Journaling, that is. Granted, blogging is similar, but not quite the same...at least for me.
Over the weekend, Muftak and I moved a bookcase from the basement to our bedroom. It's a nice case and was just crammed full of books and other stuff while it was setting in the basement. I decided that we should bring it upstairs and sort through the books.
So we did.
It looks really nice in our bedroom now and, best of all, all of the books are organized and tidily put on the shelves. All I need to do now is to find some ornamental little "whats-its" to put on the shelves. The books look a little lonely.
But, while sorting through all the books that were just haphazardly piled on the bookcase while it was in the basement, I found an old journal...from 1997!
It was fun to sit down and read some of the things that I was thinking back then. It was also fun to read through all the mundane things that we were doing at the time. I mean, seriously, some of the entries in it were very boring...but it was also very interesting to read. For me, anyway.
I decided that I would start journaling again. Now is the perfect time. We have so many things going on this year that it will be fun to keep a record of visits and talks and plans. I just wish I would've kept up with it way back then...
The next project that I'm looking forward to having several hours to finish is going through all of the letters and packages that my Japanese penpal sent me during jr. high and high school. I still have ALL of them in a box in our bedroom. Now to organize them...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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Thank you for the gift box.
I thought blogging was really a good way to journal and then people started reading it. So I started to censor it....Really! if I typed out everything in my brain....They would call out the men in white coats. I wanted all the crap in my head out but I don't want to take flack for it or be judged by someone that doesn't fully understand the whole sum of my life. I may put a lot of stuff that normal people might not put in a blog but I hold back so much.
The pix of swap will post tomorrow...thank you.
Oh Guin, did you check your mail today? Hmmmm....
I started journaling after my step-mother died. When I found all her journals and read through them it reminded me that I want to have something to leave behind for my kids to treasure (OK...they won't treasure it now but they will then). I do also like going back and laughing at myself!
And it is DEFINITELY different from blogging. In my journal I can say anything knowing that no one will be reading it until I'm dead and then I won't care. Posting something on the internet is a WHOLE different ball game!
I think it's so interesting to read back about things that happened all those years ago because they sure aren't always like I remember them. Journaling is something I wish I'd taken more time for over the years. One of the somethings. Sigh.
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