BritMums Live Check List

I am going to BritMums Live, as are lots of other bloggers. This is the first blogging event I have attended and am feeling the pressure to be organised, efficient and productive to make the most of this brilliant opportunity.
In preparation I have written myself a check list of things to do. I keep thinking of more things to add to it but as it stands today I thought it would be helpful to other bloggers who are attending.

*insert tongue in cheek*

So here is my/your BritMums Live check list.

1. Write blog post about BritMums Live preparation. (Always got to write something on a to-do list you can tick off immediately).
2. Decide what to wear and blog about retail therapy highs. *basks in self congratulation*
3. Book train tickets.
4. Book hotel.
5. Hair cut and colour. Or buy a hat. Would it look odd to wear a hat at a conference? Possibly not at a Hat Conference. Research Hat Conferences.
6. Nails. Grow some and then adorn with varnish.
7. Tan. From a bottle, sadly. Damn British weather.
8. Lose 7lbs. Through diet. Or amputation.
9. Choose which workshops to attend between cake binges where 7lbs will be put back on, not through limb reattachment. Or clone self
10. List of 'Must meet' bloggers. The shortlist is very long. I'm thinking speed-dating for bloggers.
11. Charge camera battery. Remind myself of this 12 hours prior to departure. 
12. Remember to remove battery from charger and insert into camera.
13. Clear memory card. Yeah right. Buy new memory card.
14. Purchase new notebook and pen. Any excuse to feed my stationery habit.
15. Business cards. *checks date* Plan B: scribble my blog name onto each sheet of a jotters notebook, tear off and distribute as needed. Although I do have a business card case.
16. Kick nerves into touch. (i.e. purchase 4 pack of Gin in a Tin for the train).
17. Buy a ticket for BritMums Live. Now wouldn't that have been a joke if I'd forgotten to do that! Hah!
18. Check location of venue and hotel and routes from station, via hotel to venue.
19. Pack.
20. Arrange to meet a friend to go in with. Open to offers ;-)

So far I can tick off 1, 2, 9, 10, 14 and 17 fortunately.

How are your preparations going?

My Bloggerversary

30th May 2011.

One year ago today I posted my first blogpost about my to-do lists. The first list was all about housework which still remains, a whole year later, on the to-do list. The second list was all the things I wanted to achieve. It was a short list but with some significant milestones.

1. Top of the list was Make Things. Still on the list but only because as soon as I've made something there is something else to make. And add to that the #pinaddicts meme and I have to make at least one thing every month.
2. Then there was Write Things. Still on the list (spotting the trend here?) only because this blogging lark is totally addictive and I love it so much. Why would I stop? The novel is still in draft form (in my head).
3. Sleep more. Hmm, what I failed to realise was that blogging eats into your time and I think I actually sleep less. Oh well.
4. The retreat? Zero progress on that one although I have a plan involving a shed and a tin of paint. Thing is, the Mr wants it for his den too. We may have to have his and hers!
5. Be a retail consultant. Well I may not be a retail consultant (yet) but there are plans afoot to be a consultant of sorts, so maybe by my next bloggerverary...
6. A Social Media Consultant will definitely have to wait. Actually it has completely lost its appeal. Having said that I love all things social media if I could only keep up with it all. Perhaps I just need considerably more practice ;-)

As nice as it is to look back at my year of blogging and laugh at my first blog post (and my first comments x) the real reason for this post is to thank anyone who has ever looked at my blog or even read some of it and taken the time to write a comment.

Lots of blogging love to my lovely regular followers. I love you all, especially YOU. x