I decided to go back to my original blog template for awhile. I am just tired of the old one; as much as I love the picture, I just had the feeling that a lot of my readership has been down, or lost due to a: the difficulty of reading the smaller font on the previous template, b: my lack of regular posting, and c: that I'm boring the snot out of my readers.
It's probably all those things combined, actually!
Not only that, I have been loving the blogs of the folks I read all the time and want to rework my blog friends list so people who stop by here can go visit others I like; the reverse to that is I also had folks who I thought to "honor" in that group of folks I read each day (and sometimes check back in several times during the day), but they've never given me the courtesy of checking out my blog or leaving a comment if they do.
I'll never have the readership of Ambulance Driver or LawDog, but I do like to think that it's not a waste of time to stop by and comment here every once in awhile! Admittedly, one of the reasons I write this blog is because I'm an attention junkie and I like the feedback. But, mainly it's such a wonderful way for me to keep my friends up on my doings. I appreciate it when you all stop by!
Now, lest you wonder about this post, I had one of those light bulb moments at the meeting I've just returned from. It's a regular meeting of an organization I've been part of for several years. I've bent over backwards to do my part for this organization, always feeling like I've just not quite measured up - but at tonight's meeting the attendees consisted of the "newer" group of members; none of the original members were there. It was amazing to see that we got a lot of things accomplished because we didn't have to fight that nefarious creature called "The Past", aka "We've Never Dont That Before" and "We Don't Like the Sound of That". I felt hope bubbling up from somewhere - hope that I might be able to make an effort and get someplace with this group.
It carried over to the blog. I decided I no longer had to dance attendance on things *I* was unhappy about. Sure, I knew I could do that, but once a "service" person, always a service person! I'm used to trying to please others first instead of myself, and it's time I quit doing that ALL the time.
So, my friends list will be back as soon as I remember how to get it there; don't think I don't love you anymore - I just have to get a little geekdom conversation going first!
4 comments:
Wow! Thought I'd managed to go to the wrong blog! After Sunday afternoon I'll have some free time, so if you'd like some help trying to puzzle the template out, let me know :)
I'm glad that you had a good meeting and some new hope in that group!
Me too, that's great news about your meeting!
And Kate m'dear girl, "bore" us? WON'T EVER HAPPEN!
I know there are lots of readers on my blog who have never commented. Some of them are friends I have here where I live. They like to read and catch up my blog but they just aren't commenters. S'okay with me. And I've also been a reader/commenter on a few blogs for YEARS to bloggers who never read or comment on mine. I figure I don't give a sh*t, if I like reading them I'm not going to stop because they won't read mine. LOL!
It was really weird to open your blog today and see the old template. De ja vu!! LOL
I liked your other template better. My only quibble was that sometimes I couldn't leave comments for whatever reason. What would happen was that I could mouse over the link to comments, but it wouldn't click through. Never figured out why that was.
I was viewing it in Firefox, if that helps.
Thanks Trace. I'll probably want to do something completely different later on, but I need to get through LammasFest first.
Jude: I don't want you to think I'm THAT much of an attention junkie; I don't expect comments from everyone who drops by. It's just time to take some folks off the friends list and add a few others. I like what AD does; he has his daily reads and his occasional reads. I've got bookmark after bookmark of things that had meaning once, but no longer apply, if that makes sense. It'll all work out wonderfully once I get it done!
AD - I know you had trouble leaving comments and it's weird because I only use Firefox myself. I don't understand why it was doing that. But, it may be that I have more readership than I think and more comments as well, but they can't get through. I hope making a change will cure that problem.
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