Téa returns to blogging

Posted on October 19, 2006 at 04:06 am under Tea's Musings

...Or at least that’s what I’m trying to do. A few months ago, I was on my way to work and musing about some random thing or another when I thought to myself,

I want to blog about this…

And then I realized that it was a thought that flashed by my head fairly often. I’d think of something and then fleetingly wish that I still had a blog so that I could babble on it. But I had abandoned my old blog over a year ago, and it wasn’t a blog I was eager to resurrect because it was haunted by some lovely, crazy stalkers that I’ve been trying to escape from for years.

Yes, I realize that I do have a livejournal (or two) but Colorfilter @ LJ was always just a place where I posted my icons and resource downloads for others to grab. To date, almost 4,000 people have friended the journal to be updated with my graphics and such; I’m thinking they’d rather not have to wade through my miscellaneous musings just to get to the downloads and goodies. And even if someone assured me otherwise, I know my own paranoid self. My voice would end up being stunted because I would, without a doubt, end up worrying about the frienders.

And yes, there’s that other not-so-well-concealed “secret” personal LJ where most of my posts are friends-locked, but that’s where all my RL personal posts goes to and where I try (and often fail) to keep in touch with my close friends. Hardly the place for me to suddenly start spouting about whatever piece of coding I had discovered or some view on graphics I had read about but disagreed. I’d bore my friends to death, and it’d cause that whole stunted voice deal again.

So that took me here. A new weblog altogether, stashed away in this corner so that those who aren’t interested don’t have to come and those who are can choose to read if they so wish. Worry-free for me.

One thing I’m quite happy with at the moment is the fact that I’ve come back to host my own blog on my own domain. I really miss that. It’s not that I dislike Livejournal (even though I do admit to being very stubborn about not creating an LJ account a few years back...). I see the appeal of the whole community feel of being on Livejournal, but for some reason or another, I was never fully comfortable there. Plus, I much prefer to be able to customize my blog and have more control over it as opposed to being locked down by LJ’s user limitations.

And that’s that! Long live this blog, I hope.