Still Going Strong
After a week I am still enthusiastic about this blogging thing. Having a site counter up and running helps so I know that I am not just talking to myself. Not that I have anyhting against talking to myself. I could just call this a journal and be satisfied in writing it regardless of who if anyone reads it. Lets be honest though, I want an audience! I am trying to be honest in what I write but it is written for public consumption. I usually think about what I am going to say before I sit at the keyboard and I am carefull not to include all of the random thoughts that I would regret publishing when I go back and read them a day or two later.
I guess that is the difference between a journal and a diary. I have never read anyone's diary, (except Anne Frank), but the Journals I have read seem to invite a glance and offer insight into the writer's life without invading their private thoughts. So now in mind I am clear, this is a journal of my life and thoughts that I am leaving out open on the table for anyone to pick up and read. I hope that I keep up with the daily entries since going back and finding blank stretches is always dissapointing. Also with my terrible memory I would have no idea what happened and this is a time in my life that I want to remember.
Reading my blogs you may notice that I never use spell check. There are several reasons for that. For one since I can't spell it dosen't bother me to read misspelled text. Two, I am being honest with you and that includes a glimpse into the mind of phoenetic spelling gone bad. Three, when it occured to me to do a spell check I was typing on Patrick's computer which has pop-ups blocked so it didn't work anyway. Four, if I was writing this with pen and paper in an old fashoned journal I wouldn't have spell check to fall back on so this feels more authentic to me. Finally five, it irks me when my spelling is so bad that spell check has no suggestions for me.
When it comes to grammer, it slows me down to a snail's pace to write grammatically correct sentences. If I went back and edited everything later to fix it I would only be putting out one entry a week and let's face it I am going for quantity not quality here. Also I am not being graded on this and it is not being used to land a job so more relaxed rules are in order.
Now onto the baby news. There is no baby news. She is just as kicky and squirmy as ever and she demands strawberries at least three times a week. We are slowly getting her furnature sorted out and re-painting some things for her but we still have much to do in the next three weeks. I have almost conceeded that we will have to walk home from the hospital and never put her in a car, baby seats are very expensive! I wonder if the hospital will let us take her home in a stroller since we have no car anyway? All of our baby handouts say that you have to take your baby out of the hospital in an approved car seat, but why cram the baby into a car seat if there is no car? By the way, the hospital is only a ten minute walk away from our home.
Terri
I guess that is the difference between a journal and a diary. I have never read anyone's diary, (except Anne Frank), but the Journals I have read seem to invite a glance and offer insight into the writer's life without invading their private thoughts. So now in mind I am clear, this is a journal of my life and thoughts that I am leaving out open on the table for anyone to pick up and read. I hope that I keep up with the daily entries since going back and finding blank stretches is always dissapointing. Also with my terrible memory I would have no idea what happened and this is a time in my life that I want to remember.
Reading my blogs you may notice that I never use spell check. There are several reasons for that. For one since I can't spell it dosen't bother me to read misspelled text. Two, I am being honest with you and that includes a glimpse into the mind of phoenetic spelling gone bad. Three, when it occured to me to do a spell check I was typing on Patrick's computer which has pop-ups blocked so it didn't work anyway. Four, if I was writing this with pen and paper in an old fashoned journal I wouldn't have spell check to fall back on so this feels more authentic to me. Finally five, it irks me when my spelling is so bad that spell check has no suggestions for me.
When it comes to grammer, it slows me down to a snail's pace to write grammatically correct sentences. If I went back and edited everything later to fix it I would only be putting out one entry a week and let's face it I am going for quantity not quality here. Also I am not being graded on this and it is not being used to land a job so more relaxed rules are in order.
Now onto the baby news. There is no baby news. She is just as kicky and squirmy as ever and she demands strawberries at least three times a week. We are slowly getting her furnature sorted out and re-painting some things for her but we still have much to do in the next three weeks. I have almost conceeded that we will have to walk home from the hospital and never put her in a car, baby seats are very expensive! I wonder if the hospital will let us take her home in a stroller since we have no car anyway? All of our baby handouts say that you have to take your baby out of the hospital in an approved car seat, but why cram the baby into a car seat if there is no car? By the way, the hospital is only a ten minute walk away from our home.
Terri
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