I Want to be in the Cool Gang! (Blog Comments)

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I have been thinking a great deal about blog comments lately. 

Since returning from my self-enforced blogging hiatus (new job, finishing uni, getting hitched, lost smartphone) I have hardly received any comments or any new followers (not surprised at this one because I haven't been pimping myself on other blogs except for the odd comment here and there).  Lucy yes, I have received yours - thank you for always having a kind word).

This lack of comments makes me wonder how many readers or active followers do I actually have? Followed by asking myself how much do they mean, am I putting too much stock in them, is my writing self-esteem directly to the amount or quality of comments that I receive?

Then I look at some of the really famous blogs that I follow (Diminishing Lucy, Wanderlust, Suger Coat It - to name a few) and I wonder how on earth do they keep up with the number of comments and responses their fabulous posts receive? 

This leads me to admit that if I'm not in the first five or ten people to comment I don't often bother, because quite often they all start to sound the same and I don't want to write anything that might come across as insincere and joining in to be part of the crowd.

But then Hello! I do want to be part of the crowd.

I want to be part of that cool gang that is inspired to write everyday despite also juggling the balls of work, motherhood, wifeliness etc etc.

I want to be part of that cool gang who inspire even just a few through their finely constructed words.

I want to be part of the cool gang that meets up in person with their new bloggy friends.

But ultimately I want to be part of the cool gang who gets more than a few fuzzy comments!

Another Return

One of my greatest real life friends (who also happens to be trying her hand at blogging - Lou)  told me that I should get writing again. And I think I need a bit of focus again! So Hi Guys - Here I Am!!

I have to admit I've been a bit 50/50 about it.  The is due to a few reasons - most of them probably excuse - you can choose for yourself which ones you think are real - they all seem real to me!

• I've just finished uni forever and am enjoying the break from the computer
• I've been busy planning a wedding - 10 weeks to go people - 10 weeks!
• I have fallen off the weight loss wagon - not sure how badly yet, but there is definitely more skin around my central area
• I've started another new job which is flat out (but I love it)
• I have lots of chores around the house that could do with some attention, e.g. the linen cupboard & skirting boards
• I've been wanting to change the direction of my blog and not make it so much of a weight loss blog
• I really want to find my "funny" writing voice - I read other amazing blogs that are so laugh out loud funny and I want that to be me!!

I've thought about starting a completely new blog but then I risk losing the 100+ posts that I've written here that have been a fundamental expression of my journey over the last year and then some.  So I figure I just keep writing here and hopefully entice some of my past readers back.

So with 10 weeks until the wedding you'd think I'd be stressing about putting weight one - I am, but I'm not - weird hey?  I  have been eating way too much chocolate, lollies and drinking too much wine, I love them all!!!  There's a little family owned gym near me and they sent out an email last week lookng for someone to share some PT sessions with another client - I thought it was a sign so stuck up my hand, turns out next week the gym starts their 8 week challenge - maybe that's a sign too so I'm going to throw my hat in the ring - maybe the focus and the push will do me some good!!

Gotta run and do my food plan - got the bridesmates coming over this arvo for some girly time  xxx

100 Posts and it's a Blog Hop!!

I Love Blogging!

I just really do!

I love having a little creative input to the world and being able to share myself with world, albeit shielded by my trust computer screen.

Blogging has been a HUGE help to me in staying focused, getting advice, feeling the love and stabilising the roller coaster that is my journey to a slimmer, healthier and more fantastic life!

It blows my mind that I followers from all over the world and these people care about what's going on with little old me!

I love reading the blogs that I follow and hope that my comments make someone's day a bit brighter, their journey easier to bear.

So thank you to everyone that has encouraged me with their comments and who has shared a part of their life with me!

Love Andrea

PS Below is a link to a Blog Hop run by Diminishing Lucy - one of the first blogs I started following! I think she is awesome xx

Clean Skin - Bloggers Without Make-up

Here it is girls my lovely, beautiful, rather shiny face in all its glory!  Inspired by a few bloggers that I follow  Diminishing Lucy, Fat Mum Slim and Wanderlust.

I think Bloggers Without Make-up is a great idea. Especially in this age where looking young is considered the epiotome of beauty.  I find beauty is laugh lines, crows feet and crooked teeth. I'd much rather look at the face of experience that one bloated and botoxed.  I think in years to come there is going to be a backlash against plastic surgery and the 'fake' look, real will be in (actually i reckon it's never gone out).

I love my make-up free days, its when I feel truly relaxed and comfy in my skin!

See the full here at Jodie's Blog - thank you what a great idea!

Kid Dreaming....

Keeping with today's theme, I am doing another first and taking part in my first Blog This Challenge.

Name something that makes you want to be a kid again.

Is it a food? A toy? Maybe your credit card bill?

Seriously though,

take us back to something that makes you wish you were a kid again, and why...

Sooo...what makes me what to be a kid again?

For me, I wish I could dream like I did when I was a kid! Not the kind of dreams of you have while sleeping, but those big hairy audacious dreams like being a popstar as big as Madonna, marrying Job Bon Jovi, running your own magazine company and being as pretty as Danni Minogue on Young Talent Time. I would love to have back that conviction that anything you want is totally possible!

I miss the simplicity of being a kid, of not worrying what other people think, that feeling of unconditional love and laying on the trampoline finding shapes in the clouds.

Blog Love

I'm a huge fan of Lucy over at Diminshing Lucy...in fact I've recently confessed to her that I have a blog crush on her **blush**

Lucy has the honour of taking my virginity...my blog hop virginity that is!!

I'd love you guys to join in too and get a part of this bloggy, get fit, weight loss love that is going around!

SO, if you have a diet/weightloss/healthy eating/exercise/fitness post that you want to share, why not join in?


I've copied Lucy's instructions and it's very easy:

1.Follow my blog (if you haven't already done so).


2.Link the URL to your diet/weightloss/healthy eating/exercise/fitness post POST in the Linky below (not your homepage: the actual post)

3. Copy the blog hop code from below into your post too.....then you are also hosting the exact same blog hop link list.....and you will get loads of extra followers too!

 4. Follow at least one other blogger.....share the love, and comment!

5. The blog hop list will open every Thursday and will be open all week.


6. A new and fresh link list will open every Thursday. (And then you can link up again with another diet/weightloss/healthy eating/exercise/fitness post.)


7. Open to any blog, any country, just as long as the post content is diet/weightloss/healthy eating/exercise/fitness related.

Come on...I promise it won't hurt and I'll still respect you in the morning xxx