Does that mean I am NOT busy because I blog?

Have you ever heard, "I"m too busy to blog"?

Have you?

Because I have.

And everytime I hear that I have to think to myself...while I curl up my fingers to the point where they are white knuckled and the blood has ceased to fight it's way too them...I think, "Oh are they saying I'm NOT busy?"

And not in a particularly good way. All sorts of sarcastic remarks spring to my mind...many which are not nice...and since being mean doesn't BECOME me...I bite my tongue, sometimes drawing blood, and just smile.

I think it is because they don't get it. And they don't. Any number of my BBFF's would have to agree with me when I tell you, blogging is a release to be what you may or may not be in REAL life.

You can get your thoughts and ideas and imagination out there. It's a sort of therapy...but also a social group.

I love getting online and looking in, and checking out, the lives of my REAL life BFF's and also my Blog BFF's and I'm going to admit...I have Blog BFF's!

But, it's not like I spend hours upon hours EVERYDAY on the computer? I write my post...I check a portion of blogs, comment, and I'm done. I laugh, snort, cry, and take pictures on a Blog Across America...and I only BLOG when I have something to say. Believe it or not...that's pretty much everyday!

I am definitely addicted to it...but it's not like a drug addiction or a food addiction...I don't wake up, CRAVE to be online, forget about a shower...stare hoplessly at a screen and live my life through other people, because my life is just TOO hard to bare?

I get up (and if I don't have to work or be anywhere)...get online, I don't shower because I don't FEEL like it, I stare at the screen with HOPE not hoplessness...sheesh...because I think maybe, just maybe, if I dream it, read it enough, it will come true.

Does that mean I don't have a life?

HA! You crazies...in fact it means I DO have a life...HA!

All kidding aside...unless you walk a mile in my blog...don't judge.

I have a life.

It just includes blogging...which has lead me to meet the most incredible, funny, and unique people.

Some I have had the pleasure to meet in REAL life...and the others? I don't doubt I'll meet sometime in the near future.

So blogging is addicting, it takes some of my time, but not all of it. I still have time to be a Mom, go to work, shoot photography, choreograph, visit the sick, do my Visiting Teaching, go to church, read my scriptures, say my prayers, sleep, help my kids with their homework, pick my kids up from activities and drop them off, worry about my weight, have girl dinners-lunches-or weekends, go to the movies with my Husband, do OTHER things with my husband, and fit in some exercise.

If my kids are surviving on Corn Dogs and Cereal? Who's to say its because of blogging?

Love,

Shelle