Blog Chicks lunch
Yesterday I got to hang out with a bunch of cool blogger chicks at the Blog Chicks lunch. It’s so nice to spend time with people who understand terms like ‘analytics’, ‘plugins’ and ‘wordpress versus blogger’.
It was fun!
I got to meet:
- Liz from Savvy Cat
- Lucy from Chief Bridesmaid
- Jennifer from Jenius
- Sheryl from One Bite More
- Marilyn from Live first, write later
- Trish from My Little Drummer Boys
- Suze from Chocolatesuze
- Helen from Grab Your Fork
And it was nice to see Emma from Reality Ravings who I met at the last meet.
Leigh very bravely let me do a lap of honour in the Renault Koleos (and discovered I’ve been mispronouncing Renault for all these years) and I didn’t even crash it! Damn that thing drives like a charm, though it’s about 3 times bigger than my little Mazda, hehe.
The highlight for me was watching foodbloggers take photos of my lunch:
Classic!
Suze also got an action shot of everyone mid-conversation and mid-nomming.
Was lovely to spend the afternoon with you, ladies; let’s do it again soon!
Bloggest Loser
I attempted this last year with Leigh (and she whipped my arse, hehe) and I’m willing to give it a go again as part of Blog Chicks Australia.
I have a new level of motivation now and even though I considered last week to be a complete write-off, I somehow managed to still lose a kilo (yay me! Let’s have a cupcake to celebrate).
As a general rule I try to follow the methods of the CSIRO well-being eating guide and get the fat jiggling on the cross-trainer that collects dust in the loungeroom.
It doesn’t help with all the chocolates sitting on the dining table that were gifts from very excitable work friends as well as the chocolate I won from Jen (!). Oh, and the fundraiser Freddo Frogs in the kitchen at work.
Those Freddo Frogs are evil. But also a bargain for $1.20, and the proceeds go to a good cause. NOM.
So last week I was 93.5kg and this week I’m 92.1kg and my goal is to 90kg by September. Slow and steady, yeah?
Ideally, my first real goal will be to get to 85kg in… I don’t know when. Maybe before the wedding I’m going to in November. We’ll see, right?
Blog Chicks – Networking for Australian Women Bloggers
Leigh, the CrazyMeezer of All For Women fame and my partner in crime at That’s Noice has launched a new web site this week: Blog Chicks – Networking for Australian Women Bloggers.
I’ve joined the forum and have already met some blogger chicks I normally wouldn’t have come across. I have lots of new blogs to add to my Netvibes!
Blog Chicks is also the new home of the Top 100 Australian Women Bloggers, at which, amazingly, I’m #97!
Hullo to the girls who have landed here from my ramblings on the forums! *waves*
Lucky Ninety-Eight!
Finally my blank cheques have earned their weight!
I’ve been madly refreshing the Top 100 Aussie Women Bloggers list waiting to see if I made the list this month.. and success!
It’s the small things that excite me…and really, my little bits of fluff that I post here are nowhere near the callibre of other deserving ladies like Karen, Kelley, Christie and Riayn. But it’s nice to be on a list full of interesting ladies, especially some of my lunch buddies from yesterday!
Yay! Number Ninety-Eight! :o)
WordPress.com rocks
posting from facebook? now THAT’s what I’m talking about.
Running late for work, must dry hair into something respectable
