Mary had a black sheep

My mother said that I need to put up a new blog post. She had read the Halloweenie one a few times.

Hi Mom!

I guess she got spoiled by our posting for 31 DAYS STRAIGHT!

So. Here  you go, Mom. In honor of the laughs we had this afternoon.

I'm trying to remember how this all came about. Somehow we talked about going to hell in a handbasket. And my brilliant self beat my sister to getting that on Facebook.

Well, this took its natural course. Which is, of course, nursery rhymes.
We laughed about the morbidity of them.
Then we did the ultimate Nursery Rhyme MashUp.

I give you .... a product of our twisted minds.

Little boy Blue come blow your horn,
how does your garden grow?
London Bridge had a great fall.
One a penny, two a penny!
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
and a spider sat down beside him.
They all ran after the farmer's wife.
Ashes, ashes, and the cow jumped over the moon.

~Jen

UPDATE: My mother in law had a handbasket for me at Thansgiving! We laughed and laughed over that Facebook status. Then, whenever we would wander into a conversation about someone that has done our family dirty, or is just plain ole' mean, we would say that we have a handbasket to give them.

It was funnier in person, I promise.

Seven for Sandy - Part I

Here's where I usually apologize for being a bad blogger, but let's be honest we all know that now so I will just jump right in with a list. (And in order to milk it for all its worth, I am splitting it into two parts!)

1) Last week I started another class, bringing me to full-time student status.  I'm a bit overwhelmed, but it's all good.  When I'm overwhelmed, I seem to shut down on the "regular"stuff as well as completely obsess on things completely unrelated.  How's that for a coping skill?  I'll tell you how it is, not very effective. 

2) We got some wind and rain from Sandy.  Thankfully nothing as severe as they were predicting for our neck of the woods (Central Virginia).  We kept power the whole time (very unusual) and only lost internet for about 14-16 hours.  

3) My kids got an extra two days off school compliments of Sandy.  They were out last Friday for a teacher workday, Monday and Tuesday for the storm.  They will be out next Monday/Tuesday for a teacher workday/election.  Thankfully, hubby understood my plea for help (demands from a crazy woman), and we met him in town for dinner tonight.


4) I have a hair appointment on Saturday.  I've been rocking a straight bob for over a year now (rocking..snicker).  Here's what I'm thinking ---->
(Tried to find original location but it was from a pin.  No luck.)


I'll post Part 2 later this week!


Pam 

Oops!!!

Evidently I've been gone from the blogging world longer than I thought, I forgot to allow comments on my previous posts.  

So sorry if you had a passionate compliment to share...or even a burning criticism about how inane and ridiculous we are.  (We can take it, I mean it'll still hurt, but we can take it.)

Which brings me to my favorite story of the week:  Jennifer Livingston is my new hero!!

Happy Friday, my friends, commence commenting!


For more Unnecessary Necessities, check out:

Day 1 - Jen

Day 1 - Pam

Day 2 

Day 3

Day 4

Ten of My {Current} Favorite Pins

 
So I know I’m technically three days late for a Top Ten Tuesday post and even one day late for a Favorite Things entry but in the spirit of the new year I’m going to declare myself early for both of these! Yay me! (And of course I wrote this on Friday and am only now posting it on a Monday…boo!   But still early!)

{I’m amazed I’m even attempting a blog post, but I think I’m all hyped up on the unforeseen bliss of having a mostly clean and partly organized house. And even with all that its 2:16 p.m. on a Friday and I’m sitting in my basement, STILL in my PJs (if you want a visual, look at our blog header—yep, same ones) with a bright green bandana wrapped around my too-long hair. But enough about me, okay, actually I’m not done just yet. I’ve been a bit busy with school and home and life and teenager’s DRIVING and teenagers (yes, plural) with girlfriends. Sigh.}

Back to my favorite pins I’ve actually tried, made, used…
1. “Fair is where you get cotton candy.” I’ve pinned oodles of sayings, both humorous and inspirational, but this is the one that has seen the most mileage in my household. My kids finish my sentence, and they hate it. Bonus!

2. Nutella Crescent Rolls. Sweet mercy, these are spectacular! (And they’re real!) I used my old standby crescent roll dough recipe and skipped the nuts. I also made mine in the traditional crescent shape, probably won’t do that again. They were ten kinds of delicious but forty kinds of messy. I’ll roll ‘em up and put them in a muffin tin next time.

