Kelly's World

I love reading personal blogs; I love the insight into other people’s lives, and what’s going on. Sometimes it helps me to reflect on my own life, and ways that I can improve or what I’m doing wrong.

My most favourite blogs that I love reading (in no particular order) are:

1. Dooce.com – Heather Armstrong is one of the most famous bloggers in the world, partially from losing a job due to her blog. She even had a question on Jeopardy dedicated to her! I’m not one who is keen on kids, but I keep coming back to her blog because of her fantastic sense of humour.
2. Jenn.nu – anything and everything is covered on this blog (kinda like mine, but Jenn’s way better at it). She covers her day-to-day life (including living post gastric bypass surgery) and some uhh…”interesting”….product reviews.
3. Andrew Gűnsberg’s blog – more recognised as “Andrew G” of Australian radio/tv fame (former Aus. idol host) Andrew G is much more than just a host. I’m a big fan of his photography, which he posts photos regularly.
4. Keats18 – The blog of a friend’s friend, I’ve never met Keats before. My friend, Jamie, pointed me in the direction of this blog after she discovered I was doing Project 365, which Keats was participating in as well. I’ve really enjoyed Keat’s posts throughout the year.
5. Iamstrippergrrl – I love following this blog purely because it’s such an eye opener for me. Where else are you goin to find out the thoughts and feelings of a stripper, other than online? Unless you knew one in real life of course, but my chances of that are next to nil. Strippergrrl is brutally honest and analytical, and I love it.

One to watch:

1. A blog with a frog – my mate Jo’s blog, I had been on her back for a while about starting a blog up. She’s finally done it, so now I just have to be on her back about keeping it up to date! She plans to blog about her progress on the 52 challenge next year, where she’s required to complete 52 different things over the course of the year. However, she might find it’s fun writing a blog, and will start spamming it frequently. I sure hope so!

So that’s it. My only wish is that they’d all update a lot more, just so that I had more to read. I can’t get enough! But I’d love to hear from you all, if there’s any particular blogs that you think I should check out, some that you’re obsessed with keeping up to date with. Let me know in the comments!

Every year I make a list of things to accomplish during the year. It’s not resolutions as such, like the usual “eat healthy, lose weight, get a new job” blah blah. It’s a list of things that I’m going to challenge myself to try, to make sure that each year I feel like I’ve actually achieved something. Given that we’re now almost at the end of the 7th month of the year I’m well overdue in an update to my 2009 resolutions.

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Recently I challenged my boyfriend, Mat, that he couldn’t go without poker for a week. That meant no watching any on tv, no going to any events in real life, not even a game on the computer or phone. In return, I had to give up my iPhone for a week. The loser had to cook & clean for a week (while the other barely lifted a finger). Initially, the challenge was accepted, and we chose a date to begin. When the date rolled around, he was reluctant to do so. Thus I deemed him a failure, but was too nice to insist he cook/clean for a week. While glad I didn’t have to give up my iPhone, I also felt disappointed that I hadn’t had a chance to challenge myself (especially when 99% of the people on twitter felt sure I would lose).

Then Jo stepped in.

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