Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Polyvore, Pinterest and Procrastination

This edition is all about my three favorite P's. 


Polyvore, Pinterest and  Procrastination.
(the first two are excellent ways to accomplish the third.)

If you haven't heard, there is a wonderful new way to waste your time and make collections of stuff you love. It is called Pinterest. The best new little time-waster on the internet. Polyvore, like Pinterest is an excellent time waster, only on Polyvore, you make collections of clothes, housewares, architecture and such and can then post them to Pinterest.

I am a self professed Pinterest addict! I can't get enough of pinning fabulous things, ideas and recipes to my many pinboards. Pinterest is not only a fabulous place to create fabulous collections, but it is a fabulous waste of time. While on pinterest I can collect hoards and hoards of wonderful things to create while also collecting wonderful recipes I would love to create, but without ever creating anything, or making progress on any projects. If my closet, or my craft room were anything like they are on pinterest I would be a very happy girl.

That brings me to the next P. Polyvore.  I stumbled upon Polyvore while pinning on Pinterest. (See, my three favorite P's are all connected in a gigantic web of fabulously wasted time.) Polyvore is magnificent. I can create outfits, and collections of outfits, or things I would want to wear and pretend that my closet is vast and expansive when in reality it is not. I love Polyvore.

Finally Procrastination. This has always been a favored pastime. I have spent many hours in the pursuit of procrastination perfection, and I will admit that I am an expert in the subtle art that is procrastination. It takes time to master the craft of procrastination. It also takes time to master the craft of catching up and accomplishing the task you were using procrastination to avoid. I have never let a task fail because of my procrastination, but instead I get the task done, while also finding wonderful new ways of wasting time.

As we speak I am procrastinating. I'll bet you thought I actually sat down to write this post. That my friends, would be wrong. I sat down because I have homework to write, things to read, and online classes to pay attention to, but after having spent a few hours already today on both Pinterest and Polyvore, and now writing not one, but TWO blog entries, I have successfully wasted much of this wonderful wednesday on procrastination.

Are you listening?

IS anybody out there listening?

I often sit down to write a blog and begin rambling about one more unimportant thing that is happening in my life. One more inconsequential occurrence. And while I write, I often wonder if there is anyone out there listening. Is anyone listening to what I have to say? Does anyone read this? Do my words make sense, or matter in the scheme of things? The truth is that it doesn't really matter if my words matter. This blog began as a therapeutic outlet for my feelings. Thoughts and feelings I keep to myself and don't usually allow people to read. I know that sometimes this blog is rant-y and rave-y and pages and pages of complaints, but I have no one else to complain to. No one else who takes my complaints as more than just blowing steam.

Recently my only reader left the blog world because she felt it was the best thing to do for her career. At least, I assume she was my only reader. She was the only one who ever left me any feedback. The only one who ever read these things.

This might sound silly. If I write this blog as a release outlet, then why would I care is anyone read it. It's simple, I care because whats the point of a blog if I don't have readers. I write because it is therapeutic, but I also write because I want to interest people, I want to be the writer people want to hear from, to be the writer people come to for entertainment, the writer people care to hear from. I fear that the path I have chosen for writing is not any of those things, but instead puts people off because of the whiney nature of the posts I have created. If anyone is reading this, please don't hesitate to let me know. As it is, a journal would serve the same purpose. A journal would be more personal, but I have been thinking it might be a possible solution

Thoughts?