| Friday, May 25, 2007 |
| A New Me...again |
New look once again, my friends... as you can tell, I get bored reeeally quickly with my templates... and the more I learn, the more I want to play around with it.
Good news - I am going to OHIO to visit my family in just 4 days! Yay! I haven't seen my m om or brother in 10 months (my dad visited in Nov.) and this is the longest period of time that I've gone without visiting them. So I am very excited..we found incredibly cheap tickets on www.skybus.com (seriously, like $10 one way and then $75 back...a special!) from Bellingham, WA, to Columbus, OH. I am going for a week, and Craig is joining me on the weekend. That's one thing I miss about the freedom of working in YWAM. You can go away for a week to visit your family and not worry about missing work days!
 Well, not much else to say... Congrats to my friends Audge and Ralph who are engaged! Being married is pretty much the coolest thing ever, I'm excited for you guys.Labels: bellingham, blogger, Blogs, columbus, Ohio, skybus, template |
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| Saturday, April 21, 2007 |
| Blog Land |
Lately I have been thinking about what I have dubbed 'blogland' (along with many others, I'm sure). It truly is it's own world...and I have found that generally, blogs that have a specific focus seem to crate the most traffic. I often think, 'who besides friends and family, would really care about reading my blog?'
Take for example, my friend Heather, over at Our Life Voyage. She is a mother of 'multiples', or twins as probably most without twins would call them. (multiples just sounds cooler though!) She has found this on-line community of women who are all mothers, dealing with similar things, encouraging each other, relating to one another. And most of them have never 'met' each other - but it seems to make no difference in the friendships that are developing. I use this as an example because I have been over at Heather's blog a lot lately, helping her out with a new template. But another example would be another friend, Jamie. His blog, Emergent Voyageurs, has a focus of the 'Emergent Church'. What does that mean? Well, read his blog..you'll find out. But it's also part of a large community of people who all have their own blogs and discuss similar topics. It's made having 'online friends' cool without being weird, like in the days of chatrooms.
So basically it comes down to this. If you want to get noticed or be part of a large blogging community, you gotta get a focus. If you don't care, talk about whatever you want. I feel sort of stuck in the middle, but to be honest, I really have no focus to talk about. So until then, I will continue to talk about nothing, and amuse my friends and family with my rambling about 'what I did today' and pictures that I've taken of myself because my husband wont ;) Either way, I think blog land is cool, and I'm glad I'm in it.Labels: Blogs, Emergent Voyageurs, Our Life Voyage |
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