{"id":9443,"date":"2012-04-01T22:49:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T02:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=9443"},"modified":"2012-04-01T23:11:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T03:11:02","slug":"bloggiesta-sum-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=9443","title":{"rendered":"Bloggiesta Sum-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Well, that didn’t work out like I hoped it would!<\/p>\n

Okay, I knew my goals<\/a> were impossible, but I thought I could make a lot more progress than I did.<\/p>\n

However, I think I had a mini-stroke last week. I no longer overreact. I no longer head to the Emergency Room, or even call my neurologist. [The very very good news is that I see a specialist at Johns Hopkins this coming Friday. This will give me something more to tell him!] I suspect the mini-stroke was so small, it would not show up on an MRI. None of the others did! (But one I felt, and one caused permanent double vision if I look in certain directions.) However, all of them leave me feeling weak and dizzy if I walk around. I get better after a couple weeks, and I was doing great at PLA (Thank you, God!). But this week I had another setback, and the feeling is continuing through this weekend. I feel a lot more annoyed with it on my days off than I do on work days, I’m a bit ashamed to say!<\/p>\n

So, I thought I could spend several hours on catching up on reviews. But I spent a big part of both days napping. I did get in a game of Dominion with my son both days, but that was worth it! I won’t be able to do that later in the week, when he’s at his Dad’s. And I do have two more days off, but I will definitely need to do some of the chores and errands I put off, ostensibly for Bloggiesta.<\/p>\n

However! All that said, one of the best things about Bloggiesta, honestly, was reading this post at Chachic’s Book Nook.<\/a> Like Chachic, my blog is meant to be My Happy Place. This is for fun!<\/p>\n

So — though I only got 3 reviews written, I have put many more books than that back in my bag to return to the library. I do not need to say, “Here’s a good book,” unless I have a bit more to say about it than that. And I was nicely reminded to keep this fun.<\/p>\n

Other things I did: I did make it to part of two of the Twitter parties.<\/p>\n

I posted a review both days, and another blog entry both days, and a Sonderquotes<\/a> entry both days, and a Sonderblessings<\/a> entry today.<\/p>\n

I attempted to upgrade my blogs, but ran into trouble with the needed database upgrade. I will take that up with Yahoo some time when I’m not expecting commenters, so it won’t be so bad if the whole site is down for awhile.<\/p>\n

I did not achieve the commenting mini-challenge — only making 6 comments. But I do plan to go back to the Bloggiesta list to visit blogs in the future.<\/p>\n

The other mini-challenges also didn’t get done, but again, the instructions stay there, so I can always go back to them when I’m feeling better.<\/p>\n

Summing up, I still have piles of To-Be-Reviewed books. But they are<\/em> smaller, and I do think my attitude toward them lightened up. I remembered how much fun<\/em> this is!<\/p>\n

Oh, and I found a whole bunch of delightful bloggers to follow on Twitter! That’s going to add some fun to my days long into the future.<\/p>\n

Will I do Bloggiesta again? Absolutely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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