I’m pretty hardcore about writing on the blog. It’s 90% healthy commitment, 10% squirrelly-ness, and I’m generally okay with the mix.
That 90% is I feel better when I write. It helps me process things cluttering up my brain and gives me room to stretch. When I have the bandwidth sometimes I even talk about important stuff so that’s good. The 10% is planner related. I keep an Excel blog planner and when I don’t publish I color that date yellow. I hate it. Not yellow in general; in general yellow is sunshine and warmth. But on the spreadsheet? Yellow is mildly horrible, mostly, until there’s more than two in a month and then yellow is Aaaaarrrrggghhhh why can’t I get my writing done WHAT’S WRONG WITH ME??
Spoiler alert: Nothing’s wrong with me.
Sometimes life throws you a party and sometimes it throws knives at your head just to watch you duck and dive out of the way. We’re in a knives stage of life right now. No biggie. I can do this. But it’s gonna mean more yellow boxes so I guess I’ve gotta get right with that. I say we embrace the squirrelly.
Whew, this spoke to me. I used to write all the time, but now I find it so hard when I’m juggling so much. I get it.
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This one falls under the granting myself grace category. I’m not great at it. (Yet. — let’s be optimistic!)
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After eight years of posting every day, I decided to take Mondays and reboot stuff from five years ago. The nice part is I have a five-year-old post for every Monday, so five years from now, I’ll have to get back to work on Mondays.
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What a great plan! I just wrote tomorrow’s post on being thrust into using the (dumb to me) Block Editor so can I ask you a question? I didn’t see a way to search posts by publishing date on there. Have you figured out how to do this?
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Go to your archives. The month’s will be laid out. Just click on the month and year and all the postswill show up in date order for that month. If you don’t know the month then you can search by subject after you click on posts. Also here is how to get back to classic if you haven’t read that already.
Open your WP, click on your face (or whatever image you use) in the circle at the top right in the black bar. Right beside the bell.
Once you have clicked there, it will bring you to your profile. On the left side, choose account settings.
Scroll down until you get to Interface settings and there is a slide bar under Dashboard Settings. Click on that, go below the colour options and save.
Then, you will have the same admin page as before. Just like the last time when they pulled this nonsense! You can then click on posts and then add new and choose classic.
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I am sitting here literally dumbfounded. Jaw on the floor position, John. Thank you so much!!!
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😁
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Hopefully it’s parties and vacations coming your way.
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Just the thought of seeing some friends for a game night makes me practically giddy. Got my first vaccination last week and our best friends have both had at least one shot…can’t wait!
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Laura, take care on your days of yellow. Your clever word smithing will ne missed. Like you, I write for my own sanity. Lately, I have been digging out some old posts for repeats, as I get tired of writing the same post on things like better gun governance, climate change remedial actions, etc.
Take care of you and your family. That is mission #1. Keith
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Keith, I’m smacking my forehead because this is a *fantastic* solution to “I don’t have it in me to create but I’d like to put something out there” and for some reason it hasn’t occurred to me in a really long time. I think I did a reboot once or twice over the years but not lately. I’m caught up in a big project for the next couple of weeks & this might save me. 🙂
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Laura, please do. If you are like me, you have may some work you thought stood out early on, that did not get as many views as they would now. I like how you think, so it would be nice to see some of your less discovered gems. Happy hunting, Keith
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Like you, blogging is often for my health. Unlike you I haven’t been able to push myself into the doing. I keep meaning to, but it has been very difficult to write more than a once a week, Stream of Consciouness Saturday post. From where I sit, I would be thrilled to have even a 49 yellow: 51 posts. So, ya know, perspective is a great thing. 🙂
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True, and I appreciate hearing your perspective. But it sounds like writing the SoCS post is a win for you since once a week is where you are so I say good for you! Sometimes making it into that once a week headspace is success. ☺️
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Definitely embrace squirrelly! There are so many “duties” that must be done every day, or every certain times, that I cannot, will not, put those things I enjoy doing on a rigid schedule.
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I like that. I have a weird backhanded way of looking at it. The spreadsheet holds me accountable, which SOUNDS like an icky work requirement thing but is more an “I’m mentally healthier when I make time to write” thing. Who knows.
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Ha! We should all embrace our inner squirrels 🐿🐿
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Indeed. Mine would like company. 😉
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Hope you can drive out there yellow!
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I’m trying! We’re almost ready to hit reset on a new month, too. 🙂
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All the best my friend
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