Let's Chat: Let Me Catch Y'all Up!

Hey guys! I know, I've been using the same selfies over & over but I haven't simply been in a picture taking mood ever since this winter storm hit Texas or honestly just in general like even on Snapchat, usually I'm all about taking selfies daily & showing my not so exciting life on there but nope. My few snap friends (because I've heard horror stories about having your snap on public & if you want my snap, no you aren't getting it) have just been getting song screenshots from me because I really don't know what else to post.

I just wanted to do this post because I know I've been super MIA on here & I was mainly MIA on here because I was focusing on my podcast & other possible content creator avenues. I'll always have a soft spot for this blog so that's why I didn't deactivate it completely. I did in fact delete a TON of older posts that just didn't align with what I wanted my content to be today. 

In the first 2 years of blogging, I just posted whatever so I could get people to view it & honestly, I cringe about it now so I just didn't want that in my life anymore & I deleted them!

I'm really glad I took the blog break because end of December/early January, I knew I wanted to focus on my podcast more because I have been dreaming about my podcast for so long. I was so drained trying to juggle the podcast, blogging, work, & my personal life. I knew I had to cut one out for a while. 

I've been in a blogging mood lately & I finally have a consistent schedule with my podcast which enables me to come back on here & do posts every now & then! 

Also... I'm active on Tik Tok & I still don't know how to feel about it. I got one viral (dumb) Tik Tok & I really am trying to figure it out more so follow me (jessicanicoledeleon)!

I also need to make a quick update on this because I just feel like I need to say this.. but back in December I did a post saying how the Twitter account followed me on Twitter (click here to see the post in more context)? Well... turns out they followed me for a month because they used one of my tweets for a campaign & followed me & 27 other people, then a month later, UNFOLLOWED every single one of us!

I was sad but also relieved because let me tell y'all, the tweets I was receiving were SO FREAKING WEIRD! It was a bunch of people that thought you had a in for Twitter & people would tweet me, "who are you?" & "can you promote my tweets?". It was truly the most annoying thing in the world & I noticed the other accounts who had the follow were receiving the same stuff & as cool as it was to be featured on the account, the impact from it was not what I expected.

I want to build my following in the most natural & authentic way. I don't want to build my following off of people who want to take advantage of you for promo or likes/retweets. So yeah, that was kind of the downfall & I'm not going to lie, going on Twitter that month was chaotic & it got so chaotic to where my replies would be immediately a bot saying something INSANE & I didn't want my tweets to be associated with weird comments.

I remember the same thing happened on my blog back in August whenever I did a workout challenge on my blog which was just me explaining how I motivated myself to workout & it truly changed my life & got me into the habit of doing some sort of workout daily but y'all... the comments I was receiving from that were BIZZARE & the comments were just not something I wanted on this blog what so ever & as many times as I tried blocking the comments, the comments didn't leave forever till I unfortunately had to delete the entire challenge. 

I remember being SO SAD about it because I take time to work hard on these posts & for them to be portrayed in ways you don't want to just makes me so angry. 

Anyways, I’m excited to be back on here posting & keep your weird comments to yourself!