So after a long day of cleaning, organizing, and exhausting text-fighting/miscommunicating, I crawled into bed with a cup of chocolate peanut butter ice cream and popped in Julie & Julia, the wonderful Meryl Streep-Amy Adams film (not to forget the spot-on Stanley Tucci and Jane Lynch) about how Julia Child came to be the Julia child and how nobody, Julie Powell, came to have a better sense of self. I love this movie. It makes me want to eat. It makes me want to cook. It makes me want to move to France. It makes me want to hug Meryl Streep. She does such a good job in this role. She makes me laugh. Being a Julia myself, I have to say, learning the 'Julia Child impression' is always a good skill to have. Mastering a funny impression or reviewing this film was not the purpose of this post. The purpose was to discuss the purpose of my blog.
The point of a blog is like a daily journal that everyone can read. Sometimes, I want to just rant and scream and whatever about is going on in my life because I am a selfish, pessimistic, slightly depressed person. and if i want to do that, I should be doing it on a blog that one will be reading, right?
However, like anyone else, I do love attention every now and again. So that gets me thinking that my blog should have an angle. People won't want to read my blog if I'm just blabbering about my day (unless they know me, or are really patient people). But when I need to rant, I still need a place to vent- especially with a lack of friends. or friends that i'd feel bad venting to either because a) i don't know them that well or b) because the amount of times i'd need to complain to them about something would surpass any person's real commitment to listening to your problems. So this has brought me to the conclusion that I should start another blog so I can keep this one for ranting and blabbing.
So far, here are my ideas for blogging: reviewing movies past and present. I have considered becoming a film critic so it would be good exposure if I were to pursue it.
Anything wedding related. I happen to be a wedding geek. It's true. I have now TWO binders filled with pages I have ripped out of Brides magazine, ever so delicately. They sleep in clear inserts that keep them from getting gross. Every time my monthly Brides magazine comes in I rip out my favorite photos or articles, then find a place for them in the book. I'm constantly editing. Every so often my eyes land on an old favorite and say "I don't like this picture anymore" so I crumple it up and throw it out- make room for something new. I could blog about what i like about weddings, what i don't. about my binder. about the idea of wedding planning. wedding movies. etc. however, there are so many other wedding blogs out there because of couples who are getting married who make blogs. then again- i could become a resource to other couples or planners or whoever. But who am I to be their resource? I'm only 18. I've never been married. but I've been reading Bride's magazines for four years now, that's more than most brides I bet. This is sounding like a contender. eep!
I could do something like in Julie and Julia. I could work my way through a cook book. But with college not too far away, not having started the shopping, and a week away for a family vacation, a cooking blog doesn't seem to be the right alley for me.
I could talk about theatre? but how much can you really say. I wouldn't be critiquing any shows. I'd probably just end up listing show I had seen or been in or want to see, etc. boring.
[I always loved blogging more than journaling because when you're writing in a journal, your mind moves so much faster than your pen that your hand can't keep up and you can't write in detail as much as you would like to. When blogging, I type pretty quickly, so I don't have any trouble keeping up with my racing mind.]
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