200 unread emails and 200 apologies
To all those wonderful writers I should be reading, my sincere apologies. I have 200 emails notifying me of new articles I haven’t read. It only shows 199 because I just opened one and realised I just don’t have the energy to read. All I want to do is sleep.
- A heap of emails
I keep kidding myself I am going to catch up, but it isn’t going to happen. I am sorry. So many of you are loyal followers of Love versus Goliath and I feel guilty not returning the loyalty. I also miss reading your great work! However, given what is happening in my life at the moment, I just have to accept I can only spread myself so far. I hope to be back on deck soon, but right now I am going to bite the bullet and delete those 200 emails. I have to because they are haunting me but I know I’m not going to get there.
Welcome to the club… I had 2000 emails yesterday and 700 or so are blog posts from people I follow… I am behind and need to resolve this soon and take some time off.
Elizabeth, I’ve decided on a strategy, I think. Open to modification. There are few I try to read every article published, but I’ve realised I simply CAN NOT do that with every blog I follow. So I will try to get to all the others as many times a week as I can, but aim for a minimum of once a week. That way I stand a chance of at least keeping in touch and up-to-date. I have to recognise my life just has SO MUCH more in it than it did 12 months ago!
Same here… not enough hours in the day.
I also have an email backlog due to a health and vision problem but I’m slowly catching up.
Glad to see you are improving, TiTi. I saw from your posts in the Forums you were on a recovery path and was glad to see you were progressing, but I gathered it was a bit of a tough journey. I hope the surgery has been successful!
I just hope you get to read my comments – they are all ending up either in spam or not showing anymore….grrrrrrrrrrrr
I got this one Jo, in spam. Did you make any others I didn’t see, as this was the only one in spam.
No worries. We’ve all done it. I’ve been absolutely awful lately. In fact, I was going to check my email to see if you’d written a new post, but decided to come straight here and avoid seeing all those unread emails.
You need your rest and we all understand that completely. Take care of yourself!
Thanks Erin. I got the all clear tonight! Very happy! Now I just need to go back to concentrating on getting my back into shape. I still need rest and recuperation for that, but the biggest worry is OVER!
Woo-hoo! So happy!
US too, trust me! It was the optometrists that got me worried really. I would never have considered it a possibility until they frightened the hell out of me! The fact I was having (and have) the headaches was something that “fitted” with the whole scenario, so it kind of snowballed.
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Veeh, thank you very much, but at this time I am not taking on any extra stuff to do, so it may be a little while before I manage to participate. Please forgive me.
Hey Team O, Smart woman. Every now and then we need to delete the workload and move on.
Thank you!
Take care and rest well, don’t even think of replying either
No Gilly, replying on my own site is a policy of mine that I can’t relax: unless there is really a disaster!
Delete away girl… it’s impossible to keep up sometimes ( I’ve just deleted a load to !!! )
Phew – I feel better now!
Take your time Robyn. Nothing is more important than your health and the well being of your family. They come first. Enjoy them and enjoy your sleep.
This is so true, Jayrod. No point in having a site myself if I can’t keep producing it, either!
Robyn, i make sure i clear them every day but i have lots of time to do that.
I only subscribe to comments a few times ( when i expext a reply ) and that cuts down the emails.
But i always reply to comments i think its a must.
Harry, I never subscribe to comments – I just follow a lot of blogs! or at least the ones I follow write a lot!
Good for you, Robyn.
Moments of freedom will never be given to you . . . you must TAKE them.
Now that is very true, Nancy, thank you for the reminder.
Don´t you worry about that Robyn, you´ve done the right thing, out of sight out of mind! Just take some time to recover.
One sleep to go before I get my results – that will help, I am sure.
None of us can do this blogging thing, writing, reading and commenting, consistently 365 days a year. Life gets in the ways sometimes and that’s okay. You’ll be back when the time is right… and we’ll all still be here!
That is true Steve, so true! Especially with a large family! Thank you for understanding!
Hey Robyn,
Have some YOU time and relax…
xxPiP
Thanks, Pip! xx to you too!
I have laughed so hard after seeing your headline. Robin, I know exactly what you mean. I was in a similar predicament I felt stuck. There were so many mails to read and such little time. I could not understand how I gotten myself to such a situation, I actually had about 500 unread mails, was feeling like crying. I however, summoned enough energy and marked all as read
It did good to my mind, like a white lie. To ensure I never find myself in such a situation again, I have created a page of the bloggers I love and I have also promised to read and act on an email immediately I open it. Yours just landed, and am so happy you wrote about the same thing I have been dealing with. This is wonderful 
I have just deleted the 200 so I don’t feel pressured. I did go through a stage of trying to act on them immediately, but with the time zone differences, it just doesn’t happen. Tonight I didn’t get home until nearly 7pm. By the time I cooked dinner, organised kids, talked to my husband I don’t even have time to write, let alone read. I am so tired of late.
It was time to bite the bullet!