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Blog Tip Sharing Project 4: StumbleUpon Primer 2008-06-14 00:01:47 Let’s review what we’ve learned so far in the series. First we should write often, practicing the skill. We have learned some writing techniques for gaining comments and readers. Also we’ve learned that subscribing to different blogs about blogging can offer great tips. Last week, the focus was on how social networking can pay off, and that it’s [...] Read more:Sharing
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Sign the petition to have Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease renamed! 2008-06-17 00:01:08 My poor girl Ella has Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease.
I mean, it’s bad enough that she’s sick and cranky and fevery, but really! The name of this illness? It’s the WORST NAME EVER! I swear it sounds like she was diagnosed by a veterinarian and not a pediatrician.
Tate, of course, being TATE, keeps joking that [...] Read more:petition
Apple Butter Battle 2008-06-16 09:12:10 We spent this past weekend attending a family reunion in Missouri. There were lots of lowlights from the trip including (but not limited to), Ella’s diarrhea, Ella’s vomiting, cockroaches in the bathroom of our cabin, and a verrrrrry cranky and sleep deprived Carson.
Despite the lowlights, though, there were also many highlights. One of these highlights was [...] Read more:Apple
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Blog Tip Sharing Project 5: Blog Design 2008-06-21 00:01:22 A nice* blog design makes people want to stay and read.
Nice (in reference to blog design) adj. “A blog that doesn’t make your eyes bleed when you click over.”
I think that everyone has opinions on what a nice blog design is, some of us think a background design looks really cool, where others think that [...] Read more:Sharing
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Fess up to your wee Internet addiction 2008-06-20 00:01:02 The laptop’s open
all day. I check my email
and listen for *dings*
Sitting there, I tell
myself, only ten minutes
One hour passes
It’s time to let it all hang out folks. I’m going to tell you my deepest, darkest secret (well, technically I already did in the haiku, but I have LOTS more to say).
I spend way too much [...] Read more:Internet
, addiction
Very Superstitious 2008-06-19 00:01:50 I fully admit to being sassy, self-centered, bossy, opinionated, and quirky.
Go ahead and add superstitious to the list of adjectives and you have a fairly complete picture of me on any given day.
I’m one of those people who whenever I hear of another’s tragedy, I think to myself, “That could be me.” I feel like [...]
Happy Fourth of July and a fireworks warning 2008-07-04 07:09:28 The Fourth of July
Here’s to beer, brats, fireworks
Watch what you blow up
To play along for Haiku Friday, follow these steps:
1. Write your own haiku on your blog. You can do one or many, all following a theme or just random. What’s a haiku, you ask? Click here.
2. Sign the Mister Linky below with your name [...] Read more:Happy
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Camp Ijustsproutedboobies 2008-07-03 00:01:09 During the summer after fifth grade, I went to sleep away camp for a week. It was 1985 and one of the hit songs of the summer was “On My Own” by Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald. That really isn’t important to the story, but I just thought I add that little morsel of knowledge in [...]
I have 30 days to become a master photographer 2008-07-01 06:59:05 So remember how I’ve been begging for a camera? And then I told you last week that all that soul sucking begging paid off and then never told you how it paid off?
Yeah, well sorry ’bout that. Well my new Canon 450D/Rebel XSi arrived via UPS yesterday afternoon amidst much jumping up and down and gleeful [...]
I refuse to admit whether I cried when I saw Thomas 2008-06-30 00:01:49 Carson handing the conductor his ticket. (He’s so cute and serious! I could cry!)
I may or may not have felt the a lump in my throat and my eyes fill with tears when I first saw Thomas
. The sheer joy on Carson’s face combined with my own excitement of seeing a real, live Thomas, made [...] Read more:admit
Blog Tip Sharing Project 6: Sidebars 2008-06-28 00:01:25 Welcome to week 6 of the blog tip sharing project! Today’s topic is a continuation of last week’s discussion of blog design. Let’s talk about your (probably overloaded) sidebars. I say that they are probably overloaded because, well, most sidebars, INCLUDING MINE, are. Whether you have one, two, or more sidebars, think about the purpose and necessity of [...] Read more:Sharing
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I signed my life away for a day out with Thomas 2008-06-27 00:01:25 Fantasies of this
day have invaded my thoughts
since I learned of it
Priviledge of riding
Thomas
, only cost my soul
Carson MUST love it
***
I have such high hopes, hopes that I pray won’t be dashed about our big day of riding a REAL, LIVE Thomas tomorrow when we go to A Day Out With Thomas. My imagination has conjured [...]
10 Ways to pass the time with your kids while you’re trying to keep from being online 2008-06-26 00:01:17 After my post last week where we all fessed up to our serious Internet addictions, I’ve decided to help you in your effort to GET OFF THE COMPUTER and spend more time with your children.
