I Did It!

I Did It!

I did it!! I only have two hairs left on my head but I did it!!

I’ve gone from shaking my head thinking what in the world am I doing….to an office chair spinning….holy hell and hallelujah, praise be to the baby jesus moment!  I made my own blog and website!

I found an easy to follow tutorial on the youtuber… by the way thank goodness for all the people on the youtuber and googler that post these things. Life savers for us old folks!

The Plan Was…

The plan was to watch the tutorial which was about two hours long and I was to follow along and have a finished website at the end of it.  Well after adjusting for old broad time and life, the time worked out to about two weeks instead!  I’m good with that as too much techno talk info just doesn’t stick in my brain any more.  Slow and steady wins the race after all, or at least it does when you are over 60.

I had already decided on a name so that part was easy. Or it would be if I wasn’t an anxious mess most of the time.  I almost bought The Life Lemon “Didge”, instead of The Life Lemon Dodge.  Thank gawd I checked it a dozen times, then a dozen more, before I hit send.

Once I got the shakes under control I continued on with the tutorial.  Step by step, back and forth from tutorial to new website I go.  I suddenly realize I can only watch a couple of steps before I forget what was said!  That’s new to me.  Chock that up to age, slow and steady again it is.

Then I start to wonder why it isn’t looking like the blog website I watched a few days ago?

Well jeez louise and love a duck…that’s because it isn’t the same tutorial!!  I’ve just spent the afternoon doing the wrong tutorial!!  Good Gawd!!  Big breath, relax…breathe…repeat.  Time to listen to my own advice…tomorrow is a new day to try again!  I’m exhausted…

Day Two

Well here I am next morning staring at the computer. Chores are done, no distractions, let’s try this again.  I search for and find the proper tutorial.  Double check it, yep it’s the one.  Following along is easy enough, slow but a step at a time and I’m doing ok.  Seems easy enough and things are actual looking pretty good.  But I need a break, so lunch it is and coffee to keep me going.  I shut down the computer for a bit.  Eat and tend to “the girls”…my cat and dog.

With coffee in hand I head back to my office and settle in to finish the tutorial. I log in…all good.  But why is the cover page not how I left it, and the font colours and style are back the way they were when I started!!  What’s going on??!!  Please don’t tell me I just spent another day and messed it up again!  At this point my anxiety is through the roof and I’m royally ticked off.

OK…OK… get a grip old woman, you can figure it out, just breathe and think.

And then I realize there is a save button at the bottom of the page…oh good grief…all I had to do was hit the save button…each and every time I changed something!  I try it a few times and low and behold, praise be to the baby jesus once again…it works!  I must have logged in and out a dozen times to make sure it was actually working and not a fluke.

It was so exciting!  I’m so pathetic…but happy!!

Stop Stalling

So for the next few days I play around with fonts and make sure it looks good on each version, phone, tablet and computer.  I decide which order to submit my articles, and I pick out the art work I’ve made to go with each article.  Once I do that I’m done and ready to go live.

But…old ways start to creep in…I realize I’m finding more things to tweak over and over and…I’m stalling.  I wonder whether to bother posting and just make it a hobby for myself.

Whine…Whine…Whine…But I quickly give myself a swift kick in the ass.  I’ve always been afraid of the unknown, but this time I will push myself past this old thinking.

I start with a safety net, my daughter.  She tells me the truth and makes suggestions and I’m good to go!

Life Experience Wisdom

*Be brave enough to push yourself.  What’s the worst that can happen.

*Try new things that exercise the mind.  What ever your age.

*Keep trying till you get it.

*When you don’t know how to do something, look it up and learn.

*I no longer say…”I don’t know how to do that”  Now I say…”I haven’t learned how to do that yet!”

Thanks for visiting, cheers til next time!

Grace

My Motto

When life throws baseball size lemons at you, that smack you upside the head, stomp on those damn things and make yourself a cocktail!