I've been thinkin about bloggin...
I used to laugh at people who post to blogs--it seemed like mental masturbation to me. Then it seemed like the more I laughed, the more fascinated I became with doin "it". Blogging, that is. I kinda envied those who thought they had something to say that someone out there in the wide wide world would be interested in enough to read and maybe, just maybe respond to. One of the things I love about the Web is that the little people like you and me can have an instant publishing experience. I built a web site and sent it up to the server and 600 people a week were going to it in no time. And then, over time, one of my frustrations was that I didn't know who all these people were, I couldn't get feedback from them. I wanted to know what they thought, I wanted to know what they were looking for and if they found what they were looking for.
I'm a Marriage and Family Therapist in CA and I love interacting with people on the Internet. I spent about a year dating men I'd met on the internet and that was a very interesting period--ended up with meeting the best man I've ever been in a relationship with and we live together, have been for 29 months now. I've got plenty to tell people who want pointers about internet dating. I think it changes the whole playing field of dating. Would you dare?
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Another part of my life as a psychotherapist is that I work on a suicide crisis hotline that is available 7/24. I work tonight from 8 PM to 8 AM, so that's one reason I have time to do this in between calls, of course. I have been working on this hotline for almost 6 years, most of the time I worked 3 12 hour shifts a week, overnights. Actually, it worked out well as long as I wasn't in a relationship, but when I began living with my Honey, he would be leaving for work just before I would get home so I wouldn't see him for 3 days. I hated that!! Now I only work one overnight. I am still working 2 other 12-hour shifts, but they are spread out over the week, including all day Sundays, 8 AM to 8 PM. Having this schedule gives me time to have my private practice, build web sites, do my video interviews of people who want to make sense out of their life.
My children (2 daughters) are grown so I have time to really focus on developing my own interests and that's a totally fun thing to do. I can see this could get to be fun. As any masturbation can be...:-) more later.
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