Talk About Procratinating!

Once again, I owe it all to Laurel.

I spotted a post my talented daughter made on Facebook this week regarding her blog. Now when I started my blog, it was because of Laurel. I figured that after all if she could start a blog and share with the world, so could I. So after much angst, (translation - procrastination) I set up my own blog - Gramstunes. Needless to say I was off to a great start and then slowly my posts dwindled away. In part, I can put it off to the feeling that no one was reading them anyway, so why bother. Okay, so the larger part is I am known for starting lots of things and finishing few.

Tonight I looked at Laurel's blog, read her new posts and some of her old ones and then looked back over all of my old posts and decided that I still want to do this. In fact I need to do this! After reading my old posts, I realized that whether anyone reads them or not, I'm blogging for me and if no one else ever reads them, it's their loss, not mine.

I read back over old memories and I liked what I read. I must have, 'cause I laughed and cried and remembered and I think that's what this is all about. I also read the comments that were left and realized that my writing was appreciated by others.

When I was about 11 or 12, I kept a diary. God, I wish I knew whatever happened to it. I know my mother found it and read it once and whatever I had written managed to get me in lots of trouble, but it's long gone and so is what I wrote about that I thought was important at that moment in time.

I think that is what this blog needs to be for me. A diary of what I think is important enough to remember at any given point in time. I would like to say that I will write something everyday, but I know myself well enough that time will slip away from me and at some future date I will be starting over once again. But that's all right. The point is to keep on starting over. Just because you stop doing something for a while, doesn't mean that it has to be over forever. Besides I have lots to share, even if I'm just sharing with myself.

So once again I'm starting over. I'm going to try to post even just a few words every day, but for sure I will try to recap my week, probably on Friday nights. After all Friday nights are my time. I can stay up later, have a drink (or two) if I want, listen to some tunes and try to put it all in perspective - my week, my life, my family, my world as I know it. Maybe sometimes, some of you will stop in for a visit, but even if you don't, I'll be here.