Kyle Thomas

The Website of Kyle Thomas (KyleWith)

New Theme Design

Well I thought it was time for a new design. The old one was Grey (literally) so I wanted something more colourful and up lifting.

I think I found that in WooThemes Digital Farm. It still keeps the stereotypical blogging layout but adds some nice, easy to use features.

The header, which I did do myself, I got the idea from the demos header. Some say I’m not a rainbow type of guy but I think I will keep it for now as it really brighten up the look.

One of the big things as well is the revamping of the categories. I have added more in hopes I will write more here about what it is I do online all the time. But as it stands I hardly have anytime for that anymore so adding in writing about it just might not happen.

Enjoy.

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Sitting By the Fire

Okay we are going to try this new thing, were instead of ranting about stuff, I will point out positive stuff.

Quick side note, I am hoping over the next few days to reorganize this blog a little better. I would like to re do all the categories and start blogging a lot more about day to day stuff as well as more of what I am constantly doing online.

Anyways on to what I started this for. Do you have a fire place or wood stove in your house? I do and I love it and here is why. It creates a relaxing atmosphere for me. Even though a furnace may heat your home, a fire takes the chill out of the air. There is just something comforting about sitting in the same room and feeling its heat coming at you. I always find it is when I am able to write the best, because everything just seems to escape me and my mind is, for once, clear and focused.

Is there something that just relaxes you to the point where all your thoughts just go away and your mind is clear and refreshed feeling.

Yes I know the post is short and not as descriptive as I originally planned. I had to leave the room with wood stove to stock up the wood pile and then got distracted. Go Figure.

Instant!

I have now decided I have a love hate relationship with instant messaging. I think the idea of it is great, and very useful, but! I just can’t seem to grasp it anymore. I don’t like it because it is instant, I think.

I rarely text or talk with an IM, mainly because I don’t casually talk to a lot of people but more so because I think I try and say to much or don’t know what to say. I much rather e-mail, odd I know, but with an e-mail I can type out what I want to say, look back at it and make sure it is correct. We all know my spelling and grammar skills are very limited, so I like the extra time to reply.

I think it goes back to my socially awkwardness. I just don’t have the opportunity to do it that often so I am not accustom to it. That and my mind is very business oriented and I always think someone is judging me by how I present myself.

Who Knows.

How do you explain this thing!

To continue on a series of things I’m bad at I will go on to approaching people.

I don’t know how Journalist do it, I wonder if they learn it in school…. anyways. The challenge I have been prompted with lately is selling YkOnline. I now have the hits and traffic to sustain the site, as long as I continue to write, so I thought it would be a good time to try and sell some advertising. The reason I want to sell adverting is simple, I want to feed this passion. I love writing about Yellowknife and what is going on but it is starting to take up to much time. My problem is I am almost afraid of approaching businesses about it. I don’t know what to say to try and sell it to them. It is a toss up whether or not businesses in this town need another place to advertise. They already have NNSL, CJCD, YkTrader, Coffee Break News and a couple others, so what I would have to do is prove to them that I am different. For some reason I just can’t bring myself to go face to face with them and ask.

I shall write for you, about me

Well now that I have found a place to sit, I shall write for you. I shall write for you today something more personal, instead of some topical article. I shall write for you because I haven’t in sometime and I feel it has been to long. The main reason I shall write for you today, is because I would like to share something with you. It will most likely be something to do with my life. So now that you understand I shall be writing for you today, I shall begin.

I’m in an odd place in my life, well I always seem to be. I have been searching for the last 2 years. For what, I don’t know. For who, I don’t know. My hope is I find it and them soon.  I will try to explain this as best as I can.

I write a website that is growing and becoming more and more recognized, and I know tons of people in this town (Yellowknife) but still I am missing something. Now the reason for this post is not for pity (I don’t like pity), but it is more to explain how I feel when I’m alone. I know an amazing bunch of people, but the only issue is (I don’t know how to explain this properly) I don’t share that bond that good friends share (You’re all awesome by the way, please don’t take offense to this). I long for someone who shares my passion of things, someone who has an interest in Yellowknife and its community events, understands my passion for social media and maybe most important to me is someone that is relatively close to my own age.  That is a lot, to even imagine, but did you know I can almost guarantee the people and friends I will meet will be at least 10 years older than me. It is bizarre.

Like I said this is not a pity cry, I just wanted to get this down on words. I also understand my problem. It is me! Most of the time my mind is wondering how to do something or how I can make that work or where to find this and that, it never stops. From the second I wake up to the moment I fall asleep, I’m thinking about websites, design, social media, marketing, profiting, how-to’s or scheming how to make back money spent. If I could shut it off for a couple hours a day I would, because I know it affects the people I’m around. I barely have an interest in anything else, except for maybe my vehicles. But on the flip side, I wont push myself to fix my own problems. I say I want to go see live music at the bar or coffee shop but I don’t have anyone to go with, so I won’t go. Which is ultimately like stabbing myself in the foot, if I never go I will never meet anyone like that. Part of that, in my mind anyways, is that I don’t drink, so I rarely ever see the need to go out – or something like that.

I hope some of this makes sense. Maybe I am making this a lot more dramatic than it really is, but this is my blog and I can write want I feel.

No that I have written for you, you should write too. As you are doing that, I am going to go try the French Onion Soup and BLT combo from Tim Hortons.