Most of you know that my mom had a heart attack and has been in the hospital. I haven’t written anything in about two weeks. And now I’m so busy at my full time job, I have been bringing work home with me. Spring is never a good time to try to do anything but my job. 😦
Anyway, I’m setting new goals. For this round, my goal is to not beat myself up over what I haven’t gotten done. For round two, one of my goals is to finish round one’s project if I didn’t get finished, then work on something new. See, I can stay positive about things!
And can I rant a little about why I dislike Blogspot (I’m sorry for those of you who use it, but…)? Anyway, I can deal with having to key in my “open id” and specify that it’s WordPress. I don’t mind keying in the captcha letters (WordPress does this, too), but I run in to constant glitches. One is that sometimes the captcha letters don’t show up until I’ve clicked “post” several times. Then, today, as a ROW80 sponsor, I tried to comment on one of the posts to give encouragement, even though my time is limited right now. And I got this crazy message that my open ID credentials could not be verified! And I had just commented on another post on Blogspot and it worked fine. I tried several times, but to no avail. Now I can’t comment on the blog that I’m supposed to be a sponsor for this week. So, for those of you who use Blogspot…do you have issues like this when you’re commenting on WordPress blogs? Or is it just the other way around?
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Yay for new goals! Just hang in there and keep a positive attitude. Like they say “Rome wasn’t built in a day!” But don’t you know they would have liked to have had a ROW80 to build it? You know less stress and all? HeeHee! 🙂
And I’m so glad your mom is home and doing better.
I’ve had the same problem posting to Blogspot too sometimes. Guessing it’s just a glitch they have. Maybe they will get it fixed.
Well, at least you’ll have a little extra time on that gnome cover. LOL
I dunno. Commenting on WordPress has mostly been easy. I just haven’t been able to get my avatar to post. I like Blogspot for the ease of design (mostly). I’ve had more frustrations with working with WordPress at work and trying to set up another blog through it.
I hope your mom is stabilizing. I commiserate with the work load at this time of year. I came pretty close to having a complete meltdown in my boss’s office this afternoon. I am only 1 human being and can only do so much in the hours that I have there. I’m sorry to hear that you’re bringing work home. Work stress reduces brain cells for writing later…
I can’t get my WordPress avatar to come through on Blogspot either. LOL
I know that your full time job is a lot like mine this time of year. If I can get through March and April, I’ll have more time to focus on writing.
Mom is doing good. That’s a load off my mind. Of course, I’m still going to be concerned, but I can’t dwell on it all the time.
Glad to hear your mom is doing good. I don’t know why the blogs can’t just all get along. It’s like the PC vs Mac thing. I knew it was going to be extra crazy this time of year at work–especially this year. Unfortunately, there’s no real ‘down time’ to look forward to. Yes…I’m thankful that I’m gainfully employed, though. Don’t want to sound ungrateful 🙂 (Of course, the rant on my blog about health insurance is a whole ‘nother Oprah.)
Eeep I hope your mum recovers quickly and gets to come home soon 😦 My nan just got out of hospital after a hip replacement, which was a huge relief, because at first she was seriously ill because of the pain medication/anaesthetic.
As for blogs, I’ve never had a problem posting on blogs, but once or twice, people have told me that they’ve had issues posting on mine (blogspot), where it either won’t verify or it will just lose what they had written. Then again, a lot of other people post on it with no problem. I also find that avatars don’t seem to show up if you’re posting on a different type of blog to your own (eg. blogspot user posting on a wordpress blog).
Rebecca, my mom is home and doing much better. My youngest son is staying with her right now, and he doesn’t know it, but I’m getting him an ereader as a gift for what he’s doing. He’s going to be so surprised! :0)
I wish the blogs would get along like Michelle said. I would comment more often, I think, if I didn’t have so many issues.
Sorry things have been so tough for you but you have the right attitude, no need to beat yourself up about things you can’t control. I hope this month gets easier and that by round two everything is back to normal for you.
Yeah, blogspot is kinda bad for commenting. I wish I hadn’t gone with blogspot this time. In saying that, once I commented on a wordpress blog and it seemed like it linked to somebody else’s info – I don’t know, it was weird.
Thanks Claire. I’m not really the type of person to moan and groan and feel bad about what I haven’t gotten done. I mean, I like to challenge myself, but I still understand that things happen. Hopefully, round two will be better.
Blogs….what can you do? *shrugs*