So many blogs, so little uptime
Welcome to Day Three of my Big 5th celebration! In honor of my five-year anniversary on July 3rd, I?m doing a week of posts celebrating my quirky blogging history. You?re all invited to join me in this retrospective romp.
* * * * *
You know that saying about the best-laid plans? Yeah, right here. In the fantasy world that lives between the covers of my notebook (the spiral-bound kind), these posts were supposed to include screenshots of my previous blogs. Because I’m obsessive like that, I’ve kept a screenshot of each blog I’ve done. Even some of the one-day ones. I had an entire folder of them, and planned to use them as appropriate. The folder is MIA. I fear that somehow, in one of life’s mysteries, it escaped transfer from my old hard drive to the new one, although how it could have done so I can’t imagine. The other possibility is that it somehow got dragged into a different folder, BUT! If so, it would still show up in my searches. Whatever, it’s apparently gone. Hence the lack of interesting visual elements this week.
And now for some good news …?WE HAVE A?Question Of The Day WINNER!!! Actually, we have three. Even though it’s only Day Three, I’m declaring Eden the winner?for Day One’s question, because you can’t get much closer than EXACTLY RIGHT. Yes, Eden was spot on with her guess of 13 as the total number of my blogs, past and present. Woo hoo, she gets a prize! Well, don’t get too excited. It’s not a trip to Bali or anything.
We have TWO winners for Day Two’s QOTD. Bec and Kevin both had the correct answer yesterday. Bec posted hers first, but I’m also awarding a prize to Kevin for expanding on the details. See the update I added yesterday if you’re wondering WTF? Oh, and those prizes? Will be announced on Saturday. Come on, did you really expect me to have this whole thing ready ahead of time? You had to know I’d be pulling it together on the fly!
Speaking of all my previous blogs, here’s a list of them in approximate chronological order:
becoming mrs. bret (2003-2005)?- My wedding/early marriage?blog, where I appropriately lost my blogcherry.
Chronic Listaholic (2004-2007)?- Lists, lists and uh, lists. Even my Lost Bloggers participation (as Amelia Earhart) was done in the form of lists.?Mainitaining this?finally cured my list-making compulsion.
Heinous Haiku (2005) - Deliberately awful haiku, with an occasional serious one thrown in. Only ran about six months, but?did get featured as?the Link of the Day on some other haiku site that I can’t remember.
readme.txt (2005-2006)?- A daily-journal-type blog, with heavy use of my photos. When we moved East, I closed this one and started Poppy.
Poppy Among The Peaches (2006) - My transition blog when I moved to Georgia, aka “The Daily Downer.” I wrote about how miserable I was, over and over. Kevin used to post these valiant pep talks in the comments (”Think positive! Make an effort to meet people! Try LEAVING THE HOUSE!”). When I started getting used to living in Georgia, part of my therapy was to demolish this sobblog and create …
The Write Coast (2006-2007) - My first WordPress blog, and my personal favorite, truly a work of love. More, much more on this tomorrow.
Pseudotherapy (2007-current) - Yeah, you’re reading it.
Kitchen Mojo (2007) - A very short-lived cooking blog. Cute design, but Too. Much. Work.
The Edge of Ennui (2007) - A private blog known about only by Hilly and Lesli, where I poured out my darkest secrets and heartaches. It seemed like a good idea, but I got scared and took it down.
Pseudofitness (2008) - Hilly, how long did this last? Three weeks, maybe? I got all fired up to exercise and diet and shit. Created this ADORABLE companion blog to chronicle my progress. I think I worked longer on the design than the blog was actually up. Attention deficit? ME?!?! *cough*
Hodad In The Green Room (2007-current) - My sadly-neglected surf-culture blog. I had great plans for this, but can’t seem to remember it even exists. Sure had fun designing it, though!
Child In Time (current) - A platform for my family stories and reminiscences, still in the development stages. I’m now on the third design concept. :dizzy:
Sex Changes (2008) - The blog I used for GBBMC2008,?on which I was the Week 3 writing winner.
