Category Archives: Blogging

I think yesterday was my blogiversary. That makes 8 years! My favorite things blogging has brought me: a husband (and hence a baby), wonderful friends, and sweet, sweet cash.

Thanks for sticking around, even though I’m spotty with posting. All 50 of you. Unless that’s just you, Mom. But thanks even if it is just you, Mom.

The blog has been upgraded.

Thanks for stopping by–I hope you come back. However, if this is your first time commenting here, and you call me a lazy idiot, your comment will be marked as spam, and it’s fine by me if you don’t come back.

For some reason, I wasn’t receiving my blog comments for the last couple of days. So if you commented, I wasn’t ignoring you, I just didn’t get it until now. I just got a bajillion blog and Facebook comments. So I’ll respond soon.

And thanks for all of your thoughtful comments on the cat declawing thing. Like I said, I really don’t want to do it. I think we’re going to try the Soft Paws before we do anything.

I’ve blogged every day since Tuesday. Go me.

No surprise here: I missed my blogiversary AGAIN, like I do every year. Anyway, whoopee.

Yes, I’m all about the new gigs these days. The same week that tWits started, I also took over Viral Footage for John Hawkins. See the videos that I think are the best over there, and send me any vids you think I should post. See, I call them vids now, because I’m in the biz.

Besides Twitter and Snark Raving Mad!, I’m now also blogging at tWits. This was Caleb Howe’s (of RedState) idea and is a fun, snarky, very twittery group blog starring Caleb, Tommy Christopher (Daily Dose), Lori Z (Snark & Boobs), and me, plus other contributors.

I’ll still be here for the personal, so don’t think I’m leaving you.

But do go see us (and blogroll us, bookmark us, etc.) at tWits! It’s snarktastic!

Two years ago, I brought *NSYNC the glory they deserved and had them named Best Thing Ever: America. (Man, I just re-read my gloatation speech from back then, and I wish I were still that funny these days.)

Anyway, there was no BTE: America tournament last year, so that would make me the repeating champion of Best Thing Ever: America, as I (and The Princess Bride, aka The Royal Slattern) have just won yet again. My best gloatation speech this year was actually earlier in the tournament after The Royal Slattern beat Mr. Holland’s Opus. I wasn’t sure that I would make it past More Horrible Slatterns (aka Sunset Boulevard), so I had to make it count, you know?

I’d like to thank my loser competition and also Headmistress Slattern Tracey for putting on the show, and also for the DVD of Frogs that I now anxiously await.

I really AM trying to post every day, though you wouldn’t be able to tell by looking at ye olde blog. My sister’s coming to town tomorrow night (Wednesday), and we have a busy schedule planned. So in addition to trying to get the guest room ready, I’m also trying to get everything prepared for when she’s here.

Thursday we’re going to the BSU/Oregon game, in which the Broncos are going to beat the Ducks, just so you know. Friday we’re taking them rafting, then making sushi and eating around our fire pit. I hope it’s not too hot for that. Saturday we’re driving to Washington, a whirlwind few days in which we will see Dave Matthews Band at the Gorge, go to Forks, Port Angeles, and La Push, and hike in Olympic National Park.

I’m not sure when we’ll have wifi access, but if we do, we’ll update. And we’ll have our cell phones for tweeting, so make sure you’re following us on Twitter!

Either way, we don’t leave until the weekend, so I’m sure I’ll be updating over the next few days w/ stories about my crazy sister and probably pictures. So stick around.

Well, I was going to wait until my newest blogdaughter had a week of posts going before I told y’all about her, but… well, I’m excited. I haven’t had a new blogchild in a long time (at least not any that I know about), and I’ve neglected all of my blogchildren for many moons now… so I’m just gonna go ahead and tell y’all about Ann. (Aside–I am going to try to be better to all my blogchildren, and I’m going to try to start reading my blogroll again. Promise. Oh, also? I’m really going to make an effort to blog at least once everyday. It’s a goal.)

I know Ann in real life, not just virtually, and I like her okay. Just kidding, I like her very much. She’s spiritual and kind and witty and a ton of fun. I’ve gotten to know her a little better while I’m helping set up her blog, and I’m really glad about that.

Okay, so… what to tell you? Ann is an artist. I’ve seen her sketches and her first watercolor, and she’s so talented. One of the goals of her blog is to help her grow more as an artist, and I’m hoping we get to see some of her pieces through her blog. Well, I’m hoping y’all do. I already get to, so nyah. Ann is a writer, suffering writer’s block, and she’s going to make herself write. Word up from the writer’s corner. And she’s 50 and trying to get healthy. (She should play along in the We Can Wiirk It Out club.)

She has a wicked cool blog name (maybe I’m biased because I helped her come up with it, but I’d still think it’s cool).

Alright, enough ado. Go see Ann at ANNalogue. Say hi and welcome her to the blogosphere!

So my last four referrals are all from google images. The pictures they’re coming for? I’ll give you filename only, no context.
*backofthigh.jpg
*nastytoe.jpg
*newhair.jpg
*hair.jpg

What?!

I voted, but John didn’t give me a sticker.

Someone from Moscow (the Russian one) found my site by searching for “needle torture.” Creepy.

UPDATE: Also, someone in Warsaw got here the same way.

The worst blogmommy in the blogosphere now has a new blogdaughter! The bad blogmommy is me, and the blogdaughter is my friend and coworker Elle. Her real name is on her blog, but I’ll keep calling her Elle because I feel like it. Anyway, her blog is LittleLady01′s Weblog, so go welcome her to the blogosphere! Do it now!

