Let's Begin

The girls are starting to wake up from their morning nap.  I need to wash bottles and make formula.  Get ready for them.  Prepare myself mentally.  We're going to the store, you see.  It's a lot of work.  But first I wanted to have a post so that I could work more with formatting later on, but also so I can get the first post out of the way and move on.  The first post is always the hardest.

So, some things I want to promise as this blog owner.  It's not a lot - I just can't promise much right now.  But I can promise you some things, at least.  So here we go with my Shifting Geers Manifesto:

1)  I will write one quality post at least once a week.  I can't guarantee more.  But I will at least do that.  

2)  I will work on some sort of schedule for special posts.  I'd like to cover lots of topics, from crafts to cooking to sleep training, to the simple physics of handling two babies at once.  Maybe Mondays could be food days?  Thursdays could be a physics lesson?  I don't know yet.  But I'll figure it out.  Say, by Sunday?  Sound good?  Now the caveat here is that I work best when I feel that not completing my task would be shameful.  I'd be ashamed, for example, if I didn't finish a post that I thought someone was looking forward to.  So I need my readers to keep me accountable by posting comments and/or otherwise interacting with me.  Could you do that for me please?  Particularly if you have a topic that you think would make a great recurring topic.  I would love to hear about that in the comments.  

3)  I will read your comments.  Not only that but I will respond to them and, where suggestions are left, I will do my best to incorporate those suggestions, or at least address them in a post.  I would really love to have input from readers as to what they'd like to see me write about.  Then I don't feel so much like I'm navel gazing.

One quick thing that I want to address:

I registered the domain name shiftingeers.com under Wordpress.com.  Being new to the whole blogging thing, I wanted the most professional look I could get without investing too much money until I was sure it would be something that would be well received, as well as something that I would stick with.  Unfortunately, much as I love Wordpress, I simply did not have as much control over my blog's appearance as I would like.  I am a creative person and I really need to be able to customize and tweak things extensively.  I couldn't do that on WP.com for free as I could here on Blogger.  So that's why I'm here.  As soon as the domain becomes available for transfer (another 54 days, I'm led to believe), I will do my best to transfer it to this blog so that it has a more professional address and looks a little less like the free hosted I-made-this-in-ten-minutes type of deal.  Eventually I would like to put it on my own domain but, quite frankly, I'm just not techie enough to pull that off.  I think just getting the domain transferred when that option becomes available will test my to my techie limits.  So...as far as the whole "professional" thing, just know that I'm working on it as time, knowledge, and money allows.  =)  

Okie doke.  I hear the cues being given from upstairs and it's time to go get them up, wash bottles, make breakfast, and hit the store!  Wish me luck!