I Think We Have Been Blogging For Over a Year Now

You would think that since I have had this cursed blog for more than a year now, that I would find it easier to blog. I was hoping that I'd be in the habit of it by now, and not have to literally force myself to make an entry every week or ten days due to guilt. But here I am, forcing myself, wondering what to write about.

Actually, it is this lack of knowing what to write about that makes it sound like I do nothing but complain. Blogs aren't fun for me, so I am not in a happy frame of mind when I am typing into this little blog window. I don't like to share actual personal facts about myself, so speaking at length about social events when I have them is out of the question. I will mention them in passing if they seem relevant or peculiar, but otherwise, I don't feel that it is much of anyone's business or interest.

I try to be entertaining, maybe have a topic to speak of, but that's what I do when I write articles, and I don't want to waste a topic on the blog if I could make an article about it someday.

This means that for the past year, I mostly complain about really petty things that I don't really care about (mostly because working for OMGJ has taught me that the readers here mostly enjoy rants and belly-aching about anything we can think of as long as it is done in a colorful manner), and I don't talk about my private life often so it makes it look like I don't actually have one, so it just appears that the only thing I do is sit at my computer machine and whine all day.

I assure you that this is not the case. But I am not really inclined to tell you all about what I actually DO do, so you'll have to take my word for it.

It also isn't that my daily activities aren't interesting or exciting. They must be okay since I rarely ever feel bored. I just don't see any appeal in keeping a public journal where strangers can know the names of all the major characters in my life, what we are all doing, and what I think about it all.

I may be trying to talk myself into doing that, but I just won't do it. No, sir!

Likewise, I won't do blog entries where I link to news articles, or to other points of interest on the Internet mostly because I am very lazy but also because I rarely follow links at all, so I figure that everyone else is like me, too.

Also, for some reason I find it impossible to write really really long blog entries like xv bones does. My attention span is nowhere near long enough, but he has the most popular blog of the 5 or 6 of us, so he must be doing something right. Lord, five thousand word blog entries... How does he find the motivation? Jeremy's blog is pretty nice, it just drives me crazy that you can't comment on his posts. DAMN YOU, JEREMY! Mark's blog is usually filled with humor anecdotes or bitter complaints. Trev's is updated too infrequently, but usually revolves around the fact that he is too busy to blog so we have to take what he's willing to give us. But it is still fun to read. Jeremy P does short reviews of stuff and when he actually has time/energy to be himself, he makes wonderful, entertaining entries.

Maybe I find my own blog lacking because I am my own worst critic? And since I wrote it, re-reading it seems dull because it actually came from my own brains.

But, it is true though that I am a bit tired of these blog entries of mine feeling so forced. I tire of the fact that every entry's topic is just something I thought that I could maybe write a few hundred words about so that Jeremy wouldn't complain to me about my lack of blog-related contribution.

I need a formula, focus, and drive!


See, I think these things, and I'm all YEAH I'LL TRY HARDER WOOO! And then I remember that this is a blog, and I remember that I really don't want to exert any effort at all ever on a blog.

So once again, I will end an entry with an apology to you all, and a little frowning face.


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