August was not the month I was expecting it to be.

Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t the worst month in the world. But, it was a month where I had planned to start exercising more consistently. It was a month where I had intended to start a monthly project on the blog and start being more consistent with that.

And then life happened. Mostly, not taking proper care of myself started to catch up to me. End of July, start of August, I was experiencing odd hand pain. I’d had this issue off and on for over a year, but it always went away after a day or two. Not this time. This time, it lasted a long while.

I got worried, I admit. I was afraid it was carpal tunnel. I went to a doctor, we tried a couple things, then he referred me to a hand doc that’s really good here in town. Thankfully, turns out it was tendonitis. Unfortunately, I didn’t get that appointment until the beginning of September.

And then there was work. And class. And more work. I had been fighting burnout at my main job as tier 2 tech support, then I opted to apply for our company’s leadership training program. It’s a full on weekly class for several months. I got in. Then I started a second job because the budget got messed up at my main job, keeping me from getting a raise until they straight out how they’re doing raises.

I am starting to get all of this under control, so its time to start looking at the blog again. Now, I hadn’t quite selected a monthly project yet, but I was given an idea for just occassional posts here. I started therapy for my (shiny new diagnosis of) ADHD, and my therapist (one I had seen in the past, and I think she’s pretty awesome at it) suggested I maybe start writing posts about how ADHD affects my life. I like that idea, so I am going to start doing that. It might help me to better understand what my brain is doing and why I struggle with some things, and it may help others who either don’t know they have ADHD or don’t realize some of the things they struggle with aren’t just them.

That won’t be this post, but I am working on ideas. It also won’t be the consistent project. My consistent project may, for now, just be short writing exercises that don’t really go anywhere. Time will tell, and I may have a better idea later.

This post is instead about how things currently stand. You’ve heard the personal update, and my current plans, now I want to address something that feels huge for me: stats for the site itself.

For the longest time, the main views here have been on my first Nerd Fitness review. That was fine with me, but nearly every day all the views were solely on that one post. It felt like all that my blog mattered for was my review of a service I love. I accepted this, though, as at least the site was getting some sort of views.

This has changed, however. Lately, when I look at the views on the site, other posts are getting views. That original review is still occassionally getting viewed, but it no longer has daily views or the majority of what comes in on any given day. There are days where I get double digit views and they’re all more recent posts instead of that one from a couple years ago. This has been huge for my outlook on keeping this going, as I have considered just dropping it due to lack of interest.

As I’ve said before, sometimes it’s the little things that make all the difference. I am still (slowly) working on my first book, I am still coming up with new ideas all the time, and I am still thinking about things I can write and post here. In fact, I do have another post I intend to put up in a few days, once I’ve gotten it down without crying. (It’s one of those, I’m sorry.)

As per usual, it (and this post) will be entirely stream of thought. That’s how I make these posts real, by not heavily editing them. While that might make some of the writing on the actual stories a little iffy, most first go’s are like that. Nothing is ever perfect the first time you do it, and writing anything down is the same.

For now, I’ll leave things there. Keep an eye out for my next post sometime this week or early next!