We got married

Yesterday it was one month ago since we got married. And this is the first time I'm blogging bout it. I fear my blog have sort of been neglected lately. But life is wonderful and more important than this =). But the blog is till alive and  I don't promise more updates but I'll try =).

Any good blogs out there?

During the last year most of my favorite bloggers have either stopped blogging altogether or have greatly reduced their posting frequency. I realize that for many people (including myself) one’s blog is a phase of one’s life and when that phase is over the blogging stops. That is part of the reason I don’t update often myself. I have no real need to blog but I think it’s important to maintain my writing skills in other languages than my mother tongue Swedish.

So to you people who are still reading my blogs, have you found any interesting blogs out there you can recommend? Those that update often and are written in an entertaining way about nothing and everything. Thank you in advance…

Fall to sping

With an outside temperature of + 4 C accompanied with with a fresh breeze and rain we're definitely not getting a white Christmas or a winter. I'm still hoping for January that winter will turn up. Between fall and spring there should be a winter somewhere...

White Christmas...again

It looks like we are getting a white Christmas after all =)

White Christmas

It doesn't look like we are getting a white Christmas ora any winter at all

It's here...

About a week ago it started snowing and has snowed ever since. You think we have a full winter now? Well not really, it doesn't snow much, about a centimeter each day. So we now have a snow layer of 5-10 centimeters. I haven't actually shoveled yet but I have begun moving the garden furniture and other things that our children have left on thew lawn into the garage.

Due to the fact that we are in the process of emptying my parents house and there are items that we haven't found buyers for the garage is already filled with some of those items and our own stuff that we don't need right now so we wont have a car in our garage this winter. I actually had to move things around to find room for the garden furniture.

Besides all of this I love the winter...

Oncoming storm

This is a warm winter, for Finland. Right now we are having those autumn storms that usually comes in October, early November. It's rainy, it's dark, it's an oncoming storm that should last up until next week...

It's all for me...

As most if not all bloggers I like readers and I like comments. The fact that they/you take the time of reading my posts and sometimes even making an effort to comment is something I highly appreciate. Thank you.

But I think in order keep the spark alive I need to do this for myself. I think most bloggers are exhibitionists in the sense "Look at me!". Whether it is to show of their writing skills, their clothes, their lifestyle, their kids it comes down to them and their life. I would even refer people who use their blog as a cheap therapist, although their need to be seen has a bit more serious side, to "Look at me!". I know because I wrote one almost a decade ago

For a number of years this blog has been about satisfying you readers. And when you forget yourself and start satisfying others you become self censoring beyond what is reasonable. You're too afraid to offend or bore someone. So you try to make everybody who reads your blog unoffended and unbored. Those of you who are familial with my writing style know I offend very few but it can be very boring when you try to please everybody.

But those who followed my blog about 5 years ago know that I can write very well. I didn't have many readers and most importantly I didn't have any readers among the people I know IRL. I didn't care what people thought because I was writing it all for me, myself and I. But when I got readers and comments from my friends IRL, encouraging comments, but still comments I started thinking about what I was writing. I started self censoring and I lost my spark. My blog posts started to deal with my difficulty to write and the imminent death of the blogosphere.

Well I think I found my spark again. I still care very much what people think of me but I'll try to ignore that trait of my personality here. I did it once and I can do it again. So for the sake of your entertainment I'm doing it all for me ;-P.

About the snow thing...

About the snow thing thing two weeks and blog posts away. it rained away. then we got another centimeter of snow again the other day and it rained away. I think it actually might be possible to mow the lawn in early December. It would be a first and no I'm not worried that my neighbors think I'm crazy. One of them was mowing his lawn while I was changing to winter tires two weeks ago...

Cheap trick?

Would it be a cheap trick to start using popular search word for my post titles? I could also use the names of movies, TV shows, songs, bands, video games...

I realize the number of people who find my blog isn't everything. I would still try to fill it with serious content . But a bit of marketing might attract a few people that actually find my post interesting and that would stick around. Then I also need to start updating more regularly...
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First snow

We got the seasons first snowfall. Not enough to be measured in centimeters or inches. Just enough to turn the ground white in most places...

Paternity leave

I just had my six weeks of paternity leave, the last I could have with the twins and ever again. Yes three kids is enough, trust me =). So I had a few evening shifts and I'm doing the first night shift out of four. It's calm so far but you'll never know.

Anyway we started clearing out my parent's house and realized it's one of those things that will last for years. So it's not for sale yet or will be in the near future.

So that's what I've been doing the last six weeks...