I May Go Crawling Back to Blogger

So I spent hours over the weekend reorganizing the blog. I tried to customize my theme - yeah, I realize that it's not the most exciting theme right now, but I tried, okay? I also upgraded my Wordpress, which should require just pushing a button but naturally it never works that way for me.

But I don't want any of you to focus on that. I want you to notice that my blogroll is gone. I made it into a separate page at the top called "I Would Actually Clean For These People". Someday I hope to have little blurbs about everyone, but I ran out of energy yesterday. I'm sorry. If you are reading this post and you are not on that page, let me know in the comments or in email (jen@jerseygirl89.com). I will add you. Unless you are that guy who comes here after searching "sex with dirty socks". I don't want to SEE your website, let alone link to it.

Anyway, I thought a page might be more noticeable and flexible. Of course, you'll have to wait until I figure out why my damn page rank and such disappeared (BEFORE I messed with anything, I swear) for it to help your blog get noticed, but I assume by Christmas everything will be back normal.

Also, you might want to sign up for my rss feed or email subscription over there on the right since since searching for "jerseygirl89" will first lead you to my Blogcatalog page from 2007. But you don't have to. I will still link to you if you leave me a comment because I appreciate you stopping by.

As long as you're not the guy with the dirty socks fetish.

Not Begging. Just Asking Desperately.

When I fantasize about winning the lottery (which is probably more often than is mentally healthy, but better than putting vodka in my water bottle, right?), one of the things I fantasize about  is doing cool things with my blog. I mean, it's not the first thing. I'm not that obsessed. I imagine debt payment, home remodeling and gifts first. But eventually, my mind goes to the blog.

As I discovered quickly when I started this whole staying at home with kids thing, I am not supermom. I have to have something for me. Even if it is writing about staying home with my kids. Anyway, the blogging morphed into writing for a content farm for $$, product reviews for free stuff and money, and putting ads on my site. . .for money. So my first lottery winner/blogger act would be to quit all that stuff.

THEN I would hire a website guru to make my blog all pretty and personalized. Because it was all I could do to set up the blog in the first place. Now I've actually managed to change the theme so that people could find that damn comments (that's why you all haven't been commenting much, right? It's not that half of you are Russians who got here by accident like my stats say. . .right? Right?) but I am still not satisfied.

I do own Wordpress for Dummies. It's just that I've never opened it. I am not technologically gifted. I still don't know how to make a comment and then retweet something on Twitter. So , you know, messing with the code on my blog. . . . .

*shudder*

But I'm really not feeling the purple, either. Just like I didn't feel the 4 other themes I tried today. So I'm looking for suggestions, advice or opinions. Or just random thoughts you're having, so I'll at least know that you can find the comments now.

Thanks.

Haiku Friday - The New Blog

Hope you all can find
weird being in a new place
not sure what to think

so complicated
wordpress not intuitive
or maybe I'm slow

should I read the faqs?
that would probably help me
and be too easy

leave a nice comment
'cuz I do know how to put
you on my blogroll