I feel like I start every end of the week post with “Man, I’m
so happy it’s Friday”, but really, man, I’m SO
happy that it’s Friday. I needed to step away this week and readjust and
refocus, and I’m looking forward to having two glorious days to get things a straightened
out around here.
I didn’t realize how
much of an affect the Texas Style Counsel Conference had on me until I left,
most notably the mentoring breakfast on Saturday. Jen and I discussed the topic
of balancing your life with your blog, we extolled advice on stepping away, not
getting crazy, readjusting, etc. This was all well and good, but I had a
realization this week: I am terrible at
taking my own advice. Seriously, why is it so hard? My main realization
(among many): I’ve been trying to keep
things relatively the same around here since we moved and that’s not realistic at all. Seriously, at all. If we were talking in real life I’d be waving my arms
around and slapping my forehead, because it seems so obvious. Our lives are
completely different, we live in a different city, we’re on totally new
schedules, and I’ve been running myself into the ground trying to hold it all
together and go on with life as usual. But even then, I haven’t been living
much of a life the past few months, admittedly I’ve been really down (I
hesitate to use the word depressed, but close to it). I’ve been hiding behind my outfit posts, using
them as a crutch to not delve deeper; and while I still enjoy doing those outfit
posts, I do want to delve deeper,
improve my writing, talk about what matters to me and show you what I love. For
my own well-being, I need to get out more and push myself to reclaim the other passions
that have fallen by the wayside over the past three years (art, anyone? coughcough).
Since I started Orchid Grey back in 2009, my life and the
blog itself have seen a lot of major changes, and I feel like I’m at a point
where some changes need to occur again. My goal is to improve the quality of my
posting, I feel as though, so many times, I have a great idea for a post but
run out of time, so I just throw up an outfit and be done with it. Not the best
strategy. I could be taking that little extra time to work on something more
meaningful or connecting more with you.
I’m not going to try and stick to some new blogging schedule, and I’ll still be
here each week, but there will be a shift towards quality (or some attempt at
it), rather than quantity. My life has been out of balance, and I need to get
that balance back.
If you’ve made it this far, I seriously applaud you. There
is a split box spring sitting in front of me as I type this, and Chris and I
have big plans to put our bed together tonight, I can’t tell you enough how
excited I am about sleeping this weekend. In a bed. That’s not on the floor (a
mattress-nest on the floor seemed romantic at 18, now as a 28 year old, it’s
just making my joints hurt and causing insomnia).
Anyways, if you have
any thoughts on balance, life, anything, I’d love to hear it. And you can
always easily connect with me on Facebook, especially if you have a question. I
plan on installing Disqus soon so we’ll actually be able to have a conversation
on here, won’t that be nice?
I hope you have an
inspiring and productive weekend!
