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Happy New Years

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Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve updated this blog. Not that I think anyone reads it, but whatever.

Last semester ended up being much crazier than I’d anticipated. I had trouble getting into the classes I wanted, and ended up taking a B-list class instead that was much harder than I’d guessed it would be. I didn’t have a whole lot of time to just relax… having that time to myself I think is what keeps the gears turning in the rest of my life. I didn’t write, I didn’t read, I didn’t exercise. But that’s over now, so hopefully all that can change. I graduated last month; I now have a Masters degree!

What will this blog be about? I’ve been thinking about that. Blogging about social media and apps and stuff like that is fun sometimes, but making this blog solely about those things feels kind of artificial to me. What I really need, for myself, is a place to show off the fun things I do. It’s not that showing off is the goal, I guess, but being able to share those things somewhere is I think what it takes for me to be motivated beyond watching entire seasons of TV shows on Netflix.  I’ll actually start doing more things that I can report on and talk about. Accountability.

Here are some things I want to do this year:

  • Complete the Jillian Michaels’ 30 Day Shred workout program, blog about results.
  • Start making more things in the kitchen, starting with lemon cutout cookies with earl gray frosting.
  • Make some things for my apartment. Rehab some old garage sale finds or something.
  • Make my apartment a nice place to be. I’ll only be there for like 6-7 more months, so it’s not that big a deal, but it’d still be nice for it to feel homey and less like a cave with poster adhesive left behind on the walls.

Social Media Gurus

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Everyone knows a social media guru. A social media guru is someone who was an early-ish adopter of Twitter, who started calling themselves a guru one day and somehow people started accepting it. (Or at least, nobody called them out on it.) You don’t have to have any special skills or training to be a guru; you just have to tweet mundane things every so often and occasionally tweet about tweeting. Continue reading …


Journal

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I’ve kept a journal at LiveJournal.com since 2002. I recently decided to delete it, but saved all my entries from August of 2004 onwards.

I used the lj book tool to extract all my entries in PDF form. Then I went to LuLu.com to order copies of my journal entries, in hardcover format. And today, they arrived!

This means I am now officially a published author! And I’ve sold three books! All single copies, all to myself, yes; but I’m not one to worry about the details. The books are really beautiful, despite the fact that I didn’t take the time to design a cover or anything– this was just a bare bones standard basic design.

This is a really great option for self-publishing, and this might be a great way to bring blog content to another audience. I don’t intend to share additional copies of my journal, and doubt anyone would be interested anyway. Regardless, it was such an easy process, I would encourage anyone to give it a try.