erm…what’s the best thing about blogging?

Apparently I’ve been tagged by Alasdair and I have to write about the best things about blogging.  I feel all warm and included now…

So, I’m trying to think about what’s good about blogging and do you know I’m struggling.  I couldn’t think why it is that I spend hours of my precious time writing about stuff that happens in my mind.  I’m pretty sure I do it because the internet doesn’t laugh at you when you harp on about eating raw foods or the wonders of a miracle new cat litter tray (yep, I was paid for that one) and if it does I can’t hear it from where I am so I don’t care – nah!  It’s a really useful place to write down all of my daily thoughts that would otherwise haunt my waking hours and provide me with divorce papers faster than you could say…”yes, but have you seen the calorie content of that salsa dip dear!”

I started blogging because…well, David annoyed me one morning.  He got the better of me and I thought it was amusing enough to record for eternity…or at least until my 50MB of allocated disk space is used up and I have to clear out the archives.

So with that in mind what do I get from blogging?

• I have found a place to record my thoughts…it’s a bit like when I used to talk to the dog as a teenager.  The dog always listened and never answered back.  It’s a kind of diary that’ll never get lost.
• It’s a handy way to communicate with my husband…we don’t need to talk anymore (you don’t honestly believe that do you, do you?)
• I love reading other people’s blogs.  I love finding out that other people struggle with their monster kids in exactly the same manner as we do.  I love reading about other people who have the same hair-brained ideas as I do and realise that actually I’m quite normal really.
• Without blogging I wouldn’t be able to oggle all of the lovely craft things that people around the world are up to.  I love, love, love looking at things people have made.  I love being inspired to have a go myself (Alasdair’s sighing at this point thinking of all the half-started projects about the house).  Watch out for the rag doll I’m working on for Iona’s Christmas (shhh don’t tell her, it’s a surprise).
• I like being a part of something, even though my part is very small it’s still nice to have contributed.
• I like being able to ellicit other people’s opinions whether they agree with mine or not.  It’s always good to get another viewpoint.
• And I almost forgot…sometimes I get paid to write about stuff…how cool is that!?!

That about sums it up.  Blogging is great, it’s addictive, it’s useful at times and I spend far too many hours at it when I should be doing something else.

I’m supposed to tag three other blogs:

Beta Mum (Cathy) at Keir Royale
DJ Kirkby’s Blog – Exquisite Dreams
Emily at Doing it all Again

Here’s the rules folks:

1. Answer the question “What’s the Best Thing About Blogging?”
2. Linkback to the person that tagged you and to so that I can read them all (Erica would like to put together a top ten/twenty list!)
3. Tag 3 people – they don’t have to be BPB members but try and choose british parent bloggers if possible.

(c) Jolene Martin