We’ve decided if we’re going to become serious about this blogging thing (and we are, we promise! We’re just busy and we have to blog a lot for work, so it takes some motivating kicks in the behind to get us to post here. Perhaps some motivating comments would work too
Anyway, as I was saying, if we’re going to become serious bloggers, we figured we needed a legit camera to post video and pictures for our adoring fans. After much deliberation and viewing youtube video examples of camera work, we went with the Sanyo Xacti VPC-FH1A.
We’re still figuring out how to use it well, but in the mean time, enjoy our very amateur camera work. Hopefully it will give us the motivating kicks we need to update more often. But comments definitely help too.
Without further ado, here’s our first video. A few weeks ago, we went to Taneka’s apartment to celebrate her birthday (and the birthday of a girl named Tene, who we had never met before but turned out to be pretty cool). This is most of the crew playing “Big Booty” (with comments in the background from the peanut gallery aka Brian).
I’ve determined that blog writing is difficult in the early stages. It’s the awkward time when you don’t really know who your audience is yet. And if you don’t have an audience in mind when you’re writing, writer’s block is pretty much guaranteed. At least for me. Maybe I’m too much of a people pleaser, but I’d like to think it’s because I’m a decent writer. I write in completely different styles, about completely different topics, and with varying levels of self-disclosure depending on who I imagine I’m writing to.
So I’m still playing around with who I think I’m writing to on this blog.
Ideally, we want to grow our readership and speak to people we don’t even know about super intimate topics (like how I’m terrified of my first married pap smear coming up soon). But for now, our readers mostly consist of close friends who click on our Facebook links and may not want to know about my pap smear fears. Hence, we continue writing glib, simplistic posts. You see the conundrum, right?
To remedy this problem, I will begin categorizing posts based on level of self-disclosure versus topics. That way, those of you who are totally weirded out by TMI about our marriage, our bodily functions, or emotions in general can skip to the more light-hearted posts (like about food and martial arts) or the strictly theological posts.
Matt’s not home right now and I haven’t talked to him about this (communication is very key in a healthy marriage, you know), so we may change this system up. But for now, look for the categories. I’m going to try out the new system by posting two more posts. One highly self-disclosing, one minimally self-disclosing with lots of theological pondering. Read accordingly.
