Christmas & today & Tumblr woes

It seemed to happen so fast this year!  Last week, I actually sent out cards...a big accomplishment, for me.  Then Saturday evening was Lessons & Carols candlelight service at our church.  I sang so much I almost lost my voice.  :)  My sister and I also played some carols on violin & cello.  And yesterday we went to my uncle & aunt's house for dinner, which was fantastic as always.

My family (sorry, Santa) got me some lovely gifts, too: Jackie Evancho Heavenly Christmas CD, Three Tenors Christmas CD, Starbucks, iTunes, Sailing Ships calendar, pajamas, piano sheet music...  I've been having a blast with the sheet music--The Best of Ludovico Einaudi, 120+ pages of elegant, Einaudi epicness.  And though it stays true to the originals, it's the perfect combination of easy & challenging for me.  I played through all of "Password" this morning and had a thoroughly good time.  :)

Today I also got a Tumblr account, but I'm probably going to delete it.  I liked it at first--the layout & formatting is very nice.  But the more I use it, the less I like it.  Blogger is much more intuitive and less fast-paced.  Case in point:  I posted a picture about an hour ago, and within that time, it's received 2 likes and 3 reblogs.  And those numbers keep going up as I'm typing this post, literally.  And I only signed up this afternoon.  O_o

I find the reblog system irksome.  As far as I know, it cannot be turned off (let me know if I'm wrong!), and there isn't any filter for content or even similar interests.  So if somebody reblogs your post, your post automatically links to their blog.  This presents a problem for me, because I always try to avoid linking to any sites with offensive language, content, etc.  Tumblr makes that virtually impossible, unless I were to spend all day weeding through the reblogs.  Obviously, in "the real world," people use offensive language all the time.  But when I come home and log into my blog, I like to escape from the negative vibes (and keep my blog family-friendly).

Anyway, I think the reblog feature is cool--a great way to share artwork and pictures--but I don't like the way it works.  Ideally, it would be like YouTube where it says "3 likes" and leave it at that.  If it ever becomes customizable like that, I may start blogging at Tumblr again.  For now, though, I still have my "Tumblr-esque" blog: chaconne.

Update:  Certain Tumblr themes allow you to hide the notes/likes.  That helps, kind of.