Spinning Wheels
Do you ever feel like you are spinning wheels and going nowhere? I seem to be working constantly, but not getting done anything I want to get done.
First I had the ASDR challenge to do and then I got stuck on all the commenting of all the layouts. Okay, that behind me, now I can just do whatever I enjoy doing. Right? Nope!
I needed to get that Digi-Gathering ad done. I don't like doing ads and marketing. Took me all day Saturday.
Over the weekend I decided that I needed to finish the ONE layout I have left to do for 2006. The only problem is that I have been procrastinating it because of the journaling. The journaling is actually on a Hi8 camcorder tape!
So, I set out on Saturday night, with hubby's help, to go through unmarked Hi8 tapes. We originally had 8 unlabeled tapes. I got excited because I thought we had found it, only to realize it was the very small ending that was on a tape of its own.
We had just given up looking for the tape when I told hubby to just put them away with the rest of the labeled tapes and, lo and behold, there in the box were 11 more unlabeled tapes!
We were up all night watching the videos and waiting for them to rewind and fast forward, but eventually I found the tape I was looking for!
No wonder I was procrastinating this layout!
So, now, this is a genealogy layout and many people have been waiting since 2006 for me to put this tape online. Sigh. Sunday, I was at church until 4 p.m. and then spent 3 hours transferring the tape to the computer! Well, there went that day! Yep...spinning wheels!
I got the one hour 20 minute video online Monday, but then had yet another meeting at church in the evening! Ugggg! More spinning wheels!
Now, today, Tuesday, I wake up ALL motivated with ideas of what I'm going to do that is fun, only to realize I HAVE to make myself do yet another ad for the DST banner ad I paid for! Did I mention spinning wheels yet? Have I told you how much I hate doing ads and marketing? I've never done a banner ad before and this thing is due today and ...and...and...what to do!
So, an idea came to me to have hubby take a photo of me on the floor before he left for work and this is the banner ad I made this morning before going to work.
Do you like it? I'm not sure it's great, but at least it's done. I see things I might have changed.
So, if you see it at DST in March, let me know. I've only purchased so many views (100,000 impressions) and the way that place hops over there...it's likely to hit its max very fast and I'm likely to miss it!
The sad thing is that I think about all the time and money I put into that ad and it could not do be ANY good at all. I figured I'd never know until I try.
Oh...and now I've got an itch to put that photo of me in a new banner on my site...lol....like I need to spin more wheels and make MORE distractions and to-do's for myself! I'm good at that. Ideas pop in my head and I just HAVE to do them. Why do I always create more work for myself?
PS. I still do not have my 2006 layout done yet!
First I had the ASDR challenge to do and then I got stuck on all the commenting of all the layouts. Okay, that behind me, now I can just do whatever I enjoy doing. Right? Nope!
I needed to get that Digi-Gathering ad done. I don't like doing ads and marketing. Took me all day Saturday.
Over the weekend I decided that I needed to finish the ONE layout I have left to do for 2006. The only problem is that I have been procrastinating it because of the journaling. The journaling is actually on a Hi8 camcorder tape!
So, I set out on Saturday night, with hubby's help, to go through unmarked Hi8 tapes. We originally had 8 unlabeled tapes. I got excited because I thought we had found it, only to realize it was the very small ending that was on a tape of its own.
We had just given up looking for the tape when I told hubby to just put them away with the rest of the labeled tapes and, lo and behold, there in the box were 11 more unlabeled tapes!
We were up all night watching the videos and waiting for them to rewind and fast forward, but eventually I found the tape I was looking for!
No wonder I was procrastinating this layout!
So, now, this is a genealogy layout and many people have been waiting since 2006 for me to put this tape online. Sigh. Sunday, I was at church until 4 p.m. and then spent 3 hours transferring the tape to the computer! Well, there went that day! Yep...spinning wheels!
I got the one hour 20 minute video online Monday, but then had yet another meeting at church in the evening! Ugggg! More spinning wheels!
Now, today, Tuesday, I wake up ALL motivated with ideas of what I'm going to do that is fun, only to realize I HAVE to make myself do yet another ad for the DST banner ad I paid for! Did I mention spinning wheels yet? Have I told you how much I hate doing ads and marketing? I've never done a banner ad before and this thing is due today and ...and...and...what to do!
So, an idea came to me to have hubby take a photo of me on the floor before he left for work and this is the banner ad I made this morning before going to work.
Do you like it? I'm not sure it's great, but at least it's done. I see things I might have changed.
So, if you see it at DST in March, let me know. I've only purchased so many views (100,000 impressions) and the way that place hops over there...it's likely to hit its max very fast and I'm likely to miss it!
The sad thing is that I think about all the time and money I put into that ad and it could not do be ANY good at all. I figured I'd never know until I try.
Oh...and now I've got an itch to put that photo of me in a new banner on my site...lol....like I need to spin more wheels and make MORE distractions and to-do's for myself! I'm good at that. Ideas pop in my head and I just HAVE to do them. Why do I always create more work for myself?
PS. I still do not have my 2006 layout done yet!
1 comments:
I need to learn how to do an banner!
Did you get your book yet?
Hugs,
Thena
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