Point, Flex, Ow

I'm going to throw this post out into the great unknown, assume about three people will see it, and move on. Meta-blogging is poison, and there are so few posts on this blog that the effect would be concentrated, but it's gotta get written.*

Namely where the hell is this going?

Feel free to groan and head elsewhere!

Why I started the blog in the first place:

1. To publish an adaptation of a poultry Viking hat pattern
2. I liked reading Pocket Farmer, Yarnstorm, Yarn Harlot, Loobylu etc. and felt at home in those conversations (though the conversation is sort of asymmetrical and in fact I don't really read comments on most blogs -- this one being the exception)
3. To write more in English (as opposed to C++, Python, and other unnatural languages)

Why I haven't written anything in a year or so:

1. Baby, job, reduction in free time
2. Even before John was born, when we bought our home, I felt a need to turn it down and keep life a little more private. There wasn't any Scary Internet Experience that caused this. Just a sense that my thoughts were too unformed to put out there, that I needed more time to process life before talking about it.
3. Once I get project data into Ravelry, there's less of a burning need to document it here.

Why I haven't saved the $5 or $6 a month in TypePad fees by taking it down:

1. A gut feeling that I'm not done with it yet.
2. Then I'd have to find another host for the silly hat pattern. And that would take time.

In the meantime I have still been reading my favorite blogs, when I get a free 20 minutes or so, which happens about once every ten days. I just can't swing the daily upkeep (for crying out loud, I don't even read the news on a weekly basis, and that hurts).

BUT (and this is a big but) I know that this is not the end of the road. There will be more time. Maybe I will be working for myself someday, rather than for an employer. Maybe I will write something worth printing on paper. Maybe I can stop hiding behind "hey looky I made something" posts (though making stuff is fun and good for the soul) and put a little more of myself on the page without worrying that my husband will think it's frivolous. (He seems to view blogs the way I view "reality" TV shows. We both prefer actually living life to merely observing others doing it.)

So anyway, don't hold your breath. I just wanted to dump some thoughts out of my head, so that I can fall asleep without them rumbling around in there. Maybe I'll come back and finish telling you about the neat, seasonally appropriate hand-crafted things I've been making (and drafting posts about... last October) or the Christmas knitting, if I decide not to care about being "late". (Hate being late. Have been fighting an apparently genetic tendency all my life.) Maybe we can start fresh.

See you around.

*Not everything has to get published, I know. Forgive me.

Comments

[KathleenC]

I say... go ahead and dump as needed, and post late as needed... I like "hey, looky I made something" posts! And just whenever is when. Heh, it's not like it's hard for me to click when bloglines says so!

[Korinthe]

Thank you for understanding :)