I love WordPress, but I’ve got a side piece now.

I got my very first WordPress account back in 2015. It was a class assignment from this gracious professor we had. (Y’all were still in diapers no? Alright)

Like I used to, back in the day, I panicked. So I randomly created an account just to tick the assignment box.

I can’t quite recall what I wrote about, though I do remember asking this very pretty classmate we shared a hostel with how to spell the word detest. I think I wrote something about promiscuity. Haaaah!

I would just randomly post things, still trying to find my voice, my flow.

Outside our hostels, we had pit latrines (someone explain to the rich kids at the back what those are). I preferred them for reasons I won’t mention here. One day, I had my phone in the back pocket of my trousers and totally forgot… So yes, you guessed it, and friends that’s how I lost my phone. I didn’t have a laptop yet. And back then, I wasn’t savvy enough to recover my Gmail account.

So just like that, I lost my first WordPress account and with it, all my weird little writings. Most of them, written in the middle of mini panic attacks. I remember my favorite post, the one I wrote about my grandad right after I received the news of his passing. I couldn’t process the grief, so I wrote instead. So typical of Val.

Anyway, that backstory is to say, ever since I started writing on WordPress again in 2022, I’ve always carried this low-key fear “What if I lose this account again?”

Truth be told, I’ve never been one to take some things with the seriousness they deserve. I used to be that person who didn’t care much who had access to my accounts. Until one day.. plot twist…a very selfish human being deleted my YouTube account. And that account was actually doing well. Believe it or not, I’d have been a full-on YouTube girl by now. I loved what I was building on there.

Ever since, whenever someone asks, “What happened to your YouTube?” I just smile weirdly and move on.

That incident taught me a painful but necessary lesson, passwords and logins are critical. Ignore my past ignorance, please.

When it came to subscriptions; Netflix, YouTube premium, Spotify, WordPress…I’d always counted on another  awesome soul who would just “handle it.” I never bothered. I just knew someone would sort it out.

Until we stopped talking. And I was like, okay Val… I know you’ve got some codependency things to work through, but maybe it’s time to start acting like the full-time adult that you are.

So here we are. Seven months later: no Netflix, no Spotify… and my WordPress subscription is expiring sometime in August. The thought of losing my domain is eating at me. It’s not even a huge task, but it’s always the simple ones that trip me up.

Lately, I’ve been having nightmares about losing my WordPress , again.

Enter Pauline. (https://pwaitheruechostudio.wordpress.com) My kindred spirit. An incredible writer. She writes the kind of poetry that will wreck you in the best way. And she’s the one who introduced me to “Blogger.”

You know how it is with Google,  if I’m not in my Gmail, I’m probably on Sheets, Docs, or Slides or Forms. Never once did I scroll down far enough to discover “Blogger.” And yet, here I am, always going on about being “adventurous.” The joke is on me.

So I tried it. I copied one of my WordPress blogs onto Blogger just to test the interface  and I love it. Pauline’s blog is so well organized, and honestly, I’m impressed.

Which means,  I may not have to keep panicking about WordPress. Because now, I kinda have a side chic. (Don’t get me wrong I’m all about monogamy, by the way.)

Oh, and one last secret  I have a Substack account too. Y’all will never find it. That one is just for me. I learned about it from another beautiful soul, Wairimu Leah. She pours her heart out into everything she writes(Her account is currently on private).

Anyway, enough of the yapping.

Stay acing, guys.

Ps (Because I can’t, for the life of me, figure out an appropriate image for this post and I love attaching images to my write-ups, the child in me can’t just help it… I’m just going to go ahead and upload my favorite thing, curtains and windows.)

Cheers.

Author: Miss Injairu

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