I really hated to stop selling bags because they are so fabulous but I knew they weren’t part of my life’s mission so I had to do it in order to make room for new things. I made the difficult decision to sell the business. It was difficult because it made it so final. If I sold it I couldn’t change my mind six months later like I like to do. I also knew that whoever bought it would do a better job with them than I have ever done and I thought it would be a little painful to watch. There’s that jealousy thing again.
But the good news is that I sold it yesterday and I feel like a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders! I’m excited for the women who bought it. They will do a fabulous job taking care of my baby and do great things with it and I’m relieved that the bags will soon be available again for you to order. They will have them in stock in a couple months and I will let you know exactly when that happens.
That brings me to my next topic.
Comments
Aren’t we all intrigued by controversy just a little bit? A blogger posts something that one person doesn’t like so they leave a nasty comment because they have nothing better to do and then then other people jump in to defend the blogger and then other people comment that they really do agree with the first commenter and then the whole thing is an ugly mess? I know some blogs that thrive on that sort of thing but that is not what I want for my blog. This is a place for me to share the things I’m learning and to freely change my opinions and contradict myself every other day without people feeling like they need to attack me or defend me.
A lot of you are worried that I turned the comments off because of a few comments I got last week but that is not the case. They did however get me thinking again that I wanted to do this over a year ago. Last year I turned my comments off for about two days before I realized that the comments raised my google ranking and made it easier for people to find me on the search engines. Since I was trying to sell bags this was important to me but now that I’m not selling bags I couldn’t care less about my ranking.
I love reading your comments but the reason I am turning them off now is because I love them a little too much. I’m not addicted to blogs or Facebook or Twitter, or texting or television or popular music or any other kind of technology except one. I’m addicted to email. I check it all day long and not only that but every time I sit down for “just one second” to check my email I end up getting distracted by other things and wasting several minutes or hours on the computer. It’s like stopping at the store for just one thing and walking out with five bags of groceries that you didn’t need. With all the other positive changes I’m making in my life this is something I have to do.
There are other people around here that are addicted to my comments as well and those people are crying right now so maybe I will leave the comments on once in a while just for them. And because I am so wishy washy I will probably change my mind about this whole thing tomorrow and things will go right back to normal.
But probably not.
That being said I do want to hear what you have to say so if you really feel like you need to voice your opinion you are welcome to contact me through my contact form and anyone who is friends with me on Facebook can always leave a comment on my posts there.
See? I told you I was contradictory.
This whole thing feels very liberating. I’m imagining I will be able to blog whenever, about whatever I want now without worrying so much about what everyone thinks. But wasn’t I already doing that? We’ll see.
Photos
Sailor asked me what I was going to do with the money I got for my business. I told him, “I think I already spent it on camera equipment.”
We were at a friend’s farm last week and Muscles wanted to use my camera that I won’t let the children touch, absolutely not, under any circumstance, because they already broke my $300 point and shoot last year. These children of mine have a way of wearing me down.