LaughAtlantis

So, I don't always do the Friday Five but this week it's goooooooooood.

1. Explain why you started to journal/blog.
Rod got me started. He bought me the domain name as a present early on in our relationship and I've been blogging away ever since.

2. Do people you interact with day to day or family members know about your journal/blog? Why or why not?
Um, yes and no. Some members of my family know, others don't, others do but I wish they didn't. My mother found out about it and has been bitter ever since, despite the fact that I don't generally use this as a public forum to blast her - she seems to think it's the only reason I even have a web site at all. So, that misperception being the case, I don't think she looks at the site all that often. Some of my friends know - those I think might be interested or those who are far away and can sort of keep up on my life through it. And a handful of my co-workers know about it, but I don't know that any of them actually visit it.

3. Do you have a theme for your journal/blog?
Not really. Random thoughts, mostly. Ranting when I need to, funny stuff when I find stuff I want to share. Occasional philosophizing. A little of everything, really... but no theme over all.

4. What direction would you like to have your journal/blog go in over the next year?
I'd like to be more faithful to it. I've been notably bad about it lately, but that's because work's been crazy and wedding planning has been preoccupying my mind an awful lot... so rather than blog I've been wandering wedding websites and message boards and seking the perfect gown and cake and invitation and on and on, ad infinitum. Well, I suppose not literally ad infinitum, because I've just about stopped. I'm still reading the Wedding Channel message boards because I love the little community that they've got going there, but other than that, I've calmed down a bit. And my wedding bloggery is happening over at Rod's and my wedding site so I've got stuff to write there and here.

5. Pimp five of your favorite journals/blogs.
Oh, the choices! I suppose I should give props to Rod, but since I mentioned him in that first question, I'm going to skip him now. Ha! It's like I get six for the price of five! I don't have time to blogjump every day, but these are always the first ones I tend to check when I've got some reading time... and I would put some sort of fabulous description of each, but essentially, it would just say Meegan's thoughts... Statia's rants... Mikey's random horniness... or some such boring thing, so just go check'em out yourself.

• Pizza Dreaming (Er, that would be Statia's rants.)
• Not So Simple (Ahem. Meegan's thoughts.)
• Electric Bugaloo (Mikey's horniness and other entertaining things.)
• Annessa.Net (This is a new read for me that I just love. It's Annessa's, um, thoughts, and, erm, stuff like that. See, boring description. Good blog.)
• Sassypants (Sarah was one of the first visitors to my site so she has a special place in my heart - and she's funny. Go visit.)

I would give honorable mentions but I'm tired. Maybe I'll do a whole linky thing in some other entry - or maybe at some point soon I will update my blogroll so that I have a whole "cool blogs to read" section. Or maybe I will remain the lazy ass that I am and not bother.

We'll see.