The Birth of A Blog
Finally, its here. I have a blog. This is something that I have wanted to do for a while, but there were a few hiccups along the way. So for those who have been waiting in the back stalls ever so patiently, thanks for waiting.
Once I decided that I was going to start a blog, I was going to go with one of the free ones. Then I started to hear from a few people about moving their blog to self-hosted and the work involved with it. And in some cases, a lot of work and a few problems along the way. I heard enough about it that I decided to jump straight into the Blog world and get a self-hosted Wordpress blog. I would like to say a humungous thank you to Snoskred for setting up the blog, including the theme changes and header graphic. She has also installed all the plug ins, which is all included in her Blog Hosting. And I may be a little bit biased, but I think it looks gorgeous. Thanks Snoskred for all your hard work on this and your patience.
There are two people who have really encouraged me to do this, Lightening and Kelley. Thanks for all your help and encouragement with this. And again for being patient with me.
I am a Wife to DH, Mum to Tiger and Daisy and working 4 days a week. I am also starting a Uni course this year, studying Accounting. Better late than never I think. I have been doing the accounts and admin side of things since DH and I started our own business 8 years ago. So I have a bit of practical experience but now want to learn the theory behind it all.
So now I guess you’re wondering why the blog title is “My Amazing Adventure”. Whilst trawling the internet looking for inspiration for the Domain name, I came across a quote by Helen Keller: “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing”. As you can see I have used some “literary licence” and changed it a bit. I thought amazing sounded better than daring.
Whilst I don’t agree with the sentiment at face value, I think that it says a lot about our attitudes to life and what we are doing. Although most days life feels a little mundane, doing the same things over and over again, day in and day out. But I am working on an attitude change. No guarantees that I will make it though.
Oh and now you’re asking “Why Gemisht?”. Well it took me a while to find something that I was happy with for the domain name. Every time I thought of something that I was happy with, I felt that most of them could in the future be a bit restrictive. At this stage I am not aiming to fill a niche, other than being a personal blogger. So I didn’t want something that may restrict me in the future if I did decide to aim for a more specific niche with my blogging. So, I looked up miscellaneous in other languages, and came up with gemisht, which is miscellaneous in German.
So there you have it, the story behind the Blog Title, the Domain Name and a little bit about me. I am really not sure where this Blog will lead, other than it will about me and the things happening in my world. Thank you for visiting and I hope that you enjoy it here. There will of course be more posts soon, and there may be some small changes to things around the place as I *find my feet* in the world of blogging and Wordpress. If you experience any problems whilst you are visiting, please leave a comment for me, or use the contact page, on the menu bar at the top.
I look forward to seeing you back here soon. Thanks for visiting.
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I love it!! Look forward to the ride and where this blogging thang takes you.
It truly is an amazing adventure and you will meet the most fabulous people from all over the world.
Me, being the bestest of course
Smootches and I raise a glass of champagne to you!
That is awesome!!!! I love the header and the sentiments behind both it and the domain name.
I am however spewing that Kelley beat me. ROFLOL.
Welcome to the wonderful world of blogging. It’s a great place to be and I know you’ll just fit right in!!!!
Welcome to the blogging world!
Cheers,
Snoskred
Congratulations, and good for you being so brave - jumping straight in at the deep end. Mind you, if we all had a Snoskred when we started - that would have been half the battle
The site looks great and thanks for explaining the “gemisht” - my school-girl German has failed me!
Now let me see if I can find that subscribe button
woohoo!
Welcome to the bloggy world!!
Looks great, I hope you thoroughly enjoy this adventure!!
It looks fantastic. And I think as a first post goes this is absolutely brilliant. Mine was dreadful I had to delete it. In fact, I had to delete two months worth of unreadable drivel.
You are way out in front and rocking it!!!!!!
Congratulations.
Kelley - How did you know that Champagne was my drink of choice - a girl can never have too many bubbles
And I am looking forward to meeting more amazing people.
Lightening - Thanks for the welcome and I am looking forward to all of this. So far I have enjoyed reading and commenting on other blogs and if someone gets a tenth of that out of my blog then I will be happy.
Snoskred - Thanks for the welcome, and of course all your help to get me here.
Meg - Hope you found the subscribe button ok - and glad I could add to your school girl German, I did French and its certainly rusty.
Bettina - I am sure that I will enjoy it and thanks for being a part of it
Cerebralmum - Thanks for the congratulations but I just can’t imagine you producing drivel at all, let alone 2 months of it. And I have been learning a fair bit over at the Forum - I will mention that in a post here soon
Congratulations, it’s looking good!
Will raise a glass to you tonight
Love the name to btw….nice to know how it came about
Cheers
Maureen
Welcome to the wonderful world of blogging and I hope you thoroughly enjoy yourself. You are wise starting with your own hosting - saying she who is battling trying to get links from her old blog to recognize links to the new
Anonymum - Thanks for visiting and raising a glass for me. More bubbles ?????
Sueblimely - Thank you for the welcome. I am enjoying myself so far, and I am sure that it will continue. Good luck with the links, sounds yucky.
Welcome to the blogosphere! I hope you find it as rewarding as I do.
Welcome to the world of blogging. It is all downhill from here.
Welcome to the blogosphere, love the title, looking forward to reading about you amazing aventures
oooo another one to read whilst little miss B-B sleeps.
very nice
xx
Kirsten - Thanks for the welcome. I am sure that I will get heaps out of the blogging world, I am enjoying it all so far.
Riayn - Downhill ??? You mean it gets worse ????
Suzie - Thanks for the welcome.
Angel - Hello, and welcome. Looking forward to providing reading material for you and how is that gorgeous girl of yours ?? Give her a kiss from me.
Welcome to the blog world! I love your header photo … is it one of yours from somewhere (where?) or a stock image from somewhere on the web?
I’m always very impressed by people who think and plan before they jump into something like this. Because I’m the ‘jump in feet first and then wonder what I’m doing’ type…
Looks absolutely gorgeous, great job!
Congratulations you are off to a great start. I am still thinking about changing over to wordpress but it seems so scary. Sounds like you got good advice to start there.
Wow, this is a fantastic blog! You’ve started off really well.
Congratulations, and I’m looking forward to reading more.
Ian - Thanks for the welcome. The header image is from http://balkophoto.com/. There are some great ones there.
Naomi - Normally I am the type that jumps straight in, and I almost did, but then changed my mind. Thanks for the compliment, but Snoskred has to get most of the credit, she did a fantastic job.
Trish: Thanks for that. Talk to a few people about changing over and see what they say. Maybe start a blog in Wordpress and have a play and see what you think. No-one has to know that you ‘ve got it there. And if you go self-hosted for memory most of it is pretty similar to Wordpress.com, but there are a few more options on self hosted for themes etc.
Anja: Thanks for the compliments. Look forward to seeing you back here soon. I will call in at your place again soon - once you have finished reading ha ha
Ooh you have a blog now, so cool and it looks amazing. Cant wait to read more!!
Erin!
Woo-hoo! Balloons! Love them.
A very belated welcome - thank you for your comment today.
By the way - did you know that gemisht is a 50/50 mix of wine and soda in Croatia? Very nice and refreshing too, I might say.
Erin - good to see you here. See you back here or over at your place
Thanks for visiting
River - I love the balloons. We get them flying past here on Australia Day, and occasionally at other times too - there was one last weekend. They are beautiful and I would love to go in one. Maybe one day.
Jeanie - Cool, will have to try the wine and soda, in honour of my blog of course