My life in 250 words

Born. Adopted. Baby Brother. Growing up. Trips to Melbourne. Primary School. Live in Melbourne. Back to Tassie. High School. Teenager. First boyfriend. Arguments with parents. Start smoking. Move out of home. More boyfriends. Drugs. Alcohol. Dark times. Death of a boyfriend on his 18th. Back home. Meet someone new. Move back out. Meet BFF. Get back into watching pro wrestling. Parties. Lots of drinking. Give up drugs. Violence. More drinking. Take up drugs again. Violence. Give up drugs again. Even more drinking. More violence. Start Uni. Meet future husband. Lots of parties. Holiday in Western Australia with Mum. First live game of AFL in Tas. Leave violent relationship. Holiday in Sydney. Get first tattoo. Drop out of Uni. Move in with future husband. Start blogging. Do small business course. Start business. Start scrapbooking. Move house. Get 2 kitties. Work. Work. Get engaged. Brother gets married. Give up smoking. Work. Get sick. Get married. Go to Qld on honeymoon. Work. Get diagnosed with PTSD. Start scrapbooking business. Do some volunteering. Get sick. Work out I’m pregnant. Spend first three months with morning sickness. Gestational diabetes. Enjoy most of the rest of pregnancy. Baby shower. Induced. Give birth to a gorgeous baby girl. Spend a few months still not believing I’m a mum. Mum & Dad go on holiday to Crete, UK & Canada. Mum gets sick. Little girl growing up so fast. By a house. DPCON. Still blogging. Love life. Worry about mum. Renovations. Who knows what the future will bring?

Blogging everyday in May

There’s a new challenge going around, started over at Story of My Life, but I found it via Life as we know it. Blog everyday in May. I really want to see if I can do it. I’ve done NaBloPoMo before.

The rules:

1. There really aren’t any rules. If you miss a day, you can make it up or skip it. The blog police will not come knocking.

2. There will be a linkup option at the bottom of each post by the Story of my Life blog, so you are welcome to leave your links there for others to peruse as well.

3. You can still post other things every day, too.

4. There’s a “blog every day in May” button (here) you can put either on your sidebar or at the end of your posts. The blog police will not come knocking if you don’t. The main goal here is to get us all back to the basics of blogging, not to gain a million new readers (that would be nice though).

5. Share using the hashtag #BlogEveryDayInMay

Here are the topics. You can be as creative and awesome or as boring and bland as you like with these. Take ’em and run with it. Use creative post titles. Interpret each “prompt” however you like. There’s no wrong way to do it. Have fun.

Day 1, Wednesday: The story of your life in 250 words or less (or one paragraph… no one will be counting your words… probably)
Day 2, Thursday: Educate us on something you know alot about or are good at. Take any approach you’d like (serious and educational or funny and sarcastic)
Day 3, Friday: Things that make you uncomfortable
Day 4, Saturday: Favorite quote (from a person, from a book, etc) and why you love it
Day 5, Sunday: Publicly profess your love and devotion for one of your blogger friends. What makes them great? Why do you love them? If you don’t have blogger friends, talk about a real-life friend or even a family member
Day 6, Monday: If you couldn’t answer with your job, how would you answer the question, ‘what do you do’?
Day 7, Tuesday: The thing(s) you’re most afraid of
Day 8, Wednesday: A piece of advice you have for others. Anything at all.
Day 9, Thursday: A moment in your day (this can be just a photo or both a photo and words)
Day 10, Friday: Most embarrassing moment (s). Spill.
Day 11, Saturday: Sell yourself in 10 words or less
Day 12, Sunday: What do you miss? (a person, a thing, a place, a time of your life…)
Day 13, Monday: Issue a public apology. This can be as funny or as serious or as creative as you want it to be.
Day 14, Tuesday: Ten things that make you really happy
Day 15, Wednesday: A Day in the life (include photos from throughout your typical day – this could be “a photo an hour” if you’d like)
Day 16, Thursday: Something difficult about your “lot in life” and how you’re working to overcome it
Day 17, Friday: A favorite photo of yourself and why
Day 18, Saturday: Tell a story from your childhood. Dig deep and try to be descriptive about what you remember and how you felt.
Day 19, Sunday: Five of your favorite blogs and what you love about them
Day 20, Monday: Get real. Share something you’re struggling with right now.
Day 21, Tuesday: A list of links to your favorite posts in your archives
Day 22, Wednesday: Rant about something. Get up on your soapbox and tell us how you really feel. (a pet peeve, a current event, a controversial topic, something your husband or roommate or neighbor or boss does that really ticks you off)
Day 23, Thursday: Things you’ve learned that school won’t teach you
Day 24, Friday: Your top 3 worst traits
Day 25, Saturday: Something someone told you about yourself that you’ll never forget (good or bad)
Day 26, Sunday: Something you read online. Leave a link and discuss, if you’d like.
Day 27, Monday: A letter to your readers
Day 28, Tuesday: Only pictures
Day 29, Wednesday: Five songs or pieces of music that speak to you or bring back memories. Use Grooveshark or YouTube to include them in the post
Day 30, Thursday: React to this term: Letting Go
Day 31, Friday: A vivid memory

