Monday, April 1, 2019

#AtoZChallnege - Booze? Burgers? Blogging!!



Hi!   Welcome to my little corner of the Interwebz.  I'm doing a pretty random theme this year - things that make me happy / are guilty pleasures / whatever makes me.... ME!

 This is my 8th year of doing the A-Z Challenge, and my topic for B just came to me - 
homer simpson doh GIF
hellooooo - blogging!

So I have 2 blogs.  This one here is a journal / miscellaneous type "here's my life" thing.  I write about whatever I damn well please.  I do try to keep it positive, tho.  And then I have one that is for my Halloween display called Maple Grove Cemetery  I'm all about Halloween so this is a good way to keep the 2 separate.  I used to have 3 blogs, but I merged the defunct weight loss moment into this one.  

Tales from the Love Shaque has been around in some form or another (on Blogger anyway) since July 2009.  I used to write on Yahoo 360 prior to that, but Yahoo got rid of it and I never bothered to import my content from over there and I probably didn't lose anything of quality anyway.

Maple Grove has been around since August 2011.  I love to explore real cemeteries (there's a name for that - taphophilia) and I post about those, and stuff that my display's mascot (a skeleton named Chuck) does in the off season.  And as it gets closer to October, I'll write about projects I have in the works & finally the display itself. 

So in 2012 & 2013, I did the A-Z Challenge with all 3 blogs.  Exhausting. 
2014 & 2015, I dropped Maple Grove from the A-Z since I do several other blogging "marathons" on it throughout the year. 
Starting in 2016, I've just done the A-Z here.  

How long have you been a blogger?

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If it seems weird that I appear to be posting the day before what would be the correct date, it's because the A-Z hosts have their posts go live at 0000 UTC - which is 8pm EST.  So mine are somewhat close to that!

20 comments:

  1. Good to know a bit of your life here. Thanks for sharing

    B for Bugs Bunny

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    1. Thanks! I love your theme of cartoon characters!

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  2. Good to know little about your life

    https://shravmusings.com/2019/04/abhimanyu-the-warrior-prince-in-indian-mythology/

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    1. Congratulations on your first year participating!

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  3. Great post!
    Well, I guess that I would think that as I'm doing something vastly different but similar in a way. I've decided on a theme of 'Reflections of a life well lived' as described through my poetry.
    Warm regards
    From A-Z to you
    https://felicityburnett.blogspot.com/

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    1. Ooo, poetry! Nice! I will go check it out!

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  4. I've been blogging for four years and recently started my 2nd blog. My original blog is a miscellaneous type blog, and my new one is a writing blog
    Debbie

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    1. I love having 2 blogs, to keep the topics separate (miscellaneous ones are the best!). It helps when you have such different interests and therefore different groups of followers and such, too.

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  5. I've been blogging on various blogs since High School. So, the 90s. I had one that I kept for a while and I even had a Yahoo one. This current blog, I've had for a bit. So I've been blogging on and off for 20 plus years.

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    1. Wow! I wish I knew about blogging 20 years ago! I've never heard of anyone else using the Yahoo platform before, either.

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  6. Nice post. According to WP I've been at it for four years but I was on Blogger for a few years before that. It is fun, especially the challenges like this.

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    1. Challenges and random linkup / post prompts are the best! You totally don't last for content when someone hands you ideas!

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  7. Argh. I get frustrated with the A-Z posting schedule. I understand it's for people in many different time zones, but still!!!!

    I've been blogging since 2002, but I've changed blogs multiple times. I didn't start participating in A-Z until 2014. Hopefully this year I will make it through! I don't know how you participated with multiple blogs!

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    1. I just figured out last year that they use UTC, I just had mine go live at like 4am my time. I wish I could say it gets easier as you participate more, but it hasn't!

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  8. I can certainly understand how trying to keep up with three blogs for this challenge must have been exhausting. I can barely keep up with one.

    I have been blogging since 2011. My son had just been diagnosed with state 4 colon cancer. Writing was my way of dealing with the most horrible time of my life. My son passed away months later. I have mostly kept up with the blog.
    I have participated in this challenge since 2012.


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    1. I'm so sorry about your son - how awful! I've heard writing is theraputic in times of grief, has it been for you?

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  9. Kudos to keeping two blogs going. I have been blogging for 2 1/2 years. Good times with wonderful people.

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    1. I love reading other people's blogs, too. I have an insane number that I follow!

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  10. Hello. I am new here. And I have decided to become a regular reader. Your upbeat attitude just comes through you writing and blog so loud and clear. I can't imagine having more than one blog. I am already overwhelmed with one - and sometimes take unexpected breaks! Haha.

    I love the fact your theme is spontaneous. I think that is great. Always a surprise. My theme is Aging and Retirement - since I am retired and I was a caregiver to my mom for 8 years. Kind of have a deep background in that topic. But maybe next year I will do something spontaneous too. Great fun.

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    1. Aww thanks! Welcome!
      I don't post as regularly as I'd like, because life happens and sometimes it's not too exciting. Reading about scooping litter boxes or getting the blessing from the office manager at work to flip off coworkers (true story, tho!!) doesn't fit my idea of interesting.

      My theme is pretty easy, but it's stressful this time since in the past I've had my posts mostly written long before April rolled around but I'm winging it at the last minute this year!

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