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Hello Again

Jen

*clears away cobwebs*

Hi friends!

So, for 2019 I am going to try spending less time scrolling and refreshing my Facebook feed, helping to fill Zuckerberg’s pockets by creating content for free, and more time doing the things that I enjoy: knitting and writing and reading. I hate how Facebook has taken over and I hate that I feel trapped there because that is how we stay in touch with friends now, even though it is a TERRIBLE platform for staying in touch with friends. So here I am, back on the blog! Hopefully you’ll join me here too.

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Hahaha Joke’s on Me

Jen

So then yesterday I made a post about how I wanted to blog more and then today I went back to Facebook and Twitter and did the exact same thing!! I logged on this morning and pretty much hung out there all day. I shared links and all my random thoughts and I didn’t blog instead at all! I think what I really need to do is change my routine. Right now I get up and make coffee and then browse the social medias while I wake up in the morning. It’s kind of like the way people used to read the morning newspaper only with people I knew in high school and whatnot. And then, instead of signing off and staying away for the rest of the day, I just kind of hang out. I think tomorrow I will try reading my kindle over my morning coffee instead.

I admit that it’s been hard to stay away, especially since Friday. I have opinions, dammit! I’m just too tired to post about them there. I kind of wore myself out on Facebook, even though here, the Blog, might’ve been a better place for it. Alas. Instead, here’s a link to the Rude Pundit. He said it better than I could have anyway.

Today wasn’t totally wasted on Facebook (which, I think, means I did a better job than usual). I made marshmallows!

om nom nom!

Aren’t they pretty and festive? Also they taste like peppermint.

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Once Upon a Time

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I started this blog back in 2006, mostly as a means to reach out to family and friends (and maybe just a few people in the knit blogging community). It was fun, at first, it really was. And then came Facebook. And twitter. And I kind of lost my way with the blog. Facebook (and to a very lesser extent Twitter) became the repository for my link shares and random thoughts and the blog was relegated to mostly knitting content. The other thing that happened when Facebook and Twitter came along is that I started spending more and more of my time on the computer and less and less time doing other stuff, like knitting (and reading, and being outside, and having real life experiences and stuff) so I had fewer things to blog about and so the blog became boring and I became bored with the blog.

This realization makes me sad. I enjoy blogging. Or least I did enjoy it, back before I got sucked into the black hole that is social media, and I really would like to get back into it. So I am going to try something. Instead of posting my random thoughts and link shares and basically anything else to Facebook or Twitter first, I will post them here first. I’m going to start blogging again,  hopefully frequently.

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Top 5 Posts of 2011

Jen

The end of 2011 is fast approaching, which is always cause for a bit of navel gazing around these parts. For today’s post I offer you the Top 5 most visited Knitting, Interrupted posts of the past year.

1. Self Portrait Ski Mask. It’s always fun to see what silliness/creepiness people are knitting up.
2. YaYa Mitts. A top-down knitting pattern from yours truly, for those small treasured hanks of yarn you’re not sure what do to with.
3. Wollmeise Destash. I lured quite a few of you in with my April Fool’s prank this year. *evil grin*
4. Musings on the Closing of Remnants. I was sad when Remnants was retired.
5. 10 on Tuesday Goes up to 11. A top 11 list of my favorite non-knitting blogs.

I still really enjoy this blog, even though the past year I have pretty much failed to deliver on content. I hope to remedy that in 2012 and am toying with the idea of attempting the post a day challenge again. Heh. Well, we’ll see. In any case, I do hope to be a more consistent blogger in the New Year.

Tomorrow:  A 2011 Finished Object Round Up.

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I Give Up–NOT

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Hey guys! I was going to come in here and be all “THIS SUX I QUIT!” But while I was fixing myself a cup of tea just now, I had a change of heart. I mean, by this point I’ve proven to myself that I am capable of posting to my blog every single day, but sometimes the posts really suck. I know that, and it kind of drives me a little crazy. I mean, not every day has a blog-worthy happening. I mean, honestly, how could it? But then I looked over my blog posts since I started this whole project and I realized that not all my posts are THAT sucky. And, you know what? It’s fun seeing all that content on this website. Content that I created. So screw you hater-Me! I’m going to keep on bloggin’, right on through to the end of the year (and beyond?).

Yeah!

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Weird Searches Land Here Again

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Browsing my site stats today, because I am geeky like that, I found some strange search terms pointing at my blog.

1. Carpets Don’t Eat People. No, no they do not. And THANK GOODNESS for that.

2. Bad Boys For Life. Um, I’m pretty sure they did not find what they were looking for here.

3. Evar. That’s right, EVAR!!!

4. Call in Sick. Here is a handy flowchart to help you answer this question. (via.)


I hope you Seekers found what you were looking for!

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Comments

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First let me preface this post by saying that I really love all my readers. Not everyone who stops by this space leaves a comment and that is totally OKAY! I don’t always leave comments on every blog post I read either. My stats counter knows you’re out there and that is good enough. That being said, I truly enjoy getting comments and I try to respond to each comment via email. It doesn’t always work out that way, but sometimes I’m successful. That being said, I am inspired by the comment threads over at John Scalzi’s blog Whatever to try threaded comment discussions here at Knitting Interrupted. What do you think, gentle reader? Do you enjoy threaded discussions on the other blogs you frequent?

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Post a Day Challenge 2011

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For some strange reason, this really appealed to me, so I’m really going to go for it. I’ve already posted two days in a row, how hard could it really be? (kidding!) Anyway, I’ve been mulling it over all day so I figured I should just go ahead and make it official. Wish me luck everyone!

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2010 in review

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The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

Featured image

A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.

About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 55,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would take about 7 days for that many people to see it.

 

In 2010, there were 86 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 600 posts. There were 18 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 26mb. That’s about 2 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was February 25th with 4,784 views. The most popular post that day was Woven Square Slippers: A Tutorial.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were stumbleupon.com, tipnut.com, ravelry.com, mindingmyownstitches.blogspot.com, and Google Reader.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for sisyphus, pageant talents, weird facebook status, bugs that eat clothes, and bear skull.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

Woven Square Slippers: A Tutorial February 2010
20 comments and 1 Like on WordPress.com,

2

I am Sisyphus January 2008
3 comments

3

How to Darn Socks March 2008
9 comments

4

Free Patterns February 2008
1 comment

5

Weird Facebook Status Juxtapositions May 2009
2 comments

Thanks to all my readers for a great 2010!

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Weird Searches Land Here Friday

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People use internet searches for weird stuff. Inexplicably, some of those weird searches end up here. For example, this week, the following web searches ended up here.

i like to pee myself
i am funny fish
people that lungcancer effed
knitting retard
awsome rorschach pics

I can’t help but think that Mr. (or Ms!) Iliketopeemyself must have been sorely disappointed with what they found here.