There she goes again...

It was innocent enough. I whipped out my camera to lengthen the life of this certain piece of cheesecake. My friend, who I love dearly, exclaimed, "There she goes again, documenting every aspect of her life..."

I was a bit stunned. I shook off the shock long enough to polish off this monstrosity in a nano second, but the statement came back to me on the way home.

And because I think too much, many times after that too.

Why do I feel the need to document everything? Or, simpler still, why do I need to blog? As I logged into my most favorite message board, there was the question again. In black and white. "Why do you blog?" Goodness people, enough already.

So I've been thinking about these questions. And other things you really don't want to hear about right now. I guess bullet points would be most helpful here.

• I blog so I won't forget things. When I need to remember things that have happened, or when things have happened, I can just look it up. Even now, I look back and say, "I've already forgotten about that!" Especially those sleep deprived months years.

• I blog because I outwardly process. Ask Allen. Or Jennifer. I need to hear it or see it before I can truly process something. I have no idea why. I'm sure it's a sign of something that's horrible deficient mentally or something like that.
  

• Honestly, I think the artistic, weird part of me likes to create. I love to make things. I just don't have the time to do the crafty things that I want to. I love to knit, sew, scrapbook-things like that. I did scrapbook one afternoon last week, but I can't do that stuff as much as I want to. I guess this is a small form of artistic expression.
  

• I like to document where I've been in my life and see from where God has brought me. See how I've grown, what I've learned. And what I was thinking. Totally selfish. Purely indulgent.
  

• I can complete something. In my life, things are rarely completed. I'm cleaning one room and the other room is falling apart. The kitchen stays clean for one hour tops. At least I can start and finish a post in one sitting. Most of the time. Some times. Okay, that point really doesn't work for this. Never mind.

• I take pictures of everything. I even bought a second camera so I could take it everywhere and take pictures of everything. I think that's the scrapbooker in me. We have to take pictures of random stuff so that we will never run out of things to scrapbook. I really am in danger of that happening. I am currently working on Jude's baby book. I may run out of stuff to scrap soon. I'm really so glad I took 1,000 pictures this summer. Whew. Disaster averted.
  

So there you go. That's why I blog. I guess. Maybe there is no reason. Maybe I'm just weird like that.