Don’t forget everyone! Blog Idol starts tomorrow morning. I’ve been told the hours to ‘vote’, read click and comment, are between 9am-5pm NZT. You can keep and eye out for it over on Stuff.co.nz and I’ll put up a link on here as soon as I can. I think that’s allowed.
I swear I would not be at all surprised today if I dropped dead this week. The emotional torture this has put me through today! Just imagine me sitting here with 7 different windows open, each one of them with a different blog post topic and about 50 – 350 words written on each. The flow wasn’t coming. My kids were around and it looked like no one was going to leave Mummy alone. The hours passed and my post was still looking like it would never come together. What on earth are you meant to write as an introductory post to a blogging competition? Was I meant to get straight into it blogging about a random topic or was I meant to try and build some sort of rapport with the readers? I had no idea! What was everyone else writing? Was anything I wrote going to be enough?
It just wasn’t happening.
Then my husband stepped in and told me he was taking the kids out. He’d already let me sleep in because I was so exhausted from the past few days. Traditionally on birthdays we wake up early and open presents together. Not today though, if I was ever going to string sentences together I HAD to sleep. My little guy managed to last till lunch time to open his gifts without any tears.
While they were out with their Dad I continued to float from one subject to another trying to pull it all together into an interesting and legible post. I finally got there. Then I looked up and Andrew and the kids were pulling into the driveway. I took it as a sign to just let it be and sent it through for publishing.
The anxiety’s died down thankfully. I’ve done all I can do. That first post was the hardest but it’s done and dusted and I can relax. All that’s left is to see what tomorrow brings but for now, lets eat some cake!
Happy Birthday to my little guy Davis. I have never met such a happy, funny and entertaining child. I am ALWAYS happy when he’s around and can’t believe how much he’s grown. Can’t wait to see what this year brings for him 
I don’t know how to type all of this out at once. My heart is racing, I feel slightly nauseated and I want to talk to my husband but he’s busy so instead I’m telling all of you. In January my husband sent me a link to something called Blog Idol. It’s a competition held by stuff.co.nz. They send out a call for entries and invite bloggers from throughout NZ to send in a 150 word article on any subject. I chatted with Andrew about how I might send something in, you know, because I like to blog lol. *Insert nervous laughter here*
Like a lot of things in my ‘that’s a fun idea maybe I’ll get to it‘ folder I bookmarked it and went on my merry way. A month later I’m in the shower and this thought pops into my mind “Hey what about that Blog Idol thing?” A slight panic flooded over me as I started to think I’d missed the deadline. I finished up, got dressed and rushed over to my computer to look up my bookmarked site. What do you know, today was the last day for entries and I had until 5 o’clock to throw something together. So I sat down to write but the baby began to fuss and was ready for his nap. I stop briefly and deal with that then begin to type out whatever it is that’s just flowing through me. The silence in my home couldn’t have come at a better time. I wrote 149 words, the limit was 150. When there’s a word limit I usually have this overwhelming urge to write EXACTLY the number of words you’re limited to. It’s a weird trait of mine. I could have easily added one more word but I had a whole conversation with myself to calm down about it. Yes, I am that strange on the inside lol.
I pressed send.
I never heard anything back.
Until today.
When I opened my inbox to find an email titled “Blog Idol 2 Finalist” and read
“I’m glad to tell you that you’ve been selected as one of 10 Finalists in Stuff’s Blog Idol 2 competition!”
Oh my gosh! I’m terrified. My hands are shaking as I type. What am I doing??
So this is my plea. Over the upcoming week (starting March 8th) I will have to blog over at stuff. I need people to READ what I write. I will need people to send my article links trough twitter, through facebook, through whatever else there is. Most of all I need those links to be CLICKED ON. I need people to stop and read and enjoy what I’m writing so I can actually last in the competition. Please help me drown out the mockers that are already gearing up for me (lets hope they prey on someone else). This comp works by way of traffic, much like American Idol. This time the number of clicks represent the votes. So please, read every day, tell your friends and family to read too and help lil ole me live out my blogging dreams lol.
Nervously counting down the days…. xxx
