{"id":1482,"date":"2010-01-13T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/katrina.effexhost.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/13\/thoughts-on-blogging-and-2010\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T22:57:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T22:57:33","slug":"thoughts-on-blogging-and-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/13\/thoughts-on-blogging-and-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts On Blogging and 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not very often that I come here and just write these days. I guess I get caught up in my days and making sure that I hit the themed posts that I don&#8217;t jut write to write. I want to change that. It&#8217;s my &#8220;secret&#8221; dream to one day come here and find that people have found my specialty posts that I&#8217;ve created and started linking to them like I link to so many others. I see other blogs like <a href=\"http:\/\/5minutesformom.com\/\">5minutesformom.com<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/orgjunkie.com\/\">orgjunkie.com<\/a> and how well loved they are and how many comments they receive and I&#8217;m envious. I want that for this blog.<\/p>\n<p>I want more than that though. I want to be up in front of crowds speaking and teaching things. I want to combine my love of organizing with my love of helping others and turn it into a career. I want to teach people how getting rid of the clutter in their lives with help to relieve the clutter in their minds. I want this blog to be the place people come when they need a tip on organizing or living a greener lifestyle. I want people to come here and laugh with me and cry with me and to feel as if they&#8217;ve found a new best friend.<\/p>\n<p>I want a lot and while I may not know how to get to the end result, I know that the first step must begin with me. I know that before I can change the world, I have to change me. I know that before I can go out and organize a single room or home, I have to organize my own. I know that if I want to do what others are doing, I have to find out how they&#8217;re doing it. I need to learn. I need to grow. Enough making excuses as to why I haven&#8217;t done something but it&#8217;s time to find joy in the fact that I *am* doing things. There will be changes to this blog. I have things I want to add to it, specifically a Saturday post idea. Will it take off? Who knows..but it&#8217;s a step that I need to take for me and hopefully others can learn and grow from it as well.<\/p>\n<p>As for right now, I&#8217;m going to enjoy what remains of my delicious Paula Deen candle and perhaps sort some more Christmas items while I wait for the plumber to arrive. Hopefully by the end of the day, my toilet will no longer be leaking and my shower walls will no longer be flapping.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s227.photobucket.com\/albums\/dd163\/kroets\/?action=view&amp;current=Name2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i227.photobucket.com\/albums\/dd163\/kroets\/Name2.jpg\" alt=\"Photobucket\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not very often that I come here and just write these days. I guess I get caught up in my days and making sure that I hit the themed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2780,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions\/2780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}