LJ Idol: Week 13; Who's that trip trapping over my LJ
Have you noticed my Live Journal these last few weeks? There are posts made regularly. Some of them are even about something. A few are actually even well written.
Where did this come from? Where did this Dawny Darko who writes about her faults, proclaims her beauty, reveals her passions and her naivete come from? Is she the same girl you've always known?
In the past my posts have been pretty mundane. A few Hunter stories, an attempt to tell "the story of us" by documenting the history of our marriage. I might have posted three of those. There was the time I used LJ to organize a party for Notbatman, getting as many people as possible to surprise him at Gastofs with T-shirts from the web comic "Edison Hate Future". That was an amazing a success. LJ was helpful when my "nesting" kicked in and again I used this journal to organize a "cleaning party" where I got all my friends to come over and clean my house in preparation for the arrival of my son. Have I thanked you enough for that yet? But there hasn't been much "content" here.
Since the first time my journal had been hijacked in 2005 and changed from Notbatwoman to Dawny_Darko my posts have mostly been about Roller Derby. Even that wasn't much. Sharing a few stories here and there, trying but failing to describe my transformation into an "athlete" or asking for advice when I was thinking of quitting. Most frequently this LJ was used for advertising our Bouts by displaying our monthly poster and encouraging everyone to come. It never became the chronicle I want to have when I am old and regaling my Grandchildren with the story of when Grandma was a Derby Girl.
I've always meant to write more, but this blog turned out like all of my attempts at keeping a journal, just a bunch of fluff.
Since October 16th I've been actively writing. I've been thinking of what I want to say and organizing words on a page weekly, and I like it. My journal has once again been hijacked, but this time by LJIdol. By something I joined on a whim and expected to forget about in a week or two that has now turned into something I don't want to end.
I hope to continue on what LJIdol has started for me. I hope to follow the "Home Game" once I am eliminated. And I hope to somehow show thanks to the organizer(s) of this crazy contest for changing what this journal is for me. Thank you Scienter for goading Notbatman into doing this, if he hadn’t I never would have. And thank you too to everyone who has read my posts and to those who voted for me each week, it really means a lot.
A special thanks goes to a sister in Roller Derby half way across the world. Whirled agreed to be my partner in the second week of this LJIdol "Intersection", and I am very grateful for her courage and encouragement. I hope to see her on the track some day! Please see her post here as our votes will be added together this week for determining eliminations.
It's still me, I'm the same girl. I hope you are enjoying my "new" LJ as much as I am, and I hope you'll stick around to see what other changes may be in store.
Where did this come from? Where did this Dawny Darko who writes about her faults, proclaims her beauty, reveals her passions and her naivete come from? Is she the same girl you've always known?
In the past my posts have been pretty mundane. A few Hunter stories, an attempt to tell "the story of us" by documenting the history of our marriage. I might have posted three of those. There was the time I used LJ to organize a party for Notbatman, getting as many people as possible to surprise him at Gastofs with T-shirts from the web comic "Edison Hate Future". That was an amazing a success. LJ was helpful when my "nesting" kicked in and again I used this journal to organize a "cleaning party" where I got all my friends to come over and clean my house in preparation for the arrival of my son. Have I thanked you enough for that yet? But there hasn't been much "content" here.
Since the first time my journal had been hijacked in 2005 and changed from Notbatwoman to Dawny_Darko my posts have mostly been about Roller Derby. Even that wasn't much. Sharing a few stories here and there, trying but failing to describe my transformation into an "athlete" or asking for advice when I was thinking of quitting. Most frequently this LJ was used for advertising our Bouts by displaying our monthly poster and encouraging everyone to come. It never became the chronicle I want to have when I am old and regaling my Grandchildren with the story of when Grandma was a Derby Girl.
I've always meant to write more, but this blog turned out like all of my attempts at keeping a journal, just a bunch of fluff.
Since October 16th I've been actively writing. I've been thinking of what I want to say and organizing words on a page weekly, and I like it. My journal has once again been hijacked, but this time by LJIdol. By something I joined on a whim and expected to forget about in a week or two that has now turned into something I don't want to end.
I hope to continue on what LJIdol has started for me. I hope to follow the "Home Game" once I am eliminated. And I hope to somehow show thanks to the organizer(s) of this crazy contest for changing what this journal is for me. Thank you Scienter for goading Notbatman into doing this, if he hadn’t I never would have. And thank you too to everyone who has read my posts and to those who voted for me each week, it really means a lot.
A special thanks goes to a sister in Roller Derby half way across the world. Whirled agreed to be my partner in the second week of this LJIdol "Intersection", and I am very grateful for her courage and encouragement. I hope to see her on the track some day! Please see her post here as our votes will be added together this week for determining eliminations.
It's still me, I'm the same girl. I hope you are enjoying my "new" LJ as much as I am, and I hope you'll stick around to see what other changes may be in store.