You know that feeling when you have so much to say but your blog has been having a few days off at the health farm (ie getting fixed from the silly spammers that hacked it) and then when it comes back all shiny and clean, you forgot what you wanted to say? Funny that, because that’s exactly what happened to me!

The one thing I have remembered during this small hiatus that no one would have actually noticed (such is my random blogging nature) is how much I love and depend on my online life.

Even though I am not one of those diligent people that blog every day, I love my little place on the net, not so much the words on it but the community around it. I love what my blog has given me; I love the people that come to see what I’m thinking, those that hang out with me on Facebook and those who engage with me on Twitter.

I recently realised how bad I am at what the professionals would call “branding”. My blog and my Facebook page have the name Sharpest Pencil and my Instagram and Twitter have my real name, I am all over the place online much like I am in real life. But that doesn’t bother me, that’s not why I do it. Not for the brand, not for the numbers, not for the business but because I love the connections I have made.

I am absolutely shite at real life professional relationships, I am stubborn and pig-headed and I believe what I know very strongly. I’m much better working in my own space and attracting like-minded people that I can talk to as friends rather than colleagues. I am well suited to being a freelancer and consultant professionally and an avid social media fan personally because I get people like myself, I feel comfortable with my online world, I love people that I have never met.

I love the fact that last week I hosted a soiree for people that I had only met online. (Because I am a very non-professional blogger I took photos of the table settings rather than the people, but I think that speaks more about me than anything else.)

I love the fact that on Monday I took a photo of a dessert that I served and it ended up on 2Day FM’s Facebook page. That’s the click and buzz of social media.

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I love the fact that yesterday 9News used one of my tweets in an article about the great Facebook outage of 2015. That’s the power and high of talking online.

I love the immediacy of the internet, the online interaction and the range of opinions and views I can learn from (or slam, because really I am already quite opinionated) . I love the fact that I can talk to Marian Keyes or Caitlin Moran or a person I’ve never met or heard of just as easily as I can speak to my friends around the corner.

I love the fact that even though I am possibly the shyest person you will ever meet I have a voice here. I love that I get to share it online with you.