Comments on: Why? WHY!?!? http://www.peteholiday.com/2004/09/29/why-why Pete's Adventures in the Dirty South Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:28:50 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: hilary http://www.peteholiday.com/2004/09/29/why-why/comment-page-1#comment-5493 hilary Fri, 01 Oct 2004 01:31:52 +0000 #comment-5493 <p>when i started blogging a few years ago, i got very swept up in daily stats and trying to get more and more readers. it became a job, and one i was not too fond of. i took a couple of months off and watched my readership dwindle to a few search engine hits a day. then i looked inward and asked myself why i was blogging in the first place. it's to have a record of my life. the people who read it (mostly family, friends, and the occasional fellow blogger) keep me honest. i simply would not bother to update something that no one else was reading. i don't know that i do it for attention. i do censor myself a bit, not just because my parents read me, but because i want to look back on my journal and see positivity. i want my daughters to look back and see what their little lives were like when they were babies, and i want them to like what they see too.</p> <p>so... whenever i'm feeling the least bit kiss-assy or fake or under the influence of a meme, i remind myself who it is i'm writng for: my future self.</p> when i started blogging a few years ago, i got very swept up in daily stats and trying to get more and more readers. it became a job, and one i was not too fond of.
i took a couple of months off and watched my readership dwindle to a few search engine hits a day. then i looked inward and asked myself why i was blogging in the first place.
it’s to have a record of my life. the people who read it (mostly family, friends, and the occasional fellow blogger) keep me honest. i simply would not bother to update something that no one else was reading.
i don’t know that i do it for attention. i do censor myself a bit, not just because my parents read me, but because i want to look back on my journal and see positivity. i want my daughters to look back and see what their little lives were like when they were babies, and i want them to like what they see too.

so… whenever i’m feeling the least bit kiss-assy or fake or under the influence of a meme, i remind myself who it is i’m writng for: my future self.

]]> By: Pete http://www.peteholiday.com/2004/09/29/why-why/comment-page-1#comment-5492 Pete Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:29:41 +0000 #comment-5492 <p>Dirty, dirty, dirty.</p> <p>Besides, as far as I know, that's not really "pressure" for a guy unless he's got some sort of medical disorder... that's like saying "Eat something tomorrow or I'll kill you!"</p> <p>Eric... is there something you're trying to tell us?</p> Dirty, dirty, dirty.

Besides, as far as I know, that’s not really “pressure” for a guy unless he’s got some sort of medical disorder… that’s like saying “Eat something tomorrow or I’ll kill you!”

Eric… is there something you’re trying to tell us?

]]> By: Teresa http://www.peteholiday.com/2004/09/29/why-why/comment-page-1#comment-5491 Teresa Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:20:57 +0000 #comment-5491 <p>Oh! Eric is a dirty bird! LOL</p> Oh! Eric is a dirty bird! LOL

]]> By: Eric http://www.peteholiday.com/2004/09/29/why-why/comment-page-1#comment-5490 Eric Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:51:35 +0000 #comment-5490 <p>"P.S. - Come Friday night or die!"</p> <p>Wow if that isn't performance under pressure I don't know what is.</p> “P.S. – Come Friday night or die!”

Wow if that isn’t performance under pressure I don’t know what is.

]]> By: Pete http://www.peteholiday.com/2004/09/29/why-why/comment-page-1#comment-5489 Pete Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:06:15 +0000 #comment-5489 <p>Ahhh yes, and I completely forgot to mention the sheer satisfaction of the occasional death threat. :)</p> Ahhh yes, and I completely forgot to mention the sheer satisfaction of the occasional death threat. :)

]]> By: Amber http://www.peteholiday.com/2004/09/29/why-why/comment-page-1#comment-5488 Amber Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:56:48 +0000 #comment-5488 <p>Petey! I must admit, your website does tend to brighten up my day a lot of times.</p> <p>(P.S. - Come Friday night or die!) :-)</p> Petey! I must admit, your website does tend to brighten up my day a lot of times.

(P.S. – Come Friday night or die!) :-)

]]> By: jean http://www.peteholiday.com/2004/09/29/why-why/comment-page-1#comment-5487 jean Thu, 30 Sep 2004 05:30:04 +0000 #comment-5487 <p>you are the biggest attention whore i know. :)</p> <p>but it is semi more exciting to write when you hope/delude yourself into thinking that you have an audience. it is nice that i have something in check that keeps me logging things so i can go back and read them and be like.. "oh i remember when i did this"</p> you are the biggest attention whore i know. :)

but it is semi more exciting to write when you hope/delude yourself into thinking that you have an audience. it is nice that i have something in check that keeps me logging things so i can go back and read them and be like.. “oh i remember when i did this”

]]> By: AliKira http://www.peteholiday.com/2004/09/29/why-why/comment-page-1#comment-5486 AliKira Thu, 30 Sep 2004 05:26:37 +0000 #comment-5486 <p><em>smiles</em> Thanks for more fodder for my paper ;) You make a rather good interviewee. (and no I haven't started writing the thing... even though it's partially due on Tuesday... whatever) Anywho... I too blog for others (although not with the readership you have), although I must say it's rather difficult as of late, given that I'm ACTUALLY supposed to write journal entries for class as well... some of which show up in my LJ (which is sort of a pathetic blog, I know... but it was the type of thing that wouldn't crash my computer too easily and has the functionality I want and need... yadda yadda)</p> smiles Thanks for more fodder for my paper ;) You make a rather good interviewee. (and no I haven’t started writing the thing… even though it’s partially due on Tuesday… whatever)
Anywho… I too blog for others (although not with the readership you have), although I must say it’s rather difficult as of late, given that I’m ACTUALLY supposed to write journal entries for class as well… some of which show up in my LJ (which is sort of a pathetic blog, I know… but it was the type of thing that wouldn’t crash my computer too easily and has the functionality I want and need… yadda yadda)

]]> By: Pete http://www.peteholiday.com/2004/09/29/why-why/comment-page-1#comment-5485 Pete Thu, 30 Sep 2004 04:34:45 +0000 #comment-5485 <p>Woah, Bobby... wait... now #1 and #2 I get... but #3? You have opinions!?</p> <p>GO ON! I don't buy it!</p> Woah, Bobby… wait… now #1 and #2 I get… but #3? You have opinions!?

GO ON! I don’t buy it!

]]> By: Bobby http://www.peteholiday.com/2004/09/29/why-why/comment-page-1#comment-5484 Bobby Thu, 30 Sep 2004 03:49:45 +0000 #comment-5484 <p>I blog for: 1) the attention (let's be honest, we all do) 2) Keeping people up with what's going on in my life (hopefully some care, especially my far-away friends) 3) A means of mouthing off my various opinions on things.</p> <p>That's my reasons!</p> I blog for:
1) the attention (let’s be honest, we all do)
2) Keeping people up with what’s going on in my life (hopefully some care, especially my far-away friends)
3) A means of mouthing off my various opinions on things.

That’s my reasons!

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