Last month I searched my blog to figure out our favorite green bean variety from last year, so we could plant mostly those this year.
Last week I searched my blog when Steven asked the name of the hotel we stayed at in Dresden.
Last week I searched my blog for a specific date my mom asked me about from June 2006.
Yesterday I searched my blog to find my review of a book so I could tell Anita what I thought of it.
Could all of these things potentially be found in other systems – calendar, notes, GoodReads, etc.? Yes.
Is it super convenient to just search my public diary and find them? Also, yes. I don’t document everything (publicly) here, but it sure does come in handy to have a lot of my life documented!
(I’m listening to a really cheesy/bad book right now about a woman who has amnesia and can’t remember which boyfriend (of THREE she was casually dating) she was about to tell she loved before she was hit by a car, so she is going on dates with all of them to figure it out. She’s missing A LOT of information about her life, and my first thought was “too bad she doesn’t have a blog.” Ha.)
If I didn’t blog, it didn’t happen. End of story!
Ha!
Samsies! It’s true that I *could* come up with some system to document my life privately, but the blog is just so easy to search.
Exactly!
Haha, that made me laugh… because it’s true. Whenever Jon asks me about something from the past, I am like “hold on, let me look this up on my blog!” LOL
Exactly! I use it to prove to Steven that his memory is wrong too LOL.
At some point, my memory be so bad that I’ll be glad I blogged to keep track of the stuff I’ve done!
Yes! I’m thinking I will get to that point too.
Ha, this is so funny – I just looked up a recipe on the food blog my friend Linda and I used to do! I totally get your blog being a great resource for you.
Ha! You get me!
Oh, totally! If something happened before I started blogging, shrug, who knows when that was. And if it was after I started blogging but I can’t find that I posted about it, I am so surprised. Like, I never put those cute sneakers on the blog? Or when I finished kitting that shawl? How is this possible?
Ha! I have been in the same situation. Like “I really never blogged about that?” ha.
Yessss – blogs are so helpful for this! I love looking up my book reviews when someone asks me about a particular book. I am FOR SURE not going to remember anything about it, but here it is on my blog and all of my feelings!
Exactly!!! It’s hard to remember what beyond whether or not we liked it!