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Let’s try this again October 28, 2009

Okay, so I just renewed my blog hosting for another six months, and realized with horror that I’ve only posted twice since last time I renewed. Twice in six months, people! No wonder I have no readers left (except for the two of you, which I totally appreciate!).

So. I’m gonna try and get this blog thing going again, if for no other reason than to feel like I’m getting my money’s worth for the hosting fees . . . I may even change the template, or screw around with the settings, etc. Perhaps a change of scenery will help jump start the part of my brain that used to blog.

And if it doesn’t take, and I find myself posting on average once every three months? Then it may be sayonara for this old thing.

Watch This Space July 11, 2009

Okay, so I recently renewed my blog hosting (with the fabulous Fluffa at Prettyposies) for another six months, and my wordpress software is all updated goodness . . . combined with some days off work (a/k/a World Of Stress) coming up, and I’d bet there might be some blog posts to look forward to.  For the 2.5 of you still reading, that is.  (thanks, y’all)

This time I think I mean it.

Ran. Dom. June 5, 2009

Yes, yes, it’s another random post from me . . . I’m working on that, really I am. It seems like, though, that every time I get ready to blog more frequently something happens to derail me.

As usual, the list form. I love lists.

1. The thing that has blog-derailed me recently is work. Work has been really busy and really hectic and soul-sucking lately. It looks like this will maybe not end, but at least hit a lull in around a week or so.

2. I have been knitting, but the Thing I am knitting is a color of yarn that does not like to be photographed. I’m going to give it another try tomorrow morning if I can get out into the yard before the really hot hits.

3. I’m sad that summer seems to be here. I was really liking spring.

4. I missed my blogiversary back in April . . . it’s been like five years or something. (but only one year worth of posts, strangely).

5. I hate mosquitoes. Really.

5a. I wish they packaged cortisone cream in larger tubes, like maybe the size of giant vats with a pump dispenser.

5b. If anyone knows of a really good way to repel mosquitoes without resorting to pouring DEET all over myself, please let me know!

6. Is it cocktail hour?

another random Wednesday! January 28, 2009

Wow, I seem to maybe possibly be on a roll lately with the blogging!

Here’s some Wednesday randomicity . . .

1. Though it’s cool to be in touch with some long-lost old friends, I think Facebook is kinda creepy.  I think it’s the whole “worlds colliding” aspect of it.

2. Today was a random ice day for me . . . the roads were really bad this morning, and schools were closed, so I took the day off.  The ice was mostly melted by 12:30, so I got to go spend a little bit of time with Evie and NanC and Visiting Brother Kevin.  And OMG, that bebeh is adorable!

3. I finished knitting a pair of fingerless mitts, and have worn them three times since!

4. The yarn for these mitts is Koigu, received from my Secret Pal 2, Nathania.  Back in October 2004.  Yes, you read that right, 2004!  It was the first Koigu I ever laid hands on, and it took me this long to figure out what to do with a single skein!

5. Wow, my arms are very pasty-white, aren’t they?

6. Yes, I have a birdfeeder that contains yarn.  Whenever I have leftover bits of yarn, I put them in that little bronze birdfeeder in case any nearby birds need some for nest-making.

7. I had nothing on the needles for three whole days after I finished the mitts, but don’t worry,  I cast on a sock this morning while watching the local newsteam freak out about the weather.

Taking the WordPress Plunge June 16, 2008

So, ever since I broke my blog last summer (was it really that long ago?), I’ve been toying with the idea of switching over to WordPress . . . everyone I’d talked to who uses it raves about it, and I’d become more and more frustrated with the blogging interface I’d been using for so long.

As you can see, I finally took the plunge! (no, not the Nestea Plunge, sillies — does anyone even remember that commercial?)

I’m sure the look of this new space will change over time (hopefully I won’t break this one too), but already I’m finding WordPress to be a much friendlier interface.

So yeah, please adjust your bloglines and stuff . . . eventually the other web address will point here, but I’m not sure at all what that does when it comes to bloglines etc.