Say this on another blog I read, A Creative Journal and it made me think….

A lot of people want to write in a journal daily, but often fall into the trap of waiting for inspiration. While this is fine for when you want to dump emotion on to the page, or vent. Writing only when inspired might just suit your purpose for journal writing. I feel there’s a lot to miss out on only writing when you feel so inclined.
The very act of forcing yourself to write makes you face up to things you may have left hidden. There’s a certain level of honesty involved in successful journal writing. You can be honest and admit you don’t feel like writing today. Often that simple admission is enough to open the doors to whatever it is you really wanted to write about anyway, but were avoiding.
It helps to begin with easy steps. Set a goal to write one page or for ten minutes. You could use the list technique as an opener, a way to get your mind into the journal writing session. Stick with this until you feel ready to expand. I can guarantee if you stick with this you’ll find plenty to write about in your journal writing sessions. Otherwise you could wait a long time before you feel inspired to write in your journal.

I just thought it brought up a good point I often forget. That we should always write in our journal, even if it seems silly and insignificant.

I’ve been surfing and reading the other blogs I have subscribed to and I really want to change mine. I’d love to make it look something more like this one http://www.aliedwards.typepad.com/ bad part is that it’s done on typepad and I don’t know the first thing about how to make my own layers, or whatever in livejournal to change my layout…. I suppose I could sit and read all the techie stuff and figure it out but I don’t want to change it THAT bad…I guess I could just embed my journal in another page or something….I just want something fresh and new.

I’m trying posting this from this new application I uploaded to my computer. It’s called w.bloggar. I guess it’s a way to have access to all your blogs at once and have the ability to post to them at one time. I loaded it hoping to resolve an issue I’ve noticed with this new blog. I can’t back date journal entries, or at least, I don’t know how yet. I’ve got the question out to a forum. My hope is, that I can back date blog posts so maybe I can get everything from Livejournal over here. It would be nice to have everything all in once place, one place to post, to find everything, to archive everything, etc…We’ll see if I can backdate, if not. I guess I’ll just have to keep up to date with posting. Maybe that’s a good thing. Maybe that’s the think I need so that I’ll be better at posting.

I’ve also come to the realization that often I don’t have a lot to say or post. I also have been wanting to create my own Book of Me scrapbook. You know, one of those scrapbooks that talks all about me.. Well, I think I’m going to try and do both at the same time. SO, those days when I don’t have a lot to say, I’ll pick one of the Book of Me ideas and write about that. I think it will be good for me, help me be a better communicator and then, when I’ve got the time I’ve got the journaling part done for the scrapbook. So half of it will be done. I’ve been using what I’ve posted in the past to provide the journaling for my scrapbooks so far and it’s worked out very well. Now, You that read this will have the opportunity to learn more about me… lucky you

Update on the home front… Eric’s feeling better, he’s going to play basketball tonight. I was supposed to have a hearing on my Worker’s Comp. claim next week but it’s been postponed to some time in the next 90 days because my lawyer has me file another claim for the deQuervain’s Tenosynovitis which also got denied so we’ll see how that goes. This means my claim will have gone over a year… argh… I’m getting ready for Thanksgiving, well getting ready for guests. I bought croissants so I can make the croissant bread pudding for a breakfast, I’ve bought, steamed and packed a BUNCH of fresh pumpkin, and been baking like a crazy person. I’ve really been liking it. November I’m going to try the cook for a day, eat for a week plan… I’ve got a book and everything

I think I’m done. I’ve been messing with my new journal site all day yesterday and then all night tonight since I’ve gotten home. I think I’m done. I’ve finally got it the way I think I want it. I’ve also made it so it’s super easy for others to post comments on it. No need for a log in. I’m curious to see how the automatic archive thing works and how easy it is for me to post to it. Basically, I think it’s pretty cool and I’m darn proud of myself for making it.

In other news, I came home tonight and Eric’s sick. That’s not good because when he gets sick, he gets SICK! So he’s got a temp of 99 and feels like crap so it will be a night of taking care of him since he took care of me last week when I felt crummy.

Every time, I mean every time. I look at my live journal I swear to myself that I’m going to write more. I challenge myself with writing a few times a week in this thing. I don’t know why I think it’s so important to write here. I suppose it’s more therapy for me and documenting my life than anything else. I don’t have a ton of internet friends that read my journal. I’ve got several friends but I’m fortunate enough that for the most part they live close which means I can pick up the phone, or they can. As for family, my mother and Eric’s mother read these posts and then that’s when I get a phone call to see how things are. Yet still, I feel the need to write here. So I continue. If it’s boring, sorry… I guess that’s my life…

SO today I’m home again from work. I woke up yesterday with a subnormal temperature, which means a virus. I woke up today and still didn’t feel wonderful. I’m trying to do more than just sleep and watch TV like I did yesterday, which is probably a mistake but I’m not one to sit all day and do nothing. Darn Christian work ethic! So I’m trying to take it easy today, but it’s not working well. Today the appraiser comes to appraise the house for us. I think it’s going to be interesting to see what the value of the house is with the improvements we’ve made and the market right now. We’re also going to ask him about the kitchen and the counters, namely should we redo them? Would we get the money back in a sale? I really want to redo them but it might be better to make our money work for us in other ways. SO we’ll see.

I also got a call today from Indigo Rescue. They help find foster families for dogs in shelters so the dogs can live longer. We might be getting a dog today, if it passes the cat test. Supposedly it’s a big dog, like a husky/malamute or something way too big for us on a permanent basis but if it means we save her from the gas chamber, then it’s worth it. Hopefully she’ll get adopted soon and we’ll get to host another dog.

OH, I went to Craft Warehouse the other day to buy some Amy Butler fabric for a quilt I want to make for the guest bedroom. They were so cool. They cut it all for me and then encouraged me to have them hold it until the 12th of November when they have their holiday open house and I can get the whole thing for 40% off. Well of course I did that so now I’ve got a great project waiting for me to complete before Thanksgiving. I’m thinking I might go up to see my mom a few days before Thanksgiving so she can help me with it as it will be my first bed quilt. I’ve been knitting a little bit lately and I like it but I don’t love it like scrapbooking and sewing and quilting and things. It also aggravates my hand a little bit I think so I probably won’t be able to do a lot of that.

Other than that, not a lot has been going on lately. My hand is doing OK. some days are good, some not so good. I’m supposed to go to some hearing in November on it and I guess I’ll find out then if the judge will find in my favor. My lawyer had me complete another claim for the deQuervains Tensynovitis so we’ll see what happens with that one. I just want Intel to cover what they should. I’ll keep my fingers crossed on that one.