Goodbye Blog

After much thought and some prayer on this, I've decided to stop blogging. When I started it, I was very enthusiastic. I have always loved to write and to create an online journal made sense. However there is one piece of this that never worked - other people reading it. Don't get me wrong - I liked that and found it exciting and there is even a person I would never have met any other way. But it put limits on my writing that cramped this as a real outlet for my journalling. I am the first one to admit that I don't mind being fussed over and paid attention - not sure that's a good thing. I want people to like me. And unfortunately, this is a part of my life that I think is better to remain personal so my pride doesn't get out of whack. I've found myself returning to my hand written journal recently because my computer is better left to work related things. If I use the computer to journal the line gets pretty blurred. Simplicity - a spiritual discipline that I'm rather bad at. I will continue to read the blogs of others and maybe will someday return to it..... but at the moment this is an end to an era. I was also a little uneasy about losing track of all the writing I had done with it. Perhaps that is the old fashioned part of me that feels that if I can't touch it, it isn't real. SO!!! I've printed off my 100+ pages of blogged material to file away with the rest of my journalling volumes. Goodbye bloggy friends as a writer. This has been fun but it's back to basics for me.

Uh-oh, I've been bad

I simply cannot believe that it's been over a month since I blogged. I love blogging. I think it's the bee's knees. God has been hard at work in my life so it's not for lack of material. I've had ups and downs and joys and struggles. So I don't know. Except for one thing. I discovered this new obsession lately. Facebook. And I think I'm addicted. Except I don't like what it does to my head. So yesterday when my calendar of prayers for women popped up, here's what it said:

Help me invest my time more worthy pursuits, Lord, ones that will provide lasting satisfaction. I'm not sure what you will ask of me, but I am willing to try anything You recommend and give any resulting praise to You. Amen.

Amen, again. I'm back. This is worthy. I can't tell you how many things I've discovered over the years while writing/typing. Journaling is a fantastic thing and has deep spiritual value. So here I come. Back, I am. Oh, don't worry Facebook friends. I'll still be on there checking every so often. Just not making it my homebase. I have bigger and better things to focus on :)

Put-in-Bay - Finally!!

I finally got the photos in from our day trip to the islands of Lake Erie. If you check out the slideshow to the left, you'll find them and can double click on them to see them full sized and captioned. I so wish I had gotten a picture of Bob careening around corners in the golf cart. It's so funny how licensed drivers get a kick out of driving an golf cart - but I shared his enthusiasm. I didn't get a picture of so many things. The face he made when we wine tasted, the wildlife museum with every stuffed creature in the world, bar row in town. It was a quick day but it was an awful lot of fun. We had a good time and it turned out to be just fine that we didn't spend the whole weekend there. We got to spend Friday night hanging out with Mom and Dad part way there and were pretty tired when we got home on Saturday - but that's not always a bad thing. We really enjoyed each other's company too. Hopefully, we'll get to do another anniversary trip someday that it worthy of ten years - but then again - maybe we already did that in going to Hawaii.

Which leads me to me PS. This is my 100th post. Nothing special about this one but I had long ago decided that the 100th post would be "Our Story" - that is, the journey that God has taken us on since that fateful day - March 17, 2005. And it just so happens that life's routine has slowed the blogging down a bit. Just in time for a bit of a storytelling. So stay tuned. This will have many chapters I believe.

A New Look!

Hey! Don't go away! It's still me!! I've just changed the template on the blog to make things less cluttered looking. I like it. Not as cozy as the last one but goes with my theme - a lighthouse, a beach, seeking peace and hope. Anyway, same old me!

Oh and for those that have noticed that I changed my photo, I'm desperately seeking that too:) Three years and so many pounds but the same old me inside!!

A Blog Change!

Okay so now I'm going to be a REAL blogger! So I'll be changing over everyone from my myspace blog to here so I can take advantage of some of the neat things you can do on this. I promised myself that if I could keep it up on my other page, I'd try and figure out a way to do this on here. I messed it up the first time and ended up creating a page attached to Bob. That wasn't going to work. So maybe I'll make that one refer here..... Anyway. I think I'm going to have a lot of fun with this!!!