Kathleen and Ethan are away for a couple of days so it's just Jaden (our 2 year old) and I and my goal was to convert her into a Daddy's girl.
So...she was eating oatmeal and had a tray in front of her. I went upstairs, came back down and she was slumped over in her chair.
"Jaden?"
No response.
I give her arm a tap.
Nothing.
Slaps cheek. "JADEN."
Panicking, I open her mouth, open her clenched teeth and do a finger sweep to see of she was choking and she cried. She wasn't choking - SHE WAS ASLEEP.
Yup, I slapped and stuck my finger down the throat of a sleeping 2 year old.
Operation Daddy's Girl has hit a snag.
She screamed for Mommy for 10 minutes. I did too.
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Thursday, August 08, 2013
Why are you unfollowing people, idiot?
Hello!
You may have noticed that my Following numbers have dropped so I'll fill you in on why.
The two previous blogs explained how I started on FavStar and things like that (start at the one before the one before this if that makes sense). I was a person that just wanted to keep getting followers and followers and followers. And the easy way to do that was to just follow someone back that retweeted me. Odds are they would follow back and WOOHOO! A FOLLOWER! Yup, I was excited (and still am frankly).
There are two weeks left in my FavStar and I probably won't re-up. I don't think. It wouldn't be for the trophies but I do use them now and again. I used to give them daily and now it's one a week or so. I used to actually plan out who I was going to trophy, talk to people about it and talk about who retweets a lot for a trophy, have strategies, etc. People still do, which is great, I'm not going to tell anyone how to do Twitter and if you are looking for followers I highly suggest doing that. AND I actually DM'd 2 people a long time ago when I first started saying, "Hey, uhhh....did you get my trophy?". Yup, I was an idiot. Still am.
Anyhoo, I was following over 18K people. 18 THOUSAND. That's pretty well like standing in Fenway Park and trying to listen to everyone's conversations. I didn't check the capacity for Fenway, but let's just assume.
So, I got a message from a friend on here saying that he is happy that he can read his TL now. I saw a couple of other people do it as well and talked to them and I figured it would be a thing that would be good to do for the long run until this website dies to someone who starts another site that can do 160 characters.
So, I started to clean it out. I hate doing it, but I want to be able to read the tweets of the people I follow. So, I started. First, I started with the people I'd never heard of that didn't follow me back. That was a bunch right there that I just randomly followed.
Then, I went through my TL and started clicking on the far right or left wing political tweets. I literally had over 400 that were daily saying, "IMPEACH OBAMA!". It would just be those types of tweets non-stop. Is it their fault? No, of course not. I clicked the "Follow" button when I shouldn't have. I just blindly followed people because they liked something that I wrote.
As you saw in the below post, I have an addictive personality. So, when I hopped on an Unfollow App, I just started clicking. And clicking. And clicking. I unfollowed a few people who (or whom?) I didn't mean to. Once I clicked it I went, "Yikes!" and tried to find them. I'm still looking for you, Clint. Sonofabitch.
There's a few. I also went on www.twitonomy.com and it said, "These are the users that are not following you". So I thought, "EASY!". Click click click. And then I came up to @bradbroaddus - my best buddy on here and it said he wasn't following me. I thought, "Well, that isn't right". And of course he was following me - and I figure a lot of those other people were too. D'oh!
Now, I've unfollowed about 12K people. And a few I followed back right away because I had actually never seen their tweets before and someone retweeted them into my TL. Like @lifecoachfit and @nickc46. I saw Nick's tweet, retweeted it and followed him and he was apparently already following me.
I will be unfollowing more, I'm not done yet. It just takes time to sit down and actually do it. I'm not talking about people who don't retweet me, just ones where I am just a number on their list and they are a number on mine.
Now, THERE WILL BE MISTAKES. And if we talk to each other, I didn't mean to unfollow. You can just write, "Hey, idiot" or something like that and I will fix it. People like @laurabx (I've checked her account 5 times to ensure that I didn't click on hers) and @loribuckmajor.