 
3. DIY Waterless Snow Globes. I am in the firm grip of a serious addiction to Mason jars at the moment. So these were the perfect thing to showcase my growing collection. So cute and so stinkin’ easy! I used them as my Christmas Eve breakfast centerpiece (we have a HUGE family—hubby is one of 8) and we’re crazy enough to invite them all over every year. Truly one of my favorite parts of the holiday, hands down.

4. “Go Away I’m Reading” Coffee Mug.” This gets a “most favorite pin” award because the BFF saw it, and designed a personalized mug for me with this on it!! (Little does she know—well she will soon, and yes, I sent her present WAY late—that I also bought her Christmas gift that was Pinterest inspired..heehee!)

5. Christmas Tree Ribbon Shirt. I took the inspiration of this pin and made my niece one for Christmas! Only, Jilly and I decided K would much rather have a black, white, and pink zebra stripe and polka dot one, so that’s what we did. Not too shabby for my first attempt. The fact my sweet niece wore it (IN PUBLIC) for the church Christmas social…well, I was extremely proud of myself.

6. Cleaning Baking Pans. This worked surprisingly well. Not absolutely fantastic. It could only get that kind of rating if I didn’t have to scrub. And I did.

7. Chocolate Oreo Cream Cake. Yup, just look at the picture. It’s twice as rich as it looks. So I served it with a large scoop of homemade vanilla ice cream, just to cut the sweetness.


8. Nutella Hot Chocolate. This has been made a couple of times. I make it full strength for my chocoholic Jill and then add a little more milk to mine.

9. Martha Stewart’s Tub Scrub. Possibly the most used pin. I use about 95% homemade cleaners (can’t give up the Murphy’s oil soap for my hardwoods, the plain vinegar was NOT doing it). So this has been a very welcome addition to my arsenal.

10. Sperry Top Sider Angelfish. Okay, so this is really stretching it since I did pin these myself. The older I get, the more I find I need to invest in being well shod. (Yes, I just compared myself to a horse.) And these little puppies have totally done the trick. I am in love. So thankful I have an enabling best friend who encourages me to spend too much money on shoes.
 

 
And honestly I just “completed” a new pin this morning (I am one seriously dedicated addict, people, serious!) that is just pure genius.  But I thought I had inflicted enough pain on you for the morning.
Wishing all the best to you and yours in 2012, and Happy Pinning!

Check out more Top Ten Tuesday posts over at Oh Amanda!

Pam
(aka Pam525 on Pinterest)

Things I love Thursday ~ Basement Edition

I’m blogging from my basement.  Well, not really.  My In-Laws’ basement.  It’s not finished.  At.  All.

We live in upper east Tennessee, and are getting the leftover storms from the Alabama devastation. 

We have a Tornado Warning through the night.  I herded up the kids and various paraphernalia to get to a safe place.  (I think I freaked my daughter out a bit, telling her about the warnings.)

I’m thankful to have a basement to go to.  When the wind starts whippin’ I want a place that feels safer than somewhere with windows all around. 

I watched The Weather Channel today and saw all of the destruction in Alabama.  It really is heart wrenching seeing people’s homes and lives be taken. 

This dirty, buggy, glorified crawl space has become a haven with peace of mind.  Seeing that my kiddos are safe is the thing I love the most. 

I linked up with Things I Love Thursday.  Go find out what others love, or better yet, link up! 

Did you get severe weather where you live?  Did you have to hide out in the basement or bathroom?

Worth Sharing

I just downloaded the best album. 

I’ve been on a downloading kick lately.  I love to check the $5 albums at Amazon.  All of my music comes from Amazon.  They are a bit cheaper than iTunes, and it will automatically dump all of your music into iTunes anyway, so it works.

I just downloaded Beautiful Things by Gungor.

It’s one of the $5 albums right now.  And it is well worth that. 

Here’s what people are saying.

Gungor Live @ ReCreate Conference in Nashville, 2011

I am now going straight to their website to see when I can experience them live.  Because I get the feeling it’s not just a show.

What are you waiting on?  Run over and download this album.

You can thank me later.  Or better yet, bake me a cake.  Chocolate.

What’s the best music you’ve found lately?

A new us?

I just want to let all of you know, we are still alive and kicking, even if our post quota says otherwise. 

I know this is probably a conundrum, but if you haven’t been able to find us (how are you here?) it’s because our URL has changed. 

Ta-da!  Here’s the new us.

http://www.pjstilnoon.com/

Remember the days of www.pjs-til-noon.com?  (ps, Windows Live Writer automatically linked that, if you click on it, you’ll get an error screen.)

