I like reading: books, blogs, Facebook, emails. I like writing: blogs, Facebook, emails, websites.

I don’t do it nearly often enough. I keep saying, “I will blog”. When I sit down to blog, I find half-finished, unpublished posts. The worst thing about that? Some of them had really good points and thoughts that I just hadn’t quite finished yet. I was close and I was on my way there but then I got distracted and didn’t finish. I thought, “I will get back to it” but then I didn’t in any sort of timely manner and lost it. That is how I am with writing. I can’t get those thoughts back once I lose them.

I always think I will blog for a whole month. And then I never do. I saw Reticula’s post about 30 days of blogging and thought, ‘I will do it this time’. I came out to my blog and got mad and angry all over again. Not because Soul-utions Plumbing was the first blog post I saw. Not because I haven’t blogged in three years. Because in the Spring, all my sites got hit … and hard. My fault … I was using a very outdated theme. So, I killed the themes, paid way too much $$ to a company who didn’t fully clean all my sites THEN I found a better solution for a tiny fraction of the cost. Since then, I just haven’t made the time to come out and pick a theme and fix my blog. It is daunting and overwhelming.

Today, I am grateful for my technical skills. Sure, everyone starts their 30 days of gratefulness out with their family. That’s so yesterday (or tomorrow, as the case may be). I need to make my blog pretty again. The first thing I did was look for my header image I created for my blog. I couldn’t find it. I started searching for what I thought it might be named on my computer. I searched in the media folder in WordPress. Finally, I started digging around on my host, looking in all the folders. BINGO! I have uploaded a few variations. They all have a clear background so I can choose what color the background of the site will be and just lay this on top.

You won’t see this blog post right now because my house is a mess and I can’t let you in, it’s just too embarrassing. I mean, you might stumble on by or you might be wondering if I am even home and decide to drop by. That’s okay. I will let you in but I can’t invite you over until the paint is dry. It might take me a day or two to get a fresh coat of paint up and rearrange the furniture. That’s okay. You can visit in a few days. I will still be here.

I have a lot of things I want to do this month. I want to make a 30 Days of Gratefulness book. I want to blog for 30 days. I want to find and organize the toys in my garage for the 3 year old in my life. I want polish my resume and get it sent over to someone in particular. I want to blog. Let’s see how this month unfolds and what all I can get accomplished. I think I have enough PTO days still to burn that I might be able to take a few days to myself to do whatever it is on my November bucket list.