All Blogged Out

This week I’m all blogged out. Isn’t that an awful word? When a friend suggested I start a blog I was not enthused. I don’t know if it was because it sounded like hard work, meant more time in front of a computer and less time with the kids or perhaps it was just the name.

But two years later, I have finally relented. I have filed all my published stories on the joys and tribulations of family life, along with images, into my blog. There is also a message board where visitors can suggest ideas.

I’m certainly not computer savvy but, after the past week, I feel like a total IT geek. I also feel like shite. How do IT gurus do this for a living? It just left me feeling like an absolute sloth who doesn’t get out. A sloth with a thumping headache.

After two days of trying to crack the code to insert a “Like” button, I finally did it and promptly came up for air in search of a glass of celebratory champagne. Friends came over for fish and chips which was a welcome break out from the computer. But, during this time, my inbox had been beeping and, just before bed, I went over to check. It was comments on my new blog. But how had they seen it when I hadn’t launched it?!

It turned out after I had cracked the Like button, I’d tried it out, which subsequently showed up in everyone’s newsfeed on Facebook, thereby directing them to my site.

This was not cool. It needed some serious editing before I considered it ready. Staying up till midnight with my thumping headache I finally called it a day and switched off. Except I didn’t switch off. When I did sleep, I was dreaming of Like button codes, gadgets and widgets (another IT word I learnt).

When I woke – all widgeted out - the headache had intensified and I decided this was not healthy. I could even feel a cold coming on. Still, I couldn’t resist checking what was going on in my blog land and was pleased to see popular New Zealand family therapist, tv presenter and author Diane Levy had subscribed and agreed to offer advice from time to time on various subjects.

Since inadvertently launching my blog I’ve tried to stay away from the computer and no longer dream of widgets and codes. It’s all raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens from now on.

Anyhow, if you can be bothered, go to my blog site and check it out: http://kiddykaos.blogspot.co.nz/ and please test the Like button on the way out. After all the trouble you now know it took, it would almost be rude not too. ;)

But you’ll have to excuse me, I need to get away from the computer and rejoin the real world. And, right now, I fancy running across the hilltops with Julie Andrews.