Well those days are no more.  It’s like a fresh start for us. 

I’d like to thank my BFF, Pam, for setting us up with our very own web address.  I would have been fine with the .blogspot url, but she is the wonderful wizard behind the curtain of our very own place in this world. (How many more song/movie references can I squeeze in here?)

So.  That’s all I have to say for now. 

Add us to your bookmarks, reader, favorite pages, whatever.  And you’ll  be treated with an update on average, every month.  For FREE!  Now if that’s not a deal, I don’t know what is.

We love this little blog.  We haven’t forgotten you. 

Love,

Us

Even better than that house fire?

If you know me at all, you know I’m a stickler for correct language usage.  And I’ll correct you.  (It’s an annoying habit, I know.  I’m working on not being so annoying in future.)  I get it from my daddy.  Hi Dad!

Well, I was looking through the pics of the mistaken-house-fire-siren-santa-fire-truck.

Here’s the next photo.

Can you see the sign on the back of the truck?

Well, here’s a better look.

Hahaha!  It just made me laugh.  They’re wishing the Mount Carmel Mayor AND Alderman and Fire Department a Merry Christmas. 

Poor Fire Department.  It is not only at the end of the list, it only gets a lower case and.

Well, I thought it was funny.  Laugh or I’ll re-post my Major Award post from last year.  I’m totally not kidding.

Word for the day

NORMALACY

(nor-MAL-ah-see)

-noun

The delima of wanting to be normal juxtaposed with the knowledge that you are not.

Pam and Jen suffer severe normalacy when faced with the mocking BFF haters that may or may not include family, friends, and husbands.  (Don't worry, they quickly move past suffering to embracing this normalacy.  Haters can feed the gators.)

~Jen

My Not-So-Triumphant Return to Blogging

Deep breath, breathe, breathe, it's okay, you can do this! (Pardon me while I give myself a little pep talk.) I know it's been almost *gasp* 10 months since you've posted on this here blog, but it's okay, you can do it!

So what better way to try and get back into the swing of things than to tell you all the reasons I haven't been swinging, err, I mean blogging. But I haven't been swinging either, unless you want to count the few minutes on my front porch.

So here, in random order, are the Top 10 Excuses I Use to Not Blog:


1. I'm busy. But that's really a given. I mean isn't everyone busy? And aren't we all tired of hearing how busy everyone else is blah blah blah. We're all busy in our own little ways. So what if my busy means watching Sarah's House while reading a regency romance and making a list of all the things I really DO need to do. I'm still busy. (Hey, I said they were excuses, not necessarily good ones.)


2. Gorgeous New Nephews (yes, plural). My sister had twin boys in June! My sweet little nevies were born at 27 weeks and they were seriously tee-niny. Zac weighed in at 1 lb 14 oz and Will was 1 lb 10 oz. It's been the most emotional thing I've ever experienced. It's an absolute roller coaster (I can't even imagine how my sweet sister and her husband have held up so well, so proud of them!) . Z came home about a week ago, and but our Iron Will still needs one more surgery before he can come home.

3. Cooking for a Crowd. Being a family of six and dedicated Dave Ramseyer's, we almost never eat out. I've pretty much quit buying convenience foods (my son's still mourn pizza rolls and hot pockets so don't bring those up if you come by, please). Which means I've got to put a little more effort into my menu planning (the planning, not the execution).

On that note, here's a link to my most favorite pizza ever. It's become my go-to dish for potlucks, family dinners, etc. (it's cheap, easy and available--the ingredients that is). And, just one more side note, I've been making homemade cinnamon rolls for quite a while, and I thought my recipe was a-ma-zing. Until I tried Pioneer Woman's recipe....Shut Up! Seriously, these are indescribable, uncontainable, awestruck...oh, sorry, my apologies Chris Tomlin. (And, again, sorry--honestly, could this get any longer--have you heard C. Tomlin's remake of "Where the Streets Have No Name"? Fab.)

4. Laundry. It pretty much follows cooking doesn't it? I read a blog post (I'm trying to find the link) about laundry and cleaning. The gist was if you can stay on top of your laundry and know what's for dinner half your battles that day have been won. I'm sold on the theory, not just to put it into practice.

I've also been following the Nester's 31 Days Series and she's addressed laundry a couple of times too. Good stuff. And I will admit, this is usually my Waterloo. I always have the washer and dryer going, it's the folding and putting away that trip me up. D said to me, there's a monster in our bedroom and it's growing. I told him my methods weren't working, if he'd like to be my knight in shining armor and slay it for me. My knight hopped on his faithful steed (his recliner) and booked it to the next kingdom (living room). (Hee hee, sorry honey.)

