A couple of weeks ago, I was dropping one of my friends off in Brooklyn. As they’ll be moving upstate soon, her family moved out of their old home in Queens and are temporarily living with relatives.
Since we were passing through her old neighborhood, we decided to stop by her old home. She’d missed out on giving a final goodbye because of exams the week before. We grabbed coffee from Dunkin Donuts and parked in the driveway.
It’s amazing how much of a blessing it is to have good friends. For about a year now, I’ve been slowly trying to get back into the habit of spending time with friends while balancing it out with schoolwork. It has worked out for the most part. There’s just something about being around people who genuinely care about you. It’s got somewhat of a stress relieving effect.
Reminiscing about things that seem to have happened only yesterday is always nice. You look back at the little things and realize they had the most significant impact on your life.
It’s truly amazing where life takes you over the course of a couple of months. I feel like I’ve changed quite a bit. Not for the worse but rather in good ways. I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to cross paths with many people from different walks of life. This has benefited me greatly. I think I’ll write about how people have impacted me in a future post.
I miss blogging. It used to be my escape when I had no one to go to. This was back in the day when Blogger had just become a part of Google. I would blog several times a day. That was pretty fun.
I used to try and promote myself as much as I could. I left the blog open on a few Macs at the Apple Store in SoHo. (Back when it was just “the Apple Store.”) I even printed myself some business cards on my printer. I didn’t care who read, I just wanted readers.
These days, I rarely blog. Hell, I don’t even tweet as much as I used to. Not sure what happened. Maybe it’s because my laptop is so slow that I don’t like doing anything on it. My iPhone isn’t very comfortable to write long pieces on. I’m typing this out on my iPhone, though.
Also, I don’t know what to write about anymore. Back in 7th grade, I would write about everything. I’m slightly hesitant now about publishing every detail of my life online. Possibly a side effect of Facebook.
Maybe I’ll blog more. I used to redesign or at least tweak my blog every once in a while. Not sure what happened to that. I guess I should get back into it. God knows if I remember much HTML or CSS anymore.
With that, I’ll finish off by stating that I should really be studying for finals. Guess I’ll head to bed so I can wake up and study in the morning/afternoon.
Quite honestly, I don’t remember when I stopped blogging. Well, stopped writing for Cafenut. I think at some point, I began to post things over at cafenut.tumblr.com instead of this site. Possibly because I had a feeling I wouldn’t be able to afford a renewal at the time. Last night, I decided to pull things together and resurrect the website.
After paying a few fees and working out some issues with Dreamhost, I was able to get the site up and running. I was afraid I might’ve given up on Cafenut and deleted the entire site. Fortunately, I had three backups saved on my laptop.
I was a little reluctant to keep up my old posts because I might’ve had things that would embarrass me now. But honestly, I could care less. Those old posts help me see what’s changed about myself and what’s still the same.
I’m not sure how frequently I’ll be writing here because I’m usually tweeting these days. Twitter has changed the way I blog. I think my early posts from Blogger (circa 2004-2005) are similar to what I’m usually posting on Twitter now. I’m still considering whether or not I should make my Twitter feed public again.
Anyway, this blog needs an overhaul. I think I’ll be working on improving my writing. I don’t have the time to focus on the layout of the site or anything. We’ll see where things go.
