Spring Cleaning
Oh - you thought I meant actual, housewifey type spring cleaning. Nope. To be honest, I haven't even cleaned the bathrooms in longer than I want to admit. Please, whatever you do, don't look too closely inside my kitchen drawers. I can't figure out how we've managed to accumulate so many crumbs in the utensils drawers in the 7 months since they were installed - I mean, only clean utensils go in there!
But that's another story. This post is about the recent spruce-up on the old blog. My darling husband finally rigged up the server to produce awesome website useage statistic reports from all the raw data it's been collecting since forever. Let me tell you, it's fun to see what key words people used to land at my site. I could write a whole post on that alone. It boils down to a lot of knitting terminology, baby related stuff, and people trying to figure out how to clean Sharpie markers off various things. But to continue the spring cleaning thread...seeing the actual statistics made me realize that I really do get a little crowd of visitors to my site every day. I know many of them probably don't make it over to the blog, or if they do they don't bother reading all the drivel that I spew. Most of my friends and family who visit will readily admit that they scroll for pictures and that's just fine.
Still, I started to feel a little self-conscious about how shabby the little things were around here. First, the column to the far right had those spots that said edit-me where I was supposed to fill in links for people to click on. It's pretty sad when you haven't taken the time to figure out how to put a few links up - especially since most of the rest of the site is hard-coded HTML. So I took a little initiative. While I was at it, I found a halfway decent photo of myself and stuck it in my profile so everyone can look at me while they read my drivel and admire my kids.
As far as the links go - I only included what I consider my favorite blogs in there. The ones that I really like to check every day. There are probably as many more again that I read when I'm procrastinating on getting something done like bills paid or a blog entry written. Most of these are very popular blogs and I am very late to the party in linking to them.
Finally, I changed the blog name. When I set this place up, I couldn't think of anything better than "Shelly's Blog". Every time I looked at it, I thought "I've got to think of a better name." Finally, I crackled a few synapses in the brain and came up with Heathen Housewife. I mean no disrespect to any religion or religious people by this title. I'm using the term heathen in the sense of simply not following any of the organized religions. Housewife, while sometimes considered a derogatory, anti-feminist term, really kind of does honestly describe my vocation at the moment, and like other derogatory terms, loses its negative power if you own it and take pride in it. So there.
I hope you enjoy the pine-fresh scent and visit early and often. Oh - and back to those stats for a minute. I *know* I'm getting several good-sized handfuls of visitors to the blog every single day. I no longer have to doubt whether anyone is reading my drivel, or at least looking at the pictures. Would it kill you to leave a comment now and again? Let me know who you are, what you think, say whatever you want! I double-dog dare you!
But that's another story. This post is about the recent spruce-up on the old blog. My darling husband finally rigged up the server to produce awesome website useage statistic reports from all the raw data it's been collecting since forever. Let me tell you, it's fun to see what key words people used to land at my site. I could write a whole post on that alone. It boils down to a lot of knitting terminology, baby related stuff, and people trying to figure out how to clean Sharpie markers off various things. But to continue the spring cleaning thread...seeing the actual statistics made me realize that I really do get a little crowd of visitors to my site every day. I know many of them probably don't make it over to the blog, or if they do they don't bother reading all the drivel that I spew. Most of my friends and family who visit will readily admit that they scroll for pictures and that's just fine.
Still, I started to feel a little self-conscious about how shabby the little things were around here. First, the column to the far right had those spots that said edit-me where I was supposed to fill in links for people to click on. It's pretty sad when you haven't taken the time to figure out how to put a few links up - especially since most of the rest of the site is hard-coded HTML. So I took a little initiative. While I was at it, I found a halfway decent photo of myself and stuck it in my profile so everyone can look at me while they read my drivel and admire my kids.
As far as the links go - I only included what I consider my favorite blogs in there. The ones that I really like to check every day. There are probably as many more again that I read when I'm procrastinating on getting something done like bills paid or a blog entry written. Most of these are very popular blogs and I am very late to the party in linking to them.
Finally, I changed the blog name. When I set this place up, I couldn't think of anything better than "Shelly's Blog". Every time I looked at it, I thought "I've got to think of a better name." Finally, I crackled a few synapses in the brain and came up with Heathen Housewife. I mean no disrespect to any religion or religious people by this title. I'm using the term heathen in the sense of simply not following any of the organized religions. Housewife, while sometimes considered a derogatory, anti-feminist term, really kind of does honestly describe my vocation at the moment, and like other derogatory terms, loses its negative power if you own it and take pride in it. So there.
I hope you enjoy the pine-fresh scent and visit early and often. Oh - and back to those stats for a minute. I *know* I'm getting several good-sized handfuls of visitors to the blog every single day. I no longer have to doubt whether anyone is reading my drivel, or at least looking at the pictures. Would it kill you to leave a comment now and again? Let me know who you are, what you think, say whatever you want! I double-dog dare you!
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