Anyhoo, I've actually stayed on top of the mountain of laundry for about a week and a half. But that was before this little thing called apple butter at our church took over my life from last Wed-Sat and it will do so again this week. I'm getting ready to gird my loins and do battle this afternoon. Here's what my bed currently looks like:

5. Football. Practices 3x a week, games, stinky laundry, making dinner for family members at odd times. See, everything goes back to laundry and food? Everything! (And from March - July it was baseball, August to October Football...just to clarify my entire six-month sabbatical).


6. Eldest Boy. The eldest is growing up way too fast. He's 15 and a half, took his first real date to the homecoming dance, and is doing the preliminaries for his driver's license....boo hoo. (Or as my mom sang to him at the football game the other day..'you are 15, going on 16'...bahahaha. He didn't have a clue what she was doing. It was hilarious...and, yes, slightly embarrassing. Not b/c she was singing to him, but she really needs to wait until next year so she can do it correctly.) And can I just say: girlfriends + driving + almost 16 = Mama is not handling this very well :(.


7. School. Okay, this is really a lame excuse because I'm taking one, yes, ONE class this semester. It's sociology, it's actually interesting and totally and completely easy. Online and all open book. I mean ALL. Tests, quizzes, etc. I really should take this off the list but I'm running out of excuses.


8. I'm Lazy. Yep, I'm one of those people who knows how much I can handle and when my little teapot gets to perking a little too hard, I know it's time to turn the heat back. I like to chill. I like to be a nice mom and not a mean, stressed out, yelling crazy woman (I mean sometimes I still am but for the most part I try not to be).

Now here's where we get to the nitty-gritty.

9. I'm Addicted to HGTV and Regency Romances. As I said in #9, I need down time, I crave alone time. I absolutely have to have some time to myself or I will. go. crazy. The problem is sometimes my down time creeps into my productive time and well, like I said in #8 (which is basically spreading into #9) I know when I need to decompress so I use that as an excuse to watch more TV and read (okay and, yes, eat).


10. Stuck In the Designer Decorating Dumps. Due to my above-mentioned addiction to HGTV, I also have a bug that's been eating at me for a few months now. We've been in our house for 16 years and about 90% of the decor has been the same for that time. So I spend a lot of time researching, planning, dreaming and wishing my house looked different. And then due to #9 and #8 (with a bit of #3 and #4 tossed in--especially the Dave Ramsey budget stuff), I basically do nothing. That's right. Nothing.


So that's it, my Top Ten Reasons for Not Blogging. And yes this post is WAY too long. I offer my most sincere apologies...now off to work on that everloving #3 and #4 again....


I'm linking this long list of randomness to Top Ten Tuesdays over at Oh Amanda's!

We're a sorry bunch. Or should that be bushel?

It's been an awfully long time since we've posted.  I feel like I start out every post with that same apology.  Sorry.  And there's another.  This could go on forever, me apologizing for apologizing.  Let's just end this cycle now, shall we?
Well, there's not really much new around these parts.
Pam is gearing up to peel apples tomorrow.
That's right.  It's October.  Otherwise known as Applebutter Time.

(This is approximately how many apples I peeled.)

I have so many things still with me from peeling thousands of apples.  Laughs, memories, jars of applebutter.  And an allergy.
Crazy, I know.
I'm now allergic to apples.  Apparently I'm one to pop an allergy with overexposure to ...well... anything.
I am allergic to penicillin now from a 2 month bout of ear infection.
This doesn't bode well for my chocolate addiction.  I'm a bit worried.
I think as long as I don't bathe in it for an entire week, I'll be ok.  I'm being cautious, though.  Because, let me tell you, I miss apple pie, cider, Mom's apples that she makes with breakfast.  Especially that last one.  And caramel apples.  *sigh*  I can't imagine having to give up chocolate as well.  I'd probably have to take a vow of silence too, to keep from moaning and complaining about missing chocolate.
I don't really know where I was going with this.
Oh.  I was letting you know what we're up to lately.
I'm in the big SC this week.  Getting some Mom/Sis time in.  It has been lovely.  Even if I have slept most of it away.  Trying to switch between being up nights and days is rough.  Just ask any mother of a newborn.  It's like babies are given instruction on the way out: "Remember.  This is important!  Night time is AWAKE time.  Don't forget.  Now go!  And give a good long scream when you're out.  We can't transfer your residency until we hear that scream."
Well.
That came from nowhere.
I really don't know where to go from there.
I guess that means time's up here.
I'll forgo promises to post more.  We both know.  Until I'm no longer a slave to the hospital (at what they're paying me for what I do, there's no other way to describe it,) it will be sparse at best.
But I still love our little blog.  And you.  All of you reading this.
So.  Give yourself a hug.  Only if it doesn't creep you out to give yourself a hug from an over-sharing stranger.
TaTa!~
Jen

An utterly self involved post, but then, aren’t they all?

