A Rant, Followed by Some Goals
Ok. All right. I know I said I was moving to my own website because I was sick of the Gutenberg Editor Block bullshit. I complained about WordPress.com, a lot. And I don’t take back ANY of those complaints. They’re valid. That being said, building my own site and coding it and trying to set up a newsletter has been so incredibly difficult. Gang, I am not “bad at computers” as my mother would say. I’m relatively technologically inclined. I’m a millennial who grew up coding her myspace page to include music and gifs before all of those things were simple. Setting up this newsletter sign up about gave me an aneurysm. It’s supposed to be easy, which it wasn’t, which is why it made me so incredibly frustrated. Don’t tell me it’s easy and then have the entire functionality of your plugin just NOT WORK. I’m looking at you…
Welcome to the Website!
This is the first post on the new website! If you’re new here, welcome! If you’re migrating from the old blog site, welcome back and thanks for following me into this new virtual space. I expect to have a few kinks and bugs to sort out (building this puppy wasn’t as easy as the internet would have you believe), so bear with me in the next few weeks. I can’t imagine customizing this site if I hadn’t already used WordPress for the last decade, but I’m really happy with how the site turned out. If you’re a long time reader, you know I like to update the look of the blog each year, and since I skipped last year I figured I ought to go big this year! I’ll still be posting with my usual erratic frequencies and being my usual weird self. Don’t worry. The content will not change,…