Labor Day

I don't remember the last time I blogged about my favorite holidays. I am sure I have in the past, but in honor of today, I will once again drop my top 5 on you. They are my favorites for various reasons, but not the greatest, but my rationale covers it. (That probably doesn't make sense in your head, but I know what I'm blogging)

5) Labor Day - It is always nice for the kids to get a day off right after school starts, and the consistency of it being the first Monday of EVERY September helps me not forget it. (That is a common theme among most of my favorite holidays) I also usually throw a pretty sweet cookout on LD also. 
4) Easter - This is a true holiday I am grateful for and is worthy to be on the list. Many people might think it should be first, but this is my list and my  reasons have little to do with the reason for the holiday and more to do with the day itself. Every Easter, my daughters get together with their cousins for a HUGE Easter Egg hunt. (Very spiritual) It is a fun time for the whole family.
3) Memorial Day - To me, Memorial Day is the Labor Day of the spring. It is almost the kickoff of summer and I LOVE summer. I cookout every Memorial Day and truly am excited for it.
2) Thanksgiving - TG used to be my favorite for years and years. AMAZING food, the Dallas Cowboys and a long weekend. I enjoy getting together with my whole family the day after TG at my house each year also. It is a tradition my wife and I started after we moved to Valpo. Such a great day! 
1) Fourth of July - Independence Day took the title this past year. I have always enjoyed the fun of the day, the warmth of the middle of summer, the food and fireworks. However, the past 2 years I've begun putting a LARGE fireworks show on for our church and that has moved this bad boy to #1.

So there you have it. Not deep or incredible, but a little insight on my thoughts and favorites. No intention of spiritual breakdown or respect of the day, otherwise Christmas, Veterans Day and St. Patty's would have made the cut. President's Day used to be in there too, but it's too commercialized now.

We shall see, we shall see.

I have decided for the tenth or eleventh time I will attempt to blog. Back in the previous decade I was a blogger of lore on MySpace. I would blog weekly with a decent group of readers (over 100) and we had a nice little community. Then Facebook hit and MySpace started dying. I don't hate Facebook for killing MySpace I hate Facebook for all kinds of reasons. It's in my earlier blog here. As my time at MySpace wore thin my blogging came an end as well. MySpace was my ego filler. I truly blogged waaaayyyy too much about myself and fed my ego to an enormous size. I eventually turned my blogs into a 1 copy book that is over 400 pages long. It is a beast. I guess it is like a public diary or journal. I enjoyed it greatly, but when it came time to part with MySpace, my heart never really bought back into blogging. Also the fact my readership dropped by 95% when I entered the indie blog circuit. I also missed the feedback. So here I return with another attempt to restart my blog. It will probably last a month or two and then fall off the planet. My conflict has been, do I blog for myself or others. That has a huge influence on my content. We shall see, we shall see.

I know my twitter account is pretty goofy. @dougjusttweeted I did a self-invented tweetrun of about 10 or more tweets in a row for 20 minutes. It was fun, but was much more blog worthy than tweet worthy. I may have wiped out a bunch of my tweet followers after that, or they may love me even more. And again I say, we shall see we shall see.