Bloggiesta September 2013- Starting Line

LET’S GET THIS FIESTA  STARTED!

The idea behind Bloggiesta is to spend these next three days working on perfecting your blog and connecting with other bloggers who are doing the same thing. Spread the word and get all your friends to come and fiesta with us!  If you haven’t heard about Bloggiesta before, it’s a weekend (September 20th-22nd) where we all sit down to work on our blogs, do those things we keep putting off, as well as network and meet new bloggers and participate in challenges and giveaways. Definitely check it out, it’s a lot of fun! 
I will update just this one post here so people don't keep seeing the same post over and over again.  So head here if you want to see my updates!  Here are my goals:

Holy smokes!  I had no idea Bloggiesta started... well TODAY through the 22nd!

Here is what I would like to get done:

1.  I do this every Bloggiesta.  It is a great time for me to do it... I moderate two large groups at goodreads and sometimes the threads get away from me.  I like to read each topic/thread and make sure that things are going good.  So I need to catch up on this. I just finished! 3 1/2 hours later I have both groups updated. Sometimes I just want to step down, it's a lot of work!
2.  Comment on blogs participating in Bloggiesta
3.  Participate in mini-challenges Didn't see any that I needed to make a post about. Learned a lot about SEO though!
4.  I would like to get another signature footer on my blog.  I had one before and then blogger updated their HTML or something and it went away.  It was a fabulous one too!!  Boo I still have the code for it... maybe someone out there can help me if I email them the code??? EH?????? Emailing people now to see if they can help me out. Hoping someone will be able to help see what is wrong with the code I have.
5.  Apply for a Twitter card & Google authorship 
I tried this... the Twitter things seems like too much and the google authorship you need to like your blogger account to google plus and I DO NOT want to do that.  I did verify my email before I read that though so please God don't let my blog switch to google +!!

6.  Maybe make a page not found?? I sort of did this. I did add links to my page not found... but I didn't add the fancy look. 
7.   Go through the blogs I follow and stop following the ones who aren't blogging anymore or the ones that don't blog about topics I am interested in.  This is always a big project so I save it for Bloggiesta. 
8.  Back up Blog
9.  Add and image for Feedburner when commenting on Wordpress.

Added:
10.  Set up a Pinterest board specifically for my blog so it doesn't interfere with my other boards.  
11.  Changed my social icon buttons, I think they don't work on PCs

Trust me.. this list will get longer as the weekend goes on.  It always does!!! Good luck everyone