Thoughts on blogging

One of the benefits of staying home sick is having a lot of time to watch TV without interruption. The downside is that occasionally you come across a video getting waaaaay too much airplay, and it gets stuck in your head. I’m looking at you, Beyoncé’s “Irreplaceable” – damn you and your “to the left, to the left” [1].

The other thing it gave me time to do was come up with five reasons why I blog.

1. Keeping in touch.
Everyone in my family participates in regular email correspondence with each other, some of us more than others. I’m somewhere in the middle as fas as consistency goes, and I like to think that my blog is a way of filling in the bits I forget to tell them in my irregular emails.

It’s also a way of keeping in touch with friends and enemies across the country and in other exotic locals.

2. It’s all about me.
I’m not so modest that I’m not going to say I don’t enjoy having a soapbox on which to stand and have my say or show off my talents and hobbies.

3. A sequence of events.
I’ve never been good at keeping a diary or any other sort of time-monitoring device because I tend to get distracted, or I forget, or something like that. Having a blog helps me to remember roughly what I was doing around this time last year.

4. Creative outlet.
When I was in high school, I loved to write, and I did it quite a bit. Then I hit university, and… not so much with the creative writing any more. It’s been like that for a few years, and having somewhere to write where it’s read.

5. I don’t have a fifth reason.
Seriously – two days lying on the couch and I couldn’t come up with a fifth reason.

Another thing I couldn’t come up with? Enough people to tag. Let’s see – J, Julie, Randal, and Mary-lynn. And anyone else who wants to do it.

[1] Which, as I’d sing along with the video, I’d inevitably point to the right. I’d blame the fever, but I’m usually that spazzy without illness.