New Blog Features

You may or may not have noticed that I've added some features to the blog.


1) Popular Posts: I was just curious which ones had the most hits.  I was quite surprised to see that my 10-year high school reunion was #10.


2) Labels: I went back through the entire blog and gave each post labels so it would be easier for me (and maybe you) to find a certain post.  Yes, I have that kind of time.  Do you remember when I woke up in the middle of the night with a cockroach on my arm?  Do you remember when that was?  Me neither.  That's why it got the "Scary Creatures" label, so you only have to look through five posts instead of 276.  Do you want to see loads and loads of pictures of my precious niece?  Just click on the "June" label and see all 42 of them in a row.


If you know me well, you know just how annoyed I am that the word "random" is the only label that doesn't start with a capital letter.  I'm not telling you how long I tried to fix that.


3) Feedjit: Okay.  I saw this extension on someone else's blog (I think Christy's at one point... it's gone now) and thought to myself, "I wonder who comes to my blog and where they're from and how they find me."  This little tool will tell me when people come on and where they are located and sometimes how they got to me (Lorie seems to send a lot of blogstalkers my way.  Either that or she blogstalked me six times yesterday, I'm not sure which.)  The reason I put it on is mainly curiosity with a good shake of paranoia plus a dash of vanity.  It's also a double-edged sword really, because if you scroll down to look, you can also see how much time I spend on this blog, which is really quite embarrassing (I'm the one in Biggar, South Lankarshire, wherever that is.  I have no idea why it thinks that is where I am, because I'm not.).


I was quite shocked to see how much traffic this blog gets.  I hardly get any comments, but really, really get excited when I do.  Most of the time I think, "Is this even worth the time?  No one reads it anyway."  Well, you guys sure do turn up from everywhere, don't you?  Ireland (?!), West Virginia, Washington, New York, Illinois, Alabama, South Carolina, Colorado, Arizona (Hi Allison!), and of course California and Georgia.  Now, I know of only a select few who actually read the blog but never comment (my mom, my sister and Bev), which leads me to this question...


WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?  Will you leave me a comment and at least confess to your blogstalking ways?  You don't have to be a technological genius or have a blog to leave a comment.  Who are you?  How did you find me?  Don't be shy.  I know you're there.  Please don't stop reading though. Please?  


If you don't know how to make a comment, I will now help you, so you are without excuse.


1) Click at the bottom of whatever post you want to comment on, where it likely says "0 Comments," or more hopefully "24 comments."
2) Type your comment in the box that says "Leave your comment."  If you're not signing in with an identity (if you don't know what that means, you don't have one), be sure to type your name at the bottom, much like you would a letter.  If you don't type your name, I won't know who you are.
3) If you don't already have a blog or are not logged in, under "Choose and identity," click the anonymous button.
4) Click "Publish your comment."


That's it.  I hope to "meet" you soon.


4) Total Page Views Counter: Again, curiosity meets vanity.  I'm sure more than half of those views belong to me.