Best and Worst Wednesday {blogging edition}

Worst part about blogging? I find it hard to just sit down and start.

Best part about blogging? Somehow it is easier when I am writing to an audience, to people, rather than writing for the sake of writing.

Worst part about having an audience? I don't exactly know who they are. In the last month there have been 220 views of this blog from the United States, Russia, Germany, Pakistan, Australia, United Kingdom, India and Latvia. Wow.

Best part about having an audience? It is nice to know that people are actually reading my blog. Thank you to those who leave comments. 

Best? I am trying to start a new blog. (Not to replace this one, but to cover a different subject altogether)

Worst? I'm stuck on what background and font to use. It seems silly, but the blog has to have a very particular type of font and a very particular type of background. This reminds me of the quote, "Don't think too much. You'll create a problem that wasn't even there in the first place." Yep.

Do you have any Best and Worsts?

Lauren Ashley

Best and Worst Wednesday {Christmas edition}

Worst thing about this Christmas? It happened at the wrong time. I know it comes the same time each year, and I can't change that fact, but it was at the wrong time. With my Dad losing his job, the loss of my brother Levi, and my youngest four siblings having chicken pox, celebrating Christmas in the middle of it all just complicated things.

Best thing about this Christmas? Having Christmas in the middle of it all gave us a time to rest, most of the presents were handmade, the youngest four will be immune to chicken pox and we actually live close enough to visit family in Miss'ippi for Christmas. (In case you are wondering, Miss'ippi is how people with a real southern accent pronounce Mississippi.)

Best thing about living close to Miss'ippi? We can drive there in a day.

Worst thing about living close to Miss'ippi? It still takes 14-18 hours of driving, even though Google maps says it is 11.5 hours.

Worst thing about long drives? They take a long time and usually at least one person is very grumpy by the end of the trip.

Best thing about this long drive? Have you seen scenes in movies where the family is singing silly songs during a road trip? We don't normally do that, but as we got tired, rather than get grumpy Thomas and I got silly (extremely unusual for either of us) and started singing The Window by Trout Fishing in America. Soon we were trying to fit the words for The Bear in Tennis Shoes and Bill Grogan's Goat into The Window.

Worst thing about visiting relatives for Christmas?

Best thing about visiting relatives for Christmas? It is one of the few times we get to see them during the year.

Worst thing about making presents for my family? I wasn't able to finish them in time.

Best thing about making presents for my family? Since I couldn't finish them in time, my brothers will be able to help me finish making their presents (which just happen to need a lot of hands-on work).

Worst thing about writing this post? I am up at 11pm and extremely tired.

Best thing about writing this post? The fact that I am able to sit down and write it, even while traveling.

How do I do that? I wait until everyone else is asleep and snoring around me before even beginning.

Merry Christmas!

Best and Worst Wednesday

I've decided to join the Renee Bergeron at Bakers-dozen in her Best and Worst Wednesday posts because:

1. I thought it would be fun.
2. I need to start blogging again.
3. I am somewhat of a pessimist, so this will force me to start finding positive things to think on.

Due to the third reason, rather than being a Best and Worst post, mine will probably be Worst and Best posts, or maybe even Best-Worst-Best posts so that it can end on a positive note. Now I must begin.

Worst thing about this post? I have been meaning to write this for three weeks now.

Best thing about this post? I have finally gotten around to doing it!

Worst thing outside? It is raining slightly and so I cannot do any driving practice today. I haven't had enough practice driving when it is dry to drive safely when it is wet.

Best thing? I have my driving permit, and it is actually raining.

Worst thing about joining Pinterest? I had to get a Facebook account in order to join.

Best thing about Pinterest? Now all those pictures and tutorials which I have been saving on my iPad are nice and organized in neat little pin-boards. (By the way, I canceled the Facebook account. I don't like the whole idea of Facebook, and joined for the sole purpose of getting a Pinterest account.)

Worst thing about finding a good book? I end up staying up late to read... more often than is good for me.

Best thing about finding a good book? I can find what really happened. Staying up 'til 1am two nights in a row reading The Story of the Trapp Family Singers was definitely worth it to find out the real story behind The Sound of Music. "Don't judge a book by it's movie" is definitely applicable. The story was so much changed between the real events and the movie that the movie should have an announcement at the beginning saying, "This story is very loosely inspired by the Trapp family." Truth is way more interesting than fiction.

Are there any Best and Worsts which have happened to you? Feel free to comment them here.

Lauren