Blogging treatise, crisis, and suggestions

I was going to post something else today but 

I feel rather deflated and am feeling a bit flat.

I just experienced my second blogging casualty.

Before I started blogging myself, one of my favorite blogs Decorno stopped without any warning at all.

She was the one blog I faithfully followed before I found the bloggers who I read now.

 I didn't understand how blogs worked so I didn't know clicking on the profile might lead to a blog or highlighted words were linked else where etc.  

Total blogging ding dong I was.

Half the enjoyment I get from blogging has been discovering so many blogs I didn't know existed!

I have enjoyed "meeting" so many people I would not have otherwise met.

As we get older, most people do fall into a routine and naturally fall back onto their own rhythm.

I love being able to go and visit, chat with people, and learn little tidbits about all sorts of subjects from all over the world without ever having to get in a cab in traffic to socialize.

There have been times even before and now still where I question myself blogging.

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Even after I started and my stats were nil, I still plodded on as I found writing things down so therapeutic a la the artist's way.  

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I still find it fun and is a rewarding hobby.  
But there are times when I am conflicted and do hesitate hitting that publish button. It isn't I am afraid people won't like me.  
I think most of us know we can't please everyone.

Mainly, it is for fear I might offend someone or somebody might misinterpret my sense of humour.  A lot of jest is accompanied by facial gesture or understanding the context of a person's relationship with a subject that add or negate to humour.  
May I just say now that I would never intentionally try to hurt anyone! 
I can be a bitch but just not in that way...

It was also a personal challenge to intertwine my split personality of introverted tendencies that is offset by extroverted roots through blogging.

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I am still trying to reconcile and balance my bipolar outgoing and at times shy personality.

So I could empathize yet it was such a jolt to me when one of my favourite bloggers of Bourbon and Pearls announced her retirement.

Via BourbonandPearlsblogspot.com

She is someone who could be considered the Scottish modern day Dorothy Parker as she could etymologically ponder about something as mundane as toothpaste and make it riveting.

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I had an interweb hissy fit.

I felt as if Tabitha, the writer of Bourbon and Pearls was breaking up with me and the rest of us.  
Basically she said, It's not you, it's me...  
She has promised to visit but in the moment I was so sad.

I will have you know that I have been dumped twice in my life.

First time was by a nice Jewish boy who said he could never marry a half Korean, half Australian agnostic inclined lapsed Catholic. 

He now is unfaithfully and unhappily married to a fellow Jewish girl according to rumours.

The second person to have dared dumped me is my current husband.

Both have suffered terribly from their actions...;P

So while this won't be a legally binding agreement in any court of law may I please request to all the bloggers I follow that if you ever do decide to stop writing to please give us all at least a month warning to get used to the idea?

I do know that a lot of us follow a few overlapping blogs but as there is a huge weekly gap to fill due to Tabitha's departure, I would love to know any blogs or websites you read that you may not have on your blogroll or just assume that the rest of us know?  

I love to read and I think most of you do too so it would be great

 if you shared any links.

I wish Tabitha all the best and will miss her musings and hope for her eventual comeback however sporadic if she chooses.

While I am at it, I want to not only thank her for her past bons mots but also all the other bloggers whom I do so enjoy.