FINALLY A NEW POST!

Well, I THOUGHT I had joined the 21st century back on 2/14/08 when my good friend Melodiann helped me set up this blog . . .

Turns out I wasn't quite there yet! You may have noticed that between 2/14/08 and 1/19/09 there were exactly 0 new posts to my blog. Yep, 0. And how many had I TRIED to post? At least a dozen, before just giving up!

The next day after setting up the blog, I went on there to post a new message. I did everything it said to do, and it told me the message had been posted. Then when I logged in again, it wasn't there! This happened over and over again. I was ready to tear my hair out. I cried on Melodiann's shoulder, over the phone, and we set up a time for her to come help me, and figure out what I was doing wrong. Well, something came up, and we rescheduled a time or two, then played phone tag a lot, then before you know it I had slipped back into the same old rut of being a NON-blogger. I knew I had a blog out there somewhere in cyberspace, but it was just a thorn in my side I'd rather not think about. So I didn't.

Until today. Today I decided, "This is ridiculous! Blogs are supposed to be EASY to do! I know I'm as smart as a lot of people out there blogging. I'm going to conquer this monster!" So I called Melodiann to cry on her shoulder again and reschedule our private session of Blogging For Dummies. This time she walked me through it over the phone.

Hmmm . . . seems it helps to go to the right PLACE to create a post! I didn't realize that to put a new post on my blog, I need to go to blogger.com instead of to my blog! BIG DIFFERENCE!

I still don't know why it always made it sound like I had been successful posting from the blog itself, but that's a mystery I'll try to solve in another session. For now I'm just excited that I finally know how to post a new post on my blog! With patience, perserverence, and Melodiann's help, I'm DETERMINED to join the 21st century. One step at a time. Rome wasn't built in a day, and it's hard for this old dog to learn new tricks. But I WILL conquer this thing!