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13 May 2014

#atozchallenge 2014 Reflections post

I survived the 2014 A to Z Challenge did you?

There's a few too many people who deserve extra mentions for me to list them all here.

In general thanks need to go out to -

Arlee Bird and the co-hosts (and their helpers) - a lot of effort goes into keeping the sign up list tidy.

People who shared posts and left comments (so many were heart warming)

Organisers and participants of the #AZChat on twitter (leading up to and during the challenge) It was a great initiative and certainly improved the social/interactive aspect of this years challenge.

The challenge is certainly a great source of information and inspiration as far as improving the overall look and feel of a new blog too.

My most successful post was my theme reveal post. The hop within a hop - another great idea. Makes me wonder about the benefits of a smaller hop. This years #Atozchallenge 'festival' attracted over 2000 followers. *crowd cheers*

It was overwhelming. I found it impossible to keep up the pace I set in the first couple of weeks and was grateful that I had scheduled the tail end of the alphabet before the challenge started. Otherwise I might have dropped out.

A big congratulations to everyone involved.

My theme this year was '26 Greatest loves of my life.' Below are the links and a brief explanation of each post -

26 Greatest loves of my life - Let's call him Adam
5 years old - who wants to play kiss chasey?

26 Greatest loves of my life - Lets call him Baranaby
6 years old - risk taker.

26 Greatest loves of my life - Let's call him Cazaly
Love me - love my football team

26 Greatest loves of my life - Let's call him Dog
I was surprised by the amount of tears - mine and the commenters.

26 Greatest loves of my life - Let's call him Erik
There can only be one number 1

26 Greatest loves of my life - Let's call him Father
Seems a lot of people wish they had a Dad just like mine.

26 Greatest loves of my life - Let's call him Geronimo
First embarrassing kiss moment.

26 Greatest loves of my life - Let's call them Hormonal teenagers
keeping my love hormones to myself until I sorted out the brutes from the gentlemen.

26 Greatest loves of my life - Let's call her Ida
What's in a name - A lot if your name is Ida

26 Greatest loves of my life - Let's call him Jeremiah
A girls best friend... is sometimes a man.

26 Greatest loves of my life - Let's call him Ken
His Mother put an end to this budding romance.

26 Greatest loves of my life - Let's call it a Love song
A real love song - from a friend... written, recorded, perfumed, and you-tubed :)

26 Greatest loves of my life - Let's call her Mama
Pearls of wisdom because there isn't enough words.

26 Greatest loves of my life... Nature
Nurture nature = nurture yourself.

26 Greatest loves of my life lets call him Oh my Odin
Riské but worth it.

26 Greatest loves of my life lets call him Peridot
Adult love

26 Greatest loves of my life lets call it Quiet I'm reading
Confessions of a reader.

26 Greatest loves of my life lets call it Reflexology
Soul to sole.

26 Greatest loves of my life lets call him Sherlock
Hard to resist.

26 Greatest loves of my life lets call The Truth
Fundamental.

26 Greatest loves of my life lets call him Ulysses
1 heart = 3 hearts

26 Greatest loves of my life lets call him Vent
Forgive and forget.

26 Greatest loves of my life lets call them Wazza and Wyn
Write wrong to right wrong.

26 Greatest loves of my life - sounds like X's
Ode to my exe's

26 Greatest loves of my life lets call him Yarra
Open your heart.

26 Greatest loves of my life lets call him Zoro
Save the best to last.

Thanks for joining me along the way. I enjoyed sharing this part of my life with you.

Are you joining the A to Z challenge road trip?

Ida

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21 March 2014

A to Z theme reveal - Not quite what I expected... #atozreveal #atozchallenge

1) Aussie slang - (to tempting to copy and paste)

2) 26 Boyfriends - (to revealing)

3) A to Z of Alzheimers - (to heavy for a light hearted challenge)

Check out everyone else's themes on the link list here

26 boyfriends was a standout winner... Perfect. Until I stating writing the posts and realised that
not everyone in my life needs to know about how many or how deep some of those boyfriends reached.

What I really want to share is why and how I fell in love. The fun, mistakes and lessons. This was supposed to be about different types of boys, but as I started writing the posts it became glaringly obvious that it was all about me. I couldn't write about love and leave out some of my greatest loves of all, not just old boyfriends. So a new theme idea was born.

Welcome to The 26 Greatest loves of my life.

There will still be a little smut, including my first kiss and that unforgettable first quiver, but I also want to keep it PG. Some will read like a synopsis rather than the whole story. Some of my greatest loves aren't even human.

I want to exercise my writing muscles, challenge myself. My longest post is under 400 words, some of them are just a few sentences long. Some are first person, some are third person. There's even a poem or two and I might even chuck in some Aussie slang. Fair dinkum I've loved some larrikins.

This challenge isn't just about writing, it's about connecting with other bloggers. This year I've managed to get a good head start by scheduling half of my posts. This will give me a lot more time to visit other blogs. The more blogs I visited last year the more visited me back. It's a win-win. Positive comments are like rewards for effort, they become addictive.

Like many girls I started searching for love at a very young age. I don't remember a time in my life where my relationships haven't been the single most important thing to me. In order to have great relationships I had to learn to love myself. If you are anything like I am, that was easy at first, became very difficult for a while, then greater than anything I imagined.

I hope you enjoy my 2014 #atozchallenge theme. The 26 Greatest loves of my life.

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The challenge starts with the letter A on April 1st. You can join that on the official A to Z challenge page.

All the best to every participant. Let the countdown begin.

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13 May 2014

#atozchallenge 2014 Reflections post

21 March 2014

A to Z theme reveal - Not quite what I expected... #atozreveal #atozchallenge

Welcome to The 26 Greatest loves of my life.