A blog interrupted

I haven't taken a break from blogging since this past November and I have decided to take one now. As you may have noticed I post everyday. I love blogging so it is very enjoyable for me to do so but it is also a lot of work.

I take a lot of pride in my blog. I try to make sure that my posts are honest, well thought out and factual. I spend a good amount of time researching for my posts. I really feel as bloggers we have a responsibility to try to get the facts in our posts right.

I also spend a lot of time finding photos for my posts and for the "A Beautiful Picture" posts. It takes a lot time tracking down photos. I am really picky about the photos I select so I have been known to spend an hour searching for just one photo.

My music posts have become a joy for me. I love music and I love sharing music with all of you. Posting music has become a pillar of my blog. But as with most things associated with blogging, finding music takes a lot of time too. I generally post music that I have forgotten about. I guess you may be wondering how I find music that I have forgotten about? Well it's possible but not easy. Once again it requires a lot of researching. I spend a lot of time stumbling around the internet for songs and then try to find them on YouTube. But it's worth it! I love finding a song I haven't heard in a really long time and then sharing it with all of you.

Anyway my point is I spend many hours in front of my pc working on different aspects of my blog. I enjoy every moment of it but I need to take a little break. I just want to relax for a few days and read and comment on all of your blogs and there are a lot of blog archives I want to check out.

And since we are having this little conversation about my blog; I want to let you all know how much I love and appreciate your taking the time to comment on my blog. To me blogging is 50% posting and 50% about the comments. So thank you!

I'm not sure exactly how long of a break I'm going to take. I am totally addicted to blogging so I'm not sure how long I can stand to be away from my blog! I'm going to try though! So I will be back to posting in a few days, more than likely before the week is out.

I'll see you in the comments section of your blogs!

How do you deal with blogger burnout?

On Crazy Comments

I surf blogs almost everyday. I'm always looking for new blogs to read. Honestly though out of every twenty blogs I see, maybe one looks interesting.

And when I 'm not "feeling" a particular blog I usually see at least one post that looks interesting. So I settle in and read the post and if the post is good then I might check out the comments.

Sometimes though when I click to open the comment form I find myself wading into a bunch of craziness. Have you ever read through the comments section on a blog and thought, what the ____! I have seen the craziest stuff in comments sections.

Honestly some people should forget the posts on their blog and just post the comments. I've seen amazing arguments. I've seen people trying to get their "rap" on, which is really crazy. I've seen boyfriends warning men to watch their comments on their girlfriend's blog. No kidding. I've seen people promoting their Cd's. All sorts of crazy stuff.

And none of that compares to the crazy racist comments I've seen. I mean what do racists do; just lurk around the blogisphere all day looking for a chance to make a racist comment?

And if you think racist comments on blogs are bad, check the comments on mainstream media sites. Oh my! The racists really hit full stride on those sites.

Have you ever heard the saying "follow a dumb kid home and you'll find a dumb parent"? Well that may be true with kids but it's not always true with commenters.

Just last night I went to one of my favorite blogs and decided to read the comments on a post. There was only one comment and it was nothing out of the ordinary. Anyway I decided to check out that persons blog. OMG! I felt like I accidentally walked into a Klan meeting!

By the way for those of you who think that some White people don't sit around watching Maury Povich and thinking all Black people are like that, you should have seen the post this person wrote about Black people who appear on that show. It was eye opening.

But the weirdest comments by far come from "anonymous" commenters. No offense to Anonymous commenters in general, I mean I hate to stereotype all anonymous commenters, but; Why are anonymous bloggers always (ahem) usually contrarians? They USUALLY have some oddball thing to say that goes totally against the flow of the other comments.

Again, no offense intended to the Anonymous commenters who may read this. I'm sure you're not like that. (cough)

But seriously I'm not knocking the anonymous commenters on my blog, they have been really nice. A couple have even given me some great information.

I suppose that bloggers set the tone of their comments by how they respond to comments. So maybe it all can't be blamed on the commenters. But what ever the cause people really need to get a hold of themselves. Very rarely is the comments conversation even that serious.

Comment arguments usually start over something really inane. Like one person makes a comment about some celebrity which offends someone else and, ding, ding, the fight is on.

When ever I find myself in one of these crazy comments sections, no matter how much I want to comment on the post, I usually just slowly back the heck out of there. I'm afraid if I leave a comment some of the crazy commenters might follow me back to my blog!