Oh Nuts

I want to start off by saying that I am not the best at being organized. Whether it’s with blogging, writing a story, or in life. Sometimes I can be organized, but that doesn’t happen very often. taken by me in 2017 Normally when I blog, I am sitting at one end of my dining room table since I don’t have my own desk space. But over the holidays my laptop and everything that normally sits on the table has been in my backpack since two of my siblings came home for several weeks and then we had two parties at our house. So I have been a little bit more organized than I normally am. Though when it’s not the holidays and we aren’t hosting what feels like a million events at our house, my laptop is out on the table. And I typically have a notebook or two, some pens and other items, like mail and my car keys sitting next to my laptop. Of course, I do try to keep things organized when I am camped out at the table for a while either writing a novel/story or working on a blog pos...

As I mentioned in my last post I started another Instagram account titled "The Knit Potato," and that I was going back and forth about starting another blog to share all of my knitting updates and ideas on. Well, I have decided to make the jump and start another blog, also entitled " The Knit Potato ." There is also a Facebook page with the same name where I will be sharing the blog posts as well as Instagram posts. Photo by  Andrew Buchanan  on  Unsplash In case you missed it in my last post the story behind the name "The Knit Potato" is because I own a shirt that says 'If I'm sitting, I'm knitting' on it as well as the phrase couch potato. So I randomly combined the words knit and potato and created the name. It also came about because I follow an Instagram account, and Facebook page, that is called 'Knitatude.' And I wanted to do something that was fun and showed a bit of who I am. So that is how I came to 'The Knit Po...

The day I first started blogging was November 8, 2009. Yes, that long ago, though it doesn't feel like it some times. My first blog, which has since been closed and deleted, was called "Shieldmaiden of God." Some of what I have shared here has been similar to what I had written there. taken by me in Panera Bread Part of the reason why I got into blogging was that my sister and a long time family friend both had blogs at the time and I enjoyed reading what they wrote. In the 4 years that I had my first blog, I had fun learning about creating a blog as well as finding a niche of sorts to write it. I believe credit for the name of my first blog goes to my older sister, but I don't remember if she came up with the exact wording or of she suggested some ideas and I created the wording. Either way, my first blog was called "Shieldmaiden of God." When I first created this blog my original plan was to mainly share writing-related things. And while I still ...

The trouble with writing books, papers, blog posts, etc. is coming up with a topic to write about. Sometimes the ideas come easy and sometimes they don't. For me, I have a hard time writing and coming up with blog posts to write. taken by me Right now I currently have 6 blog posts waiting in my draft box. I did start writing a couple sentences for two of the posts, but then I stopped because I couldn't think of what to say next. I know that I am not the only person who has this problem, but it is still frustrating. Tonight while I was sitting in Adoration, I started writing up a draft for one of my blog post ideas and on my way home I realized that two of the ideas that I had, and had started posts for, were very similar in ideas. So instead of having two different posts on the same topic, or closely related topics, I decided to combine the two and see where it goes. Of course, knowing how my mind works, I will keep finding new ideas for blog posts. So I don't kn...