Launching My Blog Amid Feminine Brain Fog

Poppy View Headquarters: 0900 hours

I have been writing Poppy View for exactly a year and a half, now. Time has truly flown by so very quickly. I remember the first time I clicked the orange 'Publish' button.  I was so nervous, I held my breath for a few seconds, waiting to see if my little blog would actually appear online. 'View Blog', further verified that my first post had made it to cyberspace safe and sound. I was so proud of myself!

The Barracks

Just weeks before Poppy View's debut, I was ready to give up, frustrated with Blogger lingo and template troubles; I kept taking two steps forward and three steps back! I can almost always count on my daughter, Liberty, to save me from a computing catastrophe, but this was new to her, too, and she was studying for final exams - I could not keep bothering her with mini fits, and bits of blogging babble, when she had pressing deadlines and stacks of Ancient Greek texts to decipher... for a degree!

Searching for Strategies

I remember the self-targeted pep talk:

 ''Come on, you can do this!

 Concentrate, think,

 break it down, simplify,

you are almost on the brink!"

Visions of Inspiration

And so, 

like a stampeding quarterback,

I charged full speed ahead,

and in dangerously, daring decibels, 

I challenged, defied, and said:

 ''Bring on that feisty Favicon, 

those Gadgets and the Hyperlinks!

I fear your sheer complexity

but from it, bravely, I will not shrink!"

Fuel and Tools

Weeks later,

 after a few small victories in 'Layout',

armed with chocolate,

 and strong caffeine to drink, 

there was no doubt:

I would conquer!

I would not slip and sink!

Across Enemy Lines

On I marched, with mouse in hand,

towards that unmapped, nebulous no man's land,

 fortified by diligence, stubbornness,

and a fiery forte of a final command: 

 "I solemnly swear to confront and decrypt 

that crazy code called HTML/Java Script!''

Invasion and Occupation!

And that, my dear friends, is how this middle aged,

(but young at heart), aspiring writer,

(but hopeless Java 'Scripter'),

trudged through the trenches of forgetfulness,

and across the battlefields of brain fog,

fatigued from hormonal fluctuations,

 to finally fulfil her mission,

of walking amid the poppy fields,

of her virtual destination,

to view the world, from there!

Have a happy week!

Thanks for visiting! 

'Company, HALT!

And...Dismissed!'

xo

Poppy

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