02/12/14

A friend of mine's painting project

This is just a random blog. I decided just to have a normal blog to vent, rant, or whatever you want to call it. 

I do want to thank you all that has or still does visit this blog. I must interest some people in what I have to say. 

Since I started this blog in Jan. it has grown slowly and that shocked me. As I have said before I do not feel like I am the most interesting person in the world. So to see as of today that nearly 440 people have visited my blog and hopefully really read the posts, its surprising. I do not feel like I am a decent writer and when you do not do well on essays in school and college that makes you NOT want to write anything. I used to write poetry back in the day. Some people liked it, some thought it was "too dark", but amazingly the English teacher at the time thought it was good. I have not written a poem of any kind in who knows how long, and unfortunately I did not save any of what I did before. I was a better photographer in high school too, but I did not have my Grandmother's talent to paint. I have some amazing friends who can paint however. The painting in this blog was emailed to me from a friend who is in college in another state, I have forgotten her major. I like art if it makes you curious. I like Van Gogh paintings, it was his work even though some of it was dark (Blue period) that got me through high school. I have tried writing a short story but I just can not focus the energy enough to do one completely. I have had some ideas but it never panned out, like most of my other projects. I used to have a website on Geo-Cities when I was in college the first time. I used to write music reviews of bands I was listening to at the time. It was fun and it was hard to learn HTML but I learned enough to do an ok website, but all of that is gone. Thanks Yahoo! I did a few videos and was going to start a YouTube channel but I did not like showing my face and so I scrapped that too. I did post them on Facebook and got mixed reviews about what I talked about, but I still was not comfortable doing them. So a friend of mine started their own blog and I watched alot of You Tubers blog and it got me curious. So here I am blogging and I still can not believe that I am about to have written 30 blogs. (This is #29). I am still learning how to blog and I am experimenting with different topics. I think my blogs on Deconversion caught most of my readers/friends off guard. I am trying to write what interests me but that is hard sometimes. I am still a little skiddish about what to write and how to write it. I look at my stats of my other blogs and I guess the one's that are more about me or me just talking about life got the most views or it might of been the title. I am still working on my titling skills. 

I am going to keep doing this unless I feel like people are not coming to see what I have to say or I get tired of doing it. Which I doubt I will get tired of doing this unless I have writer's block or I can not figure out what I want to talk about or respond to. I watch alot of news and You Tube. I am going to do more CD Reviews I have an interesting music collection and I do not listen to Country, so there will be NO reviews on that subject. I do not talk about politics alot because I just hate that subject too. I might do a blog on Obamacare but that is just an idea since I studied it. I do have ideas for the "I Survived ___" series, but we will see how that pans out. I think the one on bullying was the most interesting out of the two I have done. 

I do want to make one thing clear I am not blogging for either fame or attention. I am doing this as a creative outlet because I simply do not have an outlet. I have been told to write about what I know and some are shocked this did not turn into a ranting blog. I am building the courage to release my anger and frustration on the world but I am scared in doing so that I might scare off people. I have a business degree I know that word of mouth can make or break a business or in this case a blog. 

What also surprised me since starting this was the fact that one of my online friends invited me to be a contributor on "The Bloggers" a community they started where we can post our blogs and maybe get more people reading our material. 

The Bloggers on Facebook www.facebook.com/thebloggers2014. 

So for now this blog is growing and I want it to continue to grow. So I am going to end this blog post and get ready to plan blog post #30. I asked my friends for ideas for topics and I also asked visitors to the Bloggers community to send me some ideas. 

Also for those of you a little curious about what kind of music I listen to here is this blog's song of the night.

Inkubus Sukkubus, "Paint it Black". 

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