Lies, All of It

Today I take a break and do a meme from the very talented and lovely, I imagine, Lauren.
Meme Directions:
Write five things about yourself with only ONE of them being true. The other four are fiction, and everyone else gets to guess which one is not fiction.

1. I made it to the 3rd round of auditions [...]

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Share the Love

Valentine’s Day isn’t just about smooching and eating loads of extra calories. Sometimes it’s just about generally sharing the love.
Heather, the Blogger formerly known as Pieces of Cheese, has launched a beautiful new site, One Woman’s World, and is having a sort of inaugural awards competition.
She is looking for nominations of female bloggers in the [...]

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Holding up Three Fingers

In the Past Three Days, this is the person:
Who read herself to sleep.
Who breastfed her ducky…with a blanket…because they’re her “private breasts.”
Who got married, moved into a castle and went house hunting because she and her prince needed a “home” to live in.
Who reported that the washcloth was dead because it was dried out and [...]

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Kissing and the Rain

I am a closet (well not anymore, I guess) Josh Groban fan. This evening while running errands, I was listening to that song “Remember When it Rained” on repeat. I LOVE that song. What I love most about it is how passionate it sounds. It always makes me think of smooching in the rain.
I know [...]

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Tip Tuesday - All Day LONG

So, even if you don’t stay home every day with your kids, every parent has times where they get to pull an all-dayer. Actually lots of non-parents get the chance to do this too.
Ever been a babysitter in junior high, desperate to earn those 2 dollars an hour so you could buy some fluorescent slouch [...]

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BTW, LOL!

A little while ago, one of my new blogging friends left a comment where she said “woot!” to express her excitement about something. I thought it sounded really cute and I had never seen or heard it before.
When I asked Dan how I would use that in a sentence, like “Woot! That’s awesome news,” he [...]

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Getting Deep

If you want to read about an amazing woman, go over to Mom on a Wire and check out my guest post.
Karli, who’s all about provoking thought and inspiring action is asking for submissions about amazing women.

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If I’ll be the Ring Master, Will You be the Gate Keeper?

I’ve been planning to launch a new web ring for a while now. A few people have already joined but I’ve been waiting to announce it publicly until the BoBs were decided.
I figured that if I were in the top three, I’d get a lot of traffic the day the awards were announced and if [...]

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Bob has Made His Choice

And it looks like I will be going to prom with my cousin Floyd again this year. (It’s okay. He likes the mullet.) I know the point of these awards is to gain exposure and new reads and readers and that has been accomplished, in a big way.
After over a month [...]

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Throw ‘im in the Brig

That’s one of my favorite expressions a pirate would use if he lived in my house.
Another is, of course, the old standby “in the drink.”
Laylee drops her baby in the toilet. “Arg! She fell in the drink.”
Marilla asks Cordelia Anne what happened to her amethyst broach. “Oh, that? Yeah. I dropped it in the drink.”
Magoo [...]

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