I promised, waaaayyy back when, that I would post some positives of working. 

Well, here goes. 

I very rarely waste time online any more.  I miss it like crazy sometimes, my little online world, but I don’t miss the lack of productivity and feeling like a big lazy butt.

I really enjoy the days I’m not working.  A LOT.  I consider them holy and keep them that way.  Now that scripture about resting on the Sabbath makes so much more sense!

I want to be with my kids when I’m not working.  Heck.  I want to be with them when I am, but I feel less absent minded and less for-granted-taking with them now.  I really enjoy my time with them.  They are pretty darn good people that I want to just hang out with.  What can I say?

I do miss my hubs.  (NO that’s not a positive, just a fact.)  He’s been working at Youth Camp, and before that, he hadn’t moved down here yet.  I’m over the single working mom life.  I like it when he’s here.  ( I seriously hope I didn’t offend any single working moms.  I hold you in the highest regard, you’re a hero in my book and I’ll stop the griping right now!)

The extra $ would be lovely.  If there were any extra.  But since hub’s job ended shortly after mine started…well, you get the picture.  I am thankful that I have a job to help support us.

Meeting new people has been great.  There are a few that I’ll miss when I go onto nights, (tomorrow night!!!…eeek!) but I’m sure that there will be others I’ll connect with. 

I can’t really think of any others at the moment.  It’s 1:40 am.  I’m conditioning right now.  Waking up my natural body clock.  Come on, I know there’s an owl in there somewhere.  He probably went into hibernation when I was getting up at 5 am nearly every day.  I’m hoping that some coaxing, coffee and chocolate will encourage him back into his natural habitat.

So.  Expect more late night twittering/blogging from me in the future. 

No.  Not while I’m at work.  Silly.  The nights that I’m not working and I can’t sleep.

I’m really hoping to hop back on this bloggy bandwagon. 

What about you?  You have any positives you’ve noticed in your everyday life lately?

2 things. Or is it 3? (It will make sense in the end)

First I want to share my new hair.  Well, it’s not new hair.  I didn’t get a weave.  But is a new cut/color.  I’m thrilled with it.  I feel a little like an 80’s rocker.  Perfect!

Next, I tweeted about the hair.  And BFF Pam tweeted back.  Here’s that twitversation.

Here's a shout out to @davewebb87 for not batting an eye when I wanted to drop major coin on my hair. Love ya babe! (my hair's so purty now.)

@jennybekrocks a pic please of so said purty hair...I feel like ur farther away than ever..oh wait you are ;0(

@Pam525 http://twitpic.com/1p19eu Can you say Joan Jett choppy?

@jennybekrocks I know that face (LOTR ref?) I LOVE it...so beautiful!!! you rock it way better than Joan ever did ;0)

And if you don’t know what LOTR is, well I’m not sure this is the place for you.  We are geek/nerd all the way.  Dave and I have decided that nerds are our tribe.  I’ll give you a hint.  Frodo.  Bells ringing?  Lord Of The Rings.

Anywho, I saw the following video and was inspired.  If you are anywhere near our age (you know 22) you know the Fresh Prince of Bel Air song.

I bet you’ve never heard Gandalf recite it.

Well I haven’t either.  But I do have a touch of the ADD today.

Well, here’s the next best thing.  Enjoy! 

Now your turn. 

Please share your favorite (preferably funny) vid in the comments.  I’m always on the lookout for new entertainment.  Especially if it comes in 10 minute or less increments!

It’s my brain’s fault.

In 1914, Hans Friedenthal (1870-1943), a University of Berlin professor, warned women that "brain work" could cause them to go bald, while increasing their masculinity, and even cause a beard to grow on their faces, adding "In the future, therefore, women will be bald and wear long moustaches and patriarchal beards." Source: Chewed News.

Well, he had it half right.

I’m just wondering. Is it only me?

