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May 23, 2008

I’m it!

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I’ve been tagged by Miss Becca at Bites of the Day. Here are the rules!

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. Share 5 facts about yourself.
3. Tag 5 people at the end of your post and list their names, linking to them.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.

My Five Facts:

  1. I am the middle child of five girls. My older sisters are two years apart and went to the same high school and college together, and were in the same sorority together. My little sisters are twins. It was tough growing up in the middle of two sets of best friends! The first thing people say when they find out I have 4 sisters is ‘Your poor father!’ I think he’s okay with it.
  2. I spent every summer from age 6 to 19 in Maine: in either Hancock Point, ME, Poland, ME, or Lamoine, ME.
  3. I have taken lessons for tennis, swimming, diving, gymnastics, dance, sailing and piano and have excelled at none of them. :)
  4. I was the pitcher of my junior high softball team for 3 years because I was the only kid who could get the ball over the plate. When we were losing, I would cry on the mound. :P
  5. I told my parents at age 6 that I was going to move to New York City while we were here on a trip. The next time I was in NYC was 2 weeks after college graduation when I moved here with a 3 month sublet, no job, no money, and no friends. This June in my second anniversary as a city girl. :)

*BONUS* When I was 15 I went to Austria for six weeks by myself. I stayed with friends of friends of friends who didn’t speak much English. I was passably fluent in German when I returned but cannot speak a word of it now.

Okay, so I’m sure these people have already been tagged, but maybe not: On the Move Again, Mon’s Appetit, Simple and Divine, Down Home Dieting, and Lighter Portions.

 

April 30, 2008

Consistency, Responsiveness, and Positivity.

Posted by winningfriendswithsalad under Welcome
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In the past six months~plus of my avid food blog reading, there are (in my opinion) three qualities that the most enjoyable ones all contain:

1) Consistency. You have to post. Often. This is especially tough for a food blog, seeing as there are 3 meals in a day. 3 meals=3 posts a day=21 posts a week=84 posts a month…you get my point. It’s alot of work – and a lot of dedication. Not to mention you have to make sure the posts are interesting, so you can’t eat the same foods every day. This requires recipies, new ingredients, and broadening your horizons – and who likes that?

2) Responsiveness. If you can manage to keep up the consistency and people begin to read, they begin to ask questions. Which is great, but you need to answer them. So for those 3 meals a day, say you have 5 comments to respond to for each post, 15 responses a day=105 responses a week=420 responses a month. Again, tons of commitment.

Now you may say, well, hold on just a minute there! If blogs are so much work – why are you starting one??

Which brings me to the third quality of successful food blogs:

3) Positivity. This is the reason why I’m starting Winning Friends with Salad. Because a good blog can be an amazing source of information, inspiration, and community. I’ve definitely found this on other blogs and I feel like starting my own is the next logical step in my journey for health.

So, with that being said, so begins Winning Friends with Salad. I promise to do my best to be consistent, responsive and positive.  Thanks for visiting, and come back soon!