In news that surprises absolutely nobody, I’ve gone another year where I’ve barely blogged.
I realised earlier this year that it’s not for lack of things to talk about – christ, this year has had some moments – but rather this feeling that every post must be polished, have an accompanying featured image, have the right balance of insight and wit, etc.
Absolute nonsense rules that I made for myself that make no sense as a blogger who doesn’t have ads, sponsors, etc.
It’s not the first time I’ve had this realisation & tbh I’m sure I’ve talked about it before, but it was looking back through some super old posts the other day that made me realise how much that unnecessary rule setting changed me as a blogger. Not that I’m saying my old material was stellar – it definitely wasn’t – but it recorded memories and moments and things that I refer back to in a way that I genuinely miss. I feel like some of my longest, most polished posts say absolutely nothing despite being 1000 words long.
This year has given me moments that I should have poured my heart out over, events that writing about would have been ‘therapy’, but instead I went “head down, plod on”. Didn’t want to bore people, didn’t want to invade others’ privacy, didn’t want to ruffle feathers. When did I become that person?
There’s not really a point to this post. I will likely hit publish and then not write again for 6 months. But maybe, just maybe, there’s a smidgen of a chance that one pointless ramble of a brain dump will inspire another and I’ll go back to blogging – to actually journaling – in a way that works for me.
We’ll see.
With recent posts over here all a bit glum and gloomy, I thought I’d make September (or what’s left of it..!) a bit more chipper, starting with the things I’m loving right now. String & Velvet’s Vintage Maxi Dress I absolutely adore Zara’s Vintage Maxi Dress on String & Velvet. It’s not my size so… read full entry »
I have spent a large part of the past few weeks jumping from one ‘chaos moment’ to another (as per usual) and I was sat on the toilet recently wondering… is this it? Is this what adulting is about? Just about hanging on while you ride the waves of life? I’m being melodramatic — I’m… read full entry »
Once upon a time I spent many, many hours imparting my wisdom on a range of topics – from web development to security, breastfeeding to working from home as a parent and a huge variety of things in between. Unfortunately I seem to have got sucked into using my blog as an outlet for my… read full entry »
I’m in London tomorrow for a blogger event thing — something to do with cooking something, I don’t know, but I get to meet Kip and he’s as grumpy about “mommy bloggers” as I am — and as it’s a year since Gaz and I “did London” the first time so I figured I’d treat… read full entry »
I’m sat at my laptop — nothing new there — with a work todo list as long as my arm because I did very little in the last week (feeling poop) and all I want to do is code. “But Jem, you’re a web developer, work is code?!” I hear you cry. I don’t want… read full entry »
I am sat in the office of the lovely Aisling, in Brighton. Yay! I left Shropshire at 10:45am, and after two stops arrived at 4:30pm. That’s a lot of driving (aka a lot of sitting in road works.) But, the good news is that because I couldn’t get Google Maps to work on my phone… read full entry »
I travelled down to London on Friday to meet up with some folks from the industry (SEO/web) and run a ‘pretty muddy’ Race for Life 5k at Finsbury Park the following morning with the gorgeous Lilian. Both were awesome events, although having consumed far too much wine on Friday night I wasn’t sure I’d be… read full entry »
I want to write about my first week working for myself again but apparently my brain doesn’t work this morning so I’m just going to mention a few things that have made me happy in June. Because YAY POSITIVITY. Firstly, the discovery of these massive ‘palazzo pants’ from Tesco, which I have basically lived in… read full entry »
Not dead Too hot Boxes everywhere Kids snotty Massive workload <3