After about a week of doing this I received a few comments.
I had one guy say, "This really bums me out" and showed a pic that said I unfollowed him. He was really nice about it. THAT'S the type of person that I like - I followed him back asap and we've talked a minor bit now. Fantastic.
Then I had one person last night talking about how she RT'd me, starred me and trophied me and then I unfollowed her and that I hope I enjoy my "shiny new ratio". But you know what? Her Twitter, so she can do what she wants with it. I'm sure I'll get more comments, some good, some bad, but it happens I guess. I've never done this before and I don't plan on doing it again as it ain't fun.
After this I look forward to making a whole set of new mistakes.
You may have noticed that my Following numbers have dropped so I'll fill you in on why.
The two previous blogs explained how I started on FavStar and things like that (start at the one before the one before this if that makes sense). I was a person that just wanted to keep getting followers and followers and followers. And the easy way to do that was to just follow someone back that retweeted me. Odds are they would follow back and WOOHOO! A FOLLOWER! Yup, I was excited (and still am frankly).
There are two weeks left in my FavStar and I probably won't re-up. I don't think. It wouldn't be for the trophies but I do use them now and again. I used to give them daily and now it's one a week or so. I used to actually plan out who I was going to trophy, talk to people about it and talk about who retweets a lot for a trophy, have strategies, etc. People still do, which is great, I'm not going to tell anyone how to do Twitter and if you are looking for followers I highly suggest doing that. AND I actually DM'd 2 people a long time ago when I first started saying, "Hey, uhhh....did you get my trophy?". Yup, I was an idiot. Still am.
Anyhoo, I was following over 18K people. 18 THOUSAND. That's pretty well like standing in Fenway Park and trying to listen to everyone's conversations. I didn't check the capacity for Fenway, but let's just assume.
So, I got a message from a friend on here saying that he is happy that he can read his TL now. I saw a couple of other people do it as well and talked to them and I figured it would be a thing that would be good to do for the long run until this website dies to someone who starts another site that can do 160 characters.
So, I started to clean it out. I hate doing it, but I want to be able to read the tweets of the people I follow. So, I started. First, I started with the people I'd never heard of that didn't follow me back. That was a bunch right there that I just randomly followed.
Then, I went through my TL and started clicking on the far right or left wing political tweets. I literally had over 400 that were daily saying, "IMPEACH OBAMA!". It would just be those types of tweets non-stop. Is it their fault? No, of course not. I clicked the "Follow" button when I shouldn't have. I just blindly followed people because they liked something that I wrote.
As you saw in the below post, I have an addictive personality. So, when I hopped on an Unfollow App, I just started clicking. And clicking. And clicking. I unfollowed a few people who (or whom?) I didn't mean to. Once I clicked it I went, "Yikes!" and tried to find them. I'm still looking for you, Clint. Sonofabitch.
There's a few. I also went on www.twitonomy.com and it said, "These are the users that are not following you". So I thought, "EASY!". Click click click. And then I came up to @bradbroaddus - my best buddy on here and it said he wasn't following me. I thought, "Well, that isn't right". And of course he was following me - and I figure a lot of those other people were too. D'oh!
Now, I've unfollowed about 12K people. And a few I followed back right away because I had actually never seen their tweets before and someone retweeted them into my TL. Like @lifecoachfit and @nickc46. I saw Nick's tweet, retweeted it and followed him and he was apparently already following me.
I will be unfollowing more, I'm not done yet. It just takes time to sit down and actually do it. I'm not talking about people who don't retweet me, just ones where I am just a number on their list and they are a number on mine.
Now, THERE WILL BE MISTAKES. And if we talk to each other, I didn't mean to unfollow. You can just write, "Hey, idiot" or something like that and I will fix it. People like @laurabx (I've checked her account 5 times to ensure that I didn't click on hers) and @loribuckmajor.
After about a week of doing this I received a few comments.
