Fun Monday - Why do YOU blog?

Lisa (Lisa's Chaos) is hosting this week's Fun Monday.  Her challenge? 

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.

This is actually something I wrote about a long time ago and had forgotten til I had reason to stumble across it today.  It still holds true, but as I read my previous words--and barely remember writing them!--it was like visiting someone I used to know...a bit surreal.

It seemed like cheating simply to re-post something from the past, so here's a somewhat lame attempt for this week's Fun Monday.  Believe it or not, I'm feeling brevity-ish right now.  So...I'll go with either a short poem or Top Ten list. 

What, me....make a decision?  Why start now??  Just to make it fun, I'll do both!

Why Blog?  A Limerick

"All the world's a stage" Shakespeare said.
(Oft quoted, though the playwright's now dead.)
Well, my blog IS my stage,
Where I rant and I rage,
And pen thoughts that were once in my head.

Top Ten List to Explain Why I Blog

10.  I started blogging because a friend asked me to read hers,
9.  and I thought it was neat, so I began my own (although hers is parked for now).
8.  I blogged completely anonymously for six months before giving ANYONE a link to it
7.  then joined Blogging Chicks in May '06 and was their 100th blog added!
6.  and I remember this blanger (blog + stranger) named Karmyn commenting, and I discovered the crack-like addictive nature of receiving comments.
5.  My blog is my only current journal although I've begun countless other hand-written versions in the past.  Sometimes I write for you, but mostly I write to remember those things I don't want to forget (entirely too many posts to link to...I'm sparing you...and me!).
4.  I appreciate the diversity of my readers and those whom I read; IRL my friends are much more "like me"...it's a breath of fresh air to have a community of sorts of people who in some instances, think like me, and in others, are my polar opposites.
3.  It's been fun to give away sursees, receive sursees, and have milestone posts!
2.  I never fear running out of things to write about watch immediate writer's block enter after a statement like that!; my difficulty is in completing the posts I've started...and remembering those FABULOUS ones that hit me at 2:00 in the morning when I'm too lazy to get up and at least record the thought.
1.  My blog fantasy?  Not to meet all of you IRL, lol (although each and every one of you is invited to a Southern home-cooked dinner if you're ever in the Tennessee Valley), but to write those things that I'm not willing to publish...but have probably shaped who I am more than anything else.  Now THAT would make some good bloggin'!

Be sure to visit Lisa for the rest of Fun Monday bloggers!  And if you have time, scroll down and take the Personality Test, then let me know you posted it, and I'll link back to you in the post.  I'm reeaal curious what makes some of y'all tick! :)

Last but not least, the Blogging Chicks are having a Carnival...I linked the above Personality Do-Dah...first time I've remembered to post a submission in forevah (because I never remember!).  (Maybe I should blog about forgetting to do that, huh?)

Comments

[mjd]

Robin,
I never did thank you for the Nice Matters Award, so thank you. Eventually, hopefully soon, I will be thanking you officially on my blog.

We may blog for similar reasons or at least your reason #4. As I read your post, I am thinking some bloggers may like the feature of writing something down before passing our thoughts and ideas to others. For me that means, that what I write seems more meaningful compared to what I may blurt out when speaking. Before blogging was popular, I liked to e-mail distant friends and family. Some of those folks stopped the personal messages and started relying heavily on forwards. Blogging provides a new avenue for personal conversations in addition to our outside the box relationships.
Does that make sense?

[Robin]

Molly, first, you're welcome. Second, perfectly!

[min]

to remember things

Best reason ever!

[Tiger Lamb Girl]

Ooh, I haven't written my FM yet (tomorrow morning:) - when it's Monday, lol). I'll be sure to post my personality test with it when I do, though.

I'm with you on the blog fantasy. I'm too chicken. For the mo anyway.

[Karmyn R]

Ahhhh - you were better than me (I am re-posting something I wrote earlier, but editing it a bit).

I do remember - it all started with your gas stove. By the way - I still haven't gotten one, but our big remodel is getting planned for next summer - so it will come then.

If and when I ever make it to Tennessee - I WILL be coming for dinner. :)

[beccy]

Did you say dinner? Sounds good!

[Hootin' Anni]

I bet it was kinda surreal!!! Great post.

My reason for blogging is posted for FUN MONDAY, won't you drop by?

[her indoors]

i started as a friend suggested we did, hey she still never got her own blog! great limerick

[Tiger Lamb Girl]

Mine is up now. I did the personality test...ISFJ. that was fun;).

[Debbie]

I love reading your blog. :)

[lisaschaos]

Now I need to click the link to see the difference you saw in yourself. :) I like how we grow as time goes on.

[Susan]

Your reasons sound very similar to my own. And I am sooo with you on that blog fantasy!

[Beckie]

Great post! I think the diversity of the people that I have "met" through blogging is one of the greatest things about this blogging gig. People that I definitely wouldn't come in contact with IRL, but people that I am missing IRL.

Dinner? Sounds like fun!

[nikki]

I too love the diversity of blogging and the people are amazing.

[Steffi]

I agree with Nikki too.Great post!Thank you for stopping in my blog too!

[Robinella]

Love it!

[Robin]

Min, I'm o l d...it .helps ;)

[chrisb]

Great post I can relate so well to 6 I remember both Beccy and I ringing each other and being so excited when we had some of our early comments. It's such a big ego boost and this in turn started the ball rolling to finding other blogs as we could use other peoples links. Back then I hadn't a clue what 'bloglines' were!!

[Willowtree]

Do you realise there are over 30 links in these two posts (this post and the 'I think therefore I blog' post), it must take you age to do that.

Actually it was kinda nostalgic going to the old openconversation blog.

[Robin]

TLG & Susan, lemme know if you ever follow through with your (my) blog fantasy thing...;).

Karmyn, Beccy, what are you waiting for?

Hootin' Anni., Her Indoors, Steffi, Robinella...Thanks! :)

Debbie...5 of the nicest words for ANY blogger to hear (thanks!). :)

Nikki, yep...agreed!

Chris, it took me a while, too, lol.

Willowtree, nope, I didn't realize (ummm...thanks for counting...:/). I'm actually fast with it...but re-thinking it? Few people follow the links, so maybe it's wasted effort. Yeah, it was nostalgic for me, too...

The traffic there today is INSANE with Jenny's "Naked Blogging" traffic...

[Kris]

I'm right with you on your #2--I never fear running out of anything to write about either!

You've got some great stuff over here, I'm so glad I came across your blog!

[pamela]

oh c'mon... I thought you were the first fun monday post I commented on.

good thing I came back to sign up for dinner....

[elena jane]

i'm not always brave enough to share everything that happens with everyone in blog land....my posts tend to be edited for brevity now. but then again, i am a blog hog (hag?)...i have one for each of my "things"...writing, mom stuff, obsessions, family photos....;)
i think you're brave to put it all out there, as it were ;)