A Year of Songs Stuck in my Head

A year ago today I created my first blog post ever.  I mostly started this blog because, first of all, I have music going through my head all the time, and second of all, because I was starting to feel worn down from parenting 4 young children.  I needed a creative outlet and being mostly stuck in the home it seemed like an interesting idea.

A year later, I've had nearly 9,000 visits to this site.  Traffic has slowed in the last few months.  Partly because I haven't written as much, and partly because I've felt uninspired and the quality (not that any were THAT good to begin with) of the posts has gone down.  Also, I used to promote   new posts regularly on Facebook and Twitter.  I've decided to do that less frequently because I figure if people are interested in the blog they would be following already.  

Anyway, 9,000 visits... not incredible, but much more than I thought possible!

Here are some posts that I was proud of from the year.  I realize even having a blog is a pretentious and indulgent thing to do.  And now I'm one upping that by saying, hey, look how funny I am over the last year and check out the best of the best.  With little shame, I'm doing this anyway: 

Folding Chair

The kids and I sing a song by Regina Spektor

or this Gem....

Sam's Town

My wife indulges me by using her powerful opera voice to sing a popular song by The Killers

Going Through The Motions

How to make your day less mundane

Why Does it Always Rain on me

A story about my first experience in a foreign country

Be Prepared and ABC

When I pooped my pants at scout camp and When I wet my pants in elementary school

And my personal favorite:

All The Rowboats

That one time I was "sponsored" by a real company

I plan to keep blogging but I need to change a few things.  

To start off, I am going to blog weekly instead of every other day.  I liked the idea of making it a daily blog so that a vast array of music could be talked about.  I'm feeling burnt out a bit, so weekly I think is better, and I'm sure you do too.  

I like the challenge of having to blog about a song that my subconscious magically put into my head in the morning.  Ever since my days of playing Dungeons and Dragons with all kinds of multi-sided dice, I've been obsessed with the idea of something random happening.  

That being said, I will be writing about the song that plays in my head on Wednesday mornings.  Then, I will work throughout the week on one blog post about that song to have it posted by Tuesday the following week.  By doing this, I hope to accomplish the following:

-Better blog posts, quality over quantity.  

-Give myself more time to focus on things that are important in my life (i.e. not this blog)

-Hopefully find time to learn to play the song and perform it more on this blog.  

-Challenge myself both creatively and musically to make a really entertaining blog for all to enjoy.  

Also, for your information, I'm gonna stop obsessing so much over how many people have come to visit my blog.  As the numbers of visits started going down, I found myself feeling insecure.  I know, an irrational thought, as if people only liked others based on the quality of their blog posts, right?

Peace my brothers.

Brady