Irony, thy name is... Moving Day!

More than two years ago, I concocted the unoriginal idea that I'd like to have my own domain. And this past summer, I went ahead and bought it. I also started to set up my own self-hosted Wordpress site, with the goal of moving this blog there.

Then I decided that I needed to change teaching positions at work.

That resulted in a 7,368% increase in my workload and a reduction in my free time of an even greater degree. For the last year, as a working mom of two young kids, I've barely been able to find time to blog a few times a month, although I've remained pretty active on Twitter and have kept up with reading other blogs. Since school started this year, all that has fallen by the wayside. When I do find time to surf, I feel completely out of touch with everyone in the blogosphere. I either have no time to write about the things I want to blog about or else I have nothing to say because I'm too exhausted to think. Therefore, although I was about 85% of the way toward launch at the new site at the beginning of the school year, I decided to let it sit dormant until I could be sure I was ready, really ready.

Fuck. That.

I'm never going to be 100% happy with it, even if I took a month off work. I have too much to learn. If I don't go ahead and make the move, I'll keep limping along here on blogspot which, which although it has the benefit of being easy, hasn't been sparking my creativity for a long time. Ready or not...

Here we go, yo!



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My Christmas Gift to You

I thought everyone knew this little trick, but the recent holiday season makes it apparent that everyone doesn't. I classify it as one of the 100 most useful tips anyone has ever given me. And now I'm passing it on to all of you.

Let's talk Christmas cookies. There are a thousand kinds out there. Everyone bakes them. Everyone shares them. After you've spent hours and hours turning out your own perfect little sugary emblems of holiday cheer, do yourself a favor and throw a piece of bread in with them in whatever storage container you choose. It doesn't really matter what kind; I always throw the friendless whole wheat heels we seem to have hanging around waiting for a date.

Why?

The bread will get hard-hard-hard, but your cookies won't. They will stay as soft and enjoyable as the day they were baked. Seriously. I am not making this up. I don't know how or why it works, but it does. Try it and become a believer. Then continue to do it, every time you bake cookies. Your cookie audience will thank you.

I hope it was a happy Hanukkah/Solstice/Festivus/Christmas/Kwanzaa for you and yours. And my best wishes for a prosperous new year!