Jenna's House of Idiosyncrasies Version 10.0 [Focus.]

So, Internet, it's been a pretty okay summer. I've been working hard, in more ways than one, and it is starting to pay off in small, incremental ways, although it is a hard road to hoe, not to mention slow going.

The business is coming up, even if it is at a sluggish pace. I finally feel fully confident in my skills, and my ability to sell those skills to just about anybody. I haven't gotten any aghast reactions to my rates in a while, which means I'm selling to the correct market, at last. Now I just have to find the time to seek out more of that market.

I joined a gym a few months ago. I pour lots of time into walking briskly on a treadmill, and once a week I see a personal trainer who kicks my ass. My first week, I had personal training sessions on both Monday and Wednesday, and on Friday morning I was slowly waking up when I asked my half-awake self, Was I in a car accident?

Nope, I realized. I'm just that sore. Read More »

It is pretty bold of me, I know, to assume you were deliberately seeking me out. However, considering the search engines haven't even found this at once very old and very new site, I can be pretty confident that's why you're here. Because you were looking.

Or you asked me in person where all my writing went. Either way.

I moved this site off of jennatollerson.com and made that page a stark, simple, one page directory of the things I want people to see first. I have often gone off on long, oratorical screeds about how there is no point hiding anything, how it is best to be your own publicist and make public the dirt before someone else does.1 However, having a dot-com that bears my name meant no matter what I did to push it down, it always appeared at the top of search results. And no, I'm not uptight, and I don't care if people read the sometimes dark, sometimes funny, sometimes melodramatic rants and raves I've put down here for the last seven years.

I just don't want it to be the first thing they read.

I was explaining to someone the other day that practically my entire business is built on the sheer force of my personality. Its about building trust, letting people see that you are easy to talk to, and a pleasure to work with, and responsible, and available. And its a lot easier to get people to accept how nutty you truly are after you have proved those things first.

This site is not a secret. Its just no longer the centerpiece of my online presence. Which is just as well. I have gotten terrible about keeping it updated.

1. 1. I'm not the only one who feels this way.

It's summer here in The South, which means that it is ridiculously hot even in the middle of the night. I keep the temperature in my tiny apartment quite low, but since I work from home, I also get to spend an ungodly amount of time lounging around in my underwear.

I've gotten so used to almost immediately stripping off my clothes nearly every time I walk through the door, that I actually just had a moment where I saw myself in the mirror and said out loud, “Whoa, how did I end up naked?!?”

This may turn into a problem the next time I have company. Need to be mindful.