Organization Fail — Here in the Bonny Glen

January 4, 2010 @ 8:33 pm | Filed under: Nerd

Because I have email addresses for both my married name and my pen name, I wound up with two Google Reader accounts, which of course got to be unwieldy and silly. So I merged them.

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“RBJ” stands for “Rainbow Jane,” which is a kind of quilt. So that makes, yes, FIVE handcrafts-related folders between two accounts. What is wrong with me??

Imagine if I stopped reading crafty blogs—with all that extra time I bet I could make something, like, say, a quilt.

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Melissa H says:

Now can you share what’s IN those folders? I love to see what my favorite bloggers are reading.
Posted on January 4th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
MelanieB says:

“with all that extra time I bet I could make something, like, say, a quilt.” What a crazy idea!!! Though if you’re anything like me the majority of your blog reading happens while nursing. Rather hard to quilt and nurse.
Posted on January 5th, 2010 at 4:48 am
KC says:

I’m curious to know what’s in those folders as well. I LOVE craft blogs and spend too much time reading through them as well. Now, whether or not I actually do any of those inspiring crafts…
Posted on January 5th, 2010 at 10:53 am
Kathy says:

I have two Google Reader accounts too, and it is rather silly….I populated them both in the hopes that I could triage things that way. Didn’t work so well.
Posted on January 5th, 2010 at 11:11 am
Karen Edmisten says:

Umm, I thought Rainbow Jane must be a new nickname for Jane … Obviously I don’t read those quilting blogs.
Posted on January 6th, 2010 at 5:11 am
Hannah says:

WHOA DOG! That is a LOT of blogs you read! I can’t even keep up well enough with about 20, esp. when I go out of town!

On an unrelated note, are you counting down the days til Feb 2? LOST Season 6 begins!!!:-)
Posted on January 6th, 2010 at 7:45 pm
Melissa Wiley says:

Those numbers are for unread *posts*, not total blogs. But I do sub to way too many…more than I can keep up with. (Hence the high #s of unread posts.)

And YOU BETCHA I am counting the days! I feel jittery just thinking about it. Tick tick tick. How’s it gonna end???
Posted on January 6th, 2010 at 7:49 pm

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