How changing your blog theme is like dumping someone.

I’ve been thinking about changing my blog theme. It’s not that I’m terribly unhappy with my current one, or that getting a new look will make much of a difference to the reader, but there a few things about Cutline that bug me.

• It’s too white.
• It has no off-setting background. The words just seem to float in mid-screen.
• The pages listed on top shove the post title down to the bottom of the page, completely obscuring any photos, even if they’re inserted at the top of the post.
• I want to add a sub-heading. Something like: Because everyone stopped answering my email or Because I’m an old-fashioned git or even Just remember that opening someone else’s mail is a federal offense.
• The font is too small. Or do I just need better glasses?

Anyway, I went looking for alternatives, and soon realised I’d been through this before. You know the feeling.

1. You know something has been wrong for a while, you just aren’t sure what.
2. Little things you used to ignore are starting to really piss you off.
3. You’re tired of the same old, same old.
4. You start looking around for something better.
5. You do find something better, but then get second thoughts.
6. You start to get sentimental.
7. You think of all the good times you’ve had together.
8. It’s familiar, it’s comfortable, and it works. Why go through all the turmoil of changing?
9. You try to set aside time to do what has to be done, but the right time never seems to come along.
10. When you finally do, there’s a lingering doubt that you could have done things differently if you could only have a second chance.

On the other hand…

Why changing your blog theme is NOT like dumping your girlfriend.

1. Your old blog theme won’t bitch, moan, weep, pull guilt trips or throw things at you while you’re picking up those CDs you left over at her place.
2. You can try on different ones for size at all hours of the day or night and nobody will notice.
3. Unless you quit blogging for a while, you miss out on that exhilarating feeling of freedom.

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