Blogging
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Most Awesomely Yummy Cookies
Imagine my surprise when I came home yesterday to find a box of yummy cookie goodness on my doorstep! I opened it up and found a delicious package of cookies and a sweet note from my pdx bloggy pal, BMC, aka Bite My Cookie. Maya was generous enough to model for me, both the anticipation of pre-bite into some chocolate chip gooey heaven, but also an action shot of an actual bite. Notice the very cute new top she bought herself with a gift card from Auntie Janet, as well as the fierce pink streak in her stylish new hairdo! The cookies were pretty big, and mighty rich and buttery,…
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Awards, lists, and plans
C from Random Thoughts and Musings from the Island gave me this cheery little award a few weeks ago, and it’s about time I got around to passing it on. I’ll admit that I wonder if perhaps it mutated somewhere along the way, because it’s a Kreativ Blogger award, but it doesn’t ask you to choose creative people, or talk about 6 ways you enjoy being creative, or anything like that. Hmmm. But it’s a fun award, and the perfect way to start out the weekend, so I’ll bite. The rules are that the recipient is to list six things that make him/her happy before subsequently passing forward the glee…
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Pardon The Mess…
My blog has been acting weird lately, and we suspect that the template that I’ve been using isn’t completely compatible with the newest version of WordPress. Every few days, I get completely locked out of my blog. And then Ted has to go in and fix it, because I haven’t asked him to show me how to do it myself. I was locked out on Thursday or Friday, and vowed to get to it over the weekend. But I spent my weekend bike shopping, reading, watching BSG, watching the Super Bowl, gathering tax information together, putting together girl scout cookie orders, grocery shopping, reading some more, watching Big Love, and…
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Blog Comment Day ~ Results
(monkeys found here) Yesterday was Blog Comment Day, and the assignment was to leave at least 5 comments throughout your blogging day (I always do anyway), and that two of these comments should be to blogs where you have never commented before. Rather than doing a random ‘next blog’ type thing, I decided to mine the blogrolls of some bloggy friends. I popped over to Red Stapler, and picked two blogs from her blogroll with tantalizing names. I visited Godammit, I’m Mad!, and commiserated with her frustration at people feeling pretty high and mighty about buying the Starbucks coffee that donated $.05 to AIDS relief on December first. I also…
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Thankful
My plan for today’s blog was to make a Thursday 13, and list 13 things for which I am thankful. Family, friends, our health, having a job, good elections, etc. etc. As so often happens, though, life got in the way. Let me tell you what happened. Ted and I use WordPress to maintain our blogs. Ted’s really good about updating his blog to the most current version of WordPress, but often the update comes with a small hand full of problems. There will be something new that he has to tweak, and it takes time, and blah blah blah. Me? I’m more the “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix…
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Head Cold Randomness
(picture found here) Stupid head cold. Came in and decided to stay a little while. With it here, I’m having trouble thinking of things to write about. So too bad for you, this is all you get. I finished another book, but haven’t taken the time to write about it yet. Maybe next week. I didn’t watch “No Country For Old Men” yesterday, because we couldn’t find it on our OnDemand. Guess we missed that boat. I’m behind at work, because of being sick, so now I have to get caught up. I only have one book left to read of my 2008 challenges, “The Pillars of the Earth”. I’ve…
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NaBloPoMo Champion!
