Sunday Reflection-Milestones
Milestone: An action or event marking significant change or stage in development.
This is my 200th post to this blog.
‘Event’? Yes.
‘Significant’? Yes…to me.
‘Developing’? I sure hope so.
What shall I do to celebrate? Give away? Contest? Cake? Candles?
On pondering that, I realised this truth…
Until just recently, this bit of internet space has been a great scrap of electronic paper to doodle simple thoughts, spin simple tales and share simple pictures. Of late, however, I began noticing a shift in power, which was…
Warning: Transparency ahead, bordering on too much information.
…the servant was becoming the master. Rather than living my life and then chronicling it on my little bit of blog space, I began living my life with respect to how it would look on my little bit of blog space. I unconsciously…or perhaps subconsciously or semi-consciously…allowed myself to be drawn into altering what I do and how I do it for the sake of how it would look in a blog post. Ick.
Creative writing became cliché and the desire for meaningful photos was replaced by quick uploadable snaps. Double Ick.
So, I guess no giveaways, no contests, no cakes or candles, but rather, I’m coming clean on this the milestone marker of personal blog development and hoping there will be many more significant milestones to come.
Good for you! It’s a strange thing, this blog thing, and it’ll tend to consume your life if you let it, that’s certain. I’m also certain that there’re things which happen in your life which would go well on the blog, but that you simply don’t have the time to write about, and that’s the other pitfall that I’ve found: feeling that you must blog about every little thing, every little hat, all the bits and bobs of life.
Blogging isn’t life isn’t blogging.
05 Feb 2007 at 3:42 am
Happy 200th post!
I noticed the same thing about my own blog. When I moved from diaryland.com to blogger, I gained free photo hosting, which somehow translated into me posting pictures of my knitting. If anyone were to read my diaryland blog, they wouldn’t guess that I was a knitter, so much.
The last apartment my husband and I lived in was about 100 meters away from my parents’ house. In August, Darren and I moved to Canada, and we’re living in in his parents’ house right now - and that’s 700 miles away from the old place. My mom reads my blog to find out what’s going on in my life, since it’s easier for me to blog at 130am than it is to wake her up with a phone call at that hour.
Anyway, now that I know my mom reads my blog, I definitely censor my language (she reads at work sometimes, and she’s a church secretary). I ended up starting a new, private journal to talk about my personal thoughts, especially stuff I can’t blog about like how much I can’t stand my husband’s mom.
– shameless plug –
Wouldn’t you like some nice, sparkly, handmade stitch markers to celebrate your 200th post? I have a contest over at my blog. All knitters are welcome!
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So like I was saying, it might not feel great to see your blog changing into something you hadn’t intended, but remember that it’s your blog and you still have control.
The new blogger has the option to add tags to your posts. There’s also a hack somewhere that you can add to your template which turns your labels into RSS feeds - so if you have readers that aren’t into knitting, you can make a non-knitting label and tell your non-knitting friends to subscribe to that instead of to your whole blog. I know that’s kind of just giving in more to the servant-as-master concept, but it’s an idea.
05 Feb 2007 at 6:47 am
Happy 200th post Cheryl!!
I found that a while back with mine so have reduced the amount of posts I do, I don’t feel a slave to it anymore. Though a certain amount of this is due to not wanting to be posting the same thing over and over again hee hee
05 Feb 2007 at 8:02 pm
Wow, congratulations on your 200th post! I have to admit I’m kind of relieved about the contest / giveawa / cake. Because then I would want to participate, but I just don’t have time these days!!! Anyway, that was an excellent self-revelation.
06 Feb 2007 at 4:17 am
congratulations on your 200th blog. it is quite a milestone. i enjoy what you share regardless. hope to read more. take care.
06 Feb 2007 at 7:23 am
As long as it all still stays fun. I think that’s the important thing. It’s not rocket science and it surely shouldn’t be painful either. Congrats on the milestone!
06 Feb 2007 at 2:34 pm
Congrats - belatedly. I like your post - found myself nodding and smiling.
07 Feb 2007 at 3:30 am