Happy Holiday-ing!

You know you want one of these bad boys this season!

I’m taking the week off blogging to wrap presents, sit around in my pajamas and eat brie. Aw, who am I kidding – I totally blog in my pajamas. Same with the brie. But the wrapping presents, well now, that takes two hands! I hope that you all have a wonderful holiday season and I’ll see you back next Monday! And do come back because I have several really great giveaways lined up as well as the results from my karate experiment – complete with first-ever Great Fitness Experiment video! Now you can see the Gym Buddies and I in action. And yes, I am every bit as dorky as I sound.

Don’t forget: new Experiment coming right at you in January!

In the meantime, here’s a question for you: Would you find it helpful if I came up with a posting schedule? For example, Mondays are Experiments, Tuesdays are confessionals (I mean personal essays), Wednesdays are gym adventures, Thursdays are reader mail and Fridays are pop culture. Or are you happy with whatever randomness feels like coming out of my fingers? And, just so you don’t have to do any extra work during this festive season, I’ve made it easy for you to answer. Here’s a poll!

26 Comments

  1. Heather McD (Heather Eats Almond Butter)

    Have a good Christmas. See ya next week!

  2. Merry Christmas, Char!! I won’t be at the YMCA this week but love to read the blogs. 🙂 See you next Saturday!!

  3. Is that a vibrator for men? I really don’t get it. I like your dorky-ness, cause it means you’d be a buddy in real life too!

  4. no 🙂

    be you.
    stay you.
    dont change (and yes, I thought about it…)

  5. Happy Holiday to you and the family, Charlotte!!

    Thanks for your support throughout the year!!

  6. Have a wonderful Christmas and DON’T GO CHANGING! TGFE is awesome the way it is, I love how I never know what I’m gonna get when I come here. You keep me on my toes!

    TA x

  7. Have a great Holiday season.

    As for your posting, I believe you’ve thought about changing since you have topics and days for each. Give it a whirl and see if this fits you. If not, you can always go back. There are no rules in blogging.

  8. Merry Christmas!!

    With theme days, the problem might be that then you feel as though you ought to write about something in particular even if you’re not really in the mood to write one thing over another. It can be more fun to just write whatever happens to be on your mind at the time:)

  9. See you next week! Enjoy the Holidays.

    And don’t change.

  10. I looooove brie. Brie and melba toasts, melted just slightly…excuse me, I think I’m having a brie-gasm.

    As for your blog, I think the randomness is better, but that’s up to you! You’re one of the few blogs I HAVE to check every day so don’t go changin’ too much. 🙂 Merry holidays!

  11. I couldn’t vote… I couldn’t decide. I like the idea of a schedule, but I hate to stiffle your extreme creativity. You are always so good with the photos. Always. It looks like I need whatever product you have featured today. For reals. Enjoy your blog break. If anyone needs it sister, you do!! Oh, and brie… another reason I like you.

  12. I love the spontaneous element-of-surprise feel to the blog. Wouldn’t mind more funny pictures too — I love the pictures that you find!

  13. I heart the randomness of your posts. Happy wrapping!

  14. Lethological Gourmet

    I love the randomness of your blog, so don’t feel like you need to change unless it’s something you want to do (not because you think we want you to).

    I will, say however, that I have a blog with a schedule. I have recipes on Mondays, exercise on wednesdays, rants on fridays, and then tuesday and thursday are the days where I blog about whatever I feel like that day. And you know what? If one of them slides, it’s most likely to be tuesday or thursday. Why? Because I don’t have a topic that I’m supposed to blog about, so if I’m not in the mood to blog it doesn’t come as easily, so sometimes I just blow it off…

  15. Merry Christmas!!

    I too love the randomness and cannot get enough of the crazy pictures you find.

    Have a great week!!! 🙂

  16. Random, random, random…and I love your blog because you rarely post pictures food, which is great for me right now since I have the stomach flu! Have a very Merry Christmas!

  17. …”because you rarely post pictures OF food.” Sorry, proofreading is everything!

  18. Happy Holidays!

  19. Mmmmmm, warm brie on sourdough baguette. Yummy.

    I love your blog and all its randomness :>) It suits my style, AND coincidentally is the theme of my upcoming blog "Everything's so Random." (Gathering at least 5 themes before I launch.)

    I hope you and your family enjoy a wonderful Christmas holiday. Keep warm.

  20. Love it the way it is, but would love it what ever way you wanted it to be!

    Have a great Christmas!

  21. I just found your blog through MizFit’s. Cool! What was that thing you had between your legs? Did I miss something? Oh, and FYI, I’m LDS too.

  22. I apparently voted for the popular one…

    Merry Christmas!!

    (p.s. Want to run the 1600 with me at an indoor track meet on Jan 1st? Last time, there was only one woman, and she ran a 6:12…)

  23. Merry Christmas Gorgeous! Hope you’re enjoying your week off. Nice huh:-)

  24. I just discovered your blog, so I say don’t change it. I’m catching up on old posts.

  25. What in the world is that contraption?! Hysterical!

  26. Every Gym's Nightmare

    glad you took a week off too! Hope you had a great holiday!

    Kelly Turner
    http://www.everygymsnightmare.com