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Just A Rant…..

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This is a message I received through Stumbleupon that just kinda rubbed me the wrong way:

Hi, I’ve just stumbled your share as I’ve done regularly for the shares you send through. However, in an effort to cut back on the amount of shares I’m receiving I am starting to cut people who don’t view sharing as a 2-way street. I have sent 13 shares in the past 2 months and it doesn’t look like you have stumbled any of them. That is of course your prerogative and this is not a threat, I’m just trying to notify people before I stop their shares in case I have made a mistake.

Ummm….. MOM? Is that you?

Usually when somebody criticizes the way I do something it’s my Mom. Love her dearly but my goodness the woman can’t just say something nice and leave it alone. This was not my Mom or my friends Mom who is queen of the backhanded compliment. It starts out nice, they stumbled my share!

How wonderful, THANK YOU!

HOWEVER apparently they are getting a lot of shares and now have to cut back, okay. Sharing is a 2 way street. Yes, yes I agree… but it is Stumbleupon and not Shareupon. I stumble or people share, I read  or squeal at puppy pictures and nine times out of ten I’ll hit the  thumbs up.

Yep, that’s what I do when I’m sitting on my ass in the evening after a long day at work. If I really like it I’ll send it to twitter or share with friends. That’s sharing, isn’t it?  So they want me to market they’re blog for them, following they’re criteria? Are they paying me? No? Well then I’ll read they’re shares, give it the thumbs up, possibly share it on twitter and if I really like you I’ll tell everybody I know about you. (Some favourites Runaway Juno, Hektic Travels, Girl In A Boy House, Bald Hiker, I could go on and on I love blogs)

I love that they know how many times they have sent shares, lucky 13! In two months! Looks like I didn’t stumble any of them. Bad employee! Oh wait, I don’t work for them. I believe I did give them the thumbs up, I do like the blog.

Totally my prerogative (now I have Bobby Brown in my head…..Thanks).

My FAVOURITE part….. this is not a threat.

Umm no it’s not a threat. Let me get the dictionary…… nope doesn’t seem to meet the criteria of a threat, just as I apparently don’t meet they’re criteria for sharing.

So they want to criticize people that they have no way of knowing how they might be promoting they’re blog?

If you don’t like my blog, don’t want to see my pictures or read my ramblings, view my shares then the really easy answer is block me. Don’t accept my shares, easy peasy!

You see they’re an eye for an eye person. I do this and you do that. You don’t play the way they think you should play they’ll take their ball and go home. Like a bully.

I’m more do unto others, I’ll share and tweet and tell everybody about the blogs I like and I don’t expect them to share just because I did. Some do (Thank you!) and some don’t (still love you!). I will still share theirs because I think they are worth sharing, they stand on they’re  own merit.

So really they can block me, I’m okay with that.

BUT here is the kicker. The last share they sent was a post describing how they need help. They are offering a discount on their pictures for people who donate. I was looking at the pictures and was thinking I could help and pick out a picture (if you donate you get a discount on the pictures). Maybe get two, a friend has a birthday coming up. Then while I was thinking about it I was checking my other shares and received the message.

Wow. Suddenly a bad taste in my mouth. So let me get this straight, they are going to stop my shares because they really have no idea about how much I have or have not shared they’re blog. They have bitch slapped me through a message AND they want me to donate?

Also with the trying comment all I can think of is Yoda “Do or do not there is no try”. Share or share not fellow blogger but that is your decision.

In case they made a mistake, I am guilty until proven innocent. Which I find really funny considering they’re former profession.

So a reply:

Hi, I’ve just stumbled across your request for donations. However, in an effort to cut back on expenses I am not donating to people who don’t say thank you. Sharing is a 2-way street and since we are apparently no longer sharing because you can’t tell if I have or have not shared your blog. I will ignore your request. I have no idea how many shares I’ve sent in the past two months (but less than thirteen, so really you’ve taken up more of my time than I have yours) and no idea if you have stumbled them. It is of course your prerogative (cue Bobby Brown) to stop my shares and this is not a threat (it really isn’t). I’m just trying to notify you that perhaps your approach could have been better?

Have a great day!

Goals 2012 – Blog

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I will continue to blog and amuse you either intentionally or not with my sometimes very lazy writing. Believe it or not I have a plan. How that plan works out, we’ll soon find out. There will be many travel posts and they will start on January 16, when I get home from my trip.

Did I tell you? I went to Paris for New Years! Yes Paris! I’m sure I had a blast and right now I am in Prague! Then tomorrow I head for Budapest. Not a bad way to start the year and really I needed something to blog about so that I didn’t bore you all with my ordinary life.

I have other idea’s as well but I haven’t fully worked them out yet. The blog is and suspect will always be a work in progress.

The goal then is to post 5 days a week for a year. A lofty goal but I think I can do it. Does a picture count as a post?

Three Months Of Blogging

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Today is three months since I started my blog. I love it but not just the writing but the whole blogging community. I took a course and my instructor had mentioned the blogging community. Until I started getting involved on twitter, stumbleupon and promoting my blog did I understand that phrase fully.

