January 1st, 2024: How To Design A Website and Liverpool’s Win

Well, here’s the beginning. I feel like I have a lot to talk about, a lot to share. However, I also know that I want to do this for 365 days, and that will be a hard task if I spill out everything on the first page. Novel writing makes writers sprinkle their content through X amount of pages, and I’ve always struggled to do that. So this will be a task I’m not quite acquainted to just yet.

This blog will serve as a daily update to my life, including little tidbits from my days that made it better or worse. I guess there’s only one place to start, and that would be my progress to make this a fully functioning website. I’ve had experience working with WordPress for a couple of months during my stint at The Game Haus, but I never had the administrator privileges that I now have. I spent probably two hours just creating the “Home” and “About” pages and having multiple chat logs with customer support on how to change the domain from a string of random numbers and letters to the domain it will be, natehoodwriting.com (Spoiler Alert: It just takes a couple of days). I still haven’t even figured out how to make the “Blog” page, but that’s a job for another day, when the site is up and running.

For now, I’m not even sure this post will get to the site right away. But my goal is to add daily, so that’s why I’m trying to push this out at 10:45pm.

Expectation wise, I want anyone reading this to know that every day will be something unlike the last. Maybe every week I’ll have a tidbit on Liverpool or a rant about how the Celtics were cheated out of a win, but one day I might give my top 10 list of best shows or I’ll post my Spotify stats (Shoutout: https://www.statsforspotify.com/). Maybe I’ll post a short story I’m working on or a poem I want people to see. This is my chance to show everyone how I want to be perceived.

For my last bit, before I wrap up this first ever blog post, I want to talk about the Liverpool game versus Newcastle United. Man, I love Liverpool FC. I love it so much, my very own blood is red for the club. Wataru Endo is such a special player, and Mo Salah will go down as the greatest winger in Premier League history. Anfield felt electric, even in such horrible conditions. I can’t wait to watch my first game at Anfield in person one day.

At the end of each daily post, I want to track my overall feelings on a scale of Horrible, Bad, Okay, Good, Great, Amazing. I know what you’re thinking; “why is there four positive feelings and only two negative?”. Well, I feel overall every day that I wake up starts as a good day, which would push “Okay” to the negative side. I’ll be doing it in this format from here on out, just to set an example:

Overall Feelings: Great