the thanksgiving post

I love Thanksgiving.
It's my absolute favorite holiday.
(yep, even better than Christmas)

Wanna know why?
People are happy


family is together


it's relatively stress-free


and there's lots & lots of food.




(for those of you who don't know me in real life, I'm brunette! Surprise!)

{(my family is seriously crazy. love it.)}


Basically, Thanksgiving beats the heck out of Christmas in my book.
Plus it's way cheaper.

I hope you all had a fantabulastic (did I really just say that? It must be the turkey talking) Thanksgiving with your fams, friends, or whoever you happened to spend it with.

Happy Black Friday!

(blog design update to come soon. HOPEFULLY. I have no idea what I'm doing & having a cute blog takes a lot of friggin work.)

my purpose

Every blog has a purpose.

There are fashion blogs. Food blogs. Decorating blogs. Instructional blogs. Informational blogs. Gossip blogs. Journal blogs. Family blogs.

In my opinion, none is greater than any other because they all serve a different purpose.

During the time that I spent away from blogging, I thought a lot about why exactly it is that I blog.

Do I do it to please others?

To try to have posts just for the sake of the your reaction?

Do I do it to compete with other blogs?

To have a bajillion comments?

Do I do it as creative expression?

To work on my design/writing skills?

The more I thought about it, the more I realized the difference between when I enjoy blogging and when I think of it as a chore.

So I've figured out my blog's purpose, & here it is:

To hold all of my thoughts, musings, and creative desires in order to preserve them for a later time when I might need them again, and to allow me to improve my writing abilities.

It will not matter whether or not I have 5 readers or 5000, and it will not matter what it looks like, as long as I am pleased with the content.

I will love it, and in return it will help me in my life.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

-Robert Byrne

It's nice to have a purpose.

quitting

Today I realized something that isn't exactly easy to admit.
It's something that I've known deep down all along, but wanted to stay in denial about.
Today I realized that I'm kind of a quitter.

But I'm not your average quitter!
I don't quit intentionally. No, no, I plan on finishing everything I start...eventually.
The problem is that eventually usually doesn't come.
For example, you may be wondering why I have been MIA for the past months.
Well I will tell you.
It wasn't because I was sooo busy that I simply had no time to spare, and all of my super important plans left me with no time for blogging; it wasn't because I was on a blogging strike and wanted to give it up; and it wasn't because I had nothing to say.
I had lots of things I could've said.

The real reason is because I'm a quitter.

You see, I have been planning to start blogging consistently again for quite awhile now, but first I wanted to fix the layout of my blog because it just wasn't working.
So then I started looking for cute templates. Then I realized that I hated my blog name and wanted to start fresh.
So then I started thinking of cool/fun/catchy/clever/witty blog names, and realized that this would basically be my face. My image. Some of you don't know me, so if this is all you have to judge me on, then it had to be AMAZING, dang it!
I became overwhelmed with all that I needed to do in order to have a blog that I was truly proud of, so I decided that the best option was to just pop open a Dr. Pepper & put it off for another day.

Aka, I quit.

This is just one example of the ways I have been a quitter in my life, whether intentional or unintentional.
However, while today I realized that I am a quitter, I also realized that I don't want to quit anymore.

Which is why I am back to blogging.
I still don't have a cute blog, or a cute name, or anything of the sort, but I'm going to take it one step at a time.
And that's also how I am going to start taking the rest of my life.
If I'm going to try swimming across the Atlantic ocean, first I need to learn how to swim. (& let's face it, my swimming skills really need some work.)
So there you have it.

"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.”
-Joe Girard

Get used to having me around again!