Organized? Not so Much
I really need to get this blog more organized. Since I’m not an organized person, it makes it kind of difficult. So I’m blaming it on Cat, she can take responsibility while I shirk it, I’m not above that. I’ll use her picture again to throw everyone off.
My blogroll really doesn’t reflect all the blogs I now read, but my method of reading them is pretty much a digital Rube Goldberg contraption. I find one I like and quickly bookmark it. But I use four different browsers depending on which email account I’m using. Oh yeah, and then there’s the bits of paper too. Very low tech but I do use it on occasion. I just can’t locate the bits later. Or I write over them, making it difficult to read. I KNOW it’s disorganized, I just can’t help it.
My favorite delivery method is an email notice that there’s a new post. This is a visual cue for me to go directly to the blog cause I like to read posts where they were created. In case there’s cool pictures and stuff.
I tried taking off some blogs from my blogroll that haven’t posted for months. That didn’t work out so well because I keep thinking they might. I took one off and now I have to put it back on because what if he posts, I’ll miss it and he’s funny.
I took someone’s old blog off and forgot to put his new one on, geez. And I think he’s mad at me now. He made some kind of Freudian slip and buried me. He changed my name to Tomb of the Ancient. Take that you forgetful Tome, dig your way out of there, I dare you! See I’m getting in all kinds of trouble here.
So I’m going to locate as many of the bookmarked ones as I can and add them. The bits of paper ones may be more of a challenge. But I guess I can do it a little at a time. And the feedreader ones and the WordPress following ones and the …
If my blogroll starts to take five minutes to scroll through will I look greedy? Oh hell, I’ll just throw caution to the wind and take that risk. And really, whatever happens it’s all Cat’s fault anyway.
June 2, 2012 at 7:36 pm
I know exactly what you mean.
My blogroll… I haven’t touched it in months, maybe almost a year *ashamed*
That picture of Cat though, wow, really nice. I keep looking at it, the light is so good, makes it blend perfectly.
June 2, 2012 at 7:40 pm
I know, I read all these blogs through various methods but they weren’t on my blogroll which seemed wrong but I never gathered them in one lump to add. At least I’ve made a start.
I will tell her you like her picture, she’ll be very flattered!
June 2, 2012 at 7:37 pm
Oh my, woman you are killing me with laughter. Oh and I use 3 browsers too, one for each email so i don’t have to keep logging out. Tomb of the Ancient… Too funny. Though my blog is mislabeled somewhere as the daily frostworld so…
Don’t let Cat organize it. she might take all the other Druid blogs out so she gets all the attention!
June 2, 2012 at 7:45 pm
Oh good, I’m not the only one, I have so many internet aliases there aren’t enough different browsers to go around for all my email addresses.
She would do that too! Especially now that she’s seen Navi’s incredibly beautiful commission!
June 2, 2012 at 11:56 pm
I know where it is mislabeled…
one of my favorites: http://vimeo.com/21369122
June 3, 2012 at 7:15 am
OMG! That is me! Just except for the taking a nap part, how does he know me!
June 2, 2012 at 9:48 pm
WE HAVE THE SAME NONMETHOD OF ORGANIZATION.
And I really have to get on building a blog roll, ughhhhhh /procrastinate
June 3, 2012 at 7:00 am
I know, organization, I don’t need no stinking organization … well yeah I do but I don’t haz it, lol.
At first I agonized over building one and now I agonize over pruning it because they might, just might come back!
June 4, 2012 at 11:35 pm
I understand completely. Never give up hope, we wouldn’t want to miss anything. 🙂
June 2, 2012 at 9:56 pm
ROFL!!!
I thought dis-organized was a way of life for me. Along with *brain to finger* malfunctions.
June 3, 2012 at 7:02 am
Yeah, what are you going to do, just have to work around it, lol. Although it drives my husband insane as he’s more a “date when you changed the batteries in the smoke detector” kind of guy.
June 3, 2012 at 2:10 am
HAHA. Tomb of the Ancient. Hilarious!
My feed reader in WordPress is getting pretty huge now. But I also use the social blogroll for visual cues too. I’ve since found that people (like you) who subscribe to me by email, can’t really miss any of most posts when I publish multiple times a day – which they tell me they prefer, so I’m glad 🙂
June 3, 2012 at 7:05 am
I love getting emails! I don’t delete them until I’ve seen the post so even if I can’t get to it right away I won’t forget, it’s a perfect reminder!
June 3, 2012 at 3:39 am
Nothing like a tidy, complete & updated blogroll. Mine is none of these things but I know how much I’d love it if it was.
June 3, 2012 at 7:09 am
I did prune it a little, people who hadn’t posted for a long, long, time. Although I left some that said they weren’t coming back and then added some that I’d deleted back on just in case. And then added a bunch more. So it seems even when I’m being organized I do it in a disorganized fashion. Sigh.
June 3, 2012 at 3:36 pm
Hey Tome, I love the picture, done well there. Tomb, sounds like something I’d do, I called Cymre, Cryme for the longest time. No idea why.
June 3, 2012 at 4:43 pm
Lol! I kind of like Cryme! I probably do it too, I just haven’t got myself yet.
June 4, 2012 at 9:50 am
I cheat– I use the plugin WP Social Blogroll that shows a real-time faux-rss feed on my sidebar. I’ve tweaked the settings so that it gives me the last days worth of posts from everyone (mostly). I should be good and go back and take out all the folks who haven’t posted in over a year… but, err, yeaaaah. *cleans something else instead*
We won’t get into the fact that I still need to add all the Camp NaNoWriMo folks and that there are a bunch of new WoW blogs that I follow manually. And the Diablo blogs. And the model horse blogs. I really should get up off my duff and–Squirrel!*wanders off to paint a small plastic horse silly colors instead*
Heh 😉
June 4, 2012 at 10:09 am
Oh, I love that, it looks like it’s part of the package with blogger blogs and I’m so jealous. It’s things like that make me think about self-hosting so I could have it but there’s the whole lazy me part too!
The horsies must be painted! I had so many horse models when I was younger, unfortunately that collection was one of the many things lost in moving place to place so I love to look at them!