Thoughts

 Hello, 

I've been thinking about making a new blog, to be honest, I haven't been posting on here for a few different reasons. It initially stopped posting on here because I was extremely busy! I was finishing up my master's degree, I was working full time, it was the holidays, and you know the whole covid thing. I've talked about it before but I was also working on my sims blog/Instagram so I really wasn't reading much so I just had no content coming out over here. Once all of that settled and I was reading more I've tried so many times to pick it back up over here. I've been reading some really good books, I've been working on my yearly goals, and finishing up the year. However, whenever I tried to post over here in my free time I would just lose interest, and it's really the site. I can't edit it how I want to. Since they've done the updates on the actual typing side I couldn't add the pictures how I was doing and link the websites to them. I just have not been happy with the way it's been working now. So I had two choices. I could either abandon this blog completely or I could just find a new way to adapt to this. Being me and dealing with these changes I just rather put it off. So I haven't looked into it but I've really been missing it because during the weekdays I mostly read books like I said January has been an amazing reading month for me so far and I'm on track to finish at least 1 more book if not 2 more which is really incredible for me and it is going to make my total for the month at either 5 or 6 and I know to a lot of people that's nothing but my yearly goal is only 50 so even though I love to read I don't read that fast. I'm going to end up having it regardless. But I haven't talked about a single one over here. I really miss blogging about it. I've been posting on my Instagram and I think it's been helping me get back into the blogging mood and really miss it even more. 

So that brings me back to do I want to rebuild my blog on a new platform or do I want to try to make Blogger work for me again. I honestly have been with Blogger for forever it seems, but I have tried other blog sites before. Most of the time I end up deleting them and coming back to my blogger site. I don't branch out because I want more people to see my content I was branching out because I was not happy with the way my blog looked. I felt like it looked like it was sloppily thrown together and I tried forever to make it look better but I couldn't make it look nice and eventually just gave up with it and just didn't look at it. But I've finally got it to look like something I'm proud of and have been in love with it. Then the site updated and turned to garbage on my end. In the beginning, the updates were amazing. If you use Blogger then you know how outdated our end was and seeing the facelift was really truly amazing. But then there was another update and it made it impossible for me to copy and paste pictures into my posts. Over here you notice a lot that I post book covers usually at the beginning of my blog posts and then I add the links to the Goodreads page either below the picture or the picture itself. The website hasn't been letting me do that and it sounds like such a minor thing but I love to add color to all these words and it just makes it look nicer in my opinion. So instead of trying to learn and work through this, I was busy and just didn't want to deal with it. I have tons of content that I've started but just never finished because I couldn't make it what I wanted it to be. So I'm back thinking about changing my host site but now if I do that it's going to be two blogs that move not just one. I've been thinking about merging two and I think it would be fun to make it a ShayKay's World blog and I've honestly have been really liking that idea. BUT if I do that do I take all my blogs too? I kind of like the idea of starting fresh. But I also really love the idea to go through all my posted stuff and copying it over and updating them as I go. So what I'm saying is that I don't know if I'm going to continue to post over here on Blogger but I am ready to return to blogging I think. I really miss it and being a person who really wants to write a book one day it helps me work on my writing skills and being out of school now I really don't have a reason to write anymore. I love using my Instagrams to showcase my books and sims and I think it would be fun to go even more in-depth with them again like I did in my blogs and I miss it. So I think I'm going to look at other blog sites first and see if it even possible because I really want it to look a certain way and then come back to the idea. I really like the idea of ShayKay's World and then have a tab for books and a tab for the Disney Sims and then another tab for the Berry sims and maybe even a little blog about my pets because I have A LOT! I have a lot of ideas and I just think it would be something fun to do and something that is definitely worth looking into before I post more stuff. I really have a lot of things that I want to work on too. If I do decide to move my posts over I know I won't be moving my hauls or unhauls or books I want to read. I think from this blog I would only move over my reviews. I'm going to spend this week and maybe next week looking into it and then if I move it I'll update this blog and if I don't move it I will have a post going up that's book-related. :)