A Little Ketchup

You might be wondering why this particularly long overdue blog post has America’s favorite condiment in the title.  It’s a lame joke that was designed to remind you how clever and funny I am and why you love reading my blog, and hopefully will make up for the extremely long absence I’ve had (Please nod in agreement).  My sincerest apologies.  Since I haven’t written a blog post in roughly two weeks, this post will catch you up on what’s been going on with me, since I know you are all dying to know (please nod in agreement again).

To start, I’ve been really busy.  Between the time spend working and having recently moved, I haven’t had much time to relax.  Shopping for new stuff for my room, working out, my new kickball league, and trying to remain somewhat social have taken up a lot of my time each week.  Which is why I haven’t had time to keep up the blog.  But I digress.

 The marketing job I landed a few weeks ago is going well so far.  I’m three weeks in and enjoying learning new things and facing the challenges every day brings.  So far most of my time has been dedicated to editing, restructuring, and creating new content for the law firms websites.  I’ve written over a lot of blog and website content related to bankruptcy law and foreclosure defense.  I’ve been building the pages, uploading them to the website and mapping out the interlinking of the site to ensure all the pages are well linked and easy to navigate too.  There’s still a lot of work to do and a lot of pages we still want to create, which gives me plenty to do everyday. 

We’re also in the process of merging a few older websites the firm had into the newer more complete site, so I’ve learned a lot about building websites from the ground up, mostly through trial and a lot of error, and how to merge two sites together while maintaining the quality of the links and SEO ranks for both sites.  I’ve gotten a lot of practice using Dreamweaver, and have a pretty good feel of how it works.

I’ve also created a blog for the law firm which is still slowly making its way off the ground.  I haven’t had a lot of time to dedicate to perfecting the blog, but I’ve written a lot of blog entries that will be hitting the web sometime soon.  There is a lot of work to do to really make this a productive and successful blog, but the challenge and opportunity are very exciting.  And this is only the beginning, once the website is fully integrated and up and running we’ll kick in the social media and other marketing tools to increase business. 

In addition to all of the basic marketing work I’ve been doing I’ve been helping out on the legal side of things.  I’ve learned a ton about bankruptcy and foreclosure and the large amount of people that seem to experiencing either of these situations in Florida.  I tweeted earlier in the week about how it’s been strange getting used to hearing the term “getting served” in a serious context.  When someone is in foreclosure they “get served” their court summons and listening to our attorney or paralegal use that phrase makes me giggle everytime.  I really want to interject “suckas” everytime they say it.

So that’s a little bit about the job which has been taking up so much of my time and preventing me from getting time to write.  It really is so much easier to find time to do this kind of stuff when you don’t have to spend 9 hours at work.  Ahhh the advantages of being laid off.

Anyway, now that we’ve had some time to ketchup I’ll hopefully be able to mustard up some more blog posts in the near future and relish in the opportunity to write the thought provoking and witty stuff that you guys all love. Hot dog.  Thanks for reading, and as always feel free to leave a condiment, I mean comment below!