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josilverdragonToday I worked through managing the tags I brought over from LJ and have added since using DW. It's something that's been on my list of things to do for years and now, I'm finally working on it. Mainly because I'm using this blog more (so far, who knows as my track record isn't great) and because I want to bring some posts from one of my wordpress/tumblr blogs. I needed to clean up my tags because so many of them were used one time and never again. It's not absolutely finished, but I've got them below 1k, which is amazing.
Another thing on my list was removing the extra posts that happened because I used the import option 2x because I think I had posted to LJ after importing the first time and maybe the second time? It's probably in a post somewhere from then explaining but I'm lazy and need to go to bed soon. It just means that there's a whole bunch of posts spanning five (?) years that were triplicated. Oops.
Returning back to the subject of tags, one thing that I was using tags for on LJ/DW early on was for self-expression, much like how tags are used on tumblr. But there is a tag limit on LJ/DW as well as I want to change how I use tags on DW to be more able to attract people who are looking for blogs to follow. Mainly because most of the people that I had been friends with on LJ have fucked off to worlds unknown or just moved to more recent, and more active, social media platforms. Which, in any case stated here, I cannot blame them. It is the nature of online friendships that no matter how much you like someone, they can and will disappear from your life for one reason or another. It makes me nostalgic, though. Seeing the comments from people I used to remember loving to read their posts, or comment, or in some cases call.
All in all, it is what it is.
Moving on to another subject, today is the first Sunday of August, and as has been the routine for a while now, I took my parents out for dinner (well, it WAS breakfast but no one likes to get up early enough lol). It was only to Denny's, and I did tell them that if there is somewhere else they want to go to just let me know. I am not afraid of taking care of the bill, even if the food is slightly more expensive. However, much like me, they are not picky people and prefer somewhere that is familiar and casual and has a variety of options. When we were doing breakfast, we started with Denny's, then IHOP, then even at Shawn O'Donnell's, but the parents really were like "Let's just go with Denny's or IHOP." As I said, not picky people, nor do they have expensive tastes when it comes to food. I got lucky that way, that they don't abuse things the way I've read or heard of other families do to each other.
Returning back to the subject of my posts on LJ/DW in early days: reading some of the bullshit I wrote about back then makes me cringe but I was always looking for attention, validation, etc. I just wanted people to like me and be interested in me. To some degree, I want that now, but I've learned the value of being by myself and that people's opinions don't affect me or what I do. If they like me, they like me, if these hypothetical people don't like me, they don't like me.
It is what it is.
And I think I'll end it here. I have not written so much in a long time so this decision to come back to DW while on my hiatus was a great idea. Maybe this will become the usual and other socials will become the exception. I still have until the end of this month and that's 29 (technically 28 now that it's after midnight where I live) days still.
Another thing on my list was removing the extra posts that happened because I used the import option 2x because I think I had posted to LJ after importing the first time and maybe the second time? It's probably in a post somewhere from then explaining but I'm lazy and need to go to bed soon. It just means that there's a whole bunch of posts spanning five (?) years that were triplicated. Oops.
Returning back to the subject of tags, one thing that I was using tags for on LJ/DW early on was for self-expression, much like how tags are used on tumblr. But there is a tag limit on LJ/DW as well as I want to change how I use tags on DW to be more able to attract people who are looking for blogs to follow. Mainly because most of the people that I had been friends with on LJ have fucked off to worlds unknown or just moved to more recent, and more active, social media platforms. Which, in any case stated here, I cannot blame them. It is the nature of online friendships that no matter how much you like someone, they can and will disappear from your life for one reason or another. It makes me nostalgic, though. Seeing the comments from people I used to remember loving to read their posts, or comment, or in some cases call.
All in all, it is what it is.
Moving on to another subject, today is the first Sunday of August, and as has been the routine for a while now, I took my parents out for dinner (well, it WAS breakfast but no one likes to get up early enough lol). It was only to Denny's, and I did tell them that if there is somewhere else they want to go to just let me know. I am not afraid of taking care of the bill, even if the food is slightly more expensive. However, much like me, they are not picky people and prefer somewhere that is familiar and casual and has a variety of options. When we were doing breakfast, we started with Denny's, then IHOP, then even at Shawn O'Donnell's, but the parents really were like "Let's just go with Denny's or IHOP." As I said, not picky people, nor do they have expensive tastes when it comes to food. I got lucky that way, that they don't abuse things the way I've read or heard of other families do to each other.
Returning back to the subject of my posts on LJ/DW in early days: reading some of the bullshit I wrote about back then makes me cringe but I was always looking for attention, validation, etc. I just wanted people to like me and be interested in me. To some degree, I want that now, but I've learned the value of being by myself and that people's opinions don't affect me or what I do. If they like me, they like me, if these hypothetical people don't like me, they don't like me.
It is what it is.
And I think I'll end it here. I have not written so much in a long time so this decision to come back to DW while on my hiatus was a great idea. Maybe this will become the usual and other socials will become the exception. I still have until the end of this month and that's 29 (technically 28 now that it's after midnight where I live) days still.
