A few weeks ago, the movie Julie and Julia was on tv. I hadn’t seen it before and sat down to watch it. I really enjoyed it. Since I have started NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) and started blogging every day, I find it more relevant to my life.

She gave herself one year to complete all the recipes in Julia Child’s cookbook and she was going to blog about it. At one point she stares at the computer and types, “is there anyone out there? Are you reading this? Anyone?” And then she starts to get feedback, phone calls comments, etc.

I understand what she was going through. When you type a story, thought process, something you want to share out there in the ‘blogsphere’, it is hard to not feel like you are really just typing for yourself. Inner thoughts out in public forum. So many people are afraid of that. People don’t put personal things on facebook, don’t really share thoughts or ideas of their own. They are the first to joke about knowing all about my life. Trust me when I tell you that I have been the brunt of many facebook jokes and that people probably even know when I go to the bathroom.

I find that it is a form of flattery to be honest with you, that if they make so many commetns about me and my life – that they are actually FOLLOWING ME! They WANT to know what is going on in my life or they wouldn’t notice, or hide me, or even worse unfriend me.

I have been told twice in the last two days that these specific people are following my blog posting a day and not just for the last 12 days, but for a long time now. They follow from afar, don’t make comments on the blog or on the facebook statuses, but they take note of it all.

I am glad that I have a ‘fan base’ and whether you follow silently or comment on every single blog post or status update I make (really, would you do that??), I plan on writing for as long as there are readers. I am not sure if I can keep up the pace of writing every single day, but we will see what happens at the end of November. I plan on writing every day for at least that long.

So keep reading…and I will keep writing….

Until tomorrow…. G’nite!