This post is going to have another header of some low key abstract art I made. In this case, it’s a painting made by rolling paint-covered marbles around some paper, something I did at an event at my daughter’s school.

My last post from a 3rd of a year ago, writing another rambling meta post about my vague intentions to blog regularly in the future, didn’t slingshot me to success. But here I am trying again.

Interrupted

I have a hard time blogging (or writing anything really) because I get interrupted (by my own thoughts and responsibilities, or my family). Ahh, it nearly happened again! I have half an ear tuned now to other people that might need my attention soon but don’t really need it right now. I’m not so great at tuning it out. If and when I have more solitude, I often don’t feel like using that time to blog. It often doesn’t feel as important as other things I have or ought to do.

Backlog

But on the flip side, NOT posting things weighs on me in its own way. I want this blog to be like my previous blog once was, a record or projects and thoughts. So I have projects here and there, and I think about how I should preserve them in a blog post somehow. But then it doesn’t happen in time, and then the unfinished/not-even-started idea of a post hangs around my brain, naggling me until sometimes I say, gosh this idea is so out of date I really don’t care to write it down anymore. But usually, the ideas don’t expire, they just pile up, maybe get a little stale, but in a way that I don’t want to throw away.

Chipping away at the backlog

I’m writing this post with the intention of immediately writing another one about an actual project.

The projects I want to write about:

• a cool dress I sewed for my daughter’s halloween costume (this is what I’ll write next because it is the most recent)
• some 3d printing stuff I did about a year ago
• some screen printing I did for a Barbie shirt
• more of the story of creating Feminist Hacker Barbie (I have some drafts of this but I haven’t figured out how to focus it down, and it’s kind of emotionally intense to write about)

I THINK that if I just got through some of those posts, I could get to a new era of not being guilt-tripped by these past projects, and just do new things if/when I do and write about them if/when I want to.