New Blogger.com Website

Apparently in the past two weeks (when I haven't posted any blogs on time), they changed the entire blog website. Everything looks completely different! I suppose this would come as just as much of a surprise if I had been doing things promptly as no matter what, one day it would all be changed. So the fact that I am finding this out now probably makes no difference.  Regardless, I am now learning how to use and access everything on this website all over again. Usually I wouldn't mind, but I am having a hard time finding enough time to just write a post, let alone learning how to find everything on a website again!

What I Learned: How to use/find everything on the new blogger website.

Pregnancy Fog

So I have mentioned this before, but I take notes in my phone every day to keep track of the things I learn and then when I have time, I catch up on this blog, writing a few at a time. It started out that I would write on this blog every three or four days and slowly, it has turned into waiting a week or ten days between writing. This is getting very difficult for me because even though I take notes as to what I learned, I find that I'm not able to remember what my notes mean sometimes! Or I write down something simple that I learned but I don't remember where or how I learned it. I really need to get better at writing more often so that I don't have to remember things from 10 days ago. I have to remember that the memory fog of pregnancy is real and that I suffer greatly from this!

What I learned: The longer I wait to write posts, the harder it is to remember what I actually learned each day.

Confession

I have a confession to make. Most days, I write down what I've learned for the day either by putting a note in my phone or starting a post but not finishing it. Then a few days later when I have more time I edit posts I didn't finish and post all the ones I'm behind. This explains why one day you might check and it looks like I haven't written an entry in four days, but then the next day, there will be five new entries, claiming to be from the previous five days. It's not exactly cheating. I do learn something every day and I do write it down, I just might not write the blog every day. I admit it would be easier if I did write one a day but lately it's been a bit hectic here as Avery got a fever for the first time tonight (I say that as I type this on Wednesday, but he got a sick on Saturday night, and was subsequently sick for five days). His, and therefore our, schedule has been off for days; he's not napping normally and some nights not going bed until midnight. The point of this story is that when sitting down tonight, Wednesday the 14th, I realized that I failed to write down what I learned on Saturday, 10 December. This is the first time this has happened. I feel like I failed at my mission to learn something new every day and write about it.

Needless to say, I'm sure I did learn something "today" and therefore do not count it as too much of a loss, other than this point being completely confusing to those of you reading it, wondering which day I'm talking about. I suppose it would be a lot easier if I just made myself write a new post every night and therefore avoid this debacle in the future. Duly noted.

What I learned: I should be more consistent with writing every night as it seems my method of writing five blogs in one go has proved to no longer be reliable.

Stats

Today, Jared was bragging about how many people have looked at his blog, specifically how many people have looked at his blog that live in other countries. I thought he was making this up because how on earth would he know that? In turn, he thought I was joking that I didn't know this was something anyone with a blog can check. So again I didn't believe him. He proceeded to show me the "stats" tab on my blog that shows not only how many page views, but what countries the page views originated from, what internet browser the blog was viewed on and what operating system was being used. It's like I can stalk my own blog. As of today, here are the stats for page views from other countries:

Russia: 37
UK: 6
Germany: 5
Peru: 1

This makes me really curious to know if my blog was A) viewed accidentally, B) came up in a Google search and clicked on, only to be backed out of after they realized it was not what they were looking for, or C) there are genuinely people in Russia who stumbled across my blog and are reading it. If C is true, I would love to know!

What I learned: You can find out a lot about the people viewing your blog...except their intentions.