Monday, May 13, 2013

Early Mid-Life Crisis Part 1

I'm 22, why am I starting this NOW?
Also, is it offensive to use "I" too many times in a blog post?
It depends on the blog right, the type I mean.
Honestly I don't keep up with blogs often, I followed a friends' fashion blog but it might of only been because she's such a cutie.

What kind of blog will this be? Personal anecdotes? Reviews of fashion? Food? Make up?
A thinly disguised excuse to draw attention to myself?

Do you have a blog? What do you write about in it? Why do you write?

Actually, if this is going to go any further I'll need a change of format.
Those question marks were getting physically and emotionally exhausting for my Shift key.

I wanted to learn some sexy HTML for my blog, sort of as a way to show off my conviction, and to make my blog pretty. I was going to use the experience as filler for my first post, maybe do some goofy word arrangements. Shenanigans.  I don't even know if one CAN make goofy word arrangements, when I picture it in my head it involves tacky sparkles and big letters, I didn't actually end up learning much HTML.
My point was going to be; Keep using your brain after College, or High School, or whatever. Don't forget how to learn things, how to teach yourself things, how to find trustworthy information. It was going to be pretty inspiring.
I made this blog a week ago (two weeks ago?) and this is my first post. Am I a failure? Or was there a lesson in all this? I don't need a sexy blog layout to share my thoughts, I just need a (hilarious and witty) URL.
It sounds pretty good.
But presentation is everything. (That's foreshadowing for a future blog post!)

What will this blog be about? (Blog? Is it supposed to be capitalized? Am I committing a Blogger faux pas right now?)
Eventually I'd like it to be a mish-mash of stupid shit I think about, delicious things I imbibe, important shit I try to understand, and next year when I've moved in with my family in Peru it'll also be a sort of "travel guide-scrap book" (If I were in Word right now it'd tell me I just wrote a run on sentence)

I've never done something like this, as I'm writing these words I'm feeling preemptive embarrassment for this whole project. However, from the sounds of things I'll always feel this way.
I asked myself "Do I want to die having never tried to write?"
Guess the answer.

2 comments:

  1. Yes! I love all your ideas for what your blog should be about. It's like a peak in to Jazmin's brain. On the internet. Internet creepers are peeping at your brain.

    Seriously though, this is great. I've always liked your writing and I think this is a great way for you to get your ideas out into the world as well as document parts of your life if you choose to. Plus it'll be great for your friends and family to see what you're up to when you go to Peru. =)

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    1. Hahaha Koe said something similar, I'm glad this entry was candid enough to get my bran across.

      Ahhhh internet creeepeers

      Thank you Nicky, I'll try to have more entries in June!

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