It’s a Smart (Phone) World, Isn’t it?

Okay, I’ve got a question right up front because I’m ridiculously curious: how many of you fellow bloggers out there have been blogging mostly or exclusively from your phone? 

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Since I started my journey through the Mountains of Words in July, I have been doing so through the WordPress app on my BlackBerry. Though I adore my device for its computer power, multi-tasking abilities and superior security features, it has a long history of not playing nicely with Android-based apps like WP. Let me not get started on the rant of how bad the Facebook app and my phone relate!

My experience with the app has been tumultuous and fraught with expletive laden tirades while trying to cut and paste. We’re talking about two of my biggest life skills in the real world, but in the digital one, not so much so. More like hahaha-NOPE! It’s slowly getting easier though, like anything with practice. 

In the bottom right of this picture, you’ll notice just a fraction of my cutting implements! I also have a paper cutter, circle cutter and numerous exact-o knives; what can I say, I like to cut and paste. Side note: everything you see on my wall beside my desk got ruined by unfortunate, gleeful accident the day I found out about my new job mid-breakfast and proceeded to shake my chocolate protein drink after I’d already removed the lid. I got that stuff everywhere including up my nose! But, hey, I got the job! Excitement does strange things to my brain.

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Briefly side-barring here on the topic of real world and things getting easier, my elevator making skills are improving. When I started my job in June, I was beyond intimidated by how little I knew and how much there was TO know. Already I can build most of my pieces without consulting the drawings and find the parts I need without having to wander around. Everything gets easier with practice; even the things we tell ourselves we can’t do.

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Back to blogging and using our ever prevalent smart phone technology to do it, I’ve found my site looks a little bit different depending on the device. On my phone, my Menu bar appears as this long blob that disrupts the intended atmosphere and yet, on my Mum’s Huawei it is just how it’s supposed to be. I’ve yet to see how it looks from a desktop browser.

I had intended to wait to start blogging until I could find time to break out the old laptop. But, a month passed with that excuse holding me back before I realized I just had to start. 

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I place strange restrictions on myself and limits that exist to no other person. I’m trying to relax these fictional restraints. No one is holding me back but me. I learned that lesson the hard way. I suppose we all do.