About 3 or 4 years ago, I noticed a few stray whiskers on my chin. So I did what every woman who’s not employed alongside the tattoed man would do. I plucked.

Plucking causes irritation and acne. And the older I get, more noticeable little suckers appear. Y’all, I don’t pluck it unless it’s … well, … darker than its neighbors. My hubs accuses me of creating this mess. They come back darker because I plucked them. To this I say “Nay!”

I tried facial wax a few years back and my skin thought it was prom night. Side note: If you had flawless skin at prom, just keep that braggart tidbit to yourself, please. Mmmmkay?

I have not done the bleach. I’m fearful of the same reaction.

I have a theory that somewhere in my DNA makeup lies a latent hairy gene that presents around age 30. I call it the Dormant Wookie Gene, or DWG. Draw that out. Dwwwwwg. Although if it magically sounded like Billy Goat, that would be more apropos. (Don’t you just love that word? Apropos.)

I feel smarter for having used it.

Crap, there’s another whisker.

Maybe I should stop fighting it. Anyone think the female Fu Manchu could break into the fashion world? Yeah, I figured not. So, if you see me and think “That poor teen has to deal with acne AND wrinkles?,” don’t fret. It’s just me. Fighting the fight. I am quite thankful that I’m not bald. So there’s that.

Maybe with all of the memory loss I have lately, I’ll get my baby smooth face back.

*Fingers crossed!

Share! Tips, stories, bearded lady sightings, anything.

Stupid spam (literally)!

Somehow I have been chosen to be the lovely recipient of an advertising email scheme.  Now I get 2 or 3 emails a day from different email addresses (I spam them every time.) 

I don’t know if it was the signing up for coupons, rebates or free samples or maybe filling out surveys.  Imma stop all that from now on.  Some things aren’t worth the hassle. 

But the point of this post is the randomly generated words that are in the body of the email.  If ever there was a true use of the word random, this is it.

Some make me laugh out loud, some just make you tilt your head to the side and make the “whaaaa?” face. 

Here’s a sample of what I’ve been greeted with in my inbox lately.

microscope waif

resplendent creampuff because

YourOldMelodiousnessWithYourMindWithYourselfWithViagraSuperActivePills  (oneword)

finger pilot rhetorical                              and ribbons

mirrors brides   

beyond parking lot

asteroid aboutsomewhat

grand piano behind toothpick because

scythe over

ThanksForReadingThisRandomWhineyPostHaveAGreatDay!

ps.  That last one, I made up. 

Hello, my name is Jen and I’m a band nerd.

I came across this video today and it thrilled me.

If you were in marching band, you will appreciate this as much as I did. This is like EXtreme Marching Band. Love it!

Hopefully those of you unlucky enough to have escaped the marching band stigma will enjoy it as well.

I just wish I had been able to march in this video with my flute.

See, I told you I am a nerd. Still pining over the good ole days.

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo.

Maybe I’ll just have to arrange my own marching band extravaganza video. Who’s with me?

45 seconds well spent

Although it’s a little suspect. The ice wouldn’t survive all that fire.

A little video enjoyment for you

This just brought me much needed joy today.

So I felt the need to share it with all of you, my friends.

You can just feel the passion they sing with, especially the second chorus.

I’ll quit talking now & let you watch.

Enjoy!

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Blissdom wannabe

I'm totally jealous.
I want to be at Blissdom meeting several of my bloggy friends, but this whole problem of not having any extra $ gets in the way (all too often).
This happened to me during the National Youth Workers Convention.
I find the hastags on twitter and gaze longingly at my tweetdeck, wondering what I'm missing.
Oh well.
You just sigh and mope around, then bake chocolate chip cookies & cope.
I'm linking this to a blog party for the rest of us who wish we were somewhere else this weekend. That party is at Blessed Moon.
If you, also wish you were at Blissdom as well, go link up!
(I know that was a redundant use of also and as well, it was a poor attempt at a reference to a SNL skit.)
So go link up so we can all share in our sorrow. ;-)

Google Us!

About a week ago I installed Google Analytics on our site.

Way behind the times, I know.

But today I was poking around the reports and found some…interesting ways that people found us.

Giant balls boy. This post does contain those words, although not in that order. Gotta be careful what you write, I’m learning.

Someone found us by googling a quote from Pirates of the Caribbean. Here’s that post.

Another found us with Mudpit belly flop. Lovely. Want to see us in the mud?

Very bad pjs was the only other interesting google find.

I just felt like sharing.