Christmas is another job in itself. In addition to writing for sites you hope will accept your pitch, scheduling posts on social media, tweaking your blog every which way, prototyping apps, trying to get 2-3 weekly workouts in, as well as 6-8 servings of fruits and vegetables each day, Christmas walks in wearing golden stilettos, throwing fake snow and glitter everywhere, demanding a peppermint martini.

Tis the season of overwhelm, my friends, welcome to the party! I’d offer you said peppermint martini but it’s somewhere towards the end of my list between ‘cancel membership for serious blogger community before they charge you’ and ‘send Christmas list to family’.

I’m sitting here at Starbucks before work carefully parsing out each thing I have to do and giving each item 15-30 minute time slots. I still haven’t started my Christmas shopping. This is probably because every time I sit down to the computer to buy something, I’m all over the place and it never gets done.

You know the feeling I’m sure of it.

Regardless, I freakin’ love this season. I know it’s chaotic, but I can’t help but love every minute of its glittery yule tide carols of comfort and joy. I’ve decided I’m not super woman, and the imaginary woman I keep comparing myself to, you know, the one who gets everything done perfectly and organized without a pang of tension or stress, doesn’t exist.

On top of everything though, I’m creating a holiday gift guide for the blog! It’s going to be filled with wonderful things for writers, bloggers, readers, and/or people who love to be organized. Or people who wish they were organized. Like me!

A lot of other bloggers are putting out some really cool stuff in their holiday guides, and I’d like to do the same for you, just in case you’re low on Christmas gift ideas for people you love, or if you want to snag something sweet for yourself. Yesterday I spent the entire day (no joke) searching for cool products, and I ended up with about 17 things. I can’t wait to share them with you!

I’m also making things exceedingly complicated by trying to create a nice layout of all the gifts for the blog in Photoshop, which I just purchased and am thoroughly frustrated with. However, patience.

I’m aiming (fingers crossed) to put out the holiday gift guide by December 1st.

I’m also toying with the idea of starting a Facebook page. What do you guys think? On the one hand I know I could use it to build a community, and sure I could probably pay for sponsored posts too. But I’m worried about engagement, because I’ve heard horror stories about people who can’t get their posts seen by their readers, and not too long ago Copyblogger deleted their Facebook page, because it just wasn’t working for them.

I guess also a part of me doesn’t feel like working at building followers for ANOTHER platform. As a blogger you have to work at new subscribers, new followers on Pinterest and Bloglovin and Twitter, not to mention Google Plus, and the whole thing is exhausting as it is. I’m just not sure I want to put in the effort to create a Facebook community as well.

But what do you guys think? Do any of you have successful Facebook pages where you feel like they’re worth it? Do you feel like this blog needs one?

And do tell me how you’re getting through this wonderful season, I could use a few pointers.

Till next time!

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

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