Announcement: Not Better

Doctor appointment tomorrow.

These headaches are really annoying.

Announcement: Headache. Again.

Okay, so maybe my allergies weren't the cause.

Sorry. I found a fun song I wanted to review, too. Maybe I'll be better Monday.

Announcement: Good Friday

Yeah, sorry about that. I meant to post this and completely forgot—I'm taking off for Good Friday.

And, for the Easter greeting…

He is risen!

Announcement: Blogger's Annoying

Blogger is giving me problems. It wouldn't let me log in yesterday when I was trying to post.

Trying to figure out what happened and how to avoid it happening again.

Announcement: And Now…

My mother is extremely ill.

My apologies.

Announcement:I Actually Wasn't Sick That Time

Sorry for the missed post, folks. I actually wasn't sick this time. My Internet was down when I was trying to log in and such.

Barring any other issues, your regular content will resume Monday.

Sick. Yes. AGAIN.

Sorry about this, folks. I was gonna post, had the song picked out and all…

But then I realized that, with how I'm feeling, my coherence is quickly dropping, and I decided I wouldn't inflict that on all of you.

And for what it's worth, I am trying to figure out why I'm getting sick so often.

Sick.

I've been sleeping all day and I'm barely awake enough to type this. Not good conditions for reviewing something. Lord willing, I'll be functional come Wednesday.

My apologies.

Sorry, Folks…

I've had a headache all day. I'm sorry, but I can't review a song without listening to it, and I'm not about to listen to something with this headache.

Hopefully, I'll be okay tomorrow and be able to do another review then.

Carradee's 6-Step Get Back into Posting Plan:

1. Back up all my previous posts to my computer, sorted by artist and album, so I don't duplicate any.
DONE. I may have to go back and remerge the album names into the file title and have a few missing pieces in some of them to fix, but the meat of all 150+ reviews are now on my computer in one handy program, Scrivener. (This isn't quite what Scrivener was designed for, but it works.)

2. Prepare a list of several songs to review.
IN PROGRESS. I've been working on this in my head for a while, thinking of songs I'd like to review, but now I'm actually writing some down. (I'm importing ones I own into the handy "Research" section of Scrivener; ones I don't own will have links pulled in, instead.)

3. Make corrections as needed to old posts.
IN PROGRESS. The ones that I've noticed need fixing are getting a handy bright pink label in Scrivener, and notes to boot, so I can easily find them and remember which need what.

4. Prepare several song reviews in advance before starting to post again.
IN PROGRESS. I have one done except for a few details that I need to verify. I want to have at least another nine ready before I post.

5. Fix blog layout.
IN PROGRESS. My image host died, and I finally found my G-cleft image. An old visitor might notice that there have been changes. I'm pretty much done, except for tweaking some things and figuring out which template to use as the base so I don't have to credit someone just for using the layout templates. But I'm actually at a point where the blog is usable, again.

6. Delete all the spam comments.
DONE. Thank you, Blogger, for that specific update that made doing this take only a few minutes. I don't really need to explain why I wanted to do this, do I?

So that leaves correcting old posts, writing 9 more song reviews, and finishing up a few details. I have some prior commitments to fulfill, and I'll be doing NaNoWriMo this year, but I hope to be back up and running strong by the end of November. (Um… My last goal of April 2009 fell through after I had some symptoms appear that needed surgery, stat. Sorry about that.)

Blogger's "improvements" are driving me batty, though. I distinctly have "Convert line breaks" set to NO, but Blogger's doing it, anyway. :-/ And it looks like I'll have to manually set some of the features I want in the XML and layout, which would take some time and isn't really necessary to have done before I'm ready to go. We'll see.

I've sung in my church choir since I last posted, and I'm told it's improved my singing. (And, for anyone who's read some of my old claims of having a poor voice, my brother might be wrong about that. I've been told lately that I sound kinda like Sharon Den Adel of Within Temptation. Yeah. That freaked me out, too.)

EDIT: Um, note to self: do not paste RTF drafted posts into Blogger or you'll mess up the post formatting. O_O

Headache

Means no post tonight. Sorry, folks.

Though I know no one out there probably cares…

My Apologies

I was planning to do a post today, but that was before I pulled a ten-hour day, today.

Long story short: I'm a full-time proofreader. (Yes, in the job that's getting laid off.) One fast proofer has left, and another is away on vacation.

Suffice to say that my department's having a hard time keeping up with the newsletter load, right now…

Aaack!

"Here I am, once again"—back, and hopefully for the long haul. Please accept my apologies, everyone. Illness + a new eyestrain-causing job + 9-hour days, 6 days per week at work once my eyes got used to it means my e-mail has barely been checked in the past six weeks, much less anything else.

Nonetheless, due to my new proofreading job, I've found some new songs to review! My schedule will probably change from my previous Monday-Wednesday-Friday updates, but I'm still hammering out those details.

Thank you so much for your patience and readership!

Yikes!

Again, I'm terribly sorry for the long unintended haitus! Please forgive it; Lord willing, I'll be back with a new schedule sometime soon. *sighs* Life.

Please accept my apology.

Eeeek.

Well, one of my browser problems has evidently fixed itself. If it doesn't return, reviews should be coming back on Monday.

See you then!

Ulgh, Sorry...

Browser problems still going, so I may not be able to get a post in, today.

My apologies.

My Apologies

My apologies for the lack of posts. I'm having some browser difficulties.

For some reason, my web browser (Safari) has stopped being able to access some sites overnight. One, it automatically quits, and the other, it refuses to admit that I have the proper software to view it. If anyone has any insight into what might have caused this, I'd appreciate his input.

Thank you.

I'm Baaack!

Did you miss me?

To make a long story short, life decided to get in the way of everything, including blogging. But I'm back now, and, I will, Lord willing, be returning to my 3-times-a-week posting schedule for awhile.

But in the interim, I have found a site that might let make this site a bit more useful…

I'm off to critique my next song. Enjoy the site!

Announcement: Holiday

I'm off for the week. Enjoy Thanksgiving!

Announcement: Sorry

No song review today… My school day was unexpectedly looooong. I'll attempt to make up for it this weekend.