Spring Blog Cleaning is like Spring House Cleaning only no major muscle groups are involved in making a blog tidy. So it should be a lot easier. However, “should” is a very annoying word. And so is Spring, come to think of it, not making its appearance or even hinting at pretending to think about doing so. At least not in my God-forsaken corner of the world where it’s still twenty below. But as usual, I digress, so just ignore that, or store it away with the other bazillion weather complaints you’ve heard this week.
Today I deleted my second blog, which very few people knew existed. Sorry to my 3.5 random followers, but I’m pretty sure you won’t even notice I’m gone. All nineteen (yep, count ’em, nineteen!) blog posts from “Before the Lights Go Out” written over the past two or three years are now pages in a drop down menu in my header here between Home and About. If you would like to check them out before they sit there collecting dust for the rest of my life, that would be nice. But no pressure.
I also spent the better part of my Monday afternoon checking out other Word Press themes and trying to make the number of widgets I have less ridiculous. It was a little like shopping for clothes and trying to de-clutter an entire house all at the same time. There was something horribly wrong with some little thing on every theme I previewed and something endearing and wonderfully right about the things I couldn’t make myself delete.
From all this hard (brain) work we can now safely conclude that I am a creature of habit, stuck in a colossal rut, and not good with change. Although, you know, deleting an entire blog was pretty gutsy I guess.
And it’s not the only thing I did today either. While I was curled up on the living room couch this morning checking my emails and reading blog posts that were several hundred times better than this one, the sunlight caught my right leg at just the right angle for me to notice I’m beginning to look like an orangutan. I didn’t gasp; it was the opposite of a sharp intake of air, and more like feeling totally incapable of drawing another breath. I think this is how people die. Stunned breathless, or something like that. Anyway, my monkey legs are now shaved hairless and no one else’s life is in danger for the time being.
So, cleaned up blog, destroyed razor, onward and upward and spring is on the way. I hope your Monday was equally exciting.
fabulous!
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It was a fabulous day. For a Monday. 🙂
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Enjoy! Congrats on the cleaning spree.
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Like all cleaning spurts it’s not over yet….
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I know how much of a pain it is to redo your blog! I always end up with the same theme and stuff. Oh well! And yes, its ridiculous cold here still too, but I shaved my legs this weekend so I would stop feeling itchy.
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How funny is that – no matter what new theme I tried I kept coming back to the same old thing. But all this cold and dry and itchy weather – that I would definitely change if I could.
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Now, I have a new favorite post of yours but no doubt, in a day or two there will be another favorite. So often, I read my own thoughts here, and I like them so much better when you write them down! Thanks so much for blogging.
Karen
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Thank you Karen – I often read my thoughts in your blog posts too – or things I wish I had said if I could be serious for five minutes. Much love ♥♥
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I’m with you: I have no plans to change the look of my page either, and I’m still on exactly the same theme I started with. Others may call it laziness or habit, I prefer to call it bold consistency and commitment.
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YES!! That’s exactly what it is!! I’m pretty sure that’s what I meant to say. lol
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The first ecard is a good advice! And it made me laugh….
Now where did I put my Febreze…..?
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I’m a little embarrassed to admit I actually have three containers of Febreze in my house right now….I wonder if that stuff is flammable.
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As someone who stocks it every night, I can say it has never caught on fire in my presence… but that stuff they put in the Febreze Noticeables air fresheners, it will eat through anything it happens to spill on. It peeled the paint right off of the shelf it was sitting on one time…
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Love the quote. Just don’t spray everything with wine and drink the Febreeze,…. although who knows?
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God bless Febreeze. And merlot, which decreases monkey legs instantly. And people who make other people laugh. 🙂
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Ah, I see that I didn’t say it, but I loved the entries on your now-deleted other blog — I’m glad you installed them over here.
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