restating everything in my journal to add my more personal thoughts/feelings to it.
Does that make sense? Maybe this is more of a writing thing than a time thing...I don't know!!!