Elizabeth recently gave herself a four year evaluation, and as her near-constant companion, I thought I'd add my thoughts on her progress. When Elizabeth started blogging, she was familiar with the Internet but knew nothing about code, like most beginning bloggers. She used the Blogspot publishing platform to create her blog posts, but I'll let you in on a secret- it took her MONTHS to figure out how to put links in her posts. The day she finally understand how to make an image link to a DIFFERENT LOCATION made her feel like she'd conquered the world. As she continued to improve and moved to a self-hosted blog, Elizabeth also learned how to take better care of her computer. I'm not her first laptop, but I am definitely reaping the benefits of her experience. See, Elizabeth likes to click links. And sometimes those links are for junky sites that take up a ton of space and slow down my overall processing speed. Over the years, those of us who have sat on Elizabeth's lap have had to … [Read more...]
My Blogging Sisterhood
Biologically, I have four sisters I never met. By adoption, I have a sister who did not support my parent's decision to adopt me (she was only 2.5 at the time but still very vocal and physical about her unhappiness with the situation). When I started blogging, it was because I wanted to find a community of women where I would fit in, where I would feel like I was one of them. I didn't just find a community, I found a sisterhood. I'm no longer close to my sister-by-adoption. Instead, I have blog sisters. Some of them know how much they mean to me, and some don't realize that to me, their friendship is as important to me as a family relationship. We don't share parents. We didn't grow up together. And yet, to me, my online sisters feel as real as if we had the same blood running through our veins. I always imagined that sisters were best friends who also shared a parent or some other kind of family situation, but I've had to create that sister relationship from people I met … [Read more...]
When It’s Time To Change, You’ve Got To Rearrange
Oh Brady Bunch, truer words were never sung. My thoughts are so jumbled up right now that I'm having trouble even figuring out how to explain what I want to explain. This is one of those posts where I try to unravel the tangled mess inside my brain by attempting to channel the flow of thoughts from my head down into my fingers, so that maybe if I get the words onto the screen they will stop buzzing around in my head and let me get a freaking good night's sleep for a change. I spend entirely way too much time thinking about blogging. Hi, my name is Elizabeth, and I'm a blog-a-holic. Hi Elizabeth. I lay in bed at 2:00 am, 2:30 am, 2:40 am, etc., and flying around in my head like annoying little bees are all these thoughts- I wonder how many new emails I have in Outlook? Oh crap, I forgot to start the Lands' End giveaway! They are NEVER going to want to work with me again. Shoot, I was supposed to post that review of (insert name of book/CD/DVD/appliance/food product here). … [Read more...]
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