Note: This was supposed to be published two weeks ago, but when I thought I clicked publish, it was actually unpublished.
I haven't published much over the past few months. It's not because I haven't been cooking and eating and drinking really delicious wine, but really, all of the other things called life that get in the way.
Boot camp started in April, I found out that the fun and challenging sports conditioning class that substituted for Boot Camp over the long, long winter was now available on Fridays, meaning three 6AM gym times each week. I started playing ultimate frisbee once a week at the beginning of June. The sun came out, which meant more running outside. Plus I still try to do my "regular" workouts (40 minutes on the elliptical seems like such a low stress workout now). All of this means that exercise time has increased a bunch. And on top of that, work became much, much busier, but that's good. And if you were wondering, I have survived the recent well-publicized cuts that Bill's empire doled out.
Oh, and let me repeat: the sun has come out. I can't even explain how that has changed everything about Seattle. Life is so much better with a daily dose of sun, limited layers and almost zero threat of snow.
And finally, I just wasn't feeling motivated. This blog is created with software that is painful to use and has caused me more than a few grey hairs. I thought that upgrading to the newest version would mean "easier" to use and make changes, but alas, that has not happened. I manage to get pictures posted, but, it's a multi-step process that I find ridiculous and stupid. I really, really would like to add a list of "blogs that I read and recommend", but despite hours spend reviewing the instructions written by and for engineers, obviously, haven't figured it out. I'd like add some of the cool templates as backgrounds, but for some reason, clicking "add template" does not actually and automatically add the template. I recently attended a Seattle Food Bloggers meet-up, and found myself getting emotional about how hard I thought Moveable Type was to use as a blogging tool and how the dread associated with using the tool made me less than motivated to write. I may have cried later that evening.
So I'm at odds about whether or not to keep this blog. I may move musings.schelley.org to a different blogging service (fellow bloggers mentioned that Wordpress was much easier, and a colleague loves posterous.com, and no worries, the address will stay the same and should be transparent to all of you). I may take a long break and put this blog on hiatus. I'm also working on another idea, which could shape up into a new blog. Never fear, this would still be food related, but albeit, from a much different angle than what I've had with this one.
I'll keep you posted. In the meantime, if you have any strong thoughts about this blog - should I keep it? Should I go elsewhere? Should I do something different? - please ping me.
