Fun Monday: Why I Blog (And My Super Secret Diaries)

Fun Monday is here!! Lisa has asked, "I’d like to know more about you, what makes you tick. I’d like to know how you started blogging. Did you keep a diary under lock and key safely hidden as a child? Do you still? Do you share the same things on your blog that you would have, or do, in your diary? Why did you start blogging and why do you continue? May as well throw in any roadblocks you have run into while blogging. If you still have your old diaries we’d love to see them."


I bet the first blog I ever read was Dooce. I then moved onto a long list of bloggers, starting off with personal finance bloggers. One of my favorite things was when someone commented on a site I read, I would click the link and read their blog. While I really don't know where I found most of my favorite bloggers anymore, I bet this is how I found a majority of them. I currently have 25 blogs on my favorites list that I go through each day to read about their lives.

I started blogging earlier this year, I believe, out of loneliness. I had various random thoughts that I wanted to tell someone, but I don’t have any friends here, and I didn’t think it was fair to call my friends that are scattered around the States every day to tell them one small inane thing that happened during my day. Further, many of my friends and family did not agree with the path I took early this year, not working and selling on Ebay. I was tired of hearing the various biting comments from these folks, so I decided it would be better to throw up all over the innernet what my loved ones didn’t seem to want to hear.

I have only been here for a few months and during the past few weeks have run into my first problems. I am generally a positive upbeat person, but the last several weeks have found me to be unhappy and just in a negative state of mind. I haven’t posted much as result. Not posting at first, was disappointing to myself until I loosened up and remembered that this here thing is for me first. If I don’t want to write, I don’t need to. I hope to get back in the groove soon.

As for my written diaries, pulling these out has been a delight!

I had many forms of diaries as a child, and of course, pre-teen to teen years. I apparently destroyed these over the years. Man, I sure wish I had these still!!

This is the oldest "diary" I have. This notebook....I scribbled all over it.

And the most important thing. I wrote "Stay Out" on the cover. I am sure this kept my nosy sister out of it.

The notebook doesn't really contain personal entries, but tons of poems. Most I found, some I wrote. Yikes.

The one above was written by one of my best friend's older sisters. Awesome.

I wrote this one. It is dated January 7, 1992. I would have just moved to Texas. I have an idea who this was written for, but that story really isn't worth writing about.

However, I am so proud of myself!! Look at the last paragraph. I was a stupid high school sophomore. And had enough self-worth to write that. I may not have always acted like it, but at least I wrote it!

For a couple years, I kept daily entries on my oh so busy life in calendars like these.

Here is an entry . I was in school at the time. Check out the highlighting. I was so organized.

Here is a year or two later. I must have just got my cat, Daisy. She ultimately lost the cat lottery. Those numbers are from when I was bartending. The first number would be tips, the second tipshare. Not too shabby.

I have had this notebook for many years. I handwrote many of my favorite poems in here.


Look at the lowercase. What a dork.

Now e.e. cummings, that should be in lowercase.


This is my latest diary. (And Cass' feet, it just seemed wrong to crop her out of it) I don't write in her frequently. The first entry is dated during Dec. 2004. The last, November 2006. And only 12 pages have been written on.

This entry has to be my favorite.

This was written just a few days after I left my ex. I had been hurt by other people's reactions to my leaving him, my so-called friends. However, I knew I had done the right thing.

I found another item that isn't necessarily a diary, but it has a ton of memories in it. It is definitely an insight into my younger self. However, it is huge....and will have to wait until another day this week.

Go see everyone else's reasons for blogging! I love this topic and can't wait to read everyone's entries!!