Month: January 2011

The Gym in January

I knew it was going to be bad when I pulled into the gym parking lot tonight and I had to drive to the far end of the parking lot before finding an open space. Ugh. I was already imaging how long it would be before I found a free treadmill.

People forewarned me that these first few days of January were insane. The inside of the gym was packed and there was someone using just about every piece of equipment. Luckily, I was able to get onto a treadmill without too much of a wait and started my workout.

As I looked around, I saw a lot of overweight people. I wondered how long they’ll stick it out. A week, maybe two, then give up…

Blogging

2010 in review

I got an email from WordPress today, and they shared some summaries of how my blog is doing 🙂 WordPress is the platform on which Making All Things New operates. The data below sets the stage for an exciting start to the New Year. Thanks Everyone!

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 170,000 times in 2010. If it were an exhibit at The Louvre Museum, it would take 7 days for that many people to see it.

In 2010, there were 247 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 328 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 163mb. That’s about 6 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was November 12th with 1,356 views. The most popular post that day was -Type II Diabetes.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were WordPress Dashboard, blenza.com, mail.yahoo.com, dogpile.com, and facebook.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for making all things new blog, making all things new, +making all things new, makingallthingsnew.com, and making all things new paul gallagher.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

-Type II Diabetes May 2010
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-Vegetarian/Vegan May 2010

-St. Ignatius May 2010

Things I Like April 2010

Transformation May 2010

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Happy New Year

What better way to start a new year than with a fresh, updated look 🙂 I hope the stylistic/editorial changes taking place on Making All Things New will help you navigate around the site a bit easier.

Please bear with me as I do some additional updating over this long weekend. I’m still new at this, and from what I can see all my subscribers might get some additional email notices as I make changes. So far, I haven’t been able to figure out how to avoid this, but I promise there won’t be too many.

Thanks to everyone who reads this blog on a regular basis 🙂

I hope it’s a beautiful day wherever you are, and that the New Year will be filled with health, positive transformations, and peace.