Archive for February, 2008
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
User: All my email keeps going into the trash.
Me: Well, I see here that you’ve made a filter sends all your mail to the trash.
POTD2 #035
Monday, February 25th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
POTD2 #035
Originally uploaded by Kacey3.
Getting ready for bed
To Game or not To Game…
Monday, February 25th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments
…in which I talk about “extra” money and video games.
Heather and I have decided to not buy the new back door at this juncture, and instead we will buy the back door with the incentive check this summer. With the remainder of the tax return, we will each get a bit of money to do with whatever we want (we have already paid off a credit card with it, so its not all frivolous cash). This means it is once again time for me to do the Video Game system dance, wherein I weigh heavily the advantages and disadvantages, wants and needs, of having a new game system. I have now, successfully talked myself out of an Xbox 360 no less than three times when I had the money to purchase one. There was a time that I played a lot more video games than I do now, and there are times now, where I really wish I played more video games than I do. I enjoy them quite a bit, and I miss playing them. › Continue reading
POTD2 #034
Sunday, February 24th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
POTD2 #034
Originally uploaded by Kacey3.
sleeping in the car, peaceful and snoring.
POTD2 #033
Sunday, February 24th, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
POTD2 #033
Originally uploaded by Kacey3.
The only picture I took all day long.
POTD2 #032
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | 1 Comment
POTD2 #032
Originally uploaded by Kacey3.
Home made burgers, Heather’s was straightforward, but mine had fetta cheese rolled in the ground beef. Served with garlic fried, a pickle spear, and the new Shiner Black.
Finding My Voice…
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 | Blogging | 2 Comments
…in which I talk about blogging, writing, and allowing myself to make misteaks.
So I’ve got a new website, which currently has nothing on it, and a new blog, upon which I haven’t fully decided what I’m going to write. Way back when, when I started my LiveJournal, I was a pretty avid blogger, but I can’t say that there was that much introspection on those early posts. Most just served to keep people up to date on what I was doing. While I see the value in that, I’m not sure that’s the kind of blog I really want to have. Internet fame shouldn’t mean anything to me, but I do have a deep seated need for recognition and if writing something on the internet to get people to see it serves that purpose, then so be it. My problem is that I’m not exactly sure what I’m going to write. I know what I don’t want to write however, and its a struggle to write around that. › Continue reading
Finding My Voice…
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
…in which I talk about blogging, writing, and allowing myself to make misteaks.
So I’ve got a new website, which currently has nothing on it, and a new blog, upon which I haven’t fully decided what I’m going to write. Way back when, when I started my LiveJournal, I was a pretty avid blogger, but I can’t say that there was that much introspection on those early posts. Most just served to keep people up to date on what I was doing. While I see the value in that, I’m not sure that’s the kind of blog I really want to have. Internet fame shouldn’t mean anything to me, but I do have a deep seated need for recognition and if writing something on the internet to get people to see it serves that purpose, then so be it. My problem is that I’m not exactly sure what I’m going to write. I know what I don’t want to write however, and its a struggle to write around that.
I don’t want a blog that’s all ranting and bemoaning. I don’t want a blog that tries to draw pity or illicit any kind of consolation. I don’t want to fill my blog with memes, I’ll leave those to LiveJournal. I don’t want my blog to be just endless babble with no thought or entertainment value. This is not to say that every entry should make the reader take pause and think about their lives or anything, but I at least want to try to do some thinking on my own as I write these entries. I want to feel like I’m growing as a person as I type up these entries of self discovery.
Part of what keeps me from writing is that I’m afraid of bad writing. That’s a fair fear, but it takes bad writing to create good writing. The same is true of all art, and its something I have a hard time with. It’s one of the things that I struggle with regularly in my photography and why I’m afraid to draw. I don’t want to do anything badly, so I don’t do anything at all. We learn to do things by making mistakes and doing things wrong, but I’ve grown up to be such an anal retentive perfectionist, it goes against my core nature to allow myself to screw things up. To that end, the book “Bird By Bird” has been suggested to me and I plan to read it next (I’d be reading it now, but it was hiding in my studio and I’d forgotten about it completely). I need to break out of this armor of perfection and allow myself to screw up more. So prepare yourself for a barrage of badly thought out, poorly constructed blogging entries as I attempt to find my voice and in as much, find my self, again.
Just as a point of clarity, I will be using this blog as a place to really focus on myself and try to get some real thinking and writing done. My LiveJournal will be a comprehensive blog, containing not only crossposted entries from here, but also including the silly memes, quizzes, photos, and other random rants and whines that I don’t wish to share here.
Originally posted at K. Close III
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POTD2 #031
Thursday, February 21st, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
POTD2 #031
Originally uploaded by Kacey3.
He’s so excited, he can’t hardly wait for the next bite!
Test Post
Thursday, February 21st, 2008 | LiveJournal Archives | 3 Comments
This is the first test post to my new WordPress blog. If all has worked correctly, you should also be seeing this post on my LiveJournal as well.
