Archive for May 31st, 2008

I’m getting this week’s (fabulous) links post out while my husband loads up the van to go camping.  Yep, we’re headed to the great outdoors, ya’ll.  Should be… interesting.  Naw, don’t let me fool you.  I’m totally looking forward to it.  I haven’t been camping in ages.  If I’m concerned about anything, it’s Liam and his psycho sleep issues but since I have Evie to fuss over, chances are it won’t be my problem, specifically.  God bless dual parenting!  Anyhow, I’m going to take pictures and have a great time and eat way more s’mores than I should.

• Debunking, Defusing, and Demystifying the Big Name Blogger from Velveteen Mind.  This is SUCH an awesome post.  I sure hope I get a chance to meet her at BlogHer and am so sad I can’t make it to the People’s Party.  She’s right on here and while I consider myself well blog-adjusted, I know that I too tend to get intimidated around the “big names”.  But I get intimidated around my mail man too, so what does that say about me?
  
• Summertime, and the living is geeky from sweetney.com.  Yay for full feeds!  I didn’t know Sweetney had embraced the full feed love and am so happy that I can resubscribe to her blog.  And she’s right: the benefits of full feeds FAR outweigh those of partial feeds.  And if you’re not a blogger and don’t care about this?  I apologize.
  
• Jeremy Who? from We Heart TV.  Besides being a post about the Most Awesome Finale Ever, this was a hysterical summation from both Britt and Carly.  I absolutely loved Carly’s commentary here.  If you watch “Lost” and have seen Thursday’s finale, you need to check this post out.  I cannot wait another 8 months!
  
• The Finger of God: Read This, Cry, And Post the Link from Surrender, Dorothy.  Wow.  I mean, you know that tornadoes can wreak all kinds of horrible damage, but the reality of the destruction in Iowa last weekend is something to behold.  I cannot imagine what those people are feeling.  My heart goes out to them.
  
• My Vagina. Let Me Tell You About It from Wiping Up Snot.  This is one of those laugh so hard you cry sort of posts.  Since I will never, EVER go in for a wax like that, all I have left is to live through other people’s humiliation.  If I were her, I probably would have run screaming from the place. 
  
• Two Posts for the Low, Low Price of Just $19.99! from Playgroups are No Place For Children.  I love the dichotomy here.  It sums up parenthood rather nicely, I think.  What you love about your kids, you simultaneously are driven up the wall by.  It’s a two-headed monster.  And I love that show on VH1 about the top 100 songs of the 90’s.  I’m sure I posted about it on here somewhere.  And I do believe the Backstreet Boys have a place in the 90’s lexicon.  Better them than N’sync, right? 
  
• Students vote autistic 5-year-old out of class from ParentDish.  I cannot believe the cruelty of this teacher.  I hope she receives some sort of reprimand because what she did is reprehensible.  Not just to the poor autistic boy (only 5 years old!), but to the rest of the students too, to put them in this sort of “Lord of the Flies” sort of situation!  GAH. 
  
• I Work* from Queen of Spain Blog.  This is true.  For me, it’s true.  Ever since I was knee-high to a grasshopper, I’ve wanted to be a writer.  And I know that I won’t consider that goal achieved until I am in an actual, published BOOK.  And I know I that I don’t consider all the blogging I do as work.  And maybe it isn’t a lot of work now (because I enjoy it?), but maybe, someday, I can consider it a job.  You think?
  
• How We Told Them from Pocklock.com.   I love stories like these.  None of my family has ever reacted this way, and I knew they wouldn’t so there were no “big reveals” like this.  Still, it would have been totally cool to rock their worlds like she did.  Too fun!

Alright, that’s it for this week, ya’ll.  I had to take a break halfway through to finish packing up my clothes and get clothes together for the little ones.  Wee!  I should be back around mid-day tomorrow.  Until then, ya’ll behave.  And while you’re at it, go check out my comment contest for a FREE BLOGHER ‘08 REGISTRATION.  FREE.  What are you waiting for??

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