Has anyone here ever heard of...

Xanga?

At least, from what I can recall, it is another blogging website. I used to blog on that thing all the time when I was younger. It started my junior year of high school, all the way until just after Jason and I got married. I had completely forgotten about it until the other day.

So I go back and take a look at those old entries. I didn't do a whole lot with my days, and yet they were still interesting to read. Probably because it's ME reading them. lol. I really think I need to get my act together and figure out this blogging thing again, because I remember a time when it wasn't such a chore - it was therapeutic.

Now the question is, what should I write about in my blogs? I remember a few things I did when I was younger to keep it interesting:

-I would tell a "secret" about myself at the beginning or end of each post, something I thought was kinda strange about myself that I normally wouldn't tell anyone because I thought no one else felt/did/was strange enough to be the same as me. It made me feel like I could connect with other people in some little way, even if it was through our oddness.

-I would have a "quote" for that entry, something that I'd found or heard that particularly touched me that I wanted to share, like the Mother Teresa quote President Monson shared during women's conference yesterday, "If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

-I would sometimes tell what song was currently in my head. Some of them were crazy, like the Spectrum Song from the Disney sing-along videos, and some of them were normal, but it was just another thing to share.

-I would have a random "picture of the day" somewhere in the entry. It could be of anything - me, friends, family, or a cool picture I had found and wanted to share.

-I would bold, italicize, underline, change the size, or color words to bring more attention to certain words or phrases, and also to make the entry more fun for me to write!

Outside of that, I would just talk about my day, mostly in a humorous way, and sometimes the entry would have no purpose at all. Sometimes I would vent my frustrations or talk about how happy I was about something.

I'm hoping that this will be the beginning of more fun blog posts to come. I may not have the most interesting or profound things to say, but hopefully this will be something that is more enjoyable for me to do.