I always say I should blog more often. Then I don’t. I make notes to myself while at work, or out and about, and then once I get home I get sucked into something else (reading, cooking, dog park, house chores, etc… ) and then I completely forget. It’s always something I will get to later.

I guess alot of it comes down to feeling as though my life is boring. Mundane. Bland. My weekly schedule is essentially sleep, work, cook, read, sleep. Rinse and repeat. The weekend brings some distraction, but by the time it rolls around the last thing I want to do is look at a computer screen sadly. Especially with the nice weather here and the amount of house and yard I have to take care of there is always something else to do.

Anyway, for those who don’t know. I started a new job this month. It’s with a local IT company as a web specialist. I am back to doing what I love and loving every single minute of it. I’ve just finished up my first project and I have a client coming in next week to teach them how to use WordPress. It feels good to be back to doing what I love. Creating well designed websites that are SEO friendly and easy for even a novice user to update. As well as working in SEO again, and soon PPC.

I also have a monster sized binder to study because I am going to be AdWords certified again. The test has seriously changed since I last took it, but between the study aids from Google and a book from work, I think I will have it handled. I barely studied last time and passed so I am pretty confident.

All in all, things are really great right now. I just finished up reading the Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin and I’m on Season 1 Episode 2 of Game of Thrones, so maybe I won’tĀ disappearĀ again? Not making any promises, but I can’t think of anything else I want to read right now, and typically that is what grabs my attention away from being online and/or playing video games. Of course, I do have Diablo 3 coming out in a couple weeks, so I can’t promise anything.

How has everyone else been? I miss anything fun?

You know you’ve been blogging for a really long time when you login to post and you’re greeted by this on your dashboard:

And that’s just the archives I have saved over the years. In all I’ve probably lost around 500 some odd posts through shear negligence on my part. My archives start on January 27th, 2001. This year marks 11 years of blogging online, starting with livejournal, then blogger, then self hosted. It’s kind of crazy to think about.

I am thinking though that alot of the very old stuff I may make private. It’s old, and reflects a much younger, and stupider me and while I enjoy having the archives, I don’t really feel the need at this point to share them publicly. So if anyone has any suggestions for a good plugin that would make older entries private and/or lock them, it would be greatly appreciated =).

So with the party this coming week, Bill and I are trying to put some finishing touches on the house in it’s current state (we still need to paint each room, etc…). Last night Bill brought in our bedframe and we rearranged the bedroom. This also involved moving his dresser to a better location for the television. When he moved it, this is what we found:

I think our kitten needs an intervention.