I’ve read blogs for years, I love blogs. After reading blogs for a decade and thinking “I could do that” I finally did. Is it great? No my blog is a work in progress, there is a learning curve but I’m feeling good about it.

What I really like is that I am reading even more blogs now. You know the phrase “there’s an app for that” well it’s very similar with blogs. Want to know something, learn something, experience something vicariously? There is a blog for that.

What I have learned in the short three months is there are so many people traveling. So many who have quit their jobs to see the world. I find this inspiring and have discoverd dozens and dozens of wonderful blogs by adventurous souls. I hope to be one and now I know it can be done.

I’ve been cooking more. The number of food blogs out there is staggering. I have new favourite cookies. Nutella cookies, that are so good for breakfast (yes breakfast). I’ve made soups, stews and have a growing list of recipes to try.

I’ve laughed at single women documenting their pursuit of love.

The other thing I have learned is I never tire of puppy pictures. Yawning, playing, sleeping, sitting. Show me a puppy picture and I will go “Awwwww…..”

I am in the process of compiling my list of favourite blogs and will have that ready to go hopefully by the New Year. It’s not a best of list because I’m not sure how you would even begin to sift through all the blogs to find the best.

As I continue to blog and wander farther down the path I look forward to discovering more and more great blogs that inspire me, educate me and make me laugh.

More welcome chat….

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So I’m not sure exactly what will happen here but I need a hobby or something to do other then organizing soup cans, looking up old 80′s tunes and seeing what exciting things other people are doing on Facebook. So maybe this will keep me out of trouble and maybe I (and possibly you) will learn something. Even if its that I’m not a very interesting person and need a life. Having a lot of time to think and look things up I have a head full of useless information.

I’m sure somewhere and in a different context it would be useful but in my job it is not. Nobody ever wants to know who the editor of Vanity Fair is (Graydon Carter) or when Star Wars opened (May 25, 1977) or what the first video on MTV was (“Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles). Personally I think that if my company worked stuff like that into meetings and web articles on a regular basis people would be more interested and engaged.

I would find it more interesting than say ….. the recent article on “How to deal with difficult emotions…. our own and others’. This was interesting and surprisingly entertaining but I’m sure not in the way communications people meant. I had many conversations with others and they had some very good idea’s on how to deal with difficult emotions (and people) but oddly none of them were in the article.

I chose “Quipidity” because the domain name was not taken and since there are so many other blogs out there that I’m sure are much more useful and informative than mine I figure I can treat this as my journal (on serious days) and my diary (on petty, lazy days) since probably three people (Hey Girls! Dinner soon?) will read this.

If you are not one of the three and feel like offering insight, advice, comments or suggestions I would love to hear from you. If you need insight, advice or suggestions just ask. With my busy life I may not be able to help but “The Bear” will probably be able to help you out. He’s old, wise, retired and has a lot of time on his hands so he has time to think and research.

Here is “The Bear”

See he just looks smart and sympathetic he can be reached at:

bear dot advice at quipidity dot com

Welcome to my blog….

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So a few months ago I found myself at another work meeting, ready to stick a pencil in my eye, listening to management once again go on about goals and vision and seeing where they want the company to go. I decided to tune him out and think about where I wanted to go.

I didn’t have goals and that’s how I had ended up where I am. It’s not bad, it pays the bills, I’ve been with the company a long time but if I had goals what would I have done? (Totally drawing a blank)

Oh well, woulda, coulda, shoulda is a waste of time and better to look forward than look back and all that.

Then I tuned back in and now he was going on about what we can do as individuals to add value to the company how we should strive for excellence or some such nonsense and while wondering why the company was pushing the kool aid so hard I thought “blog”.

It was a word that had been popping into my head more and more, perhaps it’s time had come (what with the company pushing goals so hard).

Okay a blog wasn’t going to add value to the company and I’m not sure I’m striving for excellence so much as looking for a way to fill my time that doesn’t include taking courses for a career I don’t want.

After the last round of accounting courses I vowed NO MORE and so far have successfully dodged taking anymore work courses.

So I had a goal, now I needed to figure out the who, what, why, when.

Who: Me, writing, once upon a time I had wanted to be an author. I was going to write an immensely successful bestseller and live on easy street. As it turns out I am too scattered, unfocused and lack the discipline required to write a novel. Also my Mother always told me that I never finish anything, so lets say I’m just living up to expectations.

What: Subject, theme, what was my blog going to be about? Well going back to being scattered and unfocused the best I could come up with was ……. whatever. The plan is to write about whatever I feel like on any given day, to share whatever I feel like, to give opinions and hand out unsolicited advice and perhaps be witty while doing it.

Why: I always have it on my list to write. Everyday. I never do. So this will give me the space to write everyday. Do not expect brilliance, look for “slightly amusing occasionally” and you might not be disappointed.

When: Now

Welcome to “Quipidity”