I know my children would benefit from the attention. *ahem*
Enjoying some dirt while mommy checks her email for the 20 billionth [...] Read more:online
Love, honor, and obey? 2008-06-25 00:01:35 Yesterday’s post straight out of 1950 where I play the perky, but sometimes discontent housewife got me thinking about our roles as women these days.
Somehow my train of thought led me to start thinking about the wedding of a friend, actually the wedding where I met Tate, where my girlfriend’s part of the vows included saying [...] Read more:honor
The way things are 2008-06-24 00:01:20 Some days I’m completely at peace with the way things
are in my life. I’ve more or less chosen this life, the one where I’m a stay-at-home mom of two kids and I’m a supportive and loving wife. In fact, when I imagined my life while growing up, I wanted to get married, make babies, and [...]
How I narrowly escaped becoming someone’s bitch in prison 2008-07-19 09:10:38 Airports make me irrationally nervous.
First there’s the issue of POSSIBILITY that my boarding pass, ID, wallet, and carry on baggage could suddenly evaporate into thin air. Every few seconds, I obsessively check to get visual confirmation that some unknown force has not suddenly taken my valuable possessions and made it’s way to Tijuana.
Then there’s my sudden [...] Read more:escaped
Hump Day Drei 2008-07-16 00:01:36 Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand welcome to the third installment of the time of the week where I do copious amounts of Internet leg humping. I’m your host, Jennifer. Make yourself at home. Thank you.
Let’s begin with this week’s Site O’ the Week…Watch Me! No, Watch Me! I’ll be hanging with Christine in San Francisco asking her medical and [...] Read more:Hump Day
Dead Woman Blueberry Picking 2008-07-15 07:39:08 I lost my mind several days ago and signed Carson, Ella and I up to pick blueberries. My super-mom-wanna-be side filled my mind with nonsense like, “enrichment” and “learning” opportunities for the kids. What the hell ever. This morning my rather-be-on-the-computer-with-the-kids-watching-Dora side has reconsidered. But since I already RSVPed, we’re going again Read more:Blueberry
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Seven Memories 2008-07-14 00:01:21 Today Tate and I celebrate our seven year anniversary.
On the morning of July 14, 2001, I woke up very early, unable to go back to sleep due to the anticipation of this long awaited day. I went down to the hotel lobby to have breakfast. My dad happened to be in the lobby, so he and I ate [...] Read more:Seven
Blog Tip Sharing Project 7: Building Your Community 2008-07-12 00:01:53 Welcome back to class everyone! You all look so tan and rested. Did you lose weight?!
Today’s class is going to focus on building a community around your blog. What I mean by community is this: The people who visit and comment, the meaningful interactions with other bloggers, and positive word-of-mouth about your blog. I think [...] Read more:Sharing
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Summah, summah, summah time 2008-07-11 00:01:03 Sunscreen, chlorine, sweat
Tired from sunshine, splashing
Life’s best recipe
Cherry popsicle
devoured in licks and bites
Mess and stick remain
Checking the crops with
Daddy. Watching the soybeans
grow along with you
Dirty feet and hands
Mud, sidewalk chalk,
A full life well-lived
What is your favorite part of summer?
To play along for Haiku Friday, follow these steps:
1. Write your
Three Shows 2008-07-10 00:01:42 The Bachelorette: Spoiler Alert.
Did any of you watch this? BE HONEST. YOU DID!
I did not watch the whole season, but I did get sucked into the final episode. Since I (smartly) chose not to watch that crap show, I’m not privy to all the details leading up to her decision. I gotta say, I think [...] Read more:Three
Hump Day Deux! 2008-07-08 00:01:31 Get your Internet leg humping RIGHT HERE! Yes, it’s a little early, not Wednesday yet, at least in my part of the world. It’s Wednesday somewhere, right??
First off, you all were too kind about my red shoes. There sure were a lotta comments about my shoes. I’m tempted to post about each outfit I’m wearing next week [...] Read more:Hump Day
Hump Day 2008-08-06 06:20:57 I didn’t hump any of your Internet legs last week, what with my recovering wah-gina and all. I didn’t want to risk the chance of re-injury.
Luckily I’m all healed so let’s get to it. Hump away!
This week’s Site o’ the week is Heather, the almighty Queen of Shake-Shake. I know her in real life.
HOMEWORK REMINDER: [...] Read more:Hump Day
How to murder a fly. A tutorial. 2008-08-05 00:01:27 No, I didn’t finally remember to get a fly swatter, but I did become a maniacal fly vigilante with only a dish towel and DETERMINATION.
Follow these easy steps and you, too, can scare the crap out of your children KILL FLIES.
1. Have food lying around. This is easy if you have a two toddlers.
2. Find [...] Read more:murder
Sweating the small stuff 2008-08-04 09:56:19 This is one of those posts that I’d like to just type out, no spaces, no capitalization, no spell check. I’m not doing that partly because, well, no one could read it and partly because I don’t need one more thing that is a mess right now.
Since getting back from San Francisco, or maybe since [...] Read more:stuff
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