Sometimes I have too much "get up and go" in me. Which basically means I have these amazingly AD/HD moments that completely baffle everyone in my life. I am a person who can not create or think when surrounded by chaos. I have to clean my studio area before I can work; have to have all my supplies organized or I can't find anything; easily lose things in piles; and am easily sucked into reorganizing if a system is not working for me and I am feeling overwhelmed by the mess of it. Trying to set up a simple blog has proven to be one of those ongoing AD/HD moments for me.
I started out right by setting up my original blog using my jelainedesigns igoogle account, however when google bought blogger, I somehow messed up the log-in/account switch-over process and assigned the blog to my personal igoogle account instead of my jelainedesigns one. Blogger would not allow me to transfer them to a different email/igoogle account, and I couldn't just shut them down and reopen them under the same name under a different account. Once the name is used, it is gone for good regardless of whether you keep it or not. This was the beginning of a huge downward spiral for me. Whenever I had my jewelry igoogle open I could see all my design/business related email, bookmarks, blog lists etc just fine, however could not get to my blog without logging out and re-logging in under my personal account where I could then blog, but couldn't open any of the links to websites or artists I would have liked to blog about or add to my links list. In addition to the log in/log out issue, I jumped into blogging with a vengeance. Instead of slowly working into it with just one blog like most people and then possibly adding more after having a system and routine established, I created three additional blogs so I could keep my topics separated.
By now, you are probably cluing in to the fact that I am a little obsessive (okay, okay, a lot obsessive) about organization. I had created such a big mess that I gave up after only a few posts, even though I really wanted to have a blog and kept having great blog topics pop into my head all the time. It just seemed like too much work to finish setting and maintaining all four blogs. I am not even sure anymore what I could possibly have been thinking of at the time. My life is too busy and crazy for maintaining four blogs.
Then this last winter, I had the brilliant idea of opening all my blogs under their original names at wordpress. This would allow me to keep my names and they would not be attached to either of my igoogle accounts, therefore I wouldn't have so many frustrations. I did not realize until I had already opened them, imported my old posts, and adding some new posts, that wordpress does not support my etsy widgets. Another roadblock that halted me in my tracks for a number of months.
Finally very early this morning while laying in bed and waiting for my brain to shut down so I could finally get to sleep, I had my "Ah Ha" moment and figured out how to solve all my frustrations with my stupid "I have 7 blogs and none of them are working for me" problem.
Today, I logged into my jelainedesigns igoogle account and created a new blog with a name I had not used in blogger before, imported all my blog posts from all of my other blogs, and began to set it up. Right about now you are probably wondering how I could possibly see creating an eighth blog as being a solution to my huge mess. Well here is the brilliance to my plan. Once I get my new blog all set up with all my links and lists and such from all my other blogs, I am going to go into all my other blogs and ruthlessly close every single last one of them down completely. They will be blogs no more.
This will leave me with just this one blog, where I will journal about my art, my life, and (huge grin here) all my crazy AD/HD moments. So if you somehow, someway actually made your way to my rarely visited blogs at any time before now, please come join me at my new and improved, one and only blog: Daydreams Studio.
Hope to see you there.
slaine
j.elaine
I started out right by setting up my original blog using my jelainedesigns igoogle account, however when google bought blogger, I somehow messed up the log-in/account switch-over process and assigned the blog to my personal igoogle account instead of my jelainedesigns one. Blogger would not allow me to transfer them to a different email/igoogle account, and I couldn't just shut them down and reopen them under the same name under a different account. Once the name is used, it is gone for good regardless of whether you keep it or not. This was the beginning of a huge downward spiral for me. Whenever I had my jewelry igoogle open I could see all my design/business related email, bookmarks, blog lists etc just fine, however could not get to my blog without logging out and re-logging in under my personal account where I could then blog, but couldn't open any of the links to websites or artists I would have liked to blog about or add to my links list. In addition to the log in/log out issue, I jumped into blogging with a vengeance. Instead of slowly working into it with just one blog like most people and then possibly adding more after having a system and routine established, I created three additional blogs so I could keep my topics separated.
By now, you are probably cluing in to the fact that I am a little obsessive (okay, okay, a lot obsessive) about organization. I had created such a big mess that I gave up after only a few posts, even though I really wanted to have a blog and kept having great blog topics pop into my head all the time. It just seemed like too much work to finish setting and maintaining all four blogs. I am not even sure anymore what I could possibly have been thinking of at the time. My life is too busy and crazy for maintaining four blogs.
Then this last winter, I had the brilliant idea of opening all my blogs under their original names at wordpress. This would allow me to keep my names and they would not be attached to either of my igoogle accounts, therefore I wouldn't have so many frustrations. I did not realize until I had already opened them, imported my old posts, and adding some new posts, that wordpress does not support my etsy widgets. Another roadblock that halted me in my tracks for a number of months.
Finally very early this morning while laying in bed and waiting for my brain to shut down so I could finally get to sleep, I had my "Ah Ha" moment and figured out how to solve all my frustrations with my stupid "I have 7 blogs and none of them are working for me" problem.
Today, I logged into my jelainedesigns igoogle account and created a new blog with a name I had not used in blogger before, imported all my blog posts from all of my other blogs, and began to set it up. Right about now you are probably wondering how I could possibly see creating an eighth blog as being a solution to my huge mess. Well here is the brilliance to my plan. Once I get my new blog all set up with all my links and lists and such from all my other blogs, I am going to go into all my other blogs and ruthlessly close every single last one of them down completely. They will be blogs no more.
This will leave me with just this one blog, where I will journal about my art, my life, and (huge grin here) all my crazy AD/HD moments. So if you somehow, someway actually made your way to my rarely visited blogs at any time before now, please come join me at my new and improved, one and only blog: Daydreams Studio.
Hope to see you there.
slaine
j.elaine
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