Grow Yer Mo and an Update

Hello everyone!

Oh I know its been a while....4 months to be exact, Plonkers.

My blogging has taken a back seat to real life for about a year now...

Being a full-time working mum of two very busy girls and a very busy social life, its hard to find time to blog every day.  I'm actually not sure how I did it for 7 years before that?  I guess you just make time - like everything else.  Well, during those 7 years I did get a little side tracked by the blogging community and so I wanted to take some time to refocus on what I really wanted to do and where I wanted to spend my time.  You can so easily get sucked into the blogging world and spending more time speaking to faces you've never met, than spending the time with the REAL people in your life.  By real people, I mean family and friends you see in real life on a regular basis.  I'm not saying that the blogging community are not REAL.  Not at all!  I'm just saying they are online relationships with awesome, real people that you've never met.

I am still quite a social media whore and I'm now on FB, Twitter and Instagram mostly.  Some of you have found me on Twitter and follow me there, some of you on Instagram.  My FB is mainly for family and very close friends.  I don't have hundreds of Friends that I post random shit to.  I use it mainly to keep in touch with family overseas and far away.  Kind of like my blog actually, thats why I started it all those years ago.



Something that has changed in my life, is that I've found a love for running, specifically trail running.  I've always been pretty active, going to gym and Pilates but I never thought running would become part of my life as previously it always came across as something really BORING.  Well, for me its time to think, time to put my favourite music on full blast in my ears and enjoy the alone time. 

So, its Movember Plonkers which means all those men here in South Africa are growing their facial hair to create awareness for men's health, specifically cancer but also things like depression in men and prostate health.  The aim is to Grow Yer Mo aka Moustache in showing support for these causes.

My Boerewors aka Hubby is taking part and is trying to raise money for the cause over HERE.  Go check him out and make a pledge.
 
Are you taking part in Movember?

So, how have you all been??  I'd love to hear from you. 

Leave a comment and say hello. 

I have noticed a lot of my previous follows are not blogging anymore either.  I really have to update my reading list....eeek!  lots of work to do to catch up with my blog. It's possible that I may be redesigning the look of the blog as I find it a little outdated.  It's not going to be over-night though, it will be gradual.

The Glamourus Day of a Blogger

• You use your precious holidays and savings to go to BlogWorld instead of going on a beach holiday.
• You check your Google Analytics everyday.
• You cry when you lose an RSS subscriber.
• You get pissed off when someone unfollows you on Twitter.
• You go into depression when your article gets rejected from a Carnival.
• You tweet about how much you hate your hosting company.
• You threaten in your tweets how you will cut off your hosting company.
• You change your hosting company and then months later start tweeting how much you hate your new hosting company.
• You have registered more than 5 URL domains and dream that one day someone will pay you big bucks for them.
• You tweet about how many subscribers you have and ask your audience to help get more, more, more!
• You've seen the move Social Network at least five times.
• You throw yourself a party when you hit 100 subscribers.
• You tell your parents and friends to comment regularly because you’re concerned about nobody saying anything.
• You spend more time blogging than kissing your husband.
• You constantly use the term “A-listers” when describing your experiences with other bloggers.
• You blog about blogging so you can comment on Blogger more about blogging with your blogging buddies.
• You are a Social Media Consultant, slash Expert.
• You started a blogging network.
• Your blog is a part of a blogging network.
• You change your Gravitar every quarter and of course you like the movie Avatar.
• You constantly tweak your blog with this and that design while nobody notices any changes.
• You need to buy new underwear because you're too busy blogging.
• You fantasise about meeting up with other bloggers more than anybody else.
• You’d rather have 1000 more subscribers than a six pack abs and a hot boyfriend.
• You’d rather have 10 000 Twitter followers than a big fat salary.
• You’ve paid hundreds and maybe thousands of dollars on on-line products on how to make money on-line and build a better blog.
• You have a man/woman cave with high-speed internet connection.
• You take your laptop to the loo to have a number two.
• You kick arse at finger wrestling competitions because you type so much.
• You print out eBooks from work so you can read them at the pool, on the beach, or on the bus to and from work.
• Your favorite book is “How To Make Money Blogging.”
• You'd give up your job to blog full time.
• You have chronic back pain or headaches because you're forever hunched over your computer.
• You refer to yourself in the third person on your blog and write that you are the VP of Marketing in your bio.
• You print blogging business cards with button logo and call yourself a ridiculously long pathetic title like, “Founder, Editor in Chief and Head Features Writer.”
• You can’t stop thinking about the strategic scheduling of posts.
• You have a backlog of over 50 draft posts with little to nothing written.
• You Tweet while in meetings at work.
• You moderate comments while in meetings at work.
• You ask your wife, husband, girlfriend, or boyfriend to proof read your posts and type up some ideas during long road trips while you are driving.
• You listen to podcasts on blogging and earning money on-line instead of latest chart hits.
• You can crush peanuts with your butt cheeks because they’ve become rock hard and calloused due to sitting too much.
• You can start your own mini-bookstore thanks to all the books that are sent your way by PR folks who want you to highlight their authors.
• You join the minimalist movement because that’s what’s trending at the moment… also because you have too many books.
• You then start the maximalist movement because you realise it’s no longer cool to be a minimalist since everybody is doing it.
• You can’t get a mortgage because of the unpredictability of your blogging income, so you buy an RV instead and meet your followers.
• You tweet your whereabouts on FourSquare and hoping other blogging addicts are around so you can do a tweet-up at Comic Con.
• You go to your optometrist and she pulls out the biggest “E, D, F, G” vision card and all you see are hopefully post comments.
• You have a Tweet Meme button and a Share Everything plug-in just in case people can’t see the Tweet Meme button.
• You sometimes have nightmares of accidentally hitting the publish button instead of the save button.
• Your dreams all full of your blogpost going viral.
• You refer to yourself as your Blog name rather than your real name.

