Why?
Steph, why?
WHY do you blog?
Truthfully I have no idea. Sometimes it is fun, funny and entertaining, other times it seems silly and a waste. I have days when blogging has it’s place with me and other days when I feel it is lame. Mostly I blog because it makes me laugh. I find it hilarious that I can write something about my dog and someone in New Zealand might read it and contact me about MY DOG!
I selfishly blog, posting only when I feel entertained by doing so. As I’m sure you can tell from my posts, I’m not trying to be too serious or appealing to anyone in particular. In real life, I strive to be a professional in business, a dependable mom, loyal friend, and compatible wife. There are many times I will sit at my computer and create a post that allows me to vent or give a detailed confession or talk religion or tell humorous stories about things I really shouldn’t find funny and then I DELETE IT. Except for that one time when I pushed the publish button by mistake; my unfortunate post about something ridiculous in the world of figure skating was live for only a few brief minutes, thank your lucky stars you missed it.
The fact that a client or an acquaintance might cross my website may make me blush for a minute, yet the truth is they have more than likely already been exposed to my loony side. My high school creative writing teacher, Mr. Gates, would be disgusted with my grammatical imperfections and might write some of my bad writing up on his chalk board to use as wrong examples, as he did when I misspelled mow as moe the lawn. Just as I was not embarrassed then, I’m somewhat not embarrassed now, as I share my thoughts and stories with the infinite place we call the internet.
WHY do you not open your comments?
“I simply don’t want to give much time to blogging” and because I feel like you are stopping by my house, the hospitable person inside me wants to return a comment or reply back to who ever comments on my blog. Plus, I don’t want to regulate the comments, that nuisance takes the fun away. Turning my comments off helps me keep my sanity, except for those times when I forget and leave them open.
I just want to spend my blogging time posting my thoughts on things such as the conspiracy which is seedless watermelon.
WHY do you have ads on your blog?
In the beginning I was naively excited at the thought of making money off a blog about poop. Especially when there was consistent traffic early. I was sort of caught up playing the game. It wasn’t that I set out to make money, it was just part of the building process. As I was learning more and more about building a blog I was introduced to ads and decided from day one to have them on my blog. I have since removed most of them and probably by the time you find this WHY page they will all be gone, if not, I haven’t taken the time to figure it out yet.
The West Host ad may remain because it is a deal and who am I to deprive you of a great deal? Not to mention they are great. This isn’t a sales pitch, moving on…
WHY does your email not work?
Dear Lord, why do we only have one moon? My email does work you fruitcake! What’s your problem?
My mail is so protective of me it files almost everything into my junk mail before I ever see it. I’m working on changing my overprotective mail system, at least I plan to figure it out soon. In computer illiterate time that could be years. Plus, I have no idea what to do to fix this issue.
While we are talking about mail, Thank You for all your emails, you people really crack me up.
Why all the why?
I am tackling the WHY to answer a few frequently asked questions Scully and Mulder were unable to answer in the last X-files movie. Bottom line, I want you to know that even though I don’t play the blogging game or get excited about things like Blogher, I’m not passing any judgment on what you personally intend to do with your blogging experience. I am also not looking to have any guest bloggers, at least not yet, but thanks for asking, I really am flattered. If you are looking for photos of attacking hawks you will find them here, if you are studying prayers you will find one here, If you are looking for stimulating well written literature you will most likely be disappointed here.
You will hopefully, be inspired to wash your hands. Sanny your hanny!
