GamerLadyP
my games, books I love, and how I fill my free time
Blaugust Staying Motivated Week
Motivation, goals, achievements... all things that gurus tell us we should have, track and celebrate. For today's group project, rather than a non-blogging achievement that I'm especially proud of, I'm going to write about an achievement tied to having a goal, and...
Blaugust 2026 Group Projects – Blind Choice
This topic idea from Lucky Instar's blog can be done at any time during Blaugust. "Announcing a group project called Blind Choice - to introduce a bit of randomness to your blogging adventure. Also writing about my own entry for it, which ended up being about weird...
Blaugust 2026 Group Project: Magic or Super Power
This week is about getting to know the festival participants better. As part of our Group Project of introducing ourselves, our prompt this week is "If you could have one magical power or super power, what would you choose and what would you use it for?" In a somewhat...
This One is Raw: Grief and Connection
I hadn't really planned for this week of getting Blaugust rolling and introductions to contain this post, but life rarely cooperates with our plans. This post is going to be pretty raw. That isn't entirely unusual within this blogging community. Most times we share...
Blaugust 2026 Group Project: Tell Us About Your Very First Blog
It was June 15, 2011 and I was making the leap into putting myself out there into the blogosphere. Back in those days, Twitter was an awesome place of like minded people who talked about their passions. I had stumbled on to a great collection of book and game writers,...
Life Comes At You Fast
The best laid plans... Leaving on a jet plane... This isn't how I wanted to kick off the first day of Blaugust, but life has a way of tipping over the table. Start your engines, meet you at the finish line and best of luck to everyone who is starting this journey...
Catching Up: The Games Version
The past several months have been strange as far as my gaming habits are concerned. I've always been a bit of a completionist. I rarely stop reading a book I've started. I usually try to play through at least the main story quests of my games. But something has...
Blaugust Continues – Sign Up Info and Background for 2026
I'm sure most of you who see my blog posts are already aware of the continuation of the August blogging festival fondly known as Blaugust, despite the loss of the original founder. I don't want this to be a cause for sadness, so I will only say this much. I'm sure...
Digital Neighbors – Saying Farewell to Belghast
Grief is a strange thing. Sometimes it is a gentle ache while others is hits hard and unexpectedly and tears flow. Sometimes it passes quickly, only to hit again over little remembrances even years later. I learned of the passing of Belghast (Mark Temple) a couple of...
Just a Little Nod to Blaugust 2025
It is Blaugust time, the August festival of blogging. This initiative was started many years ago by Belghast. For 2025, it is up and running again thanks to a wonderful community of bloggers who stepped up to help out. You can read a bit about the change in organizers...
