Getting Out Of The Blog Dumps
For about 4 months, or so, surrounding my Dad’s sickness and death – I was in the blog dumps. For the first time since this blog was born in January 2004. It was a combination of things, but even as...
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Getting Meta: About My About Me Page
I decided to update my “About Me” page relatively recently. Mainly because I wanted an excuse to post really awesome pictures of the teenage version of myself. Or maybe just because the old one came...
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Nevermind. Let Me Start Over.
I sit down many times and compose entire entries for the blog…only to delete them and start over. This morning I did one discussing whether other SAHMs feel guilty complaining about their job as a Mom...
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One of those boring entries ABOUT blogging. Feel free to move along if you’re...
Recently a someone asked me how I recommended they increase their traffic as, “My stats have only gone up, like 5% in the last year.” Heh. And you’re coming to me…WHY? I am constantly caught off guard...
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This Is What It Looks Like Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks
Another one of Wes’s “smiles” for a picture. Perfect for this entry, I do believe. Since I’ve been using WordPress…like for a millions years…to run my blog I’ve simply edited the same theme OVER and...
View ArticleMmmm…Shredded Cheese…
We have a BIG EVENT in the theater department tonight. It’s a performance and a BBQ dinner and I’ve been stressing about this for about a week. Not that there’s really much for me to do before today,...
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An Open Letter To ‘Popular’ Bloggers
I read several “popular” bloggers. I put you in the “popular” category when you get frequent attacks of hate. I never said “popular” was a good thing. I often feel like it’s a bad thing. I have only...
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How I Deal With Facebook
I went on a run to the rocket last night and I posted some pictures of that run, and of a friend who went with me, to Facebook. I can do that because I’ve made sure when I’ve accepted friend requests...
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Follow Me To The New RSS Party!
First off? We’re having internet issues in our house. This is why my presence here and everywhere else online has been a bit sporadic. I apologize for this. Without regular blogging my left eye starts...
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The Dreaded Facebook Page For My Blahg.
Here’s the thing about Facebook. I love it! And I use it all the time. I post life updates on Facebook that never even get mentioned here on my blog. But because it’s such a personal tool where I post...
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New Digs! That Look Almost The Same As The Old Digs!
EDITED TO ADD: EEK. I am really dumb. I didn’t export the theme settings (that last theme was a new one! didn’t know I could/should do that! that it worked the old school way!) so I’m totally re-doing...
View ArticleOh, Man. My Blog Brain Hurts.
So…just as soon as I get everything kinda how it was before on my blog migration…even kinda better if you consider how much unused baggage I left behind at the old host. I log in this morning and think...
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CHALLENGE: 24 Posts in 15 Days.
This is a screen grab of my dashboard TWO entries after this one. But…you get the point. Okay, peeps. Here’s the sitch. I just realized I have posted 4,975 posts on this here blog. Before THIS post,...
View Article4999 Posts. 100K+ Comments. Ten Years.
I started my blog some time in January of 2004 on Typepad. The specifics are unclear, but I know I immediately connected with Amy and we formed a small little tribe of bloggers early on that did weirdo...
View ArticleCommenting On Comments
(I stole that from the corporate entity known as Daily Grace. Not from the human Grace Helbig who you should subscribe to here.) So, there was a Twitter conversation started yesterday about commenting...
View ArticleUsing Social Media to ENGAGE, not just PROMOTE.
I don’t know if you remember the tutu fiasco that took over the world of runners a few weeks ago, but our local running group on Facebook decided to show our #tutusolidarity at a local 5K this week....
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Bringing Back The Blogroll (Maybe)
I was included in a list of Huntsville Bloggers/Instagrammers! Full Disclosure: the author asked in a local blogging group if any bloggers had instagram accounts, and then she put us in a list. I don’t...
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Cue Panic Attack In 5, 4, 3, 2…
So! I’m going to this local Blogger event tonight and I’m panicking because we all know I’m the Queen of all of the Social Awkward Parties. There are even two other things going on tonight that I’m...
View ArticleOh, Man. My Blog Brain Hurts.
So…just as soon as I get everything kinda how it was before on my blog migration…even kinda better if you consider how much unused baggage I left behind at the old host. I log in this morning and think...
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CHALLENGE: 24 Posts in 15 Days.
This is a screen grab of my dashboard TWO entries after this one. But…you get the point. Okay, peeps. Here’s the sitch. I just realized I have posted 4,975 posts on this here blog. Before THIS post,...
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