Why I Love and Hate Blogs

Why I Love Blogs

1. They are perfect for journaling. I don't keep a journal, and I never kept up on my kids' baby books. Blogging makes it easy to keep track of all the cute things your kids do and the fun you have together as a family. I sure hope Blogger never crashes, I really need to find a way to back this stuff up. Any tips/suggestions?
2. I love that I am able to post about daily life and family and friends that are far away can check in daily.
3. I like reading about my family and friends.
4. I enjoy learning things about people that I didn't know. Talents, interests, etc.
5. I like that blogging involves an equal amount of creativity and technological skills. I'm not crafty and I don't scrapbook (I suck at it). So this makes me feel like I can make something that's not ugly; and I don't have to measure, cut-out, or draw anything.

Why I Hate Blogs

1. Everyone's life seems so much more interesting than mine on their blog. WAY more interesting. It's depressing.
2. Sometimes I spend too much time writing silly lists like this one on my blog. Then I feel like haven't accomplished anything. Which is also depressing.
3. It's annoying when blogs are private and I can't read them because I wasn't invited.

Too Lazy to Blog

There are quite a few things I could blog about on both of my blogs, but I just feel too lazy to do it. I still need to make slideshows of Christmas and Teague's birthday (Drake had a birthday too, but I was still laid up and didn't take any pics). I've thought up about 80 blog posts in my head, but I feel like I just don't want to expend the mental energy. Because right now that energy is reserved for DVR episodes of "10 Years Younger" and "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives."

Amazing Photos

To kill time before we saw The Phantom of the Opera on Christmas night, we explored the Venetian. I'd never been in the Venetian hotel before, and I really enjoyed walking around the Grand Canal Shoppes. We didn't go into any of the shoppes (a little pricey, not my scene), but we did come across a gallery of beautiful photographs. The Peter Lik gallery had landscape photographs that were breathtaking. There were several prints I would have loved to own if I wasn't poor and unrefined.

The website only features a few of the prints we saw at the gallery.