Bowing to Life’s Will – #Row80 #fiftyfifty Updates R2:10/06/12

“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

                                                                                                                                                                                              A Round of Words in 80 Days is the ‘writing challenge that knows you have a life.’  ROW80 is the challenge that champions the marriage of writing and real life.” You will find me linked up here,  with all the other check-in’s.

This update is early because I wrote it while I had the chance to do so…

It’s raining and cold in June – It can only mean one thing – I’m home in good old Blighty. Yep – I got soaked within a few moments of leaving the airport on our way to our hire-car. Would England be the same without doubts followed by floods, during the so-called summer months? Of course not. Great to see family earlier, after catching up on a few other things like accessing IVF notes for future treatment (rigmarole!) and other boring stuff. More family throughout the next few days.

Then friends. Then London….

As I said last check in, we got to see  Sweeney Todd in the West End Friday evening, we eat at a lovely restaurant at the Oxo Towers in London on Friday evening (never been there but it looks exciting), then travel back to family Saturday. Monday 18th we return back to Dubai.

 

Blogging Goals:

 

Schedule posts 

1. I’m out of scheduled posts for the immediate future – been too busy to read for review and well – I wanted to have a break and read something I actually chose . I will be reviewing that soon, but I was also too busy to respond to requests regarding book tours over the past months (with life and oh I dunno, stuff!) so I seem to have little planned. I’m not happy about this at all. Especially as I’m away now and can’t afford the time to write something of my own. So – If anyone would like to guest post here – nows the time to pitch it, either by email if you have my address or the contact page on this blog. Or leave your details in the comments section below
2. Nope! (leaving this as too much on)

Visiting Blogs: 

1. Visit everyone who visits me.
2. Visit 10-20 blogs a day/average.
3. Enter/link up at several hops a week.

1. Reply to everyone who comments on my posts.
2. Leave thoughtful and post relevant comments on at least 5 blogs daily/average.
3. Comment on several other participants of each hop.

Sorry – can’t do this while away.

 Social Networking Goals:

1. Share the best posts I visit on Twitter / FB / Google + (Check – all the automated stuff works without me – hurrah!)
2. Share my new posts to Google + (Check – Nope – need to set this up to do auto actually)
3. Tweet, mention, reply on Tweet Deck – daily (Nope)
4. Update/Share on Triberr – daily (Check)
5. Schedule posts on Crowed Booster/Check Stats – daily (Nope)
6. Respond to anything on my FaceBook Page from LIKERs and on personal profile (Some)
7. Participate in Novel Publicity’s Karmic Friday – (I did – but no time to catch up on LIKE’s)
8. Try to do all this in no more than a few hours a day! (ifttt makes this a lot more possible)
9. Update Amazon/Goodreads/Shelfari/Pinkerest when required. (Will have a few books and LOTS of films to update once I’m back – I watch loads in transit on the flights )

Other Goals: