The Tuckers Take Tennessee: Social Saturday: Cindy from Get Along Home

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Social Saturday: Cindy from Get Along Home

12:00 AM |

Posted by Meghan

I've really enjoyed getting to know Cindy from Get Along Home. I've gotten to know her on Twitter and Facebook and through her blog and she is as sincere as they come! I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did. Head over and check out her blog while you're at it!

Name: Cindy Dyer

Blog: Get Along Home

Twitter: @getalonghome

Facebook: http://facebook.com/getalonghome

3 Words that describe me: Random, Off-beat, Independent

When did you first start blogging?: Get Along Home is my third attempt at blogging. The first, a political blog, was back in 2004. It was really bad, and I'm thrilled that even the Wayback Machine doesn't have it in its archives. I don't agree with most of what I wrote back then! Chalk it up to youth, I guess. My current blog had its one-year bloggiversary on September 21 this year, and I promise not to delete it the way I have the others.

My reason to start blogging: Just keeping up with the Joneses! Blogs are my preferred way of getting news, advice, and entertainment, so it's just natural that I'd want one of my own. Can't let everybody else have all the fun! Really, I just love to write (when I can find the time), and blogging is the perfect medium for an attention-challenged person with no real expertise in anything.

What is the "niche" for my blog?: I guess that depends on how you look at it. I'm just kinda me. That's a pretty exclusive niche, since no one else does mequite as well as I do! So, yeah, I don't really have a niche. My posts revolve around motherhood, homeschooling, and the occasional recipe. I have lots of thoughts about other things, but somehow they don't usually make it to the blog. I also do giveaways and reviews, because I like getting free stuff. I haven't really defined my blog yet. Everybody says I need to, but I've never been very good at following instructions.

Do you have a phrase or catchy phrase for your blog?: Not really, but I find myself using the word "hillbilly" a lot.

My family! Love 'em! Jesse is a software tester, which means he finds bad code for a living. I like to joke that his job is breaking computers, and he's very good at it. I'm just Mom. The kids are just kids. David is 6, Jonah is 3, Audrey is 22 months, and Benjamin is 5 weeks old.

Hobbies: I have a secret love for video games. I say it's a secret because I haven't had time for games, so no one has actually witnessed me playing for several months now. I also love to enter sweepstakes and giveaways.

Advice for other bloggers: Run away! If you won't take that advice, I have this: consider the feelings of your readers, your loved ones, and your future self before you hit publish. The internet is forever! I once read a blog post by a lady who wanted the whole world to know she had peed on her own head. Really. Think before you click that button. Who needs to know that stuff?

Fun facts about me that I'd never share without being asked: Thanks for asking!

I have attention deficit "disorder". The scare quotes are because I don't believe I am disordered. It's the rest of the world that's doing it wrong!
I have a terrible brown thumb. I've killed everything I've tried to grow except a very stubborn thyme plant that has unaccountably survived for two years in a pot at the bottom of my steps.
I'm terribly shy.

Top 3 favorite blogs: Only 3, huh? It's hard to choose! I love The Common Room for all-around bloggy goodness. Free Money Finance keeps me in the money loop, and Vox Popoli is where I go for politics, though I'm not brave enough to dive into the comments there. Some people find Vox Day arrogant. I do, too, but since his thoughts are usually very close to my own, I'm not bothered by it.

Where do you see your blog in 1 year/5 years: Gosh, is this one of those 7 Habits I'm supposed to be working on? I don't really have a game plan. My vague hope is that I'll have a few more subscribers and sell a few ads. I'm going to leave it at that. :-)

Anything else? Isn't that enough? Thanks for interviewing me!

http://getalonghome.com
http://twitter.com/getalonghome
http://facebook.com/getalonghome