The difference between light and hard is that you can sleep with a light on.

I have lost my blog mojo! Would that make it blojo?



I tried looking for it but it wasn’t under the bed, or outside behind the shed. It wasn’t lost at sea, or behind my ear. I think I may have accidentally thrown it out with my Cupboard Clutter.


How do I find it and get my blog groove back, Plonkers?


I used to start writing a blog post with a clean sheet of paper and a dirty mind. My blog posts used to be funny and entertaining. Now the are just "and".


All I can think about is how tired I am and how much I need a holiday. Seems like I’m not the only one feeling like this. I speak to friends, family, colleagues and they all say that it’s that time of year when everyone is grumpy and irritated.


I am no exception. I’m grumpier than and old woman with sore tits, a wet pair of parachute knickers and an itchy fanny.


Only boring people are brilliant at breakfast.


Okay, here is my hypothesis:


It is because I lack BlogFuel©.


Yes, blogging fuel. Everyone has their own preference of BlogFuel©. For me it is potato crisps. I'm referring to real crisps – the authentic potato chip, not those sissy corn-puff crisps that vanish when you put them in yer mouth. I’m particularly partial to beef flavour. Mexican chilli is a close second.


Och, don’t tell me you don’t have a perculiar ritual that you execute while blogging. Don’t say you don’t munch on your desired grub while moderating your comments and contemplating Google Reader.


BlogFuel© makes us think better and blog better? If you disagree, then I’m dippier than  @TheEllenShow on Twitter.


Don’t fucking judge me. 

I need to blog on a full tank!


You see, lately all I’ve been eating is Bok-Kos aka bunny chow aka salad and veggies. I’m permanently on diet because I’ve put on so much weight since I stopped smoking 10 months ago. I have been enduring a whole lot of low-fat shite and restricting my sugar intake, so BlogFuel© has not been promptly accessible.


I think I’ve lost my blog mojo because of my lack of BlogFuel©.


They say you loose yer mojo when you’re stressed or surrounded with clutter. I recently cleared out my Cupboard Clutter to make space for more shoes.  Seems like no one is interested in taking it off my hands yet, so perhaps I’ve lost my blog mojo because of all the time I've been dedicating to creating order and shipshape cupboards.


BlogFuel© is my self-invented word. Use it well, my blogger chums.


I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Wait! I’ve had yet another Brain Fart!


No, no a make that a Brand Fart!


I should start my own line of potato crisps called BlogFuel©.


Flavours will include; RSS Feed-Yer-Face Roast Beef, PingBack Prawn, Subcribe Spicy Salsa and Follower Fruit Chutney to start off with.


I’ll fucking kill it! Its already patented, Fuckers so don’t think of stealing my idea.


At first, I’ll market them here on my blog and when it takes off, it will go global.


I’ll be the next fucking Bill Gates!


Stand back, watch this space.


Fame and Fortune ensues.


Fuel Up!

BlogFuelly Yours,

Blog Till You Drop!

Step aside Facebook, Diggit, Bebo...blogging is my addiction.

My blog often gives me sleepless nights as I get an idea when I'm in bed at night half asleep (this is when I get my best thoughts, memories and ideas) and then by morning I've forgotten it. I get so cross with myself so I've started keeping a notepad and pen next to my bed at night in case I am lying there with thoughts and ideas...

Last night was a perfect example. I had clear recollections of living in Scotland and flashbacks of memories of family - what things looked like, how things smelled, what was said, etc. I knew if I went back to sleep, I'd forget all those thoughts and feelings so I got up at 2am this morning, went outside on the patio for a smoke and started writing. I went through two smokes and eventually got back to bed at 3:13am.

Silly or wot?

Anyway, this got me thinking...the blog of mine has taken lots of time and effort and that I share loads of stuff here and on my other Blog "A Daft Scots Lass". This site is my new creation since I started tracing ancesters and building my family tree. I've now gone back 18 generations and I'm addicted to that too. I can't wait to get my family tree up and running on an image so that I can share it with everyone. There are so many interesting people in my family (now and then) and so many stories to tell. I just can't file the information away quick enough. My way of filing it away (so that I can get some sleep at night) is to blog it.

So this is my daily dose of drivel for you...

Wikapedia has nothing on me...

So those of you who have NOT started blogging yet, shame on you!

Get a blog address and start blogging today...can't wait to see them all.

Don't forget to forward me the links on gillian@homemakers-sa.co.za so that I can follow you and read what you have to say too.