A few of these show up in the Wayback Machine, but most of them are long gone. It just kills me that I’ve lost my collection of screenshots, because some of these had really cool designs.
Okay, how about a Question Of The Day? Without fear of reprisals, what blog advice would you like to offer me? What one thing do you think would help improve the quality of Pseudotherapy in some way? Don’t be shy, and don’t worry about being tactful! I want the gritty truth. Make your suggestions in the comments. For today’s question, there is obviously no right or wrong answer, so I will award a prize to the suggestion I like the best.
July 1st, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Good God woman! You’ve had a lot of blogs. :blink: I think I only knew of three of them.
Advice? After all your blogs shouldn’t you be the one giving out tips? I would think so! I guess if I was pushed to come up with something I’d say- don’t ever apologize for what you blog about. It’s your space.
sizzle’s last blog post: Let?s Have Some ?Closure?
July 1st, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Sizzle: I KNOW, right? I think it’s a sickness. Blogophilia. But no, if I was good at this, I’d have had the same blog all these years. Thanks for your suggestion!
July 1st, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Pseudofitness? Yeah that lasted about a month…mayyybe! Haha, you really do slay me. I cannot fucking believe that 10 was not a high enough number, for fucks sake.
Sorry I missed the other contest but bleh, puke, hork…you know.
You know my blog advice…keep only one, make it all of you, stop deleting and stop censoring and editing. Try “blogging free” for a month just to see how it feels!
Hilly’s last blog post: That 70?s Blog?
July 1st, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Holy crap. I can’t believe you’ve had that many and I’ve only known about four of them. Gah.
So, if I switch blogging platforms, but keep the same name, does that count as one or two blogs? Because that would determine if I’ve had three or four overall.
kapgar’s last blog post: I want to ride it where I like…
July 1st, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Whoo! I usually pick “9″ for everything but since there was already “10,” I went with my second favorite number. I also won $4 from Powerball. I’m on a roll!
Eden’s last blog post: I never look back, darling. It distracts from The Now.
July 1st, 2008 at 6:35 pm
It is my place to suggest anything to you my Pseudo Queen? I think NOT. I would never question your authoritahh.
July 1st, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Hilly: Glad you’re feeling better now. My problem with your advice is that I can’t seem to stop worrying about what other people think.
Kevin: You’ve actually followed five of them: Listaholic, readme, Poppy, Write Coast and Pseudotherapy. I always had links to BMB and HH in the sidebar of Listaholic, but I guess you didn’t notice them. In answer to your question, it’s only a separate blog if it has a different name. The platform doesn’t count.
Eden: Congratulations - buy a lotto ticket!
John: I may be an authoritah on starting a blog, but certainly NOT on blog longevity!
July 1st, 2008 at 9:06 pm
My advice is to just publish it, and let it be what it is. Proof-read for spelling, but don’t lose the passion by editing and editing. Be YOU. We love YOU!
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:37 am
Good grief woman, that’s some serious stamina there!
The only way to improve on perfection is to occasionally let people win things and… oooo… see? Perfection!
(God, I love this blog!)
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:41 am
That’s right, I did read readme. I forgot about that one.
kapgar’s last blog post: I want to ride it where I like…
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:54 am
Wow, that’s a lot of blogs!
My only advice is to trust yourself - trust that we’re interested in what you chose to share with us, that we love to read what you write, and that you are a interesting, wonderful person. :heart:
suze’s last blog post: perhaps an outhouse and some fireworks will clear my head?
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:09 am
Kim: You have no idea how much I WANT to achieve that.
Bec: Wow, that’s even better than what we agreed you’d say last night!
Kevin: It was pretty forgettable. Except that I think that’s when we discovered our mutual love of/talent for photography.
Suze: Wait, is there someone standing behind me?
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:17 pm
My choice for the best piece of advice is Hilly’s, for two reasons: It combines all the other suggestions, and especially because I want to learn to “blog free.”