Limeworld.com

It’s time for an overhaul. Ten years of blogging without a subject focus just isn’t working for me anymore. I’m bored, and I almost let the domain lapse completely.

This site is, however, a part of my identity, so it really ought to grow with me. I no longer spend hours upon hours poking around on the Internet looking for things to amuse me. I am, however, very funemployed at the moment, and looking for ways to stretch my money further than I ever thought possible.

Making meals for less than $40/month? I’ve heard it’s possible. Shall we find out? Yes.

I believe it’s possible to also make this taste good. The experiment begins tomorrow with a trip to Superstore, to see if we can buy some staples that will keep us fed AND well-nourished for as much as it costs for one dinner out at an average restaurant. Stay tuned!

I may have been hasty in my closing up shop. I’m not sure where things will go from here, but I’ll try not to delete everything again.

The BBC had me thinking this morning about the end of the first decade of the new millennium.

This wee little website has become a fixture in my life, though my relationship with it has changed over the years. My motivation for starting it, oh so many years ago, was simply a place to air the contents of my brain and also a place to collect the plethora of amusing and interesting URLs that I kept digging up. It was also a convenient way to keep me occupied, as I was unemployed at the time.

When Forever North (my ex) and I broke up, the act of cataloguing the minute details of my life started to feel more awkward than it had before. Part of it was to maintain my zealous desire for privacy, but part of it was also to avoid treading on sensitive areas. Forever North and I spent 7 years together, and our shared memories seemed to permeate every part of my life. It was all I could do to keep my chin up and continue moving forward, without questioning or revisiting the past.

Things were further complicated when Seuss and I started dating. We met through our websites, and our websites became the talk of our friends and family. Consequently, I became self-conscious of saying anything that was either deeply personal, or in any way involving our relationship, particularly if it would embarrass my quiet and deeply private new boyfriend. I gamely continued documenting the entertaining aspects of our lives, particularly the many concerts we were photographing and attending, but the personal elements all but disappeared.

I think it has taken me the last 4 years to get to a point where I’m comfortable enough to share more personal thoughts and feelings again. Seuss and I are now content and secure enough as a couple that I’m not afraid that I will inadvertantly scare him into hiding, and I think it has reopened my relationship with Limeworld.

I’ve tried making it a music blog, or a place where I simply catalogue amusing things, but that isn’t me. Limeworld is a journal of sorts, one missing pages here and there, but ultimately adding up to a reasonable approximation of who I have been and who I am becoming. I’m eager to share a little more of my life again, if only to give my future self a window into the person I am.

There are some topic areas that I will generally avoid on Limeworld, but this has everything to do with the fact that I am aware that my audience includes family members who would really prefer to not read about things of an adult nature. For their sake, I save that content for elsewhere. If you are interested in knowing what I talk about over there, send me an email.

The funny thing about having a blog for nine years is the more time passes, the more removed you feel from the early posts. The person I was nine years ago is so drastically different from who I am today, that the archives are starting to illicit the same reaction for me as finding a seventh-grade diary. The urge to delete/burn/stuff it all under the mattress forever is very, very strong.

But what can you do? It’s all a part of the same site, and yet somehow, it has nothing to do with the site as it is now. Tagging and categorizing posts from eight or nine years ago is starting to seem really meaningless. I’m tempted to dump the majority of it into an unclassified archive category.

Yes, I rather think I shall.

I have 1700 posts to go through and edit, as the title links did not carry over as planned. This may take a few months/years/lifetimes.

I have also noticed that I’ve lost at least 50% of all the images and videos that I posted over the years, so those broken links aren’t going to be unbroken anytime soon. I’ve been reduced to combing through Archive.org to find some of what was lost, but honestly I’m not finding a whole lot.

Here’s to a future of better planned archiving.

Title links are still not transferring over properly. I am dreading the possibility that I may have to manually edit each post that originally contained an url in the title. I am SO done with this shit for tonight. The rest will have to wait until tomorrow.

Importing 9 years worth of Blogger posts is not going smoothly.

I resisted, but given how excruciating it is to type on my iPod, the format of twittering has come to seem more practical than the usual blogging. That, and everyone (including me) has become ADD and developed the attention span of a gnat.