why i am blogging again

I have decided to blog again because:

-Breton and Daphne are both teenagers and are not as dependent on me...so several times I have been left twiddling my thumbs because they are busy and I don't know what to do... I can only clean and cook so much.  I need my "stuff" so it's my hobby and sometimes might be my therapy (Dear Diary...)

-I am a writer.  I enjoy writing.  I can explain myself with my written words better than I can verbally. Have you heard me tell a story??  The written version is so much better!

-it makes me happy

-now that I am not doing it in hopes of earning $$ I can do whatever i want to do!  I took off the counter of how many page views I got because now the stats don't matter:)

-maybe what I am writing will help someone else

-In the end it's a photo album/scrapbook/journal of my life for me, my children, my family, my grandkids to look back on.  With cyberspace I think it will be around for a very very long time.

Not My Birthday but ...

So this was a blog from my 41st birthday and I wanted to go through it and see what I can cross off:

I turned 41 today!

Here are forty one things I plan to do this year:

Skydive (booked and ready) Done read about it here

Bungee Jump Hmmmm not yet but there is this place in Quebec...

Zip line with B&D DONE! Read here

Go to the CN Tower DONE! Click here

Visit Tremblant Done it twice 

Win my triathlon I was first in my first Try a tri! (I was the only one in my age group)

Figure out what I want to be when I grow up Toddler Assistant Directress feels mighty good to me!

Fall in love Robyn 💖 Paul

Get stronger Always working on this one... six pack might be my next goal...

Be healthier Again always working on this one

Be smarter A work in progress

Make good choices for me and my children Everyday

Make more art Not yet

Grow an awesome veggie garden NO thanx , not interested anymore

Get another tattoo? Got two See them here

Paint my bedroom nouveau boudoir:) Done

Get my umbilical hernia fixed Poppy

Eat at really good restaurants Too many to mention but most of them had Thai food

Hangout at the beach more often Hello CUBA 

Grow my hair longer Actually cut it shorter but the goal is to grow it longer from NOW on

Read a book I am reading a lot more this summer See what I am reading here

Write a script for a TV show Hmmm maybe a book...

Travel more Oh ya Las Vegas and Cuba

Drive slower Sometimes

Sleep better Haven't achieved this

Continue to eat in bed! Stopped doing this one

Fix my front steps Done sorta

Bounce more on the trampoline Not so much cuz of this

Laugh just as much as last year or more Yep

See more good movies Haven't seen anything spectacular lately

Dance and sing more often Still a goal

Drink less mix drinks with pop Don't drink at all

Smile a lot Depends on the day

Botox? Not yet...

Go horseback riding Maybe soon... Stella & Molly may I join you?

Kiss - missed it for so long really enjoy it Done done and hope it doesn't ever stop...Paul

Floss more often Crap...got a dentist appt and still don't floss enough

Write better ... For my blog I am trying

Get a mammogram Will do: this year

Have a better race time for my next 1/2 marathon Very happy with my 1/2 this year

Be happy Some days this one is hard  #depression

I like making these types of lists.  They let you set out your goals, passions, dreams and wishes.  And hopefully help you achieve them.

why I haven't...

• Social media changes all the time and I can't keep up...I don't know how to add badges, to code, if I am on the best blogging site, what should I add or get rid of etc etc etc

• It is like having another job.  I can spend an entire day blogging if I wanted to.  This would let me schedule blogs to be posted in the future, in the end freeing up time but for a hobby sometimes it feels like a job.  A job that doesn't pay...

• I originally started the blog hoping it would lead to "work", so far I got a $50 gift card and a chance to promote a Yummy Mummy Club (YMC) event which earned me some $ and an adventure with Paul. Read about the event here here and here 

• I have not always been in the right "mood" or felt "up" for blogging 

• My iphone SE doesn't allow the Blogger app to be downloaded so, anytime anywhere blogging can not occur, a lot of emailing photos to myself then using old phone, chromebook or laptop to do my blogging = time consuming:(

• From this post...He contacted me, not Tim W, but the other guy from this post...kinda freaked me out a bit.  I won't publish his response because he doesn't require anymore attention.  I don't want my grade four memory tarnished even more.

• You stop living in the moment.  I catch myself trying to get a photo so I can use it in my blog and the whole time I am in a moment I am thinking about how I am going to blog about it.

• People use the blog and social media to "keep in touch" but it ends up being one sided. I don't know they are reading my blog but they do know what I am doing I just don't know what they are doing.  I am happy somebody is reading it...

• That leads to another reason: I didn't think anyone was reading it. With less than 10 followers not always sure if anyone is clicking social media links.  And I also have to remember that I am doing this as kinda a memory montage for all of us, so i should not care if others are reading.... (but I do)

These are the reasons I have not blogged in awhile...

but I am back!!!

Why?

Dear Diary

Why do I blog?  Because...

It lets people know what I have been up to, especially people I do not see or talk to on a regular basis

It is therapeutic, at least the Sunday post.       And everyone has a choice to read it or not.  

Maybe opening up a bit too much but that would be my third reason:  that someone comes across my blog and it helps them.  Whether it is the Spartan blog (gives them a laugh)or the fix it jobs I post or these ones.

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I designed this on www.spreadshirt.com.  It's also on Pinterest.