Celebrating Consistence

So I haven't been blogging every day, but I HAVE been blogging a lot more than usual and I'm pretty proud of myself!

(this blogger gang sign cracks me up)

My friends Danica and Kristy are a bit more privy to the blogging word than I am but I have been wanting so badly to get more involed,  to get more followers, to be able to have giveaways, to make fun tutorials and really just to be able to have a creative outlet! I'll tell ya... sitting at a desk for 8 hours a day sure doesn't let you be very creative aside from the occasional letterhead re-vamp or fax cover sheet. Like you could see in my last post Danica's wedding has really been a great opportunity for me to get some creative juices flowing which has been so fun for me, but that's almost over. Time for a new focus. And I'm going to do my best to make this blog it! :)

My biggest blog motivation is my OBSESSION Kandee Johnson (and this is her personal blog).

She is a make-up artist who does make up tutorials online and is SO great at what she does (and she does it all with FOUR kids!) She is absolutely adorable and if you check out her youtube page you'll fall in love with her too. I have already gotten Danica and Kristy obsessed. Not only is she absolutely adorable, she is sweet and kind and really makes a difference in people's lives. I would love to have even a fraction of the impact that she has on people. So, we'll see how this whole thing goes...

xoxo,

shea

worthwhile

So, I've been told that I need to start blogging more. I too, have been thinking that I would like to blog more... update my cyber footprint, if you will. However, true to form, I can't help but be a bit cynical about the whole thing. I feel that blogging is a bit egocentric, narcissistic even. To think that your words, your thoughts and feelings are important enough to be made available to strangers still strikes me as kind of odd.

When I used to blog in high school, using sites like Xanga and livejournal it was almost just because everyone else was doing it. It wasn't because I really had anything important to say, and that is how I feel now. I feel that if I'm going to blog I want it to be something worthwhile. I don't want to just ramble about my daily actives. So then that puts me at a crossroads. Do I a) stop blogging all together or b) start doing something that IS worthwhile?

I decided to go with the latter. Not just to create a better blog experience but to create a better me. When the new year rolled around and everyone decided to make resolutions about loosing weight and drinking less and sleeping more, I made a decision, not a resolution, that I was going to do what I could do benefit my fellow man. I have only made small steps in this venture so far. Giving when I wouldn't normally have given, having patience when I normally wouldn't have had patience, listening when I normally wouldn't have listened. A man at my work the other day summed it up very well. He slipped me a $20 tip on a bill that couldn't have been more than $30 and when I asked "are you sure?" he responded with "if you have it, share it". That is exactly the motto that I would like to emulate. I want to leave a footprint in the lives and hearts of as many people as I possibly can. Having this blog is not only a way to possibly help reach more lives but also act as a motivator for me to continue on this journey. I'm not sure what is in store for me but I am very excited and anxious to see where this life takes me and hopefully it IS somewhere worthwhile...

Shea