I’ve been using Google Reader for a week now (I’m not scared anymore!), and I can’t tell you how much relief I feel; I’m not missing a thing on all two billion of my most favorite blogs, and I feel like I’m saving time like crazy. I updated my blogroll. At least I think I did. I’ve got blog bookmarks all over the place on this computer! Anyway, I wanted to give some props to three of my new fave blogs; I hope you’ll check them out if you haven’t already. (Go on, you know you want to.) The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks: Oh my “goodness”!! Mrs4444 turned me…
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Now THIS Is A “Fear” I Can Definitely Conquer.
When I first started blogging, I read only my sister’s blog. Soon I started reading Kat’s blog (who, by the way, is flying home to Germany tomorrow from Phuket, Thailand after a 4-week vacation, and nobody in the blogosphere has missed her more than I!!!). And Katie’s (in Oz) blog. And Manic Mommy’s blog. And then more. And more. And more. If you’re one of my readers who is also active in the blogosphere, it is very likely that you know first hand how these things tend to domino. At first, I kept a simple blogroll in my margin. It was “great”; there were only about five or six blogs…
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How To Walk Your Feet Off In Six Hours or Less
I had an awesome time on Sunday. Kate flew in (and boy, were her arms tired! Ba dum bump!) for a conference in the Chi. When she made her hotel reservation a while back, she called me and said something fabulous: “I got a room with two double beds so you can spend Sunday night in the city with me!” Woo hooo! I excitedly departed religious school early, my class left in the very able hands of my co-teacher, and headed to O’Hare so I could pick her up by 10:45 a.m. Kate loaded her bags into the trunk, got into the car, and hugged me as she asked, “Well?…
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If You See Michelle, Just Tell Her You Heard We Had a Terrible Time.
Yesterday, I met Weaselmomma and Melissa with two S’s for lunch and cookie dough. (If you read World of Weasels, you might remember the last lunch/cookie dough adventure that Weaselmomma and I shared…) Anyway, Weaselmomma and I have been trying for more than a month to mesh our schedules so that we could enjoy lunch together again. Part of the problem originally was our clashing of styles: if I’m going to do lunch with someone, it needs to be with fair notice and in my calendar so I can juggle it with the other thousand things I have on my calendar. Weaselmomma on the other hand is no less busy…
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She Earned Each and Every Rhinestone, The Hard Way!
Recently I have become acquainted with Karen of My Microscopic Life. She is a grad student in the great state of Iowa, and hangs out on the internets with good people like Weaselmomma, Nonna, and Oh Captain. In checking my sitemeter as I obsessively do ten to fifteen times each day do every now and then, I started to see that someone from the Ames, Iowa area seemed to be reading my archives. All of them, as in EVERY. SINGLE. MONTH. That’s like, four hundred and something posts. But that’s not all, folks. She left comments. Not hundreds of comments, but a comment here and there all along the way.…