Blogietsa Finishing Line

Hello all!

So after 14 hours of working on my blog I've done the following!

• Finished ALL the mini-challenges
• Due to those challenges:
• Cleaned up my feeds/reader/folders on Google Reader
• Made a back-up post for a rainy day using a list post where I talked about how awesome libraries are (see my blog on a later, rainy day for that post)
• Added at least 20 more blogs to follow and commented at least 40 - 50 times total.
  
• Set up a google alert for my blog and young adult book blogs
• Came up with an elevator pitch, which I used to help revamp my about and later on use in meta data
• Added my blog to some lists YA Blagosphere and YA Book Blog Directory
  
• Changed my background, updated links, made my blog reviews look nicer, reformatted pictures, changed my layout, added a few widgets, and much more
• Made a book blogging buddy and actually we spend like two hours chatting about our blogs last night while we worked on ours. http://bookingthrough365.blogspot.com/
  
• Got a flavicon and gravatar woot!
• Anchored text correctly :) Had to go and change a bunch of stuff on my old blogs!
  
• Read a bazillion articles (or so it seemed) on improving my blog and found myself rewriting some old blogs so they were more well-written.
• Got my site graded - a 36 to begin with and worked for a few hours on meta data and a billion other things (still don't completely understand certain parts...) and raised my score to a 55.

I really had a ton of fun doing this and learned buttloads. As a newer blogger, I didn't know a lot of the stuff discussed and was glad to go about fixing what needed to be fixed. I didn't really expect to spend more than 8 hours on the blog and was surprised when I had clocked 14 - by then my head was aching and my TBR pile was glaring at me in disgust.

Which now reminds me that I have two book reviews to post. :)

A blogger's job is never done.