A reflection on the nature of Veggie Carrie

On Monday, Veggie Hubby wrote a philosophical blog entry about the nature of his blog, and it has inspired me to write my own meta-analysis. I started writing my blog on the 18th February 2008, and since then have written over 100 posts. I decided to write a blog to because my mother started one about her French adventures, as a way of keeping in contact with her children. I didn't really know what I was going to write about, but thought I would give blogging a go. My first blog entry was a book review, but soon, encouraged by a little poll I conducted, I decided that it would be more interesting to write a diary-type blog, even though my life is fairly mundane. At the time, I didn't have a job, and neither did Veggie Hubby, so it gave us something to do. When we didn't have as much happening in our lives, we had more to blog about. Perhaps it is because I don't want to write about my job, even though I do a lot of interesting things there.

I also randomly discovered ShopGirl's blog soon after I started blogging. Her blog is such good read as she has such a positive attitude, I really enjoy reading it. I never really thought or intended to get to know someone via a blog, but I'm very glad that I have. I have found some other great blogs too since then, some of which are listed on my blog list. I am also really glad that Ms Cocoa occasionally posts pictures of her beautiful cupcakes, even though she seems to have recently gone missing as a co-author! Please come back Ms Cocoa. I think that Ms Cocoa must be too busy having Cuty Baby to take care of, and making too many cupcakes.

It is funny how other people find my blog too. My most popular blog entries seem to be those related to food, especially low fat carrot cake, which I have mentioned here before. Another very popular, more recent food-related entry is my one about the absolutely scrummy Quorn picnic eggs. My most popular blog entry among Australians and New Zealanders, and probably overall, is the blog entry about the fascinating but sickening Painted Babies documentary about American beauty pageants. It still astounds me how parents can dress their young children up like Barbie dolls, and exploit them for cash prizes.

I just want to finish by saying that occasionally I find blogging frustrating as I want to keep it as anonymous and uncontroversial as possible. Sometimes, I feel restricted by the constraints of my blog. Nevertheless, I enjoy writing my blog as it makes me reflect on my life, and perhaps motivates me to do more interesting things so that I can blog about them.