oh hai.


Whassup friends!
This summer is...almost over. Good job "taking more time to blog--no really I'm serious" Alivia. Reading blogs? I'm a pro. Writing posts? I kinda...forgot to do it on purpose. Like the dishes, you know? Or, like, doing adult things like groceries so you don't have to have ice cream for dinner. Woops, must've forgotten!

So, blogging. I'm going to get good at it again, except, kinda like a bad boyfriend (of which I've had many, but do not have one now. He's lovely), I'm contemplating a break/breakup/unfriending on social media with Blogger.

PROs/CONs of BLOGGER (i.e. the bad boyfriend) Pros:
1. I'm used to Blogger. Six years on one platform will do that to you.
2. I design for Blogger.
3. Brunch in April (on blogger) has ____ followers, not to mention other social media followings. My friends! I met them because of Blogger! I can't leave them behind!
4. I have changed my blog name/url ONE TIME since the beginning of my blogging career. It was for a good reason and I love it. If I change platforms, I think I'd like to change my blog title too...just to encompass who I am better, and that is scary! No platform change, no name change, no stressing about a name change.
5. Some bloggers I know have changed blogs an annoying amount of time and it bugs the shit out of me. I don't wanna be one of those guys!
6. Staying together is easier.

Cons:
1. He doesn't "get me" anymore. Ya know?
2. When I try to expand my horizons to make myself better, he holds me back. Incorporating new and exciting things? Motivational? Nope, nope, nope.
3. He has made my internet life (read: Very Important Part of Alivia's Life) a complete mess. I'm on the focused and inspired road to blogging success, on a wagon if you will, and then I come home to half the house burned down. So instead of Driven, Strong, Xena Warrior Princess blogger, I am Frustrated, Tired Jar Jar Binks blogger. Who has also fallen off a wagon. Goddamn wagon!
4. I find myself looking elsewhere for writing/creativity outlets. A lot. Never a good sign.
5. In response to #3 on the Pros list, I am caring less and less about having to "start over" with absolutely no following whatsoever. Important friends will follow, yes? (Yes!) and the ones I haven't met yet should meet the new-and-improved me, not the 'I can't come out for drinks tonight because I have to organize my boyfriend's sock collection for the third time this week." me (the equivalent of "I wish I could write a post carefree, but the mess is weighing on me heavily and I'd just rather...not deal with that.")
6. Not breaking up is easy, but I don't foresee any amazeballs changes that will inspire me to become a good blogger again. Because if I'm being honest with myself, when I'm really in the blogging game, I truly enjoy it; that comes out in my posts and I think it's apparent to readers, yeah?
7. Scary things are good if they improve your life in the long run. "A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.” and all that jazz. (quote by William G.T. Shedd)

SO. Here we are. I think I'll be back later to share some recent photos I've taken, but this is about as far as my brain can go, text-wise, for a bit (I think.) Oy vey.


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