I had one guy say, "This really bums me out" and showed a pic that said I unfollowed him. He was really nice about it. THAT'S the type of person that I like - I followed him back asap and we've talked a minor bit now. Fantastic.
Then I had one person last night talking about how she RT'd me, starred me and trophied me and then I unfollowed her and that I hope I enjoy my "shiny new ratio". But you know what? Her Twitter, so she can do what she wants with it. I'm sure I'll get more comments, some good, some bad, but it happens I guess. I've never done this before and I don't plan on doing it again as it ain't fun.
After this I look forward to making a whole set of new mistakes.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Trying to get my life back from FavStar The Game
Hi!
My blog below this one shows how I've been doing FavStar and Twitter. This one is 5 months later and I want to explain why I'm changing the way I do things.
First off, I've been using FavStar for 6 months. In that time frame I went from 600 followers to over 13,000. If you don't know Twitter, it's a pretty good jump I think. If it wasn't for FavStar you probably wouldn't be reading this as you most likely wouldn't even be following me.
I've made a lot of friends on Twitter and it's been pretty amazing. I've gotten shows out of Twitter, sold some books and have people asking me when I am playing in their city. This wouldn't have happened without FavStar so I don't regret any of it whatsoever.
Here's mainly how I have been working the past 6 months:
Wake up. Think of Twitter. Hop on FavStar - Retweet a whole bunch of people. Baby wakes up. Play with baby while constantly looking at my phone in the background. Send a tweet. If it does well? I stare at my phone to watch it. Get kids ready for school. Stare at my phone. Wife and kids leave. Stare at phone. Hop on FavStar. Retweet, Retweet, Retweet. Kids get home. Stare at phone. Turn on the TV (for a break!) when the kids are in bed and my wife and I would watch a show which I'd miss most of. Talk? TO MY WIFE? Why would I do that when I could retweet? All because of FavStar. I felt this need that I needed to retweet to get as many followers as possible.
This would go on for hours, days, and apparently 6 months. It has flown by. I have been gaining about 1000 followers every 7-10 days for the past couple of months because of my system.
FavStar has the option to give trophies which is what made my account grow. You give a trophy to someone, they may retweet a couple of your tweets. Typically you give it to a good-sized account and they'll send some of your Best Of to their followers. That's how I grew but now I've turned into a decent-sized account where I get about 5 trophies a day. So that means I'll be hopping on FavStar to do at least 20 retweets aside from the ones that I'm already doing. At the end of the day, if you hopped on my timeline there would be about 200 tweets. It's nuts. I don't blame people for trophying me - that is how the game is played and I have done the exact same thing. Do I think that my tweet was actually the best tweet that person saw? Of course not. There are a lot of fantastic writers and if I was being truly honest with my trophies then Steve Martin would have a pile of them.
I would do most of the retweeting from my phone. My position would be sitting in the chair in my living room just thinking. Do I want to go outside? No - why would I when I could retweet? Clean the house? Pffft. Gym? HA! I'll just stare at my phone. Hence why I've gained about 10 pounds over the past 6 months.
I have an addictive personality and I am definitely addicted to Twitter. And FavStar. As with most addictions, you try and get rid of them. I love Twitter and it's done wonders for my business as a comedian so I will still be on there constantly but it is tough to keep up. I heard people reference it as a "full-time job" because they are constantly retweeting people who retweet them. I understand this theory now. It takes over your life if you let yourself do it. Which I have. And I'm trying to get it back.
So - here is what I am planning on doing going forward:
I will still give out a trophy until my FavStar runs out (I just re-upped but probably won't again). I will still give RT's to celebrate trophies. But I am not going to use FavStar for anything else. I have now started to learn how to use Lists (still a work in progress) and I can use my regular timeline so if someone hops on to my actual timeline I want them to see constantly funny tweets from all of you and some mediocre ones from me. I'd rather send your best tweet out there than 5 or 6 as I think it will make that tweet stand out more. Ideally I'd like to cut it down to 100 tweets a day. Hey, it's a start.
