I need an extra 4-5 hours/day. Literally I spend 3-4 hrs/day reading and commenting on blogs. Am I the only person that is having trouble keeping up?
I love reading blogs and discovering people's lives but I think I've fallen into an infinite black hole with no way out. Every day I discover more blogs that I love and want to follow and read daily. It's not enough to just read and run, I need to comment as well. Kind of like writing on the bathroom wall, Suzanne was here. Lately though I comment less often simply due to time constraints.
Also I've been signing up for Blog hops. These are crazy because there are literally hundreds of people in each hop that I want to check out…but I can't because that would mean I'd be here all day reading blogs when I'm supposed to be working on my own content and maybe, just maybe my jewelry design and illustration.
When I start eating my granola bright and early in the morning and sign into my Bloglovin' there are already 81 blogs to read at 8 am I feel like I've just missed a deadline and I will never catch up. I don't even want to talk about when I'm away for a day or two. Everything backs up and it's like homework that I didn't get to and I feel guilty about it. Guilty about not reading blogs. Is that weird?
Once I get through reading all the blogs (which basically only truly happens on the weekends) I figure okay, now I can start "real" work and by that time it's 5 pm. I'm starting to get disillusioned by my blog habit. I think it might be taking over my life. How much time per day should I really be dedicating to reading blogs?
And now…here I am blogging about it!LOL! I know…WT* right?
A blogger intervention will be required soon because family and daily tasks are being neglected. Who needs to eat or clean or waste time taking a shower when there are so many more great blogs out there waiting to be discovered.
Oh and if you think you qualify for the assistant position, be warned, the only remuneration you'll be getting is vast knowledge of other people's lives on a daily basis and some cool DIYs.
beautiful post!!Your blog is so lovely! I’m thinking, if you want, we can follow each other! It would be great!!
http://laborsadimarypoppins.blogspot.it/
xoxo Gloria
Ha ha ha, I totally feel your pain. I was going through the exact same thing. I had a lot of free time at work so I was spending so much time during the day, then every single night and weekend night reading blogs. Then my busy time started at work in October and I had less and less free time. I was so exhausted by the time I got home at night that I didn’t have the energy to go back on the computer once I got home. The only time I could comment and visit blogs was on weekends. However, I go home to visit my family often on weekends so that cut into that time also. I started feeling so guilty for not commenting on all of my favourite blogs. It took some time for me to realize that I shouldn’t feel guilty and that I should just do the best that I can. Now, I don’t always have time to comment, but I still visit each and every blog to help support them. I try to comment at least once a week on all my favourite blogs, and definitely more if I have time, but I don’t feel as guilty anymore because I know that I have a much better balance in my life now. Ha ha, it’s crazy how addicting it can be!
xo Jenny
http://www.crazystylelove.com
COMPLETELY understand.
-Jamie
http://chatterblossom.blogspot.com/
I completely understand! I have this issue myself! I cannot find the time to do all the commenting I want to! I have a full time job, a part time job and blogging to do and fitting in commenting is hard! Don’t feel bad if you can’t get to them all, just do what you can do!
Rebecca
http://www.winnipegstyle.ca
Whew…okay so I’m not alone : ) I thought, what the heck…how can all these other people be managing and I’m not???
I had to really laugh when my first response on this post was someone else telling me to follow them! LOL
Okay…I’m feeling a bit better now knowing that other people understand : )
I always amazed when I see that you’ve commented on my Chictopia posts. Most of the time I’m in there just quickly voting for people and figure that is enough. I thought that you must have simply given up on sleeping. You might be like Martha Stewart…I heard she only sleeps 4-5 hrs a night because it’s such a waste of time! LOL
Ha ha ha, that totally made me laugh too, and I was going to comment on that, but I thought I would let it be! 🙂
I read upwards of 300 fashion blogs a day, but I use the word “read” loosely. I scroll through all the feeds in google reader, looking at all the pictures. There are certain bloggers for whom I will slow down and read ALL the text, and once a picture catches my attention I also read the text. I try not to comment on more than a few every day. I can get through them all in around an hour and a half usually (although if there is a REALLY interesting discussion going on I can get lost for hours in following all the people involved).
But I also make myself two promises. 1) it’s ok to just scroll through looking at the pictures when I don’t have a lot of time and 2) it’s ok to mark them all as read and start fresh tomorrow.
I should mention that, unfortunately, what’s sucking all MY time is pinterest. I can get totally lost on that site….
Okay, I’m liking this strategy : )
I only go to Pinterest when I’m bored, otherwise I don’t come up for air for hours. That does not stop me from pinning mind you, but I don’t visit, I mostly just pin since it’s related to the posts I make.
Oh, I can totally relate with this post… I feel so guilty when I have some many comments that I haven’t responded or regular blogs that I don’t visit as often as I wish… And on top of that, new bloggers that come to visit or that I discover and then are added to my list. I used to feel even worst at the beginning but now I try to keep a balance and comment at least once a week on my favorite blogs. But I try to be more consistent with my posts and don’t feel guilty if I can’t respond or visit others sometimes, I have made peace with myself thinking that is better later than never.
Jenny
http://www.jensoutfitjournal.com
Suzanne my dear…. i love this post! i too am questioning my time in the blogging world! i do love it and all of the amazing women I have met. But I realize I am spending not enough time in my studio where i need to be…it is definitely a slippery slope this blogging world of our! I am realizing i must begin to enforce time limits for myself!
Good luck at your show. I love your bold piece and the craftsmanship involved. Kudos!
I can relate to this 100%! But I’m still in denial. I’m not ready for an intervention just yet.
I need to take some of your advice and not be so anal about the whole thing.
It is so funny that we are putting so much pressure on ourselves. I need to follow your lead and make peace with the fact that I won’t get around to all of them. Thanks for visiting!
Thanks Tamera. I’d love to see more posts of your work.