I started off my blog year like my ass was shot out of a cannon. Two posts in the first three days of 2015? Whoa, son....slow your roll! Alright, done. Blink, it's two months later....and not another post since. Quick update: The Lions didn't win the Super Bowl (New England did) and as a matter of fact, they didn't even win a playoff game. Still only one postseason win in my lifetime. Some other stuff happened too, but that's what my Instagram feed is for. If it's thoughts or mindless babbling, then it goes here. If it's something quick and notable that I can use a picture to help explain, it goes there....especially since I need to get at least one pic every day up there.
I guess that part is noteworthy. I started seriously doing a picture a day challenge on Instagram on my birthday two years ago. I've stuck with it and taken at least one picture every day, but I did mess up a couple times and didn't post the pic. I rarely post the pics immediately after taking them, so the posts might not go up for a day or two, or even longer. As a matter of fact, I'm a little over a week behind at the moment, and hope to get that updated later this morning. I fell more than a month behind early this year, and have since updated all those. I found a way to note all the pics where I won't mess it up now, which is really two-sided for me. On one side, I don't worry about forgetting what pic is for what day and know I'll be able to keep track of it as long as I need. On the other side, I have a little less urgency to get the pics up, so I fall behind more often.
On a somewhat related topic, Instagram, and my pic a day challenge there, is a big reason my blog posts are so infrequent nowadays. With Twitter, Facebook, and the Gram there are a lot more places to share different things, all in the palm of my hand with my phone. Add to that the limits imposed on what I can see/hear/do nowadays with my crazy work schedule, and another super cold and snowy winter....and there's really not much to say here, or time to say it. It's somewhat disappointing that this blog is on life support now, but things are constantly changing in this world, especially where technology is concerned, and leads to situations like this.
While it's on life support, I doubt this blog will ever completely die....at least not in the foreseeable future. I'll always have something churning upstairs, and will need an outlet for it from time to time. If that need arises while I have a quiet moment to just bang away at my keyboard, it's probably going to end up here. And, of course, there will always be the periods of time I try and MAKE myself get some posts up on a relatively consistent basis....but, then again, I'm someone who hasn't been able to remember to cut my fingernails the last three days. And those are always well within my grasp....at my fingertips, even.
One thing I will try my damndest to blog about this year will be our anniversary trip in June. We did pretty well documenting last year's trip through pictures, but I think if I took 15-20 minutes at the end of each day to write about what we did that day, it would add another level to our memories of the trip....and I want to remember as much as possible about the trip. These places very well could be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and getting something down on paper about it while it's still fresh will really be nice. Even with how tired I was at the end of most of the days during our last trip, I can still identify plenty of days where I could have typed something up about what we did or saw and added that to our other forms of documentation. Oh well....live and learn.
Hopefully, I will be back here sooner rather than later to make another post....one that will undoubtedly be infinitely more interesting than this one, but I obviously have no idea how this all goes anymore. At least for now, I have gotten to....ketchup.