I'll still be very active on Twitter as I do love it but I need to ween myself off of FavStar. I also need to put my phone down more. Like, at least once a day.
Anyway, I just wanted to throw this out there so people are aware.
GO SENS GO. (If you don't know what that means you're dead to me)
My blog below this one shows how I've been doing FavStar and Twitter. This one is 5 months later and I want to explain why I'm changing the way I do things.
First off, I've been using FavStar for 6 months. In that time frame I went from 600 followers to over 13,000. If you don't know Twitter, it's a pretty good jump I think. If it wasn't for FavStar you probably wouldn't be reading this as you most likely wouldn't even be following me.
I've made a lot of friends on Twitter and it's been pretty amazing. I've gotten shows out of Twitter, sold some books and have people asking me when I am playing in their city. This wouldn't have happened without FavStar so I don't regret any of it whatsoever.
Here's mainly how I have been working the past 6 months:
Wake up. Think of Twitter. Hop on FavStar - Retweet a whole bunch of people. Baby wakes up. Play with baby while constantly looking at my phone in the background. Send a tweet. If it does well? I stare at my phone to watch it. Get kids ready for school. Stare at my phone. Wife and kids leave. Stare at phone. Hop on FavStar. Retweet, Retweet, Retweet. Kids get home. Stare at phone. Turn on the TV (for a break!) when the kids are in bed and my wife and I would watch a show which I'd miss most of. Talk? TO MY WIFE? Why would I do that when I could retweet? All because of FavStar. I felt this need that I needed to retweet to get as many followers as possible.
This would go on for hours, days, and apparently 6 months. It has flown by. I have been gaining about 1000 followers every 7-10 days for the past couple of months because of my system.
FavStar has the option to give trophies which is what made my account grow. You give a trophy to someone, they may retweet a couple of your tweets. Typically you give it to a good-sized account and they'll send some of your Best Of to their followers. That's how I grew but now I've turned into a decent-sized account where I get about 5 trophies a day. So that means I'll be hopping on FavStar to do at least 20 retweets aside from the ones that I'm already doing. At the end of the day, if you hopped on my timeline there would be about 200 tweets. It's nuts. I don't blame people for trophying me - that is how the game is played and I have done the exact same thing. Do I think that my tweet was actually the best tweet that person saw? Of course not. There are a lot of fantastic writers and if I was being truly honest with my trophies then Steve Martin would have a pile of them.
I would do most of the retweeting from my phone. My position would be sitting in the chair in my living room just thinking. Do I want to go outside? No - why would I when I could retweet? Clean the house? Pffft. Gym? HA! I'll just stare at my phone. Hence why I've gained about 10 pounds over the past 6 months.
I have an addictive personality and I am definitely addicted to Twitter. And FavStar. As with most addictions, you try and get rid of them. I love Twitter and it's done wonders for my business as a comedian so I will still be on there constantly but it is tough to keep up. I heard people reference it as a "full-time job" because they are constantly retweeting people who retweet them. I understand this theory now. It takes over your life if you let yourself do it. Which I have. And I'm trying to get it back.
So - here is what I am planning on doing going forward:
I will still give out a trophy until my FavStar runs out (I just re-upped but probably won't again). I will still give RT's to celebrate trophies. But I am not going to use FavStar for anything else. I have now started to learn how to use Lists (still a work in progress) and I can use my regular timeline so if someone hops on to my actual timeline I want them to see constantly funny tweets from all of you and some mediocre ones from me. I'd rather send your best tweet out there than 5 or 6 as I think it will make that tweet stand out more. Ideally I'd like to cut it down to 100 tweets a day. Hey, it's a start.
I'll still be very active on Twitter as I do love it but I need to ween myself off of FavStar. I also need to put my phone down more. Like, at least once a day.
Anyway, I just wanted to throw this out there so people are aware.
GO SENS GO. (If you don't know what that means you're dead to me)
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