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An Award!

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So.  Headless Mom has passed to me an award.   It’s my second in all the years I’ve been blogging, so I must say thank you.  It’s always wonderful to be acknowledged.  I had the pleasure of meeting Headless Mom at BlogHer last year – she was passing out headless dolls, as I recall.  And she still reads me.  So, I must not have made too terrible an impression!

So – the award – Making Lemons out of Lemonade

This award comes with a few rules: Put the logo on your blog or post. Nominate at least 10 blogs which show GREAT ATTITUDE and/or GRATITUDE! Be sure to link to your nominees within your post. Let them know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog. Share the love and link to this post and to the person from whom you received your award.

Now the hard part – Passing it on.  These blogs really don’t have anything in common.  Some are popular, some aren’t.  Some are Christian, some aren’t. Some curse, some don’t.  But I find each of these bloggers compelling for some reason – in all their differences.

  1. Steph at Adventures in Babywearing for her indomitable spirit.
  2. Angela at Bring the Rain for her grace and heart in sharing her daughter’s story.
  3. Kelly at Generation Cedar for never wavering in her principles.
  4. Ree at The Pioneer Woman who exudes the gratitude she has for the life she leads in every post and picture.
  5. Stacy at Your Sacred Calling for the calm, focused and true way she lives her life pointed at God.
  6. Tanis at Attack of the Redneck Mommy for the ferociousness in which she loves and fights for her kids and husband.
  7. Crystal at Boobs, Injuries, and Dr. Pepper for the great attitude she has through all she’s been through.
  8. Allison at Mrs. Fussypants for her indomitable spirit through the last couple of years.
  9. Oh, the Joys for the attitude she shows about and to her children.
  10. Megan at Velveteen Mind for her constancy (even if she IS a fan of the blogging hiatus.)

Of course this isn’t everyone – I read hundreds of feeds.  But it’s a start for now.  Thank you to them for their thoughts, wishes, dreams, and the urge to share them with everyone.

Shameful Plugging

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The Bloggies are currently in the nomination phase.  I have nominated my own darn self in the Lifetime Achievement category.  Why?  Because I’ve been blogging since “online diaries” in 1995.  And my archives here go back to 2000 – I’m a DINOSAUR in the blogging world and I want my cookie.

Please also nominate Blog Nosh Magazine…  Our editors, and our editor-in-chief, work very very hard.  I nominated it in the Best Group Blog category.

You have to pick three for your nomination to count, so pick someone else (you perhaps?)

And another thing!

The Weblog Awards are in their voting phase.  Blog Nosh is nominated in the Best New Blog category; and Blissfully Domestic is Nominated in the Best Parenting Blog category.  You can vote once per day…  Please vote because you love me!

And just a smidge more…

I published a post on Blissfully Domestic on Occupational Therapy.  And over on Blog Nosh I edited a post on living your life with purpose.

And I think that’s all I needed to update you on.  I don’t schmooze too often…  How’d I do?

To pass the time

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I haven’t done one of these in a long *long* time, so I stole this from Prairie Prologue.

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Gotten flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp – Ask me about this one sometime.
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee

Weird Question

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I’ve got a weird question for you all…

I’ve been doing this blogging gig since as far back as 1995.  Of course they were Online Journals/Diaries back then.  Each handcoded html page lovingly ftp’d.  And don’t forget to handcode the previous entry and archive page and upload those too!

Anyway, there’s a chick I used to read…  And I wanted to see if she was still writing online.  I wanted to see if any of you  remember her and can point me to her?  And all these details were freely written on her blog – I’m not some weird stalker chick.   She lived in the Bay area, near oakland.  Her blog was called footprints, or footsteps… something like that.  She  loved maybelline mascara, lived with her husband (David I think), and had a daughter named Jamie, along with another daughter and son.  She wrote freely about her recovering alcoholism.  And there was a happy panda toaster and happy pants in there somewhere.  That’s it, that’s all I can remember.  If you all know her, let me know, K?

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