Oh my gosh, I was reading on Jen's blog and in the corner are her fave blogs and what their last post was, and WHEN it was. Mine was 4 weeks ago!! How sad. =(
I should just hop on here more often, yes? And not wait for these like, grand monumental blog posts to come forth first. Ha ha.
I HAVE been blogging, just not here - I joined a private forum for a specific fitness program called Venus Index and I LOVE it. I also love that it is private so only the girls (no guys except the 3 trainers) can read what I write. I can post before/after pictures, etc without wondering if the whole world wide web is going to see them.
Seriously, oh my GOSH you guys - way back in like, 2002 I started working out and my first program was something called Body For Life. They encourage before/after pictures of course - and I know this IS good for accountability, but holy moly, NOT on a public forum. I guess I just didn't realize that whatever you put on a forum like that, can be called up via Google?
Anyway, I posted my before & after pictures on there IN A BIKINI. Yes, I know. It's not like I looked atrocious, but .... I went on to become considered somewhat of a professional in my field of selling on Ebay in later years. I started a newsletter that was published online and had many subscribers, even up to 2,000 at one time.
So my name got out, people started to know me as an "expert" (ha ha - it's awesome how you can become someone so quickly online!! Yet no-one really does know you, right?). People would google my name and......
....yeah. I got some emails from people letting me know so thankfully I wasn't in the dark about that for too long.
But it is funny, how many things you write online you just don't think about. I googled my name again just now and there's a post I wrote on a forum when I was pregnant with #6, asking if people had ever gotten a pregnancy portrait done. That's not THAT private, but still - don't spill your guts on forums online if you don't want everyone reading it.
I think blogs are different - like when I googled my name, none of my blogs came up. Not sure how that works, but it seems to be harder to find by just googling someone's name.
