I’ve been thinking about doing something like this for awhile – a weekly round up of the blog and social media stuff for the week. It might turn into a regular thing or it might fizzle out completely. Impossible to tell.
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The End of Surreal – on settling in to my pregnancy and not waiting for the other shoe to drop
Lines of Communication – on meltdowns and how a sad face can be just as beautiful as a happy one
JellyBean Watch – Week 5 – on pregnancy, vbacs and …

This was one of the photos I posted on my first ever post.
Look at that glorious belly and those pudgy arms. It was also one of the first times she went to sleep on her own, mid lunch no less. In some ways she’s so much of a baby in this photo that I hardly recognise her, but in others I still see that little baby face when I look at her now.
We’ve come a long way, her and I. A very long way. And every age is still my …

And the Winner Is . . . . Annie. Congratulations!!

Update
The lovely Amber has alerted me to the fact that ‘liking’ in the context of a contest is against the Facebook terms of service.
So, while all current entries based on liking either Good Goog or Carly Lloyd Designs will count, from now on I’m removing the facebook aspect of the giveaway.
So you can get an entry by:

Blogging about this giveaway (3 entries)
Tweeting this giveaway. (1 entry) {GIVEAWAY win a blogger or wordpress makeover courtesy of @carlylloyd. For full info go …

My very own blog carnival. Be still my beating heart. Well actually, it’s not my very own. I’m in cahoots with Joella from Blogs With Wings. But I’m going to be hosting the first month, so for the sake argument, we’ll say it’s mine. Or we won’t because I just had a rather disturbing gollum flashback. It’s definitely ours.
We plan to host a monthly blogging carnival for all you personal bloggers out there. It will be a great opportunity to discover some great new blogs, get your own blog out …

I’m guest posting today at Blogs With Wings. You can check it out here:Getting Personal Like a Professional.

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When I first started blogging about my trying to conceive journey it seemed like it would be helpful. Cathartic even. To be able to vent all my neurotic thoughts and have them out of my head. To have a place where I could rattle on about symptoms and blather on about the two week wait. But 7 months later, I’m not so sure. I’m not backwards about sharing the journey and I don’t mind people knowing that I’m trying to conceive. I’m bad at keeping secrets anyway. Any friend of …

I’m not a good multi-tasker. Not by a long shot. Sure, day to day activities I can master quite well. But re-design? Not one of them. I’m also not that good at mucking about with html and css coding. I know enough to get there eventually by trial and error. But it takes forever. And I have it on good authority that while it’s going on I resemble a bit of a mad scientist.

But thankfully, it’s now complete and I’ll probably only need to tweak things as they come up. The best news? It’s still technically Friday, so I have a break on the weekend.

The verdict is in. Proving that it is rare that you are truly ambivalent about something. I knew the answer, I just didn’t like it. A total of 16 people participated in my survey (yes, I voted too!) And this is what it looked like:

With 63% saying it should go back to the way it was and only 13% liking the separate blog thing. Deep down I knew it. Instead of looking at this as a poorly planned, colossal failure on my part, I will choose to look at it …

So I’ll admit I probably should have thought about this alot more before launching Photo Goog.
For someone who is a real planner, I have the tendency towards being impulsive every now and again, particularly when I’m excited about something. And lately I’ve been feeling very ambivalent about having separated this blog and Photo Goog into two blogs. I’ve had the vague feeling that it was annoying more than anything else, rather than just having everything in one place.
So I did what any self-respecting planner would have done before the launch, …

I always felt that my dream was to write a book. I read a review once of a science fiction book. And while that is not a genre that I enjoy at all, what the reviewer had written has stayed with me ever since. They wrote ‘[the author] has re-wired science fiction. Everything is different now.’ And I knew when I read it, that I wanted to do something like that. Something so creative, so unique that it stands completely on its own. It’s hard to even write that, because that dream seems so completely unlikely and unrealistic.