We went to see Julie & Julia on Monday night (I needed to reset my brain after having a complete and total meltdown that lasted most of the day) and I have to say that I loved it.  LOVED it.  It was an absolutely charming movie and, like most of the reviews I have read, I would kind of like Nora Ephron to write a biopic of Julia Child’s life and cast Meryl Streep in the role because seriously?  She was fantastic.

The other thing about watching the movie that I loved was that it sort of re-inspired me to blog.  It is no secret that I’ve been scarce around these parts lately what with working like crazy to pay the rent and the bills and taking care of all of the last minute wedding details.  But watching this movie made me remember a little bit why I blog: to put myself out there, to be read (and, lets face it, judged) and to have this little piece of internet real estate that is just for me.  And I won’t lie, since watching the movie I’ve been trolling around the internet looking for different types of blogging platforms, trying to figure out my next step and how to take my blog to the next level.  So when I got the chance to do a review of Thoughts.com’s blogs site I jumped for it.

Thoughts.com looks like it is supposed to be a sort of facebook-meets-regular-blogging kind of platform.  It is meant as a social media site on which users can post blog posts and interact with each other in a safe and “one love” protected environment.  One Love is the company’s philosophy of treating other users with kindness and not trying to pick fights or be too judgmental when commenting on someone’s post.  In addition to blog posts, users can upload photos and videos much like other social media platforms.  They can add friends and receive updates about those friends when they log in.  It looks like it is trying to merge blogging and other forms of social media into one neat little package and I admire the effort.

Some of you might like the idea of keeping everything in one place but I kind of like having separate things for separate areas of my life.  Facebook and Myspace are 99% made up of people I know in real life already in some form.  Twitter, on the other hand is more about my blogging world (though I did just follow Will’s sister today.  Hi Will’s sister!) and while I know that there are people in my three dimensional world who read my blog, I kind of like keeping the two crowds mostly separate for now.

Still, as far as blogging platforms go, Thoughts.com looks like it is on the right track.

Meanwhile, I get to jump right back into work and affix my nose firmly to a grindstone so that I can get our rent paid on time.