Nightime Nothings: Reveling in Relevance

Look at me, I’m posting twice in one day.  What on Earth is going on here?  Maybe just once I’m caught up, and I left Bart and Lucy downstairs, watching the Hogs play Texas on ESPN2.  I stayed down there for one half, but I’m not a big basketball person, and I thought that it would be more relaxing to come upstairs where I could listen to some music.  It’s a little difficult to think of anything much at all when Bart has the surround sound blaring, and the child is competing for attention with my Macbook.

So, here I am upstairs, getting a little piece, and I can’t seem to get started on a particular thought once again. I think I may need to find some brainstorming ideas or something because apparently my brain just isn’t storming on its own anymore. Rachel made a comment on my last post about drafts losing relevance by the time we have time to finish them, and it made me wonder what exactly is relevance? What makes one subject more relevant today and not tomorrow? Well, I guess it’s a little late for my eulogy of 2008 and speculation on what 2009 will bring. So those things are no longer relevant.

What I do think is relevant is that the few of us who read my blog have a great deal in common. We’re all in either our mid/late twenties to very early thirties, and we’re dealing with some of the same issues. Most of you I’ve never really met in person, but by the LMM forum, and one friend is a good friend I’ve become good friends with through our husbands. It’s amazing how we have met, but that doesn’t matter because God puts people together at certain times for reason. How many of us are going through some of the same things from dealing with these still early years of adulthood and marriage, trying to conceive, coping when things happen after conception, becoming new mothers (at least for Louise, someone I look up to a great deal), dealing with issues from in laws, to dealing with home and work, and so many other things that I think could be very overwhelming if I had no outlet to share them with nor friends who sympathize because they understand.

I’ve been considering shutting down the LMM forum because it’s not active at all. In fact, the first post I’ve made there in weeks was to ask what everyone would think if I did shut it down. I think our interests have expanded past what initially brought us there, but I don’t want to lose the friendships I’ve made there. To me, the friendships I’ve made through it are more relevant than the fanfictions we’ve written over the years. I guess that’s what has been on my mind, at least a little bit.