Blog Botox…

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…because we know this face is never gettin’ any.

Well, People, if all goes as planned you should be reading this via my new!sprucedup!MizFitLook!

(translation: Tornado-willing Im happily slumbering when this post goes live at 2am)

It’s been time for a change up in herre for a while now and, as much as I adore change, Id become a victim of my own excuses paralysis by analysis.

Id mess with headers—-then delete before the next post went live.

Id funk around with fonts—-then change back to the tried & true quickfastandinahurry.

Id grown weary of my MizFitlook—-yet the boredom I knew had become more comfortable than the overwhelmingnessment (technical term) of trying to figure out a redo on my own.

Enter this guy (& much to my chagrin he did NOT enter doing the RUNNING MAN).

Ryan emailed me out of the blue after seeing a few of my tweets about longing for a new blog layout.

His email consisted of a list of questions he wanted me to answer regarding my bloggin’ goals & my MizFit motivations.

Needless to say it was a life changing email.

Not only did it set me on the path to finally shaking things up around here—always good—but it made me realize an additional source of my blogging malaise:

I felt alone. isolated.  a team of one in this endeavor called social media.

I hired Ryan on the spot.**

I needed his technical skillz.

I longed for his creative vision.

I coveted his bluehost patience.

Yet far more than any of that—I was bolstered & motivated by the fact there’s now another member of the MizFit team.

That gift of feeling is something mere “hiring” or “employing” can not buy.

The result is a rebirth of sorts for MizFitOnline.

The same writing.

A lovingly tweaked blog-botox’ed look (which is, indeed, a work in progress.  If youre reading this in yer google reader please to drop on by and check out my new digs!).

And a reinvigorating of sorts with the knowledge that, though it can feel lonely at times, we are never, ever truly alone.

Thank you Ryan.

For my new look & for reaching out and reminding me that people are frequently thinking about us even when we’ve no idea we’re on their minds.

**cue awkward back-to-the-superficial-stuff segue**

Word on the proverbial street is MrsNoMoreBacon is a hair stylist.

You know, I have been talking about some hairbotox for a while now…

**It bears clarifying here that Ryan did NOT reach out to me in order to solicit business.  His email was  merely an act of kindness hoping to spark *my* creativity.  I think he was stunned by how quickly I responded and how abundantly I begged him for the name on his paypal account.

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  5. It’s really cool – new and different and EXCITING and I hope that’s how you feel too. EXCITED. I’m looking forward to exploring.

  7. WHOA!!!

    I like it.

    I am easily confused though 🙂 the new post is the first one I will see up top?

    • Good question Betty! The slider thingy (technical term) on the very top will always have “featured articles.” The newest post will always be the first post you see on the slider, or the post at the top of the main column.

      Does that make sense?

  12. thanks you guys. I love it. A much needed sprucing in my opinion as well!

  17. I think I’m lost, is this the cheese convention?

    Seriously though, thanks for letting me work on this! I honestly had a lot of fun working on it!

  18. I really like how you have highlighted your accomplishments more, Miz.

    Great new look.

  28. Looking good! And, btw, although your blog may have needed a bit of botox, you do not! You are awesome, Carla!

  32. Really, really nice! I like how the page flashes purple when you click on a different one – and everything is so easy to see and find! Great collaboration!

  34. I like! The busy-ness going to take a while to get used to (creature of habit ;)) but it’s so fun! Changing blog layout is nice too because it can be so INSPIRING.

  47. LOVE it! I love how easy it was to subscribe by email and subscribe to your youtube. I hadn’t done those before.

  49. Well, may I say ever-so-lovingly that your blog site visuals now match your message. Hip, cool, clean and rockin. Awesome job. Very inspiring on this Monday morning!

  58. I joke but the new mizfit look has so revived my blog mojo that I really mightcould get my haircut.

    I know change can be disconcerting so THANKS to all of you for your comments tweets and email.

  61. Confession: I actually got a sneak peak of the site last week on the staging server because it sent me a trackback alert. Looks good! Oh, and I’ve had Botox for headaches. Trust me, 20 shots in the head is not fun. Blog Botox is much better!

