I’m not much of a one for routine, structure or planning. Or I wouldn’t be writing this post 17 minutes before the deadline. And I wouldn’t have been sitting up last night finishing off my ten at ten for tots100. But I am, and I was.
Blog life balance. Intriguing. The blog is just a part of my life, has been for such a long time. Sometimes it gets more attention, sometimes less. The whole blogging every day thing wasn’t good for me, though it still irks me that I didn’t make a year, and it still bothers me when I see holes in the calendar. (Sidebar, to your left.) I don’t think it’s blog life balance I’m missing, I think it’s life balance. And I think that’s because I’m still coming to terms with not going out to work. Given the two home educated children, toddler and bump it’s going to be a while before I can seriously consider the going out part of working, but oddly, it’s the blog that’s giving me some income and some clues on what I can do working from home.
I’ve got some plans. A couple more blog type sites that I’m working on launching, that will draw on many of the things I’ve learnt from blogging here. Some technical stuff, some less technical for one site, and some educational bits (from and around the home ed) for the other. I’m hoping that this site will help me to build up a readership for each of the new ones, but realistically, if I want to make a go of them in a business sense, I’ll have to get a bit more organised. It will at least double the word count I’ve been producing in a week for starters!
So maybe I’ll end up with some kind of structure and routine, and it will be the blog that helps me impose it. I’m not sure that’s the way it’s supposed to work. But as always, I’m just making it up.
Written for the Blog/Life Balance Friday Club carnival at Notes from Home.
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