(Disclaimer: this blog post goes on and on about how excited Monique is about her new design. You’ve been warned).

Right now I feel like a kid in a candy store. Better. Like a kid in a candy store who’s walking away with the whole damn shop.

I got my blog re-designed. Professionally. It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. I cannot believe something that I’ve been wanting to do for over 2 years finally came to fruition in the most perfect way.

Ever since I started blogging back in 2011, I’ve been wanting a professional-looking blog design. The fact that I had to go out and actually hire someone to make it look nice was what always stopped me. I didn’t have the money, and I didn’t even know exactly what I wanted. The fact that I couldn’t just find a cool template through WordPress and install it in a matter of minutes is what stopped me from blogging back in 2009 and 2010. (Full disclosure: this is my third blog). I never wanted to stick with either of them because I was always so frustrated with not having a purdy dress for it.

Well, it’s got a purdy dress on now. Now, I feel more capable and motivated than ever to blog, write, and even tell more people about it. It’s like I have more confidence in it now because it looks better. I feel like I just opened up the front door to a new car on Christmas morning. Or like when you really, really like someone and they talk to you while you’re wearing your ugliest sweater. I am so, so happy. I can’t stop looking at it. It’s delicious. I want to just print it out and post it all over my room and my office and my car.

Pardon me while I gush. And didn’t I say I’d try and get this up by the 18th? Check me out, stickin to plans! The next step now is to invite people to sponsor, and also try and hold more give aways. And also more blogging about cool stuff (always).

I’m still also working on my other website project. I’m almost done writing another article for that one, but lately it’s been bumming me out because the design got so botched (in my opinion). I haven’t really talked about it, but I’m not 100% happy with the development work I paid for. What’s been preventing me from starting over with that whole thing is the fact that I paid so much money for it to look the way it does, so I’m still trying to decide whether to start over, or just have someone go in and pretty it up a bit. This week I’ll get moving on that. It’s been on hold since I’ve been obsessed with this whole blog re-design (and also Dexter. Damn that show. Damn it to hell).

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Monique Muro

Monique is an exceedingly happy human from LA. She runs the blog A Novel Quest, and writes. A lot.

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