Midweek memefied

IT’S WEDNESDAY from my side of the world, and maybe yours, too. Memefied means I’ve gone mainstream (long before I admitted it, which is just now). This is like a pledge (mostly to myself; no, entirely perhaps?) to post on the same day weekly, with a theme hovering over us all, writer and readers alike. So let’s keep it straight and short: Five for…

Five for fair enough: Eccentric keyword entries

These are my top picks for curious word choices people used to find my blog, intentionally (like a stalker) or not:

brogues dont look good on me

Maybe it’s your cankles, but can’t you see? It wasn’t interrogative, you just thought out loud on Google. Google what looks good with cankles next time. You’re welcome. Continue reading »

Protected: Because I want a password-protected post

Everybody’s Free to Wear Sunscreen: The Second Quarter of 2012 Edition

If I could offer you only one tip for the near future, swimming would be it. Return to your parents’ house and hit a nearby beach. Swim with a pink bathing suit on, and yeah, swim without it.

When dealing with family, friends, work, weight, and such, use a mind filter. Don’t take in stray stressors, let things flow as should be. Physicists believe that everything our planet encompasses, comes and goes in one fluid motion. When tossed among ass-kissers and bullies, choose dignity, excellence, faith, honor, and grace.

Feeling trapped? Take to the roof deck. Clarify your perspective.
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Day 10: Blog tinkering tips

Love tinkering with your blog? I understand. Most of my free time is spent on fixing things here and there on WordPress. Tonight, I detoured, thus delaying this post, because there were details I missed out on badly on the first try. My inner discontent would have to eat me up if I didn’t work on the changes. I wish I had a checklist, even just a mental Post-It resembling a plan outline before I  went out on a blogging frenzy. Continue reading »

Instagram Tips and Tricks

This post made me consider reblogs. I am an avid Instagram user, but haven’t tinkered with the app with enough curiosity. Ironic, huh? Having shifted to my built-in camera for taking the shot itself, I wasn’t being a super hands-on user to find that Instagram has its own tilt shift feature (so I used Camera360 for the blurs). Someone here knows what she’s doing: Continue reading »

Adventure is out there

I’m not about to brag, just relay facts. That goes to those who think saying your audience spans 33 countries is already bragging — because there’s a lot left unsaid about that — and 33 countries? My flag collection is a long way off for the United Nations Month.

I don’t have a big following on WordPress, and there’s no such thing as the Toned Down & Vintage community. There are only three four persons I can actually talk to about my blog, including my sister. There are the occasional commenters and several writers I connected with, like Hiba and Riz, but blogging has been a solo flight. Flight to where? Good question.

To stardom

I’d not say, “not a chance.”  There were days I wished WordPress would give me my 24 hours of fame. (Web 2.0 must really be rocket science to those who set up a WordPress blog and keep their URLs like a key to a diary padlock — and a diary padlock? Come on, get a PIN.) Continue reading »

Day 9: My loot, my loves

It’s like indifference to your first domestic affair, betraying your first love. My hardcovers, paperbacks, and digital books are not shelved, organized for the first time, some are in the top shelf of the closet, in the hamper, on top of a storage box, on my bed, on my office desk, or in the drive of my dead computer, and two are on loan. Continue reading »