Comment Challenge & Bloggiesta Updates

This has been an interesting and busy day. I actually began blogging this morning at about 1:45 AM. From there I read a few blogs and began the Comment Challenge. Since I joined the Bloggiesta late, I cannot count all my time this morning, but I have accomplished a lot all the same:

So far I have added another 8 comments to my 15 for a grand total of 23 comments today! Thanks to everyone who came by and left a comment for me too. I have to say this has been fun and enlightening. I am looking forward to doing even more tomorrow.

Other things I accomplished:

1. Added meta description and meta keywords to my blog. I managed to figure this out thanks to a great post from Blogger Tips.com.  The information was very clear with pictures (always a plus)


2. Worked on upcoming blog posts.

3. Cleaned out and organized my feed reader


4. Got my Twitter on I work on this, but I am new to Twitter and haven't totally wrapped my head around what I need to do to really make it worth my while.

5. Went to the library (not sure this one counts) 


6. Fixed my blog labels thanks to both Kristin@ Bookworming in the 21 Century and Beth Fish Reads for links and advice on how to do this. Thankfully I only just started blogging so I did not have a lot to do.


 Total hours spent  8

Miles to Go Before I Sleep

Wow! I just spent several hours skipping through the blogosphere dropping comments wherever I landed. First, I have to say that I am amazed and humbled at all the wonderful Kidlit sites I visited. There is a plethora of bloggers promoting children’s literature. I began my trip thanks to Mother Reader’s Comment Challenge (Check it out, another challenge Oh My!), which I of course joined. My reasons for joining were twofold. 

# I enjoy looking at what other bloggers are doing, and

#2 (this one is selfish) I hope by leaving comments that I will get other bloggers to visit my blog.

Anyway two hours 15 comments later, I decided it was time to quit, for now at least, and start (late as I am) on the Bloggiesta Challenge, which I wish I had started yesterday, since I spent several hours writing reviews and adding to my posts. Oh well, better late than never.

Here are the sites I visited and left comments:

1/10
 http://www.motherreader.com/2010/01/comment-challenge-2010-sign-up.html
http://writingya.blogspot.com/
http://www.squealermusic.com/madclips/wordpress2/?p=76&cpage=1#comment-46
http://www.musingsofabookaddict.com/
http://booksnyc.blogspot.com/
http://gettingreading.blogspot.com/2010/01/desirable-by-frank-cottrell-boyce.html
http://smsbookreviews.blogspot.com/
http://bookstogether.squarespace.com/
http://bibliophile23.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/bloggiesta-mini-challenge-my-bloggy-goal-for-2010/#comment-1536
http://thispurplecrayon.blogspot.com/
http://znhively.blogspot.com/
http://ysprincess.blogspot.com/
http://jkrbooks.typepad.com/blog/
http://asweetread.blogspot.com/

And here are my plans for the day:

1. Figure out how to add meta description and meta keywords (if I can figure out how) 


2. Work on up coming blog posts.

3. Clean out and organizer my feed reader

4. Get my Twitter on

5. Head on over to the library (not sure this one counts)

6. Fix my blog labels


Not a lot and certainly won’t add up to the hours most of the Bloggiesta have accomplished, but I am new and still learning the in’s and out’s of this wonderful world of blogging plus I am two days late getting started.