EndorphinGirl™ - A Year in Review
While the design idea for EndorphinGirl™ blog started several months earlier (i.e., early 2012) than the launch; the actual launch of EndorphinGirl™ blog started on Friday, December 11th, 2012. 352+ days ago the endorphin trials and tribulations began. The milestones will be highlighted shortly meanwhile –
December 2012 EndorphinGirl™ was introduced by first blog and image as seen through the eyes of her EndorphinKids. Her faithful blog followers welcomingly agreed to read her twice-a-week blogs about her endorphin escapades.
January 2013 EndorphinGirl™ kicked off the New Year with a plan for one of her bigger endorphin training challenges. Specifically it included her plan for how to get ready to train for a half-marathon and the countdown began. She also introduced her sneaker experiences and preferences among other things. The training started with @asicsgel-Kinsei4! Oh and bloggees got to meet for the first time Sera Tonin, Adreena Lin, Feld Spar and of course Vita Min.
February 2013 EndorphinGirl™ shared some tips about how to manage the injuries during the marathon training. Remember corn bags. And there was the introduction of bloggers block too! Is that why she blogged about building a book – whatever happened to the book? Oh and how mercury in retrograde wasn’t too pretty! But she also added something about kindness.
March 2013 EndorphinGirl™ talked about hips, procrastination, and Sagrada Familia, and music, friends and dreams - among other things. It seems to have been her ‘artsy’ blogging period? And she connected it all to endorphins! Well there is a connection! Oh and there was the blog about Fish too!
April 2013 EndorphinGirl™ retired her @ascis and Nike became the sneaker of choice and remains as such. Her second Rap song got some air time – the Runner’s Rap and she had to start some running tapering because the half marathon was quickly approaching.
May 2013 EndorphinGirl™ completed her first half-marathon with Endorphin Daughter. Oh what a feeling. And celebrated a big birthday with Jack Steel in St. Barts and oh that surprise birthday party. That surprise party caused such an endorphin’ high she was not sure she would ever recover. Yeah!
June 2013 EndorphinGirl™ started (and frankly needs to start again) her quest for ‘abs of steel’. During this dog days of summer period, yes remember June was hot, she got a quick 4 mile Nike run in with EndorphinDaughter – it was a hot but very fun run! The first wordle and surely not going to be the last wordle was introduced!
July 2013 EndorphinGirl™ joined the Nike run club for several weeks during the summer – it was a Tuesday evening run. She must get back to it. The CitiBike membership began and she started CitiBiking throughout town, and for a while there offered some CitiBiking tips. And that quest, you know the ‘abs of steel’ quest, was enhanced when she started the Jillian Michaels 30 day shred. Ah to get back to that too, cuz frankly her abs are not steel! Just sayin’.
August 2013 EndorphinGirl™ kicked off some vaca time with EndorphinKids in Miami – it was a super trip. She continued that shredding at the Miami gym. And her Sophomore Poem was created as EndorphinGirl departed back to dorm life for her second year of college. It was a busy and teary trip back to Michigan for both.
September 2013 EndorphinGirl™ required some mediation and horse whispering through a resurgence of yoga and a great trip out West with Jack Steel doing ‘riding’ and horse whispering.
October 2013 EndorphinGirl™ got back to a morning regiment of workouts, Fish sadly died. She did some serious curling with the Swiss and was Michigan bound again to visit EndorphinDaugther with EndorphinSon and EndorphinGirls’ parents. It was an awesome trip.
November 2013 EndorphinGirl™ felt like rapping again and shared her Turkey Rap song, had a really nice visit with her siblings and shopped til' she dropped on Black Friday.
December 2013 EndorphinGirl™ began her ROC – run-one-club – where she decided to try a new challenge of running at least one mile a day for the month of December. She enjoyed blogging about that and the different places she found herself running.
It has been a wonderful past year of blogging. And during that time there have been some milestones that she is going to include just for the heck of it.
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Milestone |
How many? |
Comments |
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Blog posts |
106 |
Although there may have been a vacation miss or two included! |
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Website hits |
10,500 |
As in views, not in songs – this was reached by the one-year mark Yay! |
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EndorphinGirl™ images |
107 |
With captions that were really fun to include |
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Friends introduced |
6 |
These were the imaginary ones – ah did she say that, but there were other reals once blogged about too |
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New challenges |
many |
Ah she didn’t feeling like counting these up, but she really enjoyed the variety and needs to keep at em’ |
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Raps songs |
3 |
Created when too tired to properly blog – yeah it’s true |
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Wordles |
3 |
Created when too tired to properly blog – yeah it’s true |
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Trademarked |
2 |
Items - more to follow |
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Items introduced |
3 |
T-shirts, hats & mugs |
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Guest comments |
J |
Much appreciated; keep em’ coming |
As the sabbatical is really now completed, EndorphinGirl™has finally entered her second year of blogging. She will confess again, she has missed the blogging during her sabbatical, so she is excited to be at the blog screen. However going into her second year EndorphinGirl™ will plan to scale back her weekly post to one day a week, for now on Tuesday. Though be sure that there will be special occasion posts throughout the year as well as perhaps more ongoing images than blogs! Thanks to EndorphinKids!
But again - thanks from the bottom of her endorphin' heart - for following; and the eGirl hopes you will remain a bloggee in 2014.
Until next blog time, guest comments always welcome inguestbook, check out her first image of the new blog year (thanks EndorphinSon) and just please let’s start another year of ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘endorphin’. . .yes keep on endorphin'.
EndorphinGirl™
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