Okay, I admit it. I’m a newbie at blogging. Okay, okay. I’m a newbie with all social medias. I know –it’s just sad. This is my very first attempt at a blog, I’ve never twittered or tweeted or whatever it’s called, I only recently set up a Facebook account (so that I could get a free product sample that I heard about), and I don’t text. Nope, I don’t even text. My cell phone is just that –a cell phone. It doesn’t have a camera, MP3 player, special apps, or fancy ringtones. It’s just an old flip phone (no, not the old Motarola kind —though I still have my first one somewhere in my garage) and it’s used for calling people, which seems to be a lost art. It has web access-ability (is that a word?) but I never use it and it has text-ability (again, is this a word?), but I don’t use it. And I do occasionally receive texts from a few friends who can’t seem to remember that I don’t text.
Sidebar: When did it become acceptable to send a Happy Birthday text in lieu of a mailed greeting card or a friendly phone call?
It’s not that I don’t think social media is relevant –it is here to stay –it’s just that I’ve been so busy with life that all the technology, and media, and apps, have just flown by me. I’m so far behind that I’m not sure how to catch up. Running full speed ahead seems to be the only way and with this blog, I’ve put on my shoes and laced them up. Hey, maybe my snazzy new running shoes that I bought last weekend at DSW will help me out. Nike even printed a nice motivator on the bottom of the shoe that reads: “I run like a girl. Try to keep up.” Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. I love it!
So now that I have this blog, what do I do with it. I need interesting information, readable content. I need bubbles! Yes, I said bubbles. You know, those little things that pop up above a cartoon character’s head to show you what they are thinking or saying or doing? Bubbles! My bubbles seem to appear at the wrong times –when I can’t exactly write them down. Like in the shower (who brings a pen in the shower?), in the car (I don’t know about you but anything I write while driving is unreadable chicken scratch), in meetings (yeah, you know all those notes you jot down on your pad just end up lost amongst all the real, valuable business information that you lose on your desk), in church (shame on me!), in the grocery store (I’m lucky if I remember to get the milk I dashed in for so I’m not going to chance it by stopping to jot down a random thought or my kids face a dry, milkless bowl of Cheerios in the morning), etc.
I guess blogging about my random thoughts is not going to be as random as they are in my mind. Maybe I should get one of those voice recording pens (oooh, with a laser pointer!!) so that I can recall those random bubbles. But then there is still the shower issue. Hmmm…
Sidebar: When did it become acceptable to send a Happy Birthday text in lieu of a mailed greeting card or a friendly phone call?
It’s not that I don’t think social media is relevant –it is here to stay –it’s just that I’ve been so busy with life that all the technology, and media, and apps, have just flown by me. I’m so far behind that I’m not sure how to catch up. Running full speed ahead seems to be the only way and with this blog, I’ve put on my shoes and laced them up. Hey, maybe my snazzy new running shoes that I bought last weekend at DSW will help me out. Nike even printed a nice motivator on the bottom of the shoe that reads: “I run like a girl. Try to keep up.” Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. I love it!
So now that I have this blog, what do I do with it. I need interesting information, readable content. I need bubbles! Yes, I said bubbles. You know, those little things that pop up above a cartoon character’s head to show you what they are thinking or saying or doing? Bubbles! My bubbles seem to appear at the wrong times –when I can’t exactly write them down. Like in the shower (who brings a pen in the shower?), in the car (I don’t know about you but anything I write while driving is unreadable chicken scratch), in meetings (yeah, you know all those notes you jot down on your pad just end up lost amongst all the real, valuable business information that you lose on your desk), in church (shame on me!), in the grocery store (I’m lucky if I remember to get the milk I dashed in for so I’m not going to chance it by stopping to jot down a random thought or my kids face a dry, milkless bowl of Cheerios in the morning), etc.
I guess blogging about my random thoughts is not going to be as random as they are in my mind. Maybe I should get one of those voice recording pens (oooh, with a laser pointer!!) so that I can recall those random bubbles. But then there is still the shower issue. Hmmm…
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