One Vacation to the Next

Hey loyal awesome people!  I know you’ve all been dying to see more in my little space since I’ve been on vacation.  Hopefully those Mexico pics will satisfy your voyeuristic needs.  But!  There is a little bit of temporary bad news.

While I was away, I had a heart to heart with my momma and realized exactly how much I do in a day that’s not necessarily what I want to do and how stressed out that makes me.  In light of that, I’ve decided to take a break from the blogsphere for a bit (blogcation?).  Let’s call it until February after my birthday.  That means there’ll be no postage here and no wholestyle roundups until I get back.

No, I’m not quitting.  Yes, I’ll be working on other sekrit projekts in the meantime.

Here’s what I’ll be working on (besides, yanno, work):

Sound like a plan?  Awesome.  I’ll see you back here in February, then!  And, just to tide you over, here’s a hair update for you:

Edited: January 9th, 2010

Setting Sail

Yar and avast! Prepare to be (mentally) boarded! Jaka’s Tea Party is now live! I know I’ve already had two posts since my cute little site’s launch on Monday, but I felt a little…empty…without doing a “here I am!” type post. So here it is!

While I’ve always been fairly literate (as in I can read and write with some measure of competency) and enjoyed writing for fun, I didn’t get the urge to start doing proper articles in earnest until very early this year. Sure, I’d kept a Livejournal for what seemed like forever, but I’d slacked off and stopped using it. Eventually, I stopped writing and just read other people’s posts. Then I stopped even doing that. The medium had started to feel cramped, although I didn’t realize it at the time. I needed a bigger space to swim in.

Enter Doe Deere and the ever-popular Gala Darling. Cliche by now, I know. I stumbled on these lovely ladies completely by accident and it opened up a whole new wing of the internet for me. So colourful! So positive! So hip! So sassy! I was totally agog. And so I dove deeper and deeper, discovering so many fashionable nooks and explosive crannies (my, but that sounds dirty, doesn’t it) that my head nearly imploded. What a wonderful section of blogsphere I’d stumbled upon! I fell in love.

Then the pieces matched up and I thought, “Hey…I should do this!”

It’s been a hell of a ride trying to get here. I’m a notorious perfectionist and self-deprecator (sometimes to the point of dispair), but with the help of a few good friends and my husband, now dubbed Mr. Man, I struggled through the doubts, (barely) learned CSS, pulled up my big-girl pants, and voila! Jaka’s Tea Party was born.

That’s not to say that I’ve got it all together by any means. Jaka’s Tea Party is a work in progress. I’m still searching for a solid theme to follow and a gajillion other things too boring or terrifying (for me) to mention.I have no set posting schedule, no backlog of articles, no lists of topics, no general plan whatsoever as of yet. But it’ll come. The best advice I’ve read so far has been from the inspiring Ms. Nubby Twiglet – “While preparation is great, perfection is impossible. Waiting isn’t doing you any favors.” It’s hard for me to swallow, I’ll admit, but I’m taking baby steps toward changing my neurotic need for everything to be justright before I unveil it.

Come aboard, matey, and join me on my voyage through the high seas of the blogsphere! I promise lots of adventure and maybe even a little (read: a lot) of glitter!

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Edited: July 22nd, 2009