Some Things Change, Some Stay The Same...

(Bet you have a certain song playing in your head now...)

One of the advantages of having a blog is that you can check back every few years and wonder what the heck you were thinking! :)

A couple Google searches recently landed on back-pages I wrote ages ago, from a completely different head-space. They may have found what they were looking for, but if they asked me the same things today, in many cases my anwers would be dimetrically opposite. I followed a few of the search links to see what posts they'd turned up, and found a few things:

* I used to be very religiously judgemental. I also used to be "fervent", unable to understand why folk wouldn't choose to be fully involved in a church. My, how things have changed!

* I've made a lot of plans in the past - and very few of them have actually happened. I think it's called "casting about" for direction...? :)

* Photography has been big on this blog for ages. Posting pics is still part of what I do - nearly all mine.

* I think I may have grown up. Just a little. Still got a long way to go most days.

* My blog theme/look hasn't changed in 3 years! Eish... Time to get that CSS knowledge under the belt and get me a unique look. I think I've kept it this way because it didn't take a lot of effort to code or update, and I like the header image.

* Blog links come and go - perhaps as my interests wane and wax. At least I'm using Blogrolling now instead of hand-coding them!

* I should probably back up the blog again soon... just in case. That's a whole lot of words there, and although much of it is the usual ramblings, I wouldn't want to have to start from scratch again.

* I'm a lot more confident in putting my words out there than I was 3 years ago. I no longer try to please everyone, but simply write for me. OK, not entirely accurate - sometimes knowing who is reading determines how I phrase things, but generally I speak my mind. And I no longer panic when people I know read my blog. In fact, it's linked at the bottom of all my Gmails, along with my Flickr page.

3 year blogversary is coming up later this month. Perhaps I should celebrate it by posting a few Blasts from the Past? :)