Like many millennials, my first endeavor with the internet came as I was in my middle Teens and my introduction to blogging was through the amazing LiveJournal. I used to blog about the mundane everyday life of a teenage girl – with witchy inklings and just dipping her toes into the online social life that would consume her. I still have a friend on social media from my LiveJournal days. Shes outlasted my high school friends whom im drifted away from and while it’s very much a passive relationship where I just cheerleader celebrate whenever she decides to post, it’s still heart warming to have a friend I’ve known more than half my life. Livejournal was where I developed pseudonyms for my friends and learned who I was. I really poured my heart out into my blog posts as a teen and early 20-something, and loved the friends I made along the way and the Fandoms i got into in that time period. My very first spoilers for TV shows were from LJ (I’m looking at you, Buffy, and learning Tara was going to die that week….) I really got to know my teenaged self through LJ and I miss it, I have to admit. It was such a big part of my life and when I had my oldest daughter I let my LJ fall off to the wayside and never really got back into blogging the same way ever again. I dont even remember my username anymore. Long past are the days of daily blogging but maybe that’s why im still drawn to it. Maybe writing and documenting is just in my blood.