Tag: BlogEveryDayInMay

Why do I love this photo? Cause I’m happy and in love and putting a crappy relationship behind me. Hubby and I had only been a couple ‘officially’ for a few days. And OMG how skinny do I look :/

…and how you’re working to overcome it

• We’re on a low income. We do without but always have food and power and splurge occasionally especially if we want to spoil Miss K. We’re working harder to make more money & I’ll return to study so I can improve my knowledge (& therefore can charge more)
• I have crap vision. Upside = awesome glasses and contacts
• Hubby has chronic pain & chronic depression. We’re working with ways to lessen his pain.

That’s taken me a couple of days to write cause I really wasn’t totally sure how to go about it :/

 

10: Most embarrassing moment (s). Spill. At the airport to pick up my cousin an in my excitement to see her I ran up to and hugged the wrong person. I was about 8 and mortified.

11: Sell yourself in 10 words or less.  Mum, blogger, scrapbooker, fun, approachable, photographer, wife, cat lady, me.

12: What do you miss? (a person, a thing, a place, a time of your life…) My cousin. Gone too soon and I miss him.

13: Issue a public apology. This can be as funny or as serious or as creative as you want it to be.

(some great quotes on Pinterest)

14: Ten things that make you really happy

1. Good food
2. Cuddly cats
3. Chocolate
4. A good novel
5. Cookbooks
6. Croissants with ham, cheese & pineapple
7. My family
8. Photography
9. Having a good internet connection
10. My friends (both irl & online)

15: A Day in the life (include photos from throughout your typical day – this could be “a photo an hour” if you’d like) I used the Days app to capture some random snapshots though my day

Back later with today’s post

I’m so bad at keeping up with these things 😉

2 – Educate us on something you know a lot about or are good at. Take any approach you’d like (serious and educational or funny and sarcastic) – Something I’m good at – not keeping up with daily posts 😉

3 – Things that make you uncomfortable

1. cold weather
2. people who try to hard
3. people who go out of their way to be rude
4. spiders

5 – 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. How can I choose just one hehe. Today I’ll go Fiona, Kelley, Eden, Lori. All amazing women, with different stories. Love them all.

6 – If you couldn’t answer with your job, how would you answer the question, ‘what do you do’?  I’m a mum, wife, lover of photography, a reader, a scrapbooker and so much more

7 – The thing(s) you’re most afraid of

Evil things. They aren’t of this world, i swear.

8 – A piece of advice you have for others. Anything at all.

I saw this on Facebook tonight. Great advice

9 – A moment in my day. Seriously foggy morning that hung around most of the day

I’ll b back tomorrow with 10-15

I love collecting quotes. I have a Pinterest board just for quotes. The one that really sticks out to me at the moment is this:

“We met for a reason, either you are a blessing or a lesson”

The blessings (so far) – my hubby, my besties, my bloggy friends
The lessons (and some hard ones) – my ex’s (especially 1 and that 8 years was a difficult lesson), people who are no longer friends 🙁

(and yes, I know I missed days 2 & 3. I’m still thinking about something I’m good at and things that make me uncomfortable.)

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 18^th. 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?

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