The sweet taste of freedom
I started my good, old knitting blog about a year and a half ago and didn't have a clue how much things would evolve over the course of time. I was moving to Japan so I wanted to start a blog to 1) keep in touch with my family and friends at home and 2) be able to show my mom (and anyone else who cared) what I am knitting. My brother, and I assumed others, didn't want to have to scroll through knitting to see what kind of "actual, interesting things" I was doing over here, and so two separate but closely linked blogs were born.
Fast forward a year and a half to the blogs' current state. I never would have guessed that I would "meet" and keep in touch with so many interesting (not-necessarily-knit)bloggers all around the world! I also find myself in a tightly-knit community of foreigners abroad, who know much too much about each others' business. More than once I have found myself in a social situation with people who I was meeting for the first or second time, and they bring up my knitting blog. How do they know!? I hate the fact that knowing about all these lurkers affected what I wrote on the blog, but it definitely did. How was I to know when some random person would bring up something personal I had written on my blog in real life? And so I started to censor what I wrote.
Especially lately, with all sorts of drama at work, I have been dreaming of a real, semi-anonymous knitblog that I can actually use for knitting and personal purposes without having to worry about what some co-workers or my grandparents might think if they happened to read any particular entry. I'm sure it will take me a long time to figure out Movable Type and all this fun stuff, but it's just the kind of thing that will hopefully keep me entertained at work during winter vacation. So change your links and tell anyone who cares, because I won't be updating my old blog anymore or posting any forwarding links.
Merry Christmas to me!
Comments
Oh, I can so relate, Molly! Thanks for sending me the link. :)
Posted by: Kerstin | December 20, 2005 10:05 PM
Yay! New blog for Molly! Congrats! I'm next....maybe...
Posted by: becky | December 20, 2005 10:17 PM
yes, merry xmas to you! congrats on your new blog!
Posted by: kris | December 20, 2005 10:40 PM
Merry Christmas to you indeed! I love your domain name!
Posted by: Carrie | December 20, 2005 10:43 PM
thanks for including me in your move. I will pay attention, as usual.
Merry Christmas!
Posted by: Melody Johnson | December 20, 2005 10:45 PM
Congratulations on your new home!
Posted by: Amy | December 20, 2005 10:47 PM
Congratulations on the move!
Knitblogging is actually weird in some ways. I'm always taken aback when even my sister mentions "oh, I knew that, I read it on your blog". Somehow there's a disconnect between what I write and people actually reading it, in many ways.
Posted by: Cassie | December 20, 2005 11:18 PM
Good for you! I'm excited to be "here".
Posted by: sarah b. | December 20, 2005 11:42 PM
Your secret's safe with me! ;-)
Posted by: Mom | December 20, 2005 11:51 PM
Welcome to your new blogging home. I can definitely understand and appreciate the need for a move. Enjoy!
Posted by: Annie | December 21, 2005 12:18 AM
yea! Merry Christmas and Merry new blog to you, Molly! Thanks for telling us where you are!
Posted by: megan | December 21, 2005 12:56 AM
how fun! a secret site :)
http://www.kottke.org/05/12/secret-sites
I have dreams of starting up a top secret lj where I can swear & talk politics to my heart's content.
Posted by: hillary | December 21, 2005 12:57 AM
Thanks so much foor inclusing me! I love your blog, I'm so glad I'll be able to keep reading it.
Great idea, btw. I should have a secret blog where I talk about boys.
Posted by: Anne Marie | December 21, 2005 01:11 AM
Merry Christmas and way to go! I too love the domain name. And the header. Hooray!
Posted by: Jenny | December 21, 2005 01:13 AM
I totally relate and feel exclusive for having the link! Love the new blog!
Posted by: Rebecca | December 21, 2005 01:35 AM
I can totally relate! Thank you for sending me your new link.
Dawn
Posted by: Dawn | December 21, 2005 05:34 AM
Ohh Thanks for the invite! Is this a secret bloggy? As in please don't link to it as Molly's Blog in my blog and populate the entire web with this link?
Should we refer to you as Tolly instead? Morry? ;)
Posted by: freecia | December 21, 2005 12:48 PM
Finally.. a "non-PC" weblog for the "rest of us!"
Posted by: Kevin! | December 22, 2005 01:24 PM
Thank you for the new link! And Merry Christmas!
Posted by: Julia | December 22, 2005 05:34 PM
Molly, thanks for e-mailing me about the new blog! Merry Christmas from Sweden! God Jul!
Posted by: Camilla | December 23, 2005 08:06 PM