February 26th, 2010

A Super Pink Makeover

You know I like pink right?! My blog has been pink for quite some time now, and once upon a time even my virtual legal assistant site had a pinkish theme, (I switched to green and gray to be a little more professional though). But I’ve longed for some help with my blog theme for some time and after seeing a recent tweet about such services by Sarah of One Starry Night, I decided to bite the bullet and have a custom theme set up.

It’s beautiful isn’t it?!! I am so excited to have this new look, I think I’ll feel motivated to post this weekend! After I finish up some other work of course and depending on how distracting the last weekend of Olympics is. Like if Canada makes it to the gold medal hockey game on Sunday!

Hope you like the new look too, even if you are cheering for the “wrong” team on Sunday (anyone other than Canada, lol)

January 5th, 2010

Not Ready Yet

Oh yes it is 2010 already! And no I am not organized and ready. I meant to have my first “Memory Lane Monday” post up yesterday. Clearly it didn’t happen though. I have it written – in my head, you know. Kind of. Sort of.

Next week for sure. Anyone want to join me? I’m going to be sharing some pictures and memories of the many (MANY!!!) houses I’ve lived in over the years. I wasn’t an Army kid, in fact, I bet I moved more than the average military family. Best count was about 30 house by age 20. Since then I’ve been in control and moved less – maybe 5 times total, only twice in the last 10 years. And we’ll be staying put in our current house for many years to come (I hope).

Anyway – just a short post today to share that. And to whine, yet again, that dropping BabyBoy off at the dayhome this morning? It was no better than last year. I wish I could shake the guilt I feel sitting here in my wonderfully quiet house. I met a client this morning to get some work. I have been drafting some documents for another client and making phone calls for a third. I AM working – but I’m also going to the pool this afternoon for some exercise. So yep, guilt as usual. I know it will be fine when I pick him up later – and it will  be fine until next Tuesday. Sigh.

I wonder if it would be easier if he went to daycare more regularly than once a week? Or worse? Any thoughts from other part-time childcare moms?

November 25th, 2009

Blog Ambition

I was feeling kind of lacking in focus today during BabyBoy’s naptime, and although I probably should have been getting some work done, I started catching up on reading from my GReader instead. And my attention was totally caught by The Mom Slant’s semi-recent post The Secret of My Success. Julie talks about the misleading media information on blogging and other internet “careers”.

I think the topic particularly caught my interest today because I’ve been carefully watching my paypal account for when I have enough to commit to my BlogHer ‘10 tickets. Which of course reminds me of how one of the disappointments of my first BlogHer experience this past summer was all the talk about making money from blogging. I do NOT blog for money, I have no interest in blogging for money. My writing creativity is hard enough to find most days, let alone to feel like I have to blog in order to bring in money. I blog for ME. I blog as a way to share, to connect with like-minded people, to have some vague form of adult interaction on the days when I feel overwhelmed by the little boys in my world. I’m only trying BlogHer again because there was a lot of talk about more sessions on the craft of writing, something I could use (ok and the fact that it’s in New York was a big attraction, lol!!)

The written word has always fascinated me – I’ve been a huge reader since I was very young. I liked writing for myself when I was a pre-teen (short stories) and I’ve kept a diary almost as long as I can remember. Pretty sporadic entries, but a great outlet. So when I discovered blogging it seemed inevitable to me that I would want to have one of my very own. A place where I could attempt to develop my writing skills and let my passion for words flow. I haven’t accomplished that as much as I would have hoped, but I do get a great deal of pleasure from blogging and being part of the blogging community. So nope, no blog ambition here at all, at least not in the financial sense. Just an ambition to evolve as a person and a writer, and to share the journey with whoever chooses to share it with me.

Laurie