Normally, I might look at yesterday’s stats and see that I had the lowest pageviews in the last thirty days and worry and fret about it until I had myself worked into such a froth that I would have certainly felt like the end was nigh and been too discouraged to even crack open my laptop today.

Good thing I’m not like that anymore.

Nope, I’ve learned not to let that stuff sweat me anymore.  I’ve learned that the summer is a notoriously slow time on the Interwebz and people have things to do, places to go and beer to drink.  I’ve also learned that weekends are pretty “off” times in the blogosphere as most of us are busy with our own families.  Which is why I post the You Need to Read links list on the weekends in the first place.  It gives me a relatively “easy” post to put up each Saturday and there’s a “no pressure, read at your leisure” quality to it that lets people go about their weekends but also get a good dose of bloggy goodness too.

I know some people who chose to monitize their blogs get very concerned about stats.  I keep track of them, for sure, because I’m interested to see where people are visiting from (link-wise), what they’re reading, etc and so forth.  But I don’t let those stats rule me.  I can’t.  I’d go crazy.

So instead, I chose to sit back, relax, go about my Sunday business with my family and post as usual.  The stats will take care of themselves.

In other news:  We stopped by Whole Foods today and found these apples which freaked us out so much we had to get a couple.  They were kinda yellowish-pink.  A very strange color and called “Pink Pearl“.  Come to find out?  They are THE AWESOME.  God Bless you, Whole Foods.  First you had a lovely chunk of Pecorino in stock for us to have with our pasta tonight and now these fabulous little apples.  I could just kiss you, if you weren’t just a store.