(cute graphic found here) If there’s an award given out to NaBloPoMo participants, I say this year’s should go to Chrissy over at Random Thoughts and Musings from the Island. Chrissy is was pregnant, and started out the month with the best of intentions, but then was rushed to the hospital with a thinning cervix…she continued to blog every day, telling of her experience, and EVEN TODAY, after giving birth to a beautiful baby girl, born at 28 weeks. So I’m guessing she’ll be in the hospital for the next few weeks, keeping her new daughter company, and who knows, may miss a day or two of blogging…but if these…
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Another Meme Monday
Part two of the meme I found at Daughter of Opinion awhile ago. Part one was last week. Five People Who Mean a Lot 1. Ted 2. Maya 3. Grandma 4. Parents (Cheating…I know) 5. Siblings (I know, I cheated, but I have three!) Four Things I’m Wearing Right Now 1. Wedding rings 2. Wedding bangles 3. Comfy Slippers 4. Sweater Three Songs I Listen to a Lot 1. London Still ~ The Waifs. 2. Breathe (2AM) ~ Anna Nalick 3. Rocky Raccoon ~ The Beatles Two Things I Want to Do Before I Die 1. Travel to Europe again 2. Hold my grandchild in my arms One Confession 1. …
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Friday Fill-Ins
1. My favorite food seasoning is cumin. No, basil. No, garlic. Salt? 2. A rainy night while I’m cozy inside is music to my ears. 3. Lucky is having family and friends who love you. 4. Politics (lately) are something I take very seriously. 5. Many people are celebrating Obama’s victory! 6. Diet coke and white wine were the last things I bought at the store. 7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to relaxing, tomorrow my plans include a party at Liz’s house, with Cherry and Dot and the gang, and Sunday, I want to get some really good apples at the farmer’s market! This Friday…
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13 Movies
Autumn’s Mom had a conversation the other night that triggered this meme in my mind. Her post included the following film preference tidbits: Jaws – #1 movie of all time You’ve Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle – #1 (tied) Chick Flicks Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility – #1 (tied) Period Movie Halloween – #1 Horror flick 16 Candles – #1 80’s flick From which, I decided to make a Thursday 13 of my favorite films in 13 genres. Are there 13 genres? Let’s find out! Period Movie Out of Africa. LOVED this film. Loved the gorgeous scenery, the music, the story, the acting, everything. Loved it. Romantic Comedy Before…
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The Wind of Change
(image found here) I feel the wind of change blowing about me. Change in the weather, with a rainy storm blowing through this weekend that will hopefully portend the end of a brutal and dangerous droubt in the West. Change in politics, hopfully ushering in the Presidency of a compassionate, effective, intelligent, and tireless man. Goodness knows the man in that office now has none of these attributes. Change in our personal luck. Ted has been looking for work since June, and has now lined up two teaching jobs in local community colleges for this coming Spring semester. I hope that this is a portend of a full time teaching…
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Booking Through Thursday
Deb has several blogs, one of which is a weekly book meme. I thought I’d join in this week, though not on Thursday, as I didn’t get to it in time. So for me, it’s Booking Through Friday. What was the last book you bought? Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief, by Martha Whitmore Hickman. It was recommended by a friend of mine, who said that it helped her get through the loss of her mother a few years ago. Name a book you have read MORE than once The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera. One of my all time favorites. I’ve also re-read the…
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Potpourri
(image found here) This is going to be one of those random blog posts, just kind of blah blah blah about what’s going on in my life. Some more serious than the rest. It’s Saturday afternoon, and we just got back from breakfast/lunch at Denny’s. Denny’s has changed a bit…they put a weird booth in where the counter used to be, and they took out the bar and the big screen TV. I never went to the bar, but I thought it was interesting that our Denny’s had one. The big screen TV, I’m thrilled to see that go. After Denny’s, we went to the Farmers’ Market and got some…
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Kick Ass!
My good friend Dorothy over at Autumn’s Mom Saves the World has declared me a Kick Ass Blogger! Thanks, Honey! Now, of course, I’m supposed to designate 5 more Kick Ass Bloggers. Hmmm. I’m going to go all out and say that every blogger over on my blogroll deserves this title. They all kick ass, often daily. Sometimes more than that even. They make me think, make me laugh, sometimes make me cry. I am not up to the challenge of choosing from amongst them. Instead, I’m going to declare a few people kick ass bloggers that I haven’t gotten around to putting on my blogroll yet, for reasons that…
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Ask
Why? This is a totally cruel question to ask, and I almost hate myself for it, but why? Why did my mom have to be the one to suffer and die? I don’t mean to wish this on anyone, but I have friends with parents who have been in hospitals for the last 15+ years, and relief might be a real blessing to them. Why couldn’t it be them, not my mom? My mom, who was looking forward to being healthy, to taking long walks, to going to the farmers’ market and enjoying fresh, wonderful produce. My mom, who still had so much to offer. Why? Why isn’t Ted getting…