Category Archives: Blogging

The Forced Post

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Haven’t felt like blogging properly for a while.

At the moment I feel like I’m going through a bit of a transition in my life. Every day I’m confused about the kind of person I am and who I want to be. I cling onto the artists, singers, music, books, films, heroes, that inspire me and contribute to ensuring I live my life the way I want it.

I know who I want to be … but it feels like I can’t move forward to being that person until I leave in November.

3 months and 3 weeks can’t come quick enough.

It sort of feels like I’m in purgatory at the moment.

As far as this blog goes, I’ve decided to keep Not in the Pink. I like the name and what it means and I think it aptly sums up me and what I write about. I don’t want to attempt to reinvent myself with another blog’s name. Instead, Not in the Pink works just fine for me … though I think I might redecorate around here. Maybe even hide my old posts so that I can start from a clean slate. If I do end up doing that, this’ll probably end up looking like the first post.

My apologies if I haven’t been visiting your blogs as much as I usually do or replying to comments. Once I revamp this place I imagine I’ll be back on the bandwaggon.

Ideas Needed. Please Apply Within.

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Soooooo …

Let me just take a moment to grab hold of whatever dignity that remains and try and pull this blog out of the slump it’s fallen into.

*deep breath*

Okie. Woo!

I’m back and thinking clear.

That’s right. I’m young, single, happy and about to move to a new country and pursue my dream job. The wait is killlliiiiing me.

And I really need to stop feeling sorry for myself so I’ve decided to just focus on everything positive going on.

I do have a question to those readers of my blog that still remain though.

I don’t know what the hell is going on with this blog anymore. It’s a mish-mash of personal anecdotes and impending travels. It used to be full of book reviews and, as a result, I know I’ve lost a huge heap of followers because of my lack of reviews. I used to be a freelance writer, damnit! Reviews were my thing. Of course there was regular reading and reviews. Now you’re lucky if you find one in a month.

Soooo … my question to those readers who remain: What would you like to see from this blog?

Do I write too much about my ‘life’? Would you like to see reviews coming back?

I blog for myself but, at the moment, until I actually move in November, I’m a bit stranded. I have no clue what to blog about. :P

What do you like? What do you hate?

Be as harsh or as gentle as you want. I seriously need the inspiration. :P

Blog fail.

Why Blog?

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Dia Veinticinco – How you found out about blogger and why you made one.

I guess now we know where this meme originated, right? :P

Well, I use WordPress now but this blog did actually originate on Blogger. I don’t think I really had a clear idea of what to write about at the time (I look at it now and the first couple of posts are laughable). I think, at that time in my life, I just needed to channel my creative writing into something. I’d just graduated from uni and was thrown into this adult world that wanted experience, not qualifications. The recession had hit us full force and I was without a job.

I guess, in that sense, it was kind of a diary. I’d had dreams of becoming a freelance journalist specialising in film and books reviews and also needed a place to channel my opinions. Everything kind of fit into place.

I chose Blogger because it was free and easy.

Over time I discovered the book blogging community. At the time I was on a personal challenge to read 50 books in a year. This was a tiny amount compared to the voracious readers I met online. But the comments I received from my newfound netfriends spurred me on to continue writing reviews and expressing my opinions.

I wouldn’t describe my blog as a ‘book blog.’ In fact, I would feel hard pressed to pick a subject it focuses primarily on nowadays. I think ‘Not in the Pink’ lives up to its name – being not entirely sane. It’s a blog filled with scattered bits and pieces from a girl waiting to follow her dreams.

My new blog is something that’ll focus on my passions (books, films, politics, languages, etc.) but will also chronicle the first steps in my new life: As a teacher of EFL in a strange and foreign land.

In a way, blogging for nearly two years has helped me get to this place in my life. People who write blogs automatically give you access to their opinions and facts about the things that affect their lives. From blogging, I’ve read about the different ways people live around the world and that you can reach for something that seems impossible. (As cheesy as it sounds.)

Blogging’s a big part of who I am and I can’t imagine giving it up any time soon. Sorry, interweb. I’m here to stay.