backed up, and wondering if I’ll ever dig my way out
Hi, just back from 4 days visiting my best-friend-since-7th-grade in San Francisco. I’m digging my way through emails, and I just wanted to say PLEASE FORGIVE ME because I just added another 50 emails from GSG.com readers asking me questions, to my folder of already hundreds. I don’t know if I’ll ever get to them all, and if I do, it’ll be a while. And it kills me, because some of those emails are those of you who wrote very kind words about my very personal disclosure recently (THANK YOU) or who are struggling with something significant.
Your best bet to ask me a question is to blog it because I prioritize answering anything that’s out here in the public space. But anyway, thanks for your patience with me.
Coming soon: I have that nutrition quiz I beta tested a couple of months ago, new and improved, and going live on the site soon, and it’s INTERACTIVE! (Calculates your totals for you.) Also I have lots of new content that’s been backed up while I didn’t have a webmaster but now I have these good people in India, just getting them going. Gradually lots of cool stuff should happen on this site, including the blogs becoming a forum at some point. Watch VERY soon for a chance to get in on a group buy of RAW ALMONDS–opening it nationwide, though I usually just do this for my local group. Cool, huh? You can’t get raw almonds anywhere without paying $8/lb. to get them from Spain, and these will be $3/lb. You just have to have raw almonds in your whole-foods cupboard or freezer, and your food storage. Watch this space.
So, getting there, getting there!
Much love,
Robyn
“now I have these good people in India, just getting them going”
Oh, c’mon Robyn — support a local Work at Home Mom! Don’t outsource to India!!
I’ve looked!!
Woo hoo! I’m totally in on the raw almonds!!
And it’s $13 for a pound of raw Spanish almonds where I live, so I am dying to get in on a better group buy . . .
There are plenty of people that do websites at home. Even college students do this! Try harder. I hate out sourcing to foreign countries. It really irritates me! We need our money to stay right here in the great USA! But I still love you Robyn! This is just my opinion for whatever it is worth!
Ohhhhhh, you have no idea what I’ve gone through and how many Americans I’ve assigned tasks to and it hasn’t gotten done, and I’m so frustrated. And these guys in India just jumped on it and are cranking it out–yes, for less–but the MAIN point is they GET IT DONE. Remember I teach in a business school with unlimited access to Information Systems students and I still find my webmaster(s) to be my bottleneck in getting it done. I’ll blog later but CHECK OUT THE NUTRITION QUIZ now on the site. They did that overnight!! I am so completely overjoyed because I’ve had that done for TWO MONTHS and given it to three different people without anything happening. They’re just busy, I’m sure. But of course people in third-world countries have to eat too, right? Don’t hate me.
I couldn’t hate you even if I tried! Why would i ever try that anyway! You have to do what you have to do. After all, you are doing all this for all of us, and we appreciate all you have done for us and will continue to do for us in the future. Once again, thank you so much for all you do for us, even under extremely stressful situations. We all love you!
Man I’m thinkin’ I need to learn to become very good at doing web pages!
OK, if you’ve at least tried Americans, I can understand. Although I agree with Leslee — look harder
For example, one of my favorite blogs – http://thepioneerwoman.com is designed/maintained by a WAHM – Heather at http://www.ohmystinkinheck.com
Tam – I agree! I’ve wanted to do web design for some time now. I feel like I’m so behind that I could never learn what everyone else knows — what a self-defeating attitude!
Is the quiz easier? Last time I got a C and this time I got a B, though I’m not sure I changed all that much…Vanity grading!
Easier in a sense, yes, because if you read all the comments the beta quiz got, people felt that even though they were clearly doing better than the mainstream were still bombing the quiz. I didn’t want to give a false sense of security with a feel-good (and therefore useless) measurement of nutritional health, but nor did I want the test to make people who are trying hard feel that they can never “get there” to an excellent diet. I did want the quiz to highlight areas of nutrition that most people (many bloggers here being an exception, obviously) literally have no idea about. Because as you know, Heather, I’m all about teaching in those areas.
One way I addressed this is to make some of the truly high-level things “extra credit.” Of course I feel EVERYONE should be eating lots of sprouts. But almost no one is. Eating lots of enzymes is compensatory for some nutritional sins, so it makes sense to give ourselves “extra credit” for that.
Anyway, I’m probably not making sense as I write this quickly, trying to clarify my thought processes in quite a bit of time developing that quiz.
But I will blog about this today so lots more people can try it out.
Robyn
I was just teasing about vanity grading, especially after your ratemyprofessor.com post.
I will say that a B makes me feel like getting back to work, whereas a C left me sort of dejected. I know that sprouting would get me to the next level, it’s just such a drag trying to make them, with the time and the expense, sigh. I don’t do a lot, just have three kids and work from home part time and get to the gym, but it feels like a big undertaking!