BACKWARDS…(AND FORWARD)

Never leave the one you love for the one you like because the one you like may leave you for the one they love... ~Unknown

To quote one of my favorite singers, Anita Baker, “Sometimes we play the fool.” I got played. By WordPress.com. Let me preface this by saying I am not all that HTML, javascript or web savvy, so the “own-ness” is kinda on me. Still, I was drawn in by the flashy templates, sophisticated styles and the fact that friends, and “friends of friends” had WordPress blogs. But alas, almost a month later and I cannot get shit done. In order to change the text you have to download a text package of some sort—and that’s just the beginning of my problems. I went over to WordPress.org which is somehow akin to, but not the same as WordPress.com. And they tell you straight up (in fine print, hidden behind a couple of pages) that if you are not technically inclined, using their website may be difficult (sigh.)

So this is how I wind up BACK at Blogger.com, whom I had sworn off because I felt extremely limited in how I could express myself. I found the templates boring, outdated and severely lacking flexibility, especially with regards to photo and art positioning.

I am sad. I liken this feeling to returning to that old boyfriend I said I would never go back to. You know the one you have outgrown and you assuredly advise, “…it’s not you, it’s me.” While he says nothing as you walk away, the hurt look in his eyes says, “You’ll be back.” And though expressionless, you smugly say to yourself, “Like hell…”

However, in order to “make some things happen,” I gotta do what I gotta do—move back in with the old boyfriend, I mean blog. But I have, as my sister would say, “…an exit strategy in mind.” Feel free to check me, if say, by Labor Day, I have not made the switch and moved on to a bigger and better blog.

Axe

Currently Reading: Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It: Inside Guerrilla Filmmaking by Spike Lee
Currently Listening To: Buddhist Chants