I'm finally ready to do this.
My first xanga entry was in December of 2004. http://leahktutu.xanga.com/179727570/item/
Since then I have made 793 posts. So, this will make post 795 in Leahktutu's xanga.
If you look at my archives you will see there is a gap from July 2007 to August of 2010. This was my dark period. I was also missing from Facebook for part of that time. My phone records were pretty sparse then, as well. I was in a depression and I was closed off from almost all other human beings. While I was away, everyone left xanga. Of the people on my friends list only one was still posting. I did not even know him in real life, and he has since disappeared. I was perfectly happy posting almost everyday to no footprints. I poured all the pent up thoughts and words I hadn't expressed over the previous years in a safe place. I have always written journals. I keep them. I re-read them. Just like I re-read books. I've read through my xanga archives a couple of times. I have a tendency to visit certain posts. Mostly my "leah writes" tags.
When I read The Xanga Team's post about the possible dissolving of my blog, I was not happy. Xanga and I have had our moments. I get upset when things change. Like the theme stuff. It took me a while to figure out the new stuff and it seems to be less individualized than it used to be. I also miss the song database that I used to be able to link to to play music for my visitors. Then I had all kinds of issues with the audio blog and the video blog. BUT! Xanga is definitely the place for me. The blogging experience gives me exactly what I want. I can stay hidden and have people read my blog at the same time. It's extremely personal, and I feel like the other bloggers are real people. And, I often find out that they are actually real people. I still don't know if they are going to reach their fundraising goal. I really couldn't afford the member fee. I was prepared to download all my archives print them and turn my xanga into a few journals. Of course, I will have to do this if xanga closes. BUT!!!!! Now the awesome part!!
I got the best news earlier! I received a message that I was the winner of the free year's subscription of xanga 2.0!!!! You see, @Marica0701 had a fundraiser on her Etsy. And it happened to fall on the week of my daughter's birthday. I bought Luci a purple dream catcher to put beside her bed, and entered in the contest. YAY!!! This is amazing! My only problem now is if @hangingbyamoment isn't on xanga 2.0 I will be very sad.
I was going to be a lost xangan, and now I am saved! woohoo!
Leah K.
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