Change Is A-Comin’
Scratch that.
CHANGE IS HERE.
What you’re reading right now is my 1,999 blog post on runlindsayrun.blogspot.com. I KNOW. It's hard for me to believe too. The craziest thing is that while that number kind of boggles my mind, it’s not even my total blogging count - because I used to blog somewhere else and never imported those posts.
I’ve been watching the number creep higher and higher and a few weeks ago, I decided that NOW would be the time for change.
And so, dear readers, with this post I am announcing the end of runlindsayrun.blogspot.com. (I know. It makes me a little bit sad too.)
But like every ending, this also marks the very exciting beginning of something new:
runlindsayrun.ca.
I hope you’ll all join me there! All my posts, photos, videos, links - and most importantly, your comments - have already made the move. So even though it looks different (and I’m still moving in, unpacking, and hanging up pictures), I hope it will immediately feel friendly to you.
I can’t wait to continue this conversation...
Labels: Blogging
Stay Tuned
Working on some significant blog changes in the near future...
Just warning in case you check back sometime soon and are surprised :)
Labels: Blogging
Blogger's Block
I have a severe case of blogger's block. I don't know what's going on. And I felt pretty lame about the whole thing - because I'm supposedly a WRITER - until I read
Lenore's lovely post today and realized that I am not alone in this. And she's inspired me to just write my way through it, even if that means some weaker posts for a little while.
There's so much going on, so it's not a lack of things to talk about. And I'm rarely at a loss for words. I'm just in a place where I'm feeling quieter and more introspective than usual, and I don't think it's a bad thing. Maybe it's a January thing? In any case, I'm tackling lots of things around the house that have needed doing for a long time, and it's been good for my soul. In the last couple of weeks, Geoff has helped me tackle our most dreaded cupboards and installed new pull-out baskets in them so I can actually access everything I need to (even on flared up days). I brought a giant bin of Briony's old clothes for consignment and I have another that I need to bring tomorrow. I picked up a bunch of clear containers to help organize Briony's toys a little better.
I'm not used to spending this much time at home, so I'm REALLY noticing the things that make our home more house-like. So I'm slowly but surely implementing better organizational systems in other cluttered areas of our house. And it's helping. I just wish I had the energy and a clear schedule to just GET IT DONE.
Patience has never been my strong suit.
Beginning ridiculously large projects with superhuman gusto and unhealthy doses of optimism? Yes, that sounds more Lindsay-like :)
Labels: Being Domestic, Blogging, Everything In Its Place, House Stuff, Writing
Wednesday Smile
I love getting mail that isn't bills. One of the very best parts about working freelance in receiving physical cheques in the mail. Seriously. I'm all about the convenience of direct deposit, but there's something very cool about holding an actual cheque in your hand and receiving something tangible in exchange for your work.
But this post isn't about freelance or cheques or how things were so much better in the olden days.
Yesterday when we got home from the lake, there was a big package in our mailbox from Chapters that was addressed to Miss Briony Wright. I was kind of confused because we didn't order her anything. And it's nowhere near her birthday or Christmas.
I opened it up and saw a children's book about a bunny.
Still confused.
Then I picked up the packing slip and scanned it for a clue. This is what I discovered. And it made me smile for the rest of the evening.
It's nice to know that people read my blog (hehe). And it's even nicer to know that our family - spread out across the country - loves our baby girl as much as they do.
And Briony capital letters LOVES the book. She couldn't stop looking at it and kissing the pages :)
Labels: Aaron, Blogging, Briony, Caitlin, Family, Friday Smile
Random Pet Peeve
Random Pet Peeve: People who ASK for comments on Facebook... Or whine about how no one is reading their blog anymore (in an effort, I assume, to guilt people into going to read their blog and then commenting on it to validate them).
I say this in love. No, scratch that. I say this unemotionally, as a marketing consultant. Which I totally am :)
If people aren't commenting - or aren't viewing your content in the first place - it's because you're not engaging them. You're pushing self-serving information at them and not encouraging them to apply your ideas to their own life. Or you're updating your blog so infrequently that you're losing your audience (rule of thumb is minimum 2 to 3 updates every week). Or you're writing about things that are completely irrelevant to them (and are probably going to land you on
STFU Parents, possibly submitted anonymously by yours truly - oh, I'VE DONE IT).
I type this with a smirk on my face, knowing full well that I break blogging rules all the time. I used to be *so* much better about reader engagement, back before I gave birth, that glorious season in my life when I slept enough to remember how to spell my own name. I've promised myself to do better this summer... But at the end of the day, this blog was meant to chronicle my life and really nothing else. It's something that I do for me - to journal, to think things through, to have a creative outlet during the weeks when I'm writing stuff at work that kind of bores me. The fact that you all visit and then take the time to comment and send me emails about what you've read and what it means to you is phenomenal and awesome and amazing, but it's not why I do it. It's a happy bit of icing on the cake.
But I'll bite :)
What is your random social media pet peeve? C'mon, you know there's SOMETHING about blogs or Facebook or Twitter that makes you absolutely insane... 1 - 2 - 3 - GO!
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From CNN.com:
The 12 Most Annoying Types of FacebookersLabels: Bitching About Nothing, Blogging, Random Pet Peeve
