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Finding the reins

Half-way through 2008 and two years after I originally registered nemoorange.com; It’s the perfect time for a State-of-the-Union address for this site. Personally, the past six months have been all about getting my life on track (not that it was ever off one). It’s about time I shared what’s been going on and what I see ahead.

New Moon and a new direction

The original intent of the new moon project was to re-acquaint myself with my creative side. In creating the entries, I re-discovered a part of my identity that I had neglected for far too long. Now that I’ve re-connected this piece, I have gained a whole new perspective on my life. I’ve found a purpose, an identity. Subsequently, I was able to set goals and take action towards a clear destination. I am going to be a designer. For the next year and a half, I’ll be going to school for graphic and web design. The goal is to be employed as a creative professional in one year.

This means that posting stuff to my website will have to take a back seat—although, now that I consider it, it’s probably just as important that I do put some content up. All the same, new moon entries will not come with every new phase the moon. So the bad news is that new entries to the new moon section are going to be less frequent and lighter in content. But the good news is that I’m on my way to happiness.

Blog

In the past two years, the blog has been especially under-developed. While I fantasize of typing passage after passage of fluent thought, the words have always been tough for me to put together. Putting together a sentence mostly feels like a game of Scrabble for me. I have the components set up on my little ledge, and I keep on mixing them around to see what works best. In shuffling around the key words and phrases, I stumble in expressing the original thought. For example, putting together this post took several revisions over the course of a week, flipping around sentences and paragraph structures.

Bread bag reins

Another obstacle in my writing has been finding a theme that would narrow the subjects to write about. Lately, I’ve felt mobilized to start getting everything organized. Simplified living is a bit hot-button topic these days. It coincides with the “going green” movement that’s become the story of the latter half of this decade. My aim is to write short—maybe 200 word—entries focused on the tips and methods to live simply and happily. Hopefully I can get into the habit of posting once a week. I’ll try not to sound too smug delivering what I think are tips. It’s more of a personal dialouge—how I continue to make sense of my universe.

Photo and Daily sections

The daily photo section has now been hidden away. It’s still available for you to peruse, but I hadn’t added a new entry to it since March. That month coincides when I started using Flickr seriously.

Since the beginning of my entry into blogging, my site has been primarily focused on posting up photos—typically of the previous weekend’s escapades. Nowadays, I’m less likely to bring the camera along for a night out. After all, how many pics of my friends at bars can one tolerate? Creating a photo post for this site requires several laborious steps. Instead, I’ve been spending more time devoting photo content to my Flickr account. With the Flickr Uploader, I can do the posts with just a couple drag-n-drops—very easy, plenty faster. Most important to you, Flickr is much easier to browse and search and discover and link my photography. Now that I’ve been using it for a couple months, I enjoy it more with each new submission. Eventually, the photo section might go away in favor of dedicating Flickr to all things photographic.

Now that I’ve declared this as a public commitment, hopefully I can stick to it. More content, different presentation.