Just another reminder that the Blogathon is soon approaching, and there are only 16 days until we officially start pulling our hairs out and trying to stay awake. There were a few things I learned from last years thon, and I guess I should share some with you:

1. Drinking caffeine is great and all, but honestly, if you’re going to be up for 25 hours or so (25 because you have to factor in the primping time before the thon actually starts), caffeine doesn’t do you much good at the 18th hour or so. You just have to pee. A lot.

2. Having a plan, a real plan, helps. My plan of not having a plan worked out well, but I think this year, it will be a bit more challenging to do. Luckily, I’ve got many many topics to cover this year.

3. Doing the thon with friends Really helps. Last year, we had a chatroom, and we all had webcams so we could talk to each other and make stupid funny faces at each other. That Really helped throughout the thon. Especially during the last hours of the day.

4. If you have a webcam, black and white is best. Honestly. You look a lot better in black and white after 20 hours of sitting in front of your computer (or whatever you do). So I Totally recommend using black and white. I learned this lesson from Danalyn last year. She looked hell of a lot better than the rest of us.

5. Have a backup plan if your site happens to go down. Honestly. during the middle of the night, my site had issues last year. Luckily, I was using my wordpress blog, but this year, I’ve actually decided to set up a mirror site in the event that something like this happens again. But you should always be sure you have a second site you can fall back on to keep posting. Blogger or WordPress are great and are free.

I guess that’s Really just about it. I bet I’ll come up with a lot more later on.

Just a reminder, that I am blogging for Susan G. Komen for the Cure again this year, so please consider becoming my sponsor!

[EDIT] Well, in the title I said “and other cool things” and I had intentions of posting such things, however, I Totally forgot as I was writing this entry. Please forgive me for that and the “…and other cool things” post will shortly follow, later on today.