Hello world!

Right, it's about time I started writing on this thing and not just use it as a platform for reading everyone else's blogs...

I remember when I was a young teenager in the days when the internet was becoming widely available but was still pre-facebook, twitter, myspace etc, (I'm thinking circa 1998) I had a 'livejournal' (google it - it still exists!) which I updated obsessively and couldn't imagine my life without it. Now I wonder how I ever had so much free time, or so much to write about considering I had so much free time...it's been a while since I've written actual sentences for/in the cyberworld. I'm not sure if I'm now more shy or just less self obsessed...with facebook I certainly feel more paranoid. Yes, yes, I could leave, or whittle down my friends list to people I 'actually know' or am 'actually friends with'... In all honesty, I'm too bloody nosy (hence my addiction to blog reading).

It took me a while to get the point of blogs for the post-teenage among us, but now I've started reading them I've found they're a world away from the whining ramblings of my youth. I follow blogs on everything from sewing to cycling. I'm constantly adding pages to my favourites; I've got categories and then subcategories to manage them all, lists of projects/places to go dominating my task bar, an amazon wishlist stretching from here to Neptune....

I've also noticed it's a great 'tool' (can you tell I work in charity?) to keep people motivated. I guess by putting it 'out there' people are expecting something...results?Whether it's a craft project or bike training, I need all the motivation I can get following a long day in the office - to do the things I actually 'enjoy'. Tragic huh.

So let's get on with it...