In case you missed it on Facebook, I have a very exciting parcel coming to me!
As you can see, I put my order in two days ago, and was expecting it to be shipped around mid-October. Waking up to this email was invigorating.
Currently in the mail are my first four books of saved blog posts!! That is TWO FULL YEARS of posts saved! In June, I celebrated my fourth year of blogging, so I’m practically half done. I’ve been completing books and uploading them here and there to the website blurb.com, but on the 26nd, I saw a promo code for 20% off. Since shipping is pretty expensive, I was thrilled to see I could get a discount at all! However, I often find myself in the boat of jumping on a sale, and having a better one surface a week later. I decided to do a bit of research while my fourth book uploaded, which takes a couple of hours. I googled “How often does Blurb have coupon codes?” Surely someone has asked this question before, correct?
I found one better. I found an active coupon code that wasn’t advertised on Blurb, but on a cooking website. It was geared towards getting printing cookbooks, but obviously not enforceable to be used only on cookbooks. So thanks to that code, I got 35% off of my books!!! It made my decision about whether or not to order them very very easy. I cannot believe they’re actually printed and coming!
I was motivated by this to keep working on saving posts, but we had a bit of a rocky afternoon with a certain teething baby boy. Once he was down for a nap, I worked quickly and got two months saved into a fifth book. Not my most productive afternoon but definitely better than nothing at all!
When I first began this process of saving my posts, I was super intimidated. I figured that if I saved a month per day, every single day, diligently, it would still take 7+ weeks. That seemed like a lot to me. I won’t lie, and I’ll admit that I still find the project a bit ominous. Daunting. Intimidating. Scary. Hard. All of the things. I’m so scared to be this far into it and then to hit a road block (I accidentally wrote “road blog” first, lol) and have all of my time and efforts wasted.
But I plan to do absolutely everything in my power not to quit! I declare that there IS value in this project, whether anyone else sees it or not! This doesn’t come from a place of bitterness, I promise. I have not had one single person tell me this isn’t worth it. I have felt support from every angle. But I want to see its value myself. Me. And I do. 🙂 I’m really, really excited about having these memories. Whether I stop blogging tomorrow, or in a year, or in ten years, or never, I will always have these two years in print for my loved ones (current and those to come) to read and laugh about/at over a good cup of coffee.
Yay for the reward from vast amounts of tedious work!!!