blogging machine

Okay so are you tired of my personal blogs yet? No? Well then saddle up - here's another one.

So as you may know or not know, I do this blog (duh), a blog for the Indy Star and now I've added our PTO website and blog to my schedule. If you would have asked me just two years ago if I would be blogging to the extent that I am or for three different sources I would have told you, you were nuts and to go away. But here I am blogging away.

I enjoy it, I do - I see some of these "big" blogs - you know the ones who quit their job and then their spouse quits their job because they sell enough ads to earn their living. I find it so interesting that we as people are so interested in other people we don't know. I mean, I believe I know most of the people that read my blog. Some are more acquaintances than others, but I know them more or less. I might be wrong, if that's the case I would love for you to introduce yourself - I like knowing who's reading about me. It's a bit creepy otherwise don't you think?

I have to say as a blogger, I really don't read a lot of other blogs. Sure I've got my friends that I check when a message comes into my blog roll, but I don't really follow people I don't know. Plus I'm blogging so damn much, I can only neglect my kids for so long. I mean eventually the goldfish runs out and Max and Ruby are over.

My Indy Star blog is easy enough - I am amazed and pleased by the emails I get for potential articles. It make my job very easy - plus I'm getting into my groove of what to cover and such. There's been so much shake up at the Indy Star, I don't even know if they read what I write - but apparently there are people who do because I get some good comments and some good information on a almost daily basis. It's cool too, to be affiliated with a larger website, I mean it'd be awesome to just to whatever I want, but having perimeters does give me some comfort. I at least know what I can and can't do.

My personal blog is a bit trickier, I mean I do this primarily for my work. When work is low, I do personal stuff - the readers I have don't seem to mind too much. There are many things I'd like to talk about, but it would be fairly inappropriate to cover on a children's artwork blog - I just can't justify adding another blog to my personal roll. It seems to me the bigger blogs cover it all and then some and they step on toes while their at it. I just can't justify potentially alienating my friends, family and acquaintances with inappropriate banter as if I were a four year old with no verbal filter.

The school blog is the easiest yet, because, well, it is totally geared towards school and school related activities and events. Can't get much easier than that - it is though, yet another blog for me to write.

So I wonder when these bigger blogs get big, do they solicit advertisers? Or is it a "you build and they will come" sort of situation. I'm not sure. Maybe I just need to get on Oprah - she's got some good connections.

Okay - enough blabber - I'm off to do a quick post for the PTO and then scour my house before my book club comes over tonight. See the problem with doing projects (ours is finishing our Entertainment or TV room) is that the rest of the house suffers - I have two laundry baskets of laundry to put away - another in the dryer and one in the washer. The floors are foul, as is my bathrooms and kitchen - I have to move mountains today and babysit for my cousin. Think I can do it? I have six cups of coffee in the pot that tells me I can - we'll see.

Thanks again for stopping by - later!