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Geez, I just got a bajillion whiny emails saying I have not updated this since petrol was cheaper than a bottle of Grange!… You would not believe how terribly tardy the Victorian Internet can be. Apologies to my regular readers! Even the little blue ones!

I am flat out like a lizard drinking with curling my hair, hoping you haven’t found other blogs, just generally being asleep, dreaming and chancing to society in general. My day drifts aimlessly from mid-morning to well after sun-down. I am plotting and planning. I need some perspective.

I will try to remember I promised you I will update you with my nefarious activities as soon as I get a chance. Go with God, good friends. Don’t hold your breath though, you’re likely to turn blue.

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After finding this post — which led me to this hilarious tool –, I couldn’t help but update this blog. And instead of writing a long post about the advantages of being an amusing blogger, I’ve chosen to show you a practical example.

The piece above may look rather awkward, but nevermind. As I spend more and more weeks away from this blog, I’ll have to reuse that generator several times. With more practice, I’ll be able to make it generate better excuses for me.

Do you remember the Social Media Mega Project? Have you chosen the social media sites you’re going to blog about?

If Twitter is among your choices but you aren’t too familiar with it, here are a few links that will help you:

* Simon’s Twitter Mini Series: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

* 17 Ways You Can Use Twitter: by Maki from Dosh Dosh.

The Twitter Group Writing Project is hosted at Change Therapy. Publish your article on your blog, send its link to Isabella and get a free backlink plus some promotion in return.

Christmas is here and I thought it was time to offer my readers a little gift. Here it is: I’m open to StumbleUpon requests. Leave a comment and I’ll visit your blog, spot some good posts and stumble them. Alternatively, you may ask me to stumble specific articles, but in this case I reserve the right to say “no.” So it’s safer to just let me browse through your site and pick posts myself.

Please note that this offer is NOT open to sites containing any of the following: hate speech, racism, pro-violence and pro-war stuff, stolen content, warez, hacking, personal attacks, trolling, stalking and anything else that is illegal or otherwise highly objectionable. Since I keep my StumbleUpon profile as work-safe as possible, I won’t be stumbling adult-oriented stuff either. Finally, I’ll only stumble written content. No photos and no videos for the time being.

If I feel inspired enough, I may blog about this experience later and link to all stumbled posts. This is not a formal promise though, just a possibility.

Of course I’m not the only blogger offering gifts this week. Take a look at this post published on Retired Pay World and you may be pleasantly surprised. All I can say is that it’s something that could help you in your blogging efforts.

Happy holidays!

P.S.: I originally intended to thank my visitors for everything, but I’ll save this message for a future post. Meanwhile, consider yourselves thanked.

Mohsin has recently published an article that all procrastinative bloggers should read: How To Kill Procrastination For Good - No Kidding!

I liked his tip so much that I’m putting it into practice, starting today.

Writing this post was the first thing I did after turning my computer on. In order to avoid distractions, I wrote it before connecting to the Internet. Then I logged on, copied his article’s link, inserted it above and published this post.

Now I must write a new article for Abaminds. As I’ll have to revisit over 60 blogs to write that, I won’t be able to perform this task off-line. I hope I won’t get (too) distracted. Let’s see if I’ll manage to keep focused on my new post or not.

I’ll try Mohsin’s anti-procrastination technique for some weeks. Then I’ll report the results here. Regardless of the outcome, I must make it clear that procrastination is only one of the several issues that affect my blogging efficiency (or lack thereof). Consequently, I don’t see this experiment as a “magical formula” that will turn me into a superproductive blogger. There are other things to be solved, and some of those are out of my reach and control. But every small step that I take will help me somehow.

I encourage you all to start taking small — or maybe not so small, depending on your possibilities — steps towards your blogging success right now.

A few months ago Sarah published a cool guide called Tips on Gaining Page Views and Returning Visitors Using Post Series. At that time I commented that I planned to try that idea… as if I had never done that before. Well, that was indeed what I thought. But I had completely forgotten about my “Love Songs” post series, which can be found on this blog!

That was my first post series ever. It’s irrelevant to this blog’s new aims, but then again, it was a valid experience. And that reminds me of a certain WordPress plugin that list all posts in a series together. I should grab it and put it to the test using that old series to see how it works. *taking mental notes*