Kel

Kel

Kel is an Australian blogger working through her 52-list one slightly chaotic adventure at a time, writing about real life the way it actually happens - chaotic, full of sarcasm, and completely unfiltered.

3 Live Chats Later I’m Online

Woooohoooo, I’m officially online under the umbrella of “Kel Me About It”.

I’m seriously excited about this.

It’s been roughly a two-week ordeal to get online, but for the most part, that’s been my fault. To get here, I had to:

  1. Sign up for a new hosting plan so I save $$$$ compared to my previous hosting (pretty much what triggered this whole new-blog thing).
  2. Transfer the sites to the new hosting plan.
  3. Transfer my old domain (for my previous blog – I’m still hosting that until the domain expires next year)
  4. Register my new domain.
  5. Prove that I’m a human and sign my life away.
  6. Create a site, start editing it, realise I broke something, delete it.
  7. Do a live chat to get my old domain transferred to my site on the new hosting.

Like a new notebook, it’s a fresh start

Wow…this feels a bit different, doesn’t it? Welcome to my new personal blog! After 15-20 years of writing previously under the umbrella of “Kelly’s World” (a name chosen because I couldn’t think of anything better at the time), I find…

52 in 52: 2025 edition

About that time again, time for another 52-in-52 list!

Last year was a tough year. Mentally, it’s been one of the hardest in a while. Don’t get me wrong, there were a lot of positives and some amazing times. But I ended the year feeling extremely exhausted, and just burned out in general.

As a result, I pulled right back. I cut back on my social media – all of it – Facebook, Instagram, even reddit. I also started trying to get back into reading books. I withdrew from friends. I was frustrated in most areas of my life. I found that I started to struggle with feeling “happy”. I wasn’t writing, I wasn’t looking after myself, and I was likely not fun to be around.…