I still have a few tweaks to make, but I figured I’d go ahead and make this live in hopes of it inspiring me to blog over here more. There’s been a lot of good stuff going on lately, and I didn’t want to feel held back by a stale design.
So, yeah. New look. Woot.
This one has a purpose though. An amazing purpose that’s not just navel-gazing for once. I present: X-Files On My Desk.
I know nobody cares, but it bothers me when I’m bad about blogging. Because ultimately I’m keeping this record of my life for myself, as selfish as that sounds, so that in 10 or 20 or 30 or 40 years I can look back and see what I was up to at a certain moment in my life. And laugh at myself, undoubtedly.
So I was going to recap my New Orleans trip and talk all about how awesome the train was, at least for the first couple of hours, and how I liked walking back through the cars as the train was moving, getting jostled from side to side and seeing the world fly by me out the windows the most. And I was going to tell funny and scandalous stories about the times my friends and I had while in New Orleans, starting with how Ian and our friend John started drinking about 8 a.m. on the way down there, and how by the time we got to the train station in Birmingham John had consumed seven beers and a 4Loko and was yelling out the car window as we drove through the ghetto to find a parking lot.
And I was going to detail how excited I was to be in New Orleans and run into an old, old friend of mine—like, someone I was BFFs with all through elementary school—made possible by checking into a bar on Facebook, of all things. And I was going to recount the fun we had at the St. Patrick’s Day parade that night—old friends, current friends, and new friends all celebrating together—and then how Ian got lost for a short period of time and once again Google Maps and GPS on my iPhone saved the day.
But time has passed, and some stories are better recounted in person, told time after time in bars and at cookouts instead of immortalized by the pen of the Internet. Some things are best held close by the people who experienced them, and not everything has to be validated by blog entry or tweet or Facebook update.
But mainly I’m just lazy.
I realized that I talk about my cats and Ian a lot around here and figured that it would be a good idea to add a page that explains who these strangely named characters are. So, if you’re interested, here’s that page. It’s also accessible from the sidebar.
I thought that changing up the design of this blog might help me post more regularly, that maybe it was the stagnancy of template pixels holding me back. But nope. It’s just me.
Here I am, random thoughts and stories kicking around the brain bucket but no motivation to write them all down. Every time I start a post, I get overwhelmed at the idea of relating my thoughts so they make sense on paper and scrap the whole thing.
I go through this funk every so often, and it generally signals that I need to schedule some time with my head and clear out the cobwebs so I can start fresh with writing on a regular basis again. I’m hoping this clearing-of-the-brainwebs also helps jumpstart my photo-taking again, too, because that’s been suffering a bit lately as well.
Finally after a few years I’ve redesigned this blog again. I really loved the previous minimalist theme, but it was time for a change. I’ve still got a bit of housekeeping to do (adding in some links and plugins that I’ve got to restyle, cleaning up some posts, etc.), but after months of debating various themes and tinkering with code—this is it.
For those who are curious, this is the Woo theme Cinch modded a bit. I have never purchased a theme for a personal blog before, but after working with Woo themes on a few work projects I fell in love with them. Their themes are top-notch and very customizable, and their support forum is one of the best I have ever encountered. When I saw they were having a 5-for-1 sale on Cyber Monday, I was in.
One day I’d like to create a logo for this site, but seeing as how I basically suck ass at graphic design that is going to take quite a bit of brainpower and creativity. And beer. Lots of beer.
Yep, I moved. Again.
I edited the RSS feed in Feedburner, but you might want to go ahead and resubscribe, if you’re so inclined, so the new feed for this blog. I’d appreciate it!
So I haven’t really been posting here much lately, but it’s not because I haven’t had anything to say. It’s twofold, really: I haven’t had much time, and I’m actually in the process of moving this blog to a new domain.
You might remember a few months ago I was asking for opinions on .net domains… well, I finally decided that while I am cool with (actually, I like it) people calling me Meg in real life, it just feels weird to refer to myself as such, especially online.
So I secured MeganMorris.net a while back (don’t get too excited; there’s nothing there yet), and have been working on moving this blog over there. The plan was to build out the entire site and relaunch all at once, but handcoding that shit takes time. Maybe I’ll get to it eventually with a minimalist design that totally looks like I wasn’t just lazy. Maybe.
Anyway, if you are interested in the new blog location—stay tuned! (If not, well, then never mind.)
Please excuse the updates going on around here. I decided I wanted a more minimalist theme than what I was using, and now I’m kind of in the middle of editing this one to get it how I’d like it. (Which is kind of fun since it has a lot of php for me to practice with.)
So I apologize if things look a little out of whack. I also have no idea how this looks in IE right now. But I’m probably safe in assuming that like everything else on the Internet viewed in that shittastic excuse for a browser, it looks like ass.
Your patience as I move from wordpress.com to wordpress.org is appreciated! (Aka I’m hosting this shizz myself now and am still cobbling it together.)
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