Happy 7th Birthday

to my little blog. Yup Nightwolf’s Den is 7 this weekend! It really doesn’t seem like all that long ago I decided to move my Blogger blog to WordPress and slowly roll most of my blogs into one. I’ve been blogging for longer than 7 years but this is my longest continuous blog.

It’s interesting going back over old posts and seeing how my blog has changed.

So here’s to the first 7 years & here’s to many more

The Winter Blogathon 2013–Update

Still very wrong typing that 😉 but with the weather we’ve had in the last couple of days it could be winter.

So the blogathon is over and I’ve managed to do heaps and added a few more things to my original list:

  • Write up some blog posts and schedule them.
  • Catch up on reviews or other posts.
  • Brainstorm ideas for blog.
  • Clean up your labels/tags
  • Backup your blog (& FB & Twitter)
  • Start Project Life series (& scheduled to post at the end of January)
  • start work on series I want to do in 2nd half of 2013
  • Set up blog planner in diary
  • clean up and sort emails
  • clean up evernote
  • set up blogging app on ipad
  • start to create my own blog planner printable
  • make sure my blog & sm branding is consistent – it’s my birthday today so I’ll be working on this one tomorrow
  • add a pinterest mouseover button to my blog (see above)

Loved getting so much done over the weekend and look forward to the next Blogathon in June. Learnt lots to with the mini challenges and found a heap of new blogs to check out.

The Winter Blogathon 2013

Ok so it feels really weird typing that as it is the middle of summer here in Australia. I posted the other day I’ve signed up for the January blogathon and this is my official kick off post.

Biannual Blogathon Bash

“You know all those items on your Blogging To Do list? Those things you’ve been meaning to get to but haven’t had a chance? Now’s your chance to get a large amount of them done!”

First I’d like to say hi to my new readers who may be checking out my blog for the first time thanks to the Blogathon. My name is Caroline (aka Nightwolf) and you can read a little about me here.

What’s on my To Do list? Well……

  • Write up some blog posts and schedule them.
  • Catch up on reviews or other posts.
  • Brainstorm ideas for blog.
  • Clean up my labels/tags
  • Backup my blog
  • Start Project Life series
  • start work on series I want to do in 2nd half of 2013
  • Set up blog planner in diary
  • clean up and sort emails
  • clean up Evernote
  • set up blogging app on ipad
  • I’m sure I’ll think of something else over the weekend

You can keep up to date with everything related to the Blogathon on Twitter by following the #blogathon2 hashtag.

I may have signed up for this…..

Biannual Blogathon Bash

The Biannual Blogathon Bash. It’s a chance to get a start on all those things on your blogging to do list. There are 2 a year – January and June. The event will take place on a weekend and will run for 72 hours. 8am Friday to 8am Monday EST.

I’ll be back Saturday morning (unless I’m still up midnight Friday – the challenge starts 8am Friday in the US which is about midnight here) with my list of blogging tasks I wish to accomplish over the 72 hours.

Would love to know if any other Aussies are taking part.

New look

Well Christmas & New Year are over for another year. Time for a blog makeover.

I’m planning on doing a lot of simplifying in 2013 and have started here on my blog. A new, clean and simple theme. Cutting down the number of blog categories (but upping the blog post tags).

Would love to hear what you think.