How To Suck At Blogging

How To Suck At Blogging:

1. Abandon your blog.
Post consistently for a while and then just never post anything for months.  Don't leave a goodbye message either.  Just disappear into the wind.

3. Neglect social media..
When you're not posting on your blog, don't post on social media, either.  Make people think you're off the grid somewhere while you go about your business.  Constantly check social media, though, following your new twitter followers back but not replying to their messages.

3. Come back to blogging, promise new content & then disappear.
Make this big deal about your return to blogging and how happy you are to be back, promising tons of new content "coming soon".  Then make one other post and disappear for a week.

4. Schedule erratic new content on the wrong day/time.
When you finally decide to get it together and actually post some content, do so on the wrong date and/or time.  Or, better yet, have a completed #throwbackthursday post hanging out in your drafts when all you had to do was hit "publish".

 

Look at my "artsy" picture

5. Break your phone.
When you finally do decide to return to blogging "for real this time". make sure to break the camera on your phone so you get "artsy" shots like the one above.  Make sure your phone is so messed up that the camera will only focus about 2% of the time to actually take clear pictures.  Who needs to actually see what's going on anyway?

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But really, guys.  Even though all of those things happened to me and I do, in fact, suck at blogging, my computer has been having some issues which has made posting here difficult.  And by "issues", I mean taking 30404050505050522 years to load a single picture, if it even completes doing so.  Such virus.  Such computer savvy.

Friday Five | Things On My Bucket List

Here are a few things hanging out on my bucket list:

1.  Dueling Pianos | I really want to see a dueling pianos show.  I don't care how professional it is, either.  Just two pianos, playing it out.

2.  Ghost Ride | A road trip where I visit haunted & abandoned places throughout the US.  I really want to see some abandoned theme parks. Which kind of goes with...

3.  See A Ghost | I'm kind of obsessed with the paranormal & really want to see a ghost.  Well, maybe.  I'm kind of scared to see a full body apparition, but I want to definitely experience something unexplained.

4.  Fix Up A House | I loved old houses.  They're my jam.  I want to buy & renovate an old house.  It really doesn't even have to be old, just in need of some serious repair.  My husband actually did this for many years working for a contractor, & it's awesome to see the transformations.

5.  Dye My Hair Black | I was actually born with black hair & I really want to dye it black.  I'm just so scared to do it!  I'm the mayor of Pale City, so I'm afraid I'll look scary, but I still want to do it!  I would have to do it professionally to avoid looking like a cheetah & how would I even get it back to my normal shade?

What are some things on your bucket list?

Friday Five | Things That Make Me Irrational

Happy Friday!

I'm usually a fairly calm person.  It normally takes a lot to shake me up.  There are a few things that make me crazy and irrational, though, & here they are:

1.  The Self Checkout:  I try to skip over as much interaction with that thing as possible.  I skip the language & start scanning my things.  Then, when I'm done, I just start shoving my money in to skip over all that payment talk too.  There are only so many shortcuts I can do, though, & before I know it, that thing is screaming at me.  I know that I need to take my items & my money, just give me a minute, ok?

2.  Heated Seats:  Probably more of a #firstworldproblem than anything else, but heated seats in a car make me irrational.  I know that the settings on the seat are a timer & not the heat level, but that doesn't stop me from cranking that stuff all the way up all the time.  I have to say that having the heated seats on all the time is an incredibly terrible idea.  I once burned myself on a long road trip because I couldn't let the heat seat go.

3.  Hair Dye:  This isn't really a problem for me anymore since I haven't dyed my hair in about 2 years, but when I used to dye my hair, it made me irrational.  I know that hair grows from the roots, but that didn't stop me from picking the darkest hair color possible so I wouldn't have any roots.  The funny thing was, when I used to dye my hair, by the end of the month, my hair would just turn back to a shade that was sort of close to my natural color anyway, so I didn't really need to pick a darker shade.

4.  Vending Machines:  I’m the crazy lady hitting my soda selection like 456,054,096,590 times before the pop actually dispenses.  Yes, I realize that it only takes one time, but I'm still over there pressing & pressing that button.

5.  Elevators:  Pretty much the same thing as vending machines.  I realize it takes one time, but I'm over there pressing the 'down' button.  I also find myself giving it a courtesy press for every new person that comes up.

What are some things that make you irrational?