If you followed my blog long ago, or if you look through the archives, you'll see that I've had this blog for a long time. I started blogging a long time ago, nearly 17 years ago now, back in December of 2005. You can find my very first blog post here! It's absolutely crazy to realize that my blog is old enough to drive, old enough to be a junior in high school, if I had given birth to a child instead of a blog.
Okay, that's slightly weird imagery. But you get the point. I've been blogging (and freelancing!) for a very, very, very long time.
Unfortunately, I haven't been blogging regularly this entire time. I blogged pretty consistently the first several years of my blog, and then my posting frequency started to fall off. It was pretty sporadic for the last decade or so, with only even a couple of posts to show for some years (if any at all).
What changed? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. Looking back, I think I was in a slump with my freelancing. For quite some time, I'd only been doing the minimum to keep my freelance career going. Then last fall (a year ago now!) I started struggling with my energy levels and it was all I could do just to get the bare minimum done.
The doctor tested my vitamin D levels and found they were really low, so she started me on vitamin D supplements, and I started taking a daily multi as well. My energy levels were just beginning to recover when my horse got sick, and then of course there were no more thoughts of whether I had enough energy for anything, because it was ALL PANIC ALL THE TIME.
I'm really glad that's over, of course, but as he has improved, I've slowly been regaining more and more of my schedule. Instead of fitting freelancing in here and there as I had time, like I was when he was at his sickest, I've actually been able to focus on my career again. In addition, I've started a new website and business that I'm really excited about, so it's been fairly natural to work more on my writing website and blog as I work on the new website and blog.
I've been blogging almost daily for a couple of months now, and I'm finding that I really, really missed blogging. It has a way of keeping me grounded and focused on my career. It also helps me to maintain a daily writing habit even when I don't have client work to do, and most importantly, provides a dedicated space for my own writing (rather than client-ordered stuff).
It's ironic that I'm getting back into blogging, when it seems like pictures and video are the more popular way to go these days. I don't mind though. I still feel like blogging has value (obviously, since I write them professionally for a lot of clients), plus I just love to write.
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