This has been on my mind for many months now and I believe it’s time to act on it. By “it” I mean my desire to disable comments on my blog posts. What brought this whole thing up in the first place was Jane Aldridge‘s post back in November when she disabled comments on her own blog. Here’s an excerpt:

“Comments aren’t necessary. The only reason I started this blog was to share my passion for clothing, and I’d like to keep doing that for a very long time..and I can do it just fine without any comments…maybe I’ll turn them on later, maybe not. It makes no difference to me.”

My reason to start this blog is different from Jane’s. My reason: Because I was never good at writing in a diary or journal.

It’s true. I don’t know what it was about them, but I could never commit myself to write inside a diary, even when I was little. So since those never worked out for me and seeing as I felt this great need, this urge to document my “journey through life” in some form or another, I resorted to blogging instead. Considering the amount of hours I spent online back when I was 14 or 15 (the age I first started blogging), it was really a no-brainer.

Now that that history lesson’s over, on to why I’ve decided to disable comments!

I don’t know about you, but I blog for me, not to get comments. I do it so that in the future, I can look back at my old posts and laugh at my silly 16-year-old self. So that I can remember the things that’s happened to me. So that I can unload some of the pictures rotting inside my hard drive.
I don’t want people to comment on my posts just so I can go visit their site and comment on theirs. I comment on other people’s blogs because I find their post interesting, not simply because they commented on mine. I hope people feel that way about my blog too; that they visit because they find it interesting, and not because they can gain more hits for their site.

I think the whole blogging community shouldn’t work this way. I commented on your blog, so now go visit mine and comment! It just makes for those short, quick, I-wasted-a-second-of-my-life-reading-this comments like, “Thanks for visiting my blog! Glad you had a great time at the park!” As I said before, this blog is my own little online journal. Journals don’t have a commenting page do they? So why should mine have one? And if anyone needed to contact me, they can just e-mail me anyway, so what’s the point?

Having said that, I will allow comments on future posts that require a stranger’s input, like if I were wondering where the best place was to get a falafel here in Toronto…or something.
One last thing—for those blogs I adore and often comment on, thank me for I have saved you from having to return yet another comment! Hooray!

Remember that Fred Flare gift certificate I won? Last month I decided to use it to purchase some accessories that would go well with my semi-formals dress. But unfortunately, it didn’t get delivered in time for the dance.
Instead, it was delivered last Wednesday. That would mean I waited 4 weeks for my package to get delivered! I found that absolutely absurd because all the purchases my friends made from Fred Flare arrived in less than a week, whereas mine took a month!
I don’t blame Fred Flare though—I think it was Canada Post’s fault + the snowstorms in the states.

But what a bad first-time-online-shopping experience that was! Makes me feel reluctant to buy merch online the next time…

Actually, not really. I want to buy too many things online to care how long it takes to arrive. I JUST WANT THE STUFF, OK?
Soooo, I guess I should just be glad my package arrived safe, right? RIGHT. *PHEW*

And now, on to the feature presentation: the picspam!!!

What I ended up getting: Inés Sunglasses ($11), Singing Sparrow Necklace ($14), Cat’s Meow Cocktail Ring ($3), aaaaand of course, the Grey UrbanEars Classic Cool Headphones ($68):

I must say, wearing the sunglasses + headphones combo is perfect for winter It keeps my ears warm and prevents snow from flicking into my eyes, so now I don’t have to squint

For the sake of being random, here is a photo of the little key-chain my older sister bought me during her trip to Cancun, Mexico (she’s the one I stole this DSLR from ):

This is neat. An application called MousePath tracks the movement of your cursor. The dots signify periods of inactivity and the lines are where your cursor goes.

You can download it here (for PC) or here (for MAC). Just run it and leave it in the background while you do your usual online routine. Press 'S' to save and 'R' to restart.

Here's mine from 2:45pm to 5pm today:

Notice how my cursor doesn't really go to the right side of the screen? That's because I don't use the scroll bar much—most of the time I just press the Pg Up and Pg Down button on my keyboard or use my mouse wheel. Also the top-right corner looks really dark because I'm always clicking and switching to new tabs on Firefox. hehehehe

Oh and that huge dot in the center? That was when I had my bathroom break..

PS. For those who follow through my RSS feed, sorry for all the problems! I didn't realize the posts redirected to my old layout—but it's fixed now. Sorry for bombarding you with "unread" posts