  64. This looks fantastic. Now your blog matches your persona. Where are the tattoo shots?

  65. I know. I do need to get new pics taken (note I didn’t say headshots 😉 I’ve one grown up headshot and that’s all this misfit needs) with the tattoo in the photo.
    And then I need to do an Unapologetically Myself/ I am my own superhero/I HEART myself photopage from all the pics yoy guys have sent me.
    Oh
    And then a gallery of the NoExcuses tees.

    And then…..

    😉

  66. Looks good! Love the new banner. I think the navigation links and menus across the top will be very user friendly. Way to go, Team MizFit! (I read mainly through Google Reader, or go directly to whichever article I want to comment on, so it’s been awhile since I’ve come in through the Home page.)

    It’s funny, though, how more open to online changes I am compared to magazines in print. A magazine I get just did a huge overhaul, and I found it really jarring, because its style seemed too much like this other differently-themed magazine I used to get. Imagine Country Mouse sporting City Mouse clothes and trading his diminutive tractor for a Miata. 🙂

  75. Oops! This is the appropriate place to tell you how much I LOVE the new look. Great job!

  76. Would it be awkward if I asked for your blog’s hand in marriage? I’m sure it’s legal in Massachusetts (..where I live..thankfully).

  80. Oh, it’s beautiful. It looks so professional now. (Although right now the Google ad is a “one trick tiny belly ad”, and for a moment I thought it was part of your site and you were spoofing them!)

    Overall though I really love it.

  84. Fantastic! You (and Ryan) did a fantastic job!! My fave part is the store – I’ve long thought you make the best t-shirt slogans. Congrats on the change!

  85. Thanks for the shout out. I’m so happy you like the new look. Ryan really put his heart into this project. He always says how awesome you are and wants everyone to know how much good you do. And he’s right, you are amazing!

  88. WOW, I love this! I so need help with my blog too! I do my best and change it all the time, but to have it done professionally would be great!

  89. GIGGLING. Instead of singing IM TOO SEXY FOR MY BLOG Im dancing (cardio!) and singing IM TOO OLD FER MY BLOG.

    I cant see the new post either—but I can read your emails asking about it (dang you peeps up early) and will see if I can dig it up.

    until then play amongst yerselves 🙂

  91. The New Post is up!

    I also made it so that every new post (even the “featured” ones) will show show up at the top of the center column every time theres a new post. That way everybody knows that the newest post is the one right there at the top of the middle column. Should help keep things simple 🙂

  94. OMG!!! I DO usually read in my Google Reader, but it looks SO NICE up in here! Congrats! I LOVE you new look.

  95. Ok, one quick thing…I think it would be cool, since you are usually so much a part of your “comment” discussion or commentversation as you call it, that maybe your comments could be a different “color” so they stand out more? Maybe in that soft purple that is covering the outside of your blog? Just something so that we know when the MIZ is responding… (or just ignore me). :o)

  96. Sweet new digs, Miz! Though I’d have never noticed if you didn’t blog about it since I do all my reading in Bloglines…but took a stroll over to check out the real thing. Ryan did good for ya!

  97. Just like a movie star! So pretty! Very clean, professional, and still very you!

    Change is good. Scary (for me sometimes) but good. I think the next change is getting a for real person (not Zliten) to cut my hair in some way that is not just a few inches off the bottom and all one length. I am actually a bit scared of this but hey – it’s just hair – and it could be super cool!

  103. MizFit,

    I love the new look!!!! I like Ryan’s style.

    Also, thank you for commenting on my blog. I will definitely be using your chant!!!

  104. Hey Miz! I love the new look. 🙂 That’s the reason I have decided to leave wordpress and go back to blogger. It’s too overwhelming to me. There’s a button to make it so easy to update my wordpress, yet when I click on said button I get an error message….really? Why are they telling me about it? I didn’t put the button there! 🙂 Oh well..

    I love your new layout!

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