I’ve been a big time, grade A, first class blog flake lately.
Not exactly news for anyone who has been keeping track of my update schedule over here, to be sure. But I’ve also been a flake in keeping up at my friends’ blogs. Now THAT is pretty sad. This knitting obsession of mine has taken over. Any spare time is spent knitting. And while I will often compose pithy and humorous blog posts in my mind while I’m knitting my bazillionth pair of baby pants, composing something in your mind isn’t quite the same as putting the knitting needles aside and typing it up on the laptop. And Google Reader is literally starting to get cobwebs around the corners. I used to do the bulk of my blog reading while I was nursing Evie, via my iPhone. But lately I’ve been sucked into some stupid iPhone games and that is generally what I’m doing when I would normally be reading blogs.
What is my excuse? I don’t have one.
And I feel bad, because I feel like I’ve missed out on some things with some of the bloggers I consider myself closest to. What does it say that I just found out like two days ago that Brit’s blog was busted? Something I could have helped her with, I’m sure, but I was a flake. So I didn’t.
That’s not cool.
Shoot, I spend more time on Facebook, reading up on people’s statuses than I do reading their blogs.
This has to change. I don’t want to be “that blogger”. The one who is completely out of the loop and detached from the community. I know notgoing to BlogHer this year has affected me this way. Why bother to connect to the community when I’m not going to BlogHer? What’s the point? Of COURSE there is a point. But when you’re a) lazy and b) occupied elsewhere, well… excuses come easy.
There’s no reason why I can’t keep up my blog and read my favorite blogs though I’m not going to BlogHer. And there’s no reason I can’t do this while I continue knitting. I just need to get my act together.
I hate being a slave to stats, but the stats don’t lie. And they show a significant drop in the last six months. Again… NOT COOL. I’m letting people down. I’ve become BORING. GAH!
So I gotta knock that off. Anyone have any helpful suggestions? Wanna come over here and kick me in the pants? Anyone? (Is anyone still here?)
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I’ve had the same dilemmas lately. I feel better b/c the last 2-3 weeks I’ve really started trying to force myself to write every day. For awhile I was skipping days and I NEVER do that.
I also told myself I was going to try at least 2-3 times a week to write an entry responding to someone else’s entry. Continuing the conversation, so to speak. It forced me to read other entries (b/c I was being a bad blog reader too) and it gave me content ideas!
Hang in there…we’ve been doing this awhile. We’re allowed to falter sometimes~
I think maybe it’s the season in a way. Everyone is SO busy with kids, vacations (or staycations), events, etc.. I’m not finding much time/motivation for reading or blogging. I either want to get out with the kids or bum around. But I’m still around