Today, Seafoam is three years old! Sorry, Seafoam, no more free admission to Disneyland for you!

I had begun writing online before this version of Seafoam, but didn't start this particular site until just after my first JournalCon, in San Francisco. Speaking of which, in just 3 weeks, I'm about to attend my 3rd JournalCon, in San Diego. Wow, lots of threes! And 3 is my lucky number - this can only mean good things!

I expect that going to JournalCon again will either make me feel more enthralled with the whole online journalling extravaganza, or it will make me feel more confused about why I write online at all, which is something I've been contemplating lately. I mean, I'm not sure, exactly. Do any of us really know why we write online? I know it's fun, but why? What makes it so appealing?

I like writing for my friends and family. I like that they can keep up with the events in my life through my website. So why not only write for them, rather than online for absolutely anyone to see? I guess one reason is I like hoping that some random cool person (or people) will read my site and decide to write me and maybe a new friendship will form. That has happened exactly once in three years, but the fact that it happened at all is so amazingly cool! And that to me is a big reason to keep writing online - the potential connections with others.

One thing that sort of sucks is that I thought writing online this long might make me feel like I've improved my writing skills. But, I don't really feel that it has. Maybe I'll work on that, on developing more of a sense of style. Or maybe I just need to experiment with writing stuff just for me, offline. I'm not sure.

Sometimes I like Seafoam just the way it is, and sometimes I feel like maybe it should be more, or different, somehow. And sometimes I wonder if it should even be at all...

But I guess the bottom line is that for some inexplicable reason, writing online is a pretty fun hobby. I enjoy it, and more than likely, I'll keep doing it for a while. The way I see it, everyone has a story to tell. And god knows I love hearing other peoples' stories and learning about life by seeing it through someone else's eyes. I just hope maybe people can get that out of my site, too.

Three years! That's so weird. I guess I'll continue to see where this writing road takes me, and just enjoy the scenery along the way.