CountryMouse's Refuge

I've gotten all off schedule, sleep-wise. I keep going to bed *really early* (about 8:30pm), then getting up around 3am. This won't do. Maybe if I take a nap during the day today, I can get to bed at a more reasonable (later) hour, then get up somewhere between 7 and 9am.

I need to do a separate post. About blogging.

(thinking of Jericho's last episode, last season, "Why We Fight")

Okay, this Blog 365 thing has made me a bit OCD about blogging since yesterday. :-P But I have a couple reasons why I write in my LiveJournal.

First, I am keeping a diary. It happens to be online. It's so that I have a picture in time of what is going on. I can look back and see what was happening "this time last year" or whenever.I have kept paper journals in the past, and typing is faster than writing by hand. I don't care if lovely fountain pens do make writing easier--it's still slower than typing. Soooo...why do I write a journal/diary where others can see it? We all hope to have a potential audience. With a paper/offline journal, we hope for an audience posthumously. Online, we can have one sooner. Seriously, everyone who keeps a diary secretly hopes for an audience sometime, whether s/he admits it or not.

Second, I sometimes actually wish tell people something that might be useful information (or it might be just to show off--I admit it, I do hope people will say, "Nice job!" when I complete a knitted or crocheted item or take an especially interesting photo) or ask questions, truly looking for/expecting interaction.

But I do not consider myself "self-publishing" or any source of great writing skill. I am probably one of those people who blogs because s/he can but maybe shouldn't be filling up the 'Net with excess verbiage. I have seen truly wonderful blogs, and this ain't it.

On my website, the combination of my CM's Diary plus the photos and graphics and information about fun things might actually amuse some or give them a sense of forgetting terrible things in the world for a while. That is part of my aim there. It's sort-of my home-away-from-home. And I hope a cozy stopover for anyone else passing through.

How about you? Why do you blog? Really?

I've started rewatching the series before the new episodes come next month. I got the DVD set just after Christmas.

There are some special features and also commentary. The deleted scenes are actually very useful in adding some little bits of information we didn't know about various characters.

I've only watched the first two episodes so far. Wow, only 40 (or so) minutes long each, which tells you how much time is eaten up by commercials when you watch on TV!

Bunnicula and I watched this series together when it was on, but he's not interested in rewatching--he says he remembers it all. I hope he's going to want to watch the new episodes with me. Cat'r lost interest after about a half-dozen episodes in. How can ANYone not be riveted by this series?!

"Why does my heart feel so bad?
Why does my soul feel so bad?" -- Moby

Grey day, drizzly, depressing. The naked tree branches moving in the cold damp wind. I usually like grey days. I guess it's that Cat'r is not here. ::sigh::

I should remember the other part of the lyrics (which is the way I hear them and I think makes more sense):

"He'll open doors....He'll open doors..."