I have to admit that I don’t yet get this blogging thing completely. I know we’ve been doing it for a few weeks now but, still just not getting it. It’s supposed to be personal, right? It’s supposed to have something to do with your everyday life, right? But sometimes, my everyday life is just either not that interesting or really hard to speak of in positive terms. Not that everything has to be perfect, but who would really want to read about what’s not working well – like the month of January.
January, as I look back on it, was filled with, well, mostly frustration. We were trying to get the blog launched, book the high volume of folks who contact us toward the end of the month to receive their repeat and early booking discount and…the DSL, the computer (okay, it was six years old) and the wireless all met in the heavens and decided that they would no longer be working properly.
Fine, I decide, I’ll tromp over the the fabulous (thankfully) Rockland Library to figure out a)how to post a blog, b)what is a blog and c)what to say that is remotely interesting. While I’m in my office (the one private desk at the library), which by-the-way is, I kid you not, a balmy 58 degrees due to ongoing furnace issues, I greet no less than 6 people whom I know and are interested in chatting, which I am also not opposed to, except I’ve got these emails to respond to and the blog to figure out and, and….
In the middle of all of this nonsense, our youngest, Ella, who’ve five, comes down with the nastiest cough and is home from school for a week and a half. This cough turns into one ear infection, then two and while I’m supposed to be figuring out the blog, I’m on the couch with my little girl. OR while I’m supposed to be on the couch with my little girl, I’m on the phone trying to spend a lot of money at the computer store.
At least I’m not alone. Meredith Vieira doesnt’ get what a blog is either. Also, we got the Verizon technical assisant guy (the 9th one we’d spoken with and thank the Lord his first language was English) to request a brochure.
Annie
Up One New Router, Modem and Computer
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I sympathize with you Annie. My latest blog now has over 170 posts.I ‘ve been blogging for years (secretly) on issues and I always get asked why isn’t it more personal? My concerns are the same. Why does any one want to “see” my life?” As for what a blog is… I will link to your post in my blog and tell you what I think but have no real idea about.
It is good information for the ignore person who have to face this problem. We should take care of our self otherwise we can also stick in this risk.
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