Thanks, Cardiogirl!

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o feet in this post, I promise. :-)

*sigh*

Now that I said that, I really want to post some feet here...

Anyway, while I was reading your blog today I saw your related posts widget from LinkedWithin and I liked it better than the one I installed days ago, so now I have one that shows pictures of related posts!

Maybe my bounce rate will go down.

We shall see!

Yesterday - 1/19/09

I

called MD to see how she was doing (much better) and listened to her talk for 9 minutes & 43 seconds about watching all the shit today about Martin Luther King Jr & Barack Obama.

She finally took a breath and said "You don't really understand, do you?"
Me - I understand what it feels like to have never thought I'd see a black president in my lifetime. I was excited after he won, not so much today. Still have to see if he gets killed tomorrow or if he actually gets in the oval office. But I understand it being much more moving to you than for me.

Plus...I just don't get that excited about shit.

We don't really know Obama. Whatever he's planning won't take effect right away. It probably won't change my life that much regardless (unless I stop having to pay deductible/co-pay for Dr visits and Medicare finally starts paying for Dentists & Optometrists).

Even if I did get excited over things, I couldn't sustain excitement for MONTHS.

*sigh*

But I am excited that I got three (3) blog awards yesterday! 3 awards that I've never gotten before, even! :-)

The first 2 are from Aria @ Aria's Ink




I'm supposed to name 10 bloggers & tell 10 facts about myself. I just gave awards last week or something. Let me think about it for a minute.

The 3rd is from Tim @ Breathing In. It is actually 3 awards in 1.



Copying from Tim's post:

The Three in One award denotes, “Blogs of attitude and gratitude, a member of a proud sisterhood, and a best friend of all blogs.”

Some of the blogs he reads are blogs I read too, so I don't want to repeat the same people, LOL.

Plus...I already gave some awards out last week.

I just didn't want Aria or Tim to think I wasn't appreciative of the award or whatever.

So I'll definitely give them out.

Just not today.

And I have some gingerbread cookies to eat...so bye! ;-)

Evan has a blog

I

don't remember why he wanted one.

But you can check it out if you want to.

No perverts or pedophiles, please.

Thank you.

Butterfly Award

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heresa from Theresa Sez awarded me with the Butterfly Award.

Yes, I remember that I've gotten a few awards that I never got around to passing on, but I seem to have some sort of writer's block (maybe it should be called "Rambler's Block" in my case?) so I'm doing memes & junk.

I could tell you about the Obama dream I had...

Or how Evan literally talked so much yesterday that I pretended to take a nap for 2 hours just so he'd STFU and give me some peace. It was like he was hopped up on Red Bull or something...

Following are the blogs that I nominate. The criteria I used is that the blog updates regularly and that I read it almost every day. In no particular order:

1. She Lives


2. Cardiogirl


3. Amy Oops


4. Hey Shae!


5. Holy Cuteness


6. Steven Humour


7. The Offended Blogger

Thank you, Theresa. Those that I nominated are welcome. That is all. :-)

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Custom blog design CONTEST!

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was reading Jade's blog and she had a link to a contest. So, I went to My Design Workbench and Cathy is having a contest in celebration of her pregnancy. I would be depressed beyond belief if I found out I was having another child, but I'm happy for Cathy and her husband, LOL.

Here are the prizes:

First Prize:

Custom Design of Your Blog with:
- customized header
- either three or two columns
- 125x125 Entrecard/Grab-Link To Me logo with code
- a mini-digi scrap of your photo posted on the page
- any special request

{This comes with installation too providing I would have to login as you in your account so the work can be done.}

Note: First Prize is open to account with BLOGGERS only.

Second Prize:

- customized header
- 125x125 Entrecard/Grab-Link To Me logo with code

{No installation required but you have to provide me the exact size of your header before hand}

Third Prize:

- $8.00 cash transferred to your Paypal account

Fourth:

- $5.00 cash transferred to your Paypal account

Fifth:

- a 125x125 Entrecard logo (excluding code)

So, head on over to My Design Workbench and enter! :-)

Carol, your blog rocks!!!

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ince everyone else in the world is giving out the same 4 or 5 blog awards that are being passed around like the common cold, I decided to create one of my own.

You know how sometimes a blog has one good post, so you bookmark it. Then they either disappear off the face of the earth, or every post since the one that initially caught your attention has sucked?

Well, this is for the blogs that caught my attention and kept it ever since.

No, this is not something you can give to other blogs. Make your own award. I don't want this to be a spam/meme/passitonordie type of award.

I AM THE ONLY ONE GIVING THIS OUT. I'm sure you have plenty of other awards in your Blog Trophy Chest to give out, so leave this one alone unless you receive it.

I'll try to do it every week, or whenever I remember.



The very first recipient of the "Your blog rocks" award is Carol. She has 2 blogs: Bass-ically Speaking and She Lives.

I originally started reading She Lives. It took me a while to realize that Carol is one funny woman! Most of her posts literally make me laugh out loud. Her blogs are a daily "Must Read"!

Now, just because you didn't get the award this time doesn't mean that you won't in the future. Chances are, if you appear in my "High Five Friday" posts more than once, you'll get one. So don't bug me! :-)

XOXO

September must be Blog Award Month...

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ecause I've gotten 3 in the past couple of weeks, LOL.

I got 2 Kick Ass Blogger Awards. One from My Frakkin Blog! and then from Shae Shae.

Then I got the Proximidade Award from Carol.

And I just noticed today that I got an "I love your blog" award from Web-Betty.

What have I been saying this month? LOL.

Seriously.

I would have finally passed these awards on today but for some reason, my lower back feels like I got stabbed with one of those 2 pronged forks that you use when you're grilling.

So I'm going to lie down (Do objects lie or lay?) and take some drugs until I feel better.

Plus it will give me something to blog about tomorrow. :-)

A little love to Damien

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ecause I just got an e-mail that someone had fueled my blog lately. So, just for kicks, I checked to see who had fueled me since January 1 of this year.

Damien's name kept popping up. I don't think he's ever commented here (another Relax Max?) but he's obviously reading my blog. Or he's reaaaaaaaaaaally bored and fuels my blog for the hell of it, LOL.

Anyway, he has 3 blogs. (Is it just me, or does he look a little like Frasier Crane?)



So stop by and show him some love for me! :-)

Kick Ass Blogger Award

I

was given The Kick Ass Blogger award by Bob @ My Frakkin Blog!

I was very surprised! I visit Bob's blog almost every day, but I'm not sure that I've commented there before, so this was out of the blue for me. Needless to say, I'm very flattered. :-)

Here are the rules:

The rules include passing it on by. . . .
* Choosing 5 other bloggers that you feel are “Kick Ass Bloggers”
* Let ‘em know via : - your post. b) an email c) Twitter d) blog comments. e) e-card
* Link back to both the person who awarded you and also http://www.mammadawg.com/
* Visit the Kick Ass Blogger Club HQ, to get codes and sign Mr. Linky then pass it on!

So here are my 5 Kick Ass Bloggers (I read multiple blogs every day, but some of them update more often than others, so I'm going to choose the people who update the most). They are in no particular order.

1. Why Are You Stalking Me? - She is a hilarious and sarcastic blogger and I love hearing about her latest embarrassing moments!

2. Cardiogirl - I think hers is one of the blogs on which I comment the most. She seems like she'd be a really cool person to know IRL. :-)

3. Blogging Monique Renae - She's an awesome woman and she's very honest about all the things she's gone through/dealt with & is still dealing with. She & I are going on