This week, Stasha at The Good Life is celebrating her 100th listicle! Woo-hoo!! This week’s listicle is why we love listicles or “freestyle.” I’m going to do a combo of both.
I love doing Monday Listicles because:
1. I have always loved making lists…just ask my husband! I recently watched “I Don’t Know How She Does It,” and at the end of the movie, Sarah Jessica Parker’s character resolves to stop making lists…and that thought made me panic! I guess I’m a listaholic.
2. It’s been an awesome way to connect in cyberspace with other bloggers, a few with really spectacular senses of humor.
3. It makes me post every week and write about topics that might not have occurred to me otherwise.
And furthermore, I love blogging because:
4. It’s a great creative outlet for me.
5. I’ve never been able to stick to journaling on a consistent basis, but blogging allows me to chronicle much of what happens in my life or my family through words and photos.
6. It allows me to promote great books, theater, music, travel spots, restaurants, or people and pass on the good word.
7. It enables me to blackmail remind my husband and kids of things they’ve done over the years…such as convincing Kieran that he once made a love machine for a girl in his preschool class and also once dressed up as the Wicked Witch, both of which he completely denies ever having done.
8. It gives me a sense of accomplishment…I’ve been blogging for over 6 years now, having written 1,655 posts on this primary blog alone…that doesn’t count posts on Marie’s Book Garden, Confessions of an English Major, or One Year to an Organized Life (currently inactive). Given my record of starting projects and not always finishing them, it’s good to have an accomplishment I can quantify!
9. I’m not much of an arguer–in fact, I really dislike arguing–but I’m passionately opinionated. Blogging allows me to express my opinions without getting in anyone’s face. I have had some heated discussions–the one that stands out for me most of all is when some Orthodox Jews visited my book blog to complain about my book review of Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of my Jewish Roots.
10. My memory is fading! When I did my recent A to Z Blogging Challenge on my overseas travels, I had great fun poring over my travel journals from my 20s…and I was stunned to learn how much I had forgotten. When I’m old and gray, I will have something to look back on and remember.
Thanks, Stasha, for creating a great blogging community and prompting us to think more creatively! Cheers to you!!
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