I need an intervention
Recently I have been adding a lot of new blogs to my blogroll (my personal bookmarks, not the list on this site cause I can't seem to keep up with it). The list has been growing so quickly that I can barely keep up with my daily reads anymore. I have to make a choice every day which ones I am going to read and which ones I am going to skip. That is a very difficult decision.
Finding new blogs has become an addiction with me. I go to read my regulars and then I find links either in the posts or in the comments and I just can't keep from clicking on them. Sometimes I'm not real impressed with the content and click the little red x, but sometimes I get totally absorbed in the new site and add it to the blogroll. That has been happening a lot lately. And that is why my list is getting so long. There are just way too many talented writers out there and I cannot say no.
Just a few weeks ago I went through and cleaned out my list. There were a few that were no longer updating or that had simply lost my interest that I was able to remove. The list was much shorter and much more manageable. Then yesterday I started really looking at the list again and it is even longer now than it was before the clean-up. Will somebody please send help? This might explain why it has now taken me 10 months to read a real book (that I'm not quite finished with yet).
And, in other addiction news, I have found a new source to feed my music addiction. It turns out that the new girl in the office has rather good taste in music and a rather decent sized cd collection as well. She loaned me a couple of cds to check out today. I see our friendship becoming much closer in the near future. Well, even without the cd collection, she's a pretty cool chick anyway.
Also, thank you to all of you who offered advice and suggestions about the money issues. I'm hoping to implement some of your suggestions in the near future. Have I told you lately how much I love you?
posted by: lindy (reply)
post date: 04.22.06 (3:34 pm)
When first I came to be at tBlog, I kept a list of links, all of which appeared on my blog. I noticed that it became a strange kind of mutual admiration society and not always of the most sincere kind. I removed every single name and let my memory decide who was worth my time. If I remembered someone, I headed to their blog. If I didn't, well, that speaks for itsself, doesn't it? I do understand the difficulty you face. For about a year and a half, I was engrossed in tBlog, or rather, the social aspect of it and it consumed a good deal of my time. In finding a balance, the interest to live here has faded. I'm not sure it's something you can rush, but it's certainly something worth keeping in mind as you go forward. I recognize quite a few of the old guard you are visually linked to on your blog. I see why you like to spend your time there. :)
posted by: hardtoimagine (reply)
post date: 04.24.06 (5:51 am)
Reply to: lindy
When I first came to tblog I quickly became engrossed in it as well. The social aspect was certainly what drew me to it. When tblog went downhill, I lost interest and started a new blog on my own domain. Now I double post on both blogs and visit tblog once or twice a day to catch up on some of the old "regulars". Most of the blogs I read now are outside of tblog. Some I read because I have become friends with the authors. Others I read just because I enjoy the writing style or the content. It has certainly become quite a time-consuming hobby.
posted by: lindy (reply)
post date: 04.24.06 (6:51 am)
Reply to: hardtoimagine
Amazing. You sound very much like you are in the same place I am.. that is exactly why I continue to wander over and even write here from time to time. But I chose not to reproduce my thoughts here because it was precisely this crowd from which I wished to escape. It can get maddening. The way I see it, you use as much time as you need (can spare) in this hobby and when other things take you away, it drops off naturally. I used to beat myself up over the amount of time I spent here and on the internet in general. I even put my job in jeopardy at one point. Funny how when things in the physical world became more exciting, I simply made less time for this (job be darned, etc.). Yet, I know, there may come a time when I find myself back more often than at present. It's an ebb and flow. By the way, you have a very comfortable flow of thought. I enjoy your writing. Strange that I have taken so long to wander over.. you've been here a good six or seven months longer than I have and that's saying something in tblog time!