“Cindy Blogs the Sierra/Baby Boomer Ranger” made it – five years old and 100 posts, but I’m not sure if I’m much longer fit for the bloggersphere.
For Valentine’s Day, my husband and I watched Julie and Julia. We really enjoyed it, but being a blogger myself, I had something nagging me…my blog.
In Julie and Julia a writer turned public servant, decided to jumpstart her writing career by following Julia Child’s recipies and writing about it daily in her blog. Not to ruin the story, but she has problems, and meltdowns, and success. People discover her blog, she becomes famous, she gets speaking and book offers, her life changes and all is good in the world.
Real blogging is not like the movies. Life is not like the movies.
You may notice that I’m missing a few photos. My blog was vandalized and completely erased from top to bottom. What is now Baby Boomer Ranger was reconstructed from back-up but my format template was lost as well as many of my photos. In order to get it back the way it has been, it would take me hours of uploading, formatting and fixing. I don’t think Julia’s blog was wiped off the web.
I also get spam weekly, sometimes daily. No one seems to make comments unless they are selling low cost drugs or sending strange bad grammar messages that don’t make sense. No comments, no conversation, no challenging thought provoking witty comebacks. Just spam. Lots of spam.
I’m a little discouraged. Three months have sped by.
But…
Tomorrow is another day.