Fun Monday - Blogging

hosted by lisas chaos who would like to know more about you, what makes you tick. I’d like to know how you started blogging. Did you keep a diary under lock and key safely hidden as a child? Do you still? Do you share the same things on your blog that you would have, or do, in your diary? Why did you start blogging and why do you continue? May as well throw in any roadblocks you have run into while blogging. If you still have your old diaries we’d love to see them.

So I thought this one would be really easy to do; now I am not so sure!
How did I start blogging, I mean I had never even heard the word blog never mind know what it was! I can blame my blog on a friend who came across blogs whilst surfing. So I started by just reading blogs, I so enjoyed hearing about how people lived, I loved the fact that you could share anything with anyone and be totally anonymous and that people would just drop by and leave you comments.

So we decided to start our own blogs, hey I did and to this day she has not become a blogger just a lurcher! I really became hooked, I loved just being me and the fact that people would and could associate with what I was saying and how I was feeling. People came and left me words of wisdom, words of comfort, they laughed with me, and if I needed a kick up the ass they would give it me. This world of blogging has really become part of my life, the people I have met, who in reality I have never met, I now consider as friends. I have learnt so much about how people cope with their lives, how freely they will take you under their wings and give their advice and opinions. I just love being part of this big friendly world of bloggers!

I have arranged to meet an ex-blogger in the States next year whilst we are on holiday, well my son thinks that it is a crazy idea, he just cant understand how you can make friends with people who you don't see. As for him knowing what I talk about and show you he would be mortified!!!!

I did stumbled on a work colleague's blog by accident, he had his photo displayed, wasn't sure what to do, do I tell him I know him or just leave! Well took advice from my fellow bloggers and let him know who I was, mind you did play a little game of guess who first!

I never kept a diary as a child or even now, maybe I should just so I don’t forget things, which I seem to find very easy to do these days! So would I share my diary with my blog, I doubt it as I think it would be very boring to hear about my missed appointments!

So why do I continue to blog, easy I am an addict!!! I can sit in my own house and travel the world, I have learnt new words, been shown new foods, mmm love the food and if I can bring a smile to someone’s face who is feeling down that makes it even more worth while.

I did start out anonymously, no photos, no real name, but then as I got to know people I decided to show myself!

I often wonder how much time I spend blogging, some mornings I even put the computer on before I go to work, I start at 6am!!! As soon as I get home, before I take the dog out, I will have a quick look to see if there are any comments. I will have the computer on all evening and some of the afternoon, I will read everyones blog on my blog list.