Thanks to the nice reader who told me my blog had been glutened (which made me laugh) yesterday. Something happened when Hosting Matters was moving me from one something to another something (I didn’t understand the words). But they got me back up this morning. You may now celebrate.

Me too! Jennifer’s History and Stuff is back!

I haven’t done them in a while because I haven’t had much to talk about, at least nothing I wanted to write about so much that I would deal with my old computer. (Seriously, we two have had a battle of wills in the last couple of months, and VAIO finally beat me down enough that I just gave up.)

But I finally decided that I don’t have to write something exciting every time I write something. This is my journal, so I can write little one-sentence posts, and that is just fine. Might not be great reading, but it’s my life, and I like talking about it.

What will my family think? On my post about getting the most awesome massage ever, someone named “Sean” had something to say about the kind of woman I am. For getting a massage. A professional massage by a licensed massage therapist. A massage that I can use Flexible Spending Account pre-tax money to fund.

You are, with your husbands permission or not, an adultress.

Is that husbands? Plural? And let me guess. You are voting for / did vote for Mike Huckabee in the primary? He’s, like, so awesome on things like foreign policy and big government. I just LOVE big government. It goes great with my hair.

But not much more

Not much more? I’d say adultery is quite a lot.

is expected from someone who styles herself as a “queen”

Actually, someone else dubbed me Queen of Infidels, I just ran with it. Infidels! Like infidelity! Awesome! Oh wow! Like totally freak me out, I mean, right on!

and enjoys the teasing and “naughtiness”

You mean like if I don’t tease my hair exactly the way Cosmo tells me to? It IS naughty! I am such a rebel.

and pretty much writes like a college cheerleader.

What? Like it’s hard?

But hey, it is YOUR BLOG, eh?

Yes, Canadian, it is. Good job figuring that one out! Go YOU!

Let me guess, your favorite movie is Legally Blonde,

My adultery-approving husband does agree: I do love that movie! I own it and everything! It’s super fun!

and you usually accept it’s and your premise as logically plausible.

Do you mean “its”? You confuse me with your progressive grammar. Oh, and what is my premise? The girl at the hair salon didn’t tell me, so I’m totally clueless!

I got here via CG, if you’re wondering.

I wasn’t, but thanks for sharing!

Thankfully, there is no law in this country against having an empty-headed, worthless, and pointless web site.

Yes, that’s great for you! So what’s your blog address?

So, rave on, and don’t worry about me, I’m allright.

I’m glad you’re alright. I was worried there for a second. But no biggie! (Said… the cheerleader.)

UPDATE: Sean has apologized and said he won’t be back. I accept your apology, Sean.

Lookie at me, I had another blogiversary yesterday (that makes four!), and I missed it for the fourth year in a row. Anyway, happy blogging to me! And thanks to all of you, who make it all worth it. Mwah!

that Linkworth still totally rocks. They have been taking good care of me.

I’ve missed my blog, I’ve missed my awesome readers, I’ve missed blogging, I’ve missed other blogs, other bloggers, etc., etc. Yeah, I’m pretty sure I could never give this up.

Y’all, I have soooo much to blog about! I’m making myself work around the house, unpacking, organizing, settling in, and in a little bit I’ll have to walk the dog. But I’m allowing myself short breaks to catch up on blogging. Because yo. I haven’t been around for a couple of weeks! That hurts.

I’m going to make a list of what I want to blog about right here for y’all to see. I usually keep this private, because y’all know how terrible I am at keeping my blogging promises, but maybe if I tell y’all, I’ll feel obligated. And I need to feel obligated, because I have lots of things to tell you, and you shouldn’t miss 95% of them. Ok, here’s the list off the top of my head (I’m sure I will add to it):

• Our delay in leaving Florida.
• Did all of our stuff make it to Idaho? I’m sure you know the answer, but maybe not *how* stuff did or didn’t make it to Idaho.
• Day 1 of travel: Melbourne to… not so far from Melbourne.
• Day 2 of travel: We still didn’t make it out of Florida and started having issues with the truck. That’s also the day Rowdi surreptitiously destroyed a seatbelt.
• Day 3 of travel: We finally got out of Florida, and our reward was having to drive through Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. That’s the night I had a pure meltdown!
• Day 4 of travel: Louisiana to Oklahoma. I hate the Indian Nation Turnpike with a passion.
• Day 5 of travel: Oklahoma to Kansas. That’s the day I locked the keys in the U-Haul!
• Day 6 of travel: Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska.
• Day 7 of travel: Wyoming. I didn’t think I’d ever see a more beautiful drive.
• Until Day 8 of travel when we drove through Utah and finally arrived in Idaho.
• Our house. Y’all, I will go on and on about this house. It has very few drawbacks.
• Our view!
• Congregation we visited yesterday.
• My in-laws, who are awesome.
• Dining experience at the Cheesecake Factory (what? I can’t get to the stove!).
• Aggressive off-leash dogs in our neighborhood. And this is a nice neighborhood!
• Have I mentioned there are mountains here?

Don’t worry, don’t go away. Blogging recommences in earnest… now!

Comment spam. Since Google knocked me down from my long-time PR5 to a PR3 at mm, I’ve starting getting less comment spam. Meanwhile, over at SRM, my PR4 blog, the amount of comment spam has started multiplying like little dust bunnies tend to do at Casa de J (pronounced jota). I mean, I don’t have to clean it up or anything — but there is more to scroll through to make sure real comments haven’t been eaten.

Go here, and do what Tammi says. I mean, if you want to, of course.