Okay, I'm actually not going to count anything, but okay, I'll admit it. I fail as a blogger. My knitting is too disjointed (14 WIPs, anyone?) and my photos too infrequent to warrant posting about what I'm working on, and most of my knitting stories just aren't that exciting. On top of that, my life has become incredibly hectic. My To Do list has more than 40 things on it, and the issues I'm currently having with exhaustion, aching everywhere, and very frequent and painful headaches may or may not be due to the fact that I'm overextending myself.
Now, I'm not asking for anyone's pity, but I am asking for your suggestions. What should I blog about? What do you want to hear?...and most of all, how do you unclog your brain?
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I find that if you have too much on your plate, you can't finish. Personally when I am doing all these things, i.e. Plurk, Ravelry, blogging, flickr.com, etsy, myspace, facebook, I truly get overwhelmed.
I tend to hold fast to one thing & let people know that that is where I am most often. For example I check MYSpace once a month, if that. I let people know, "don't message me there, e-mail if it is important."
I have signed up on all websites for e-mail notifications for comments & such. I limit my computer time, some days I get 1 hour some 2 hours.
I notice a lot of your etsy.com stuff is not on the blog, when you make something, put it on, we never tire of great things you make. No matter how small, your talent is so big & appriciated in this knitty, bloggy world!
Flickr & Picnik have been life savers in my quest to simplify photo sharing & blogging. Worth the $24.95 per year.
As for having so many things on the needles, we are all afflicted with that, you just have to live with it & know it will never go away. Sometimes one of my saddest thoughts is that the day I take my last breath I will probably think, "Shit, I never got to knit that."
As a great man once said:
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
I think Al was trying to say, think outside the box. You'll eventually figure it out.
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OK that one comment is way off - all your stuff is on your blog, I'm not so bright today, going to go nap. Feel free to verbally bitch slap me.
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No worries, I know I need to post some of my newer items to the blog, but I'm kind of struggling to get around to it right now. Hopefully I'll be able to pay the blog a bit more attention once my college app is in.
If you feel like you are overextending yourself then I would worry about the lack of blogging.
I find that when I have a lot of things to do I just make a list starting with the most important like school things college apps that kind of stuff and just take it one thing at a time and mark it off as you go.
Focus on things that are really important first and make sure they get time in a timely manner. I know when I was in high school (coughsixyearsagocough) I felt like that a lot and when I got stressed out I would get headaches a lot too and I went to the dr a lot and even had a cat scan but nothing was ever found and now I am convinced it was stress.
If you knitting is stressing you out too I would just go threw it all and frog things you have lost interest in. Knitting is supposed to be fun not stressful!
Good luck
Jennifer
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