Monthly Archives: September 2010

30 days of me: Day Six

day 6- favorite super hero and why Growing up I never really had a super hero I liked, I was disappointed in cat woman as I wanted her to be good. Poison Ivy is fantastic as she has red hair but she’s bad too. In the end I think I just have to go with [...]

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30 Days of me: Day Five

day 5- a picture of somewhere you’ve been to Traveling Backward This series of photos comes from a road trip across America in fall 2006. These are from the train window between New York and Boston or the back roads of New York state. My husband hates that all my photos of the trip are [...]

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30 Days of me: Day Four

day 4- a habit that you wish you didn’t have I think I am compulsive obsessive. I have far too many bad habits. No sooner do I conquor one than another one springs up. I have been told by well meaning friends and family that I am a: compulsive exerciser compulsive eater addicted to Facebook [...]

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30 Days of Me: Day Three

day 3- a picture of you and your friends This is my family and friends in my kitchen. I love entertaining and have a close family, one sister lives in the house next door, the other just up the road. There is always a party going on, or people hanging about in my house. I [...]

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30 Days of Me: Day Two

the meaning of my blog name … well in the shameless world of self promotion, it’s my real name – my twitter name is Meredithbrock, from my real name. The idea was to make it easy to find me. However, I find self-promotion really hard! I did toy with calling myself ‘broxgirl’ – my husband’s [...]

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30 Days of me: Day One

day 1- recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself This is the photo from the recent newspaper article. Luckily I had been to Stephen Marr and Mac that morning! I can’t spell because I’m dyslexic which can be tricky for a writer. Thinking is my favourite hobby. I spend hours thinking how [...]

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30 days of me

30 Days of me There is a group of NZ bloggers who are on twitter doing 30 days of me. I’m starting a bit late on this, everyone on twitter is ahead of me … If you want to join in here are the instructions: day 1- recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts [...]

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Twitter Newspaper

Through Cate Owen at TV3 I discovered Paper.li You can use your twitter feed to create a newspaper based on you and the people you follow. It’s updated daily. I love it!

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Song of the Day

Turtle Blues, Janis Joplin

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Four Week Novel Stalled

I have decided I need to be accountable. My four week novel is half done, 26,000 words, and six weeks have gone by. So each day on my blog I am going to put how many words I have done the previous day. Hopefully this will propel or embarrass me into finishing it … before [...]

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