So I spent a good chunk of Friday evening (4 hours) and the majority of Saturday (I’m guessing a good 10 hours, if not more…and this is thanks to the earthquake that jolted me out of bed at 5:30am) working on my Bloggiesta to-do list.  To recap, these were my original tasks, with later additions in dark green:

On fizzy thoughts:
*Reviews:

• The Onion Girl, Charles de Lint
• The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Lewis Buzbee
• First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria, Eve Brown-Waite
• Fragile Eternity, Melissa Marr
• Lipstick Jihad, Azadeh Moaveni
• The Flying Troutmans, Miriam Toews
• Firmin, Sam Savage
• The Gangster We Are All Looking For, le thi diem thuy
• The Lost Legends of New Jersey, Frederick Reiken
• Bound South, Susan Rebecca White
• The Lost Hours, Karen White
• Little Bee, Chris Cleave
• The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
• The Widow’s Season, Laura Brodie
• The Only True Genius in the Family, Jennie Nash
• The Last Beach Bungalow, Jennie Nash
• Bitter Sweets, Roopa Farooki
• Into the Beautiful North

 

*Fix broken links (I did some of this…I fixed everything broken that the link bar led to, so that’s the most important.  But I know my blog is riddled with broken links.  This will be ongoing.)
*Update/clean-up sidebar
*Add search button (just for Veens)
*Disable push to twitter
*Write Sookie Stackhouse Challenge post will post 7/1
*Write review policy and add to link bar

*Update Google profile pic to match blog

*started using Live Writer in the hope that it resolves the weird formatting blogger likes to impose upon my posts

On Weekly Geeks:

*Weekly wrap-up (I actually did this Thursday night, so it doesn’t count)
*Update community list (this is a big need-to-do, but honestly, it’s so tedious I couldn’t bear to start)

On goodreads:
*Enter books read
*Update profile

Other
*submission to Bookworms Carnival

*minor Google Reader cleaning
*ended up installing Google Chrome after Firefox fail, and then struggled to get favicon back…although it finally happened

*occasional twittering

*meta-tags (kind-of)

What I didn’t do:

*any of the challenges
*comment on other people’s blogs (although I did keep the Reader nice and tidy)

 

Overall, I’m pretty happy with how much I did.  And very grateful to Natasha at Maw Books for motivating us all to participate!  I wish I would have finished more reviews, although now that I have posts scheduled through 7/1 I have time to work on the rest of the list.

My biggest failure was a lack of commenting, and oh, the irony…because this was the subject of the mini-challenge I hosted.  However, I knew from the read-a-thon that commenting can eat up your whole day, so I had pretty much planned to stay away from the blogosphere (with the exception of twitter). I do, however, plan to write a post for later today featuring the mini-challenge participants.

Again, a huge thank you to Natasha at Maw Books for thinking up and hosting this marvelous party.  It was definitely the kick in the patootie that I needed to get started on my blog tasks!