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<\/a><\/p>\nBloggiesta is hosted at Suey’s blog It’s All About Books<\/a> and Danielle’s blog There’s a Book<\/a>. I found out about this year’s event from reading Chachic’s Book Nook<\/a>.<\/p>\n It turned out nice. I do have the full weekend off. On Monday this week, I learned that my son had been accepted to Boston University. So I asked for next Monday and Tuesday off to do a crazy quick road trip up to Boston. Then he got the acceptance notice with a financial aid offer — and a list of tuition prices. He also got accepted to William & Mary. It was easy to notice that Boston University with<\/em> financial aid would cost the same as William & Mary without<\/em> financial aid. So I’m no longer interested in trying to get him more interested in Boston. He seems happy to think of going to William & Mary, so I’m happy too!<\/p>\n But — I did ask for those two days off. And when I realize that my son will be at home those two days (and the rest of the week at his Dad’s), it seems like a good idea to still take them off. Then I discovered that Bloggiesta is this weekend! So what that means… I can spend all day Saturday and most of Sunday doing Bloggiesta, and put off my weekend chores and errands for Monday and Tuesday. Sounds like a lovely way to put fun ahead of work!<\/p>\n Bloggiesta, for those who haven’t seen it before, is all about dedicating a weekend to work on your blog and add some new features and learn about blogging and network. Here are the things I’d like to do. (Note: My to-do lists are ALWAYS much longer than I can really do, but that makes me happy, so just ignore it!)<\/p>\n 1. *** Catch up on writing reviews!!!<\/p>\n Note, today I read Chachic’s post about remembering that blogging is fun<\/a>. Like her, I realized that any pressure I put on myself is coming from me, not from anybody else. When I started writing reviews, I worked half-time. Now I work full-time. But I began by reviewing everything I read, and I find myself wanting to keep that up. Sondy, I’m telling myself, that is unrealistic. So what if I make my goal to write reviews of the books piled up that I most enjoyed — and turn the rest back into the library! *gasp* I will see if I have the strength of will to do this at the end of this weekend. I actually have 23 books piled up here next to the computer that I have read but haven’t reviewed. That’s not counting picture books (some of which are longer nonfiction picture books). So I will try to alternate between longer books and picture books and see how many I can get reviewed — *and turn in the rest*!!! (I’m not at all sure I’ll really do this is why I’m giving it so much emphasis. If I start with the ones I enjoyed most, I can’t really go wrong, can I?)<\/p>\n 2. Update the wordpress version of my blogs. 3. Attend a Twitter party! I just caught the end of the first #bloggiesta Twitter party. I will try to attend the one tomorrow from 4 to 6.<\/p>\n 4. Post one post on each of my blogs each day, and one review.<\/p>\n I have four blogs, for different things. https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/<\/a> is my main blog, and all the reviews are permanently posted on my website, sonderbooks.com<\/a> The catch with having an html website and a blog is that it takes longer to update both and set up the links. This is why I’ve begun writing the reviews ahead, and then posting them later. My Sonderquotes<\/a> blog is just to post good quotations from books I’m reading. My Sonderblessings<\/a> blog is a personal blog to remind me to be thankful for all the good things in my life. I just count my blessings. And finally, my Sonderjourneys<\/a> blog is supposed to be a link about places I’ve been and what’s going on in my life. But I stopped in the middle of my last vacation and last posted at Christmas, so I do need to give it some updates.<\/p>\n 5. Do the commenting mini-challenge! That’s hosted by Book Journey<\/a>. I’ll have to do some work to find 20 blogs to comment on. Definitely fun work!<\/p>\n 6. Look over plug-ins for my blogs. That’s hosted at Jenni Elyse’s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n 7. Add some more social media icons. That mini-challenge is posted at Adventures of 2.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n 8. Look at my subscription page and see if I can switch it to e-mail subscription. I’ve been meaning to do this since KidLitCon last September.<\/p>\n 9. Finally, if I get the chance, look at the mini-challenge at Janicu’s Book Blog<\/a> to link my blog to my neglected-no-longer(?) GoodReads account.<\/p>\n Whew! Did I mention that I know this list isn’t actually doable in only two days? And the big priority is to cut down on my to-be-reviewed stacks. So I will try to spend time writing reviews before I do any of the challenges.<\/p>\n But it does sound like a lot more fun than cleaning my house!<\/p>\n Revised to add: I found one more cool mini-challenge: Write on!<\/p>\n
\nThis one’s just a detail — usually. Sometimes it hits a bump and takes a long time. So I’ve been putting it off.<\/p>\n
\n10. Stats Challenge<\/a> at There’s a Book<\/p>\n