Some Changes and Adjustments

Life keeps throwing those curves in the path doesn’t it? I did not mean to abandon you once again so soon after recovering from my back injury. In early September, one of my parents was hospitalized and their stay lasted for just over six weeks. During those weeks, we lost another close family member. I just don’t think 2009 has been my year.

I feel after so much combined time off, I need to get a fresh start with this site.

So what will be changing?

I really miss the LPO Clutter Scavenger Hunt. I never meant to put it off so long. I got sidetracked trying to get out all of the timely and theoretical articles because the readership grew faster than I had expected. I like the Clutter Scavenger Hunt. I have a lot of them that have been patiently waiting in my back pocket from the very beginning.  It will once again become the biggest regular feature of the site.

I have several series planned. Trying to get them out in relation to the time of year hasn’t worked very well. It has also felt like beating a dead horse when I tried to get each one out all at once before moving on to something else. (It took at least a month to get through the Kitchen Series. And it still isn’t finished!) Not only does it get boring for all of us, it gives me a feeling that I am trying to catch up. I imagine if you are reading them as they are written, you feel the same. From now on, I will work on them in the background and put them on the site in chunks, AS I get to them instead of corresponding to the season.

Get Excited! The first series I want to focus on as I make this fresh start is a tutorial for building a customized Home Management Planner system using three ring notebooks! (Don’t worry. I will still finish the Back to School series I was working on when the ceiling seemed to come crashing down.)

There have been a lot of changes around the internet over the past couple of years. So many of the links around here are outdated and broken. Many specific solutions have been phased out since I initially mentioned them. I want to point you to some good alternatives. I am going to be spending a lot of time reviewing all of the articles and pages already on here. For those of you that have hung in there with me from early on {Thank you SO much!}, you will probably be seeing the old articles hit your inbox or reader in a revised version.

When I first started this site, I had hopes to quickly settle into a regular daily schedule with each day having its own feature. Given the past year, I won’t dare commit to a daily schedule for new articles. I will try to aim for every Monday. The old stuff will probably be coming randomly the rest of the week until I have reviewed all of them.

I have a few other things up my sleeve for us, too!  Stay tuned for them!

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