A Day in the Life of a Blogger

AllThingsDogBlog.com has posted a fun blog hop this week: she’s challenging bloggers to write about a day in the life of a pet blogger. It got me to thinking how much my life has changed in the past month since Tara's been gone. From the moment I woke up to going to bed at night I kept busy taking care of her needs (medications, help getting around, just watching her every moment). Now my day is much less structured and I'm working to fill the extra time chasing my dream of growing this blog as much as I possibly can. Tara was such an inspiration to me and I want her to be proud of what we started together.

My day starts checking email, social media, and visiting/commenting on the various blogs that I follow. Petfinder has also become a very important part of my morning routine lately as well. As I settle into my (paying) day job for the morning, my planner and notebook are constantly by my side. As ideas come to me I want to always be able to jot them down no matter where I am! During the afternoon I take care of household chores and try to sneak in as much social media time as I can :)

In the evenings after dinner I work on putting my day's thoughts to keyboard; I research, write, and proofread the following day's post one last time before scheduling it to go live at midnight. I find that I'm much more "fly by the seat of my pants" than I used to be. When Tara was here I never knew what each day was going to bring, so I would schedule my posts a week out in advance "just in case". Now I take things a day or two at a time and unless I have a guest post or interview with someone that I've promised would run on a certain day, I go where my muse takes me.

I'm a night owl, so by 10pm I'm ready to do some reading; half of this blog is a book blog, after all! I usually read until midnight at which time I'm back on my Kindle Fire checking out the new day's blog posts that have just gone up. What can I say, I'm obsessed!

This blog has become my passion; it gives me the opportunity to immerse myself in and write about the two things I love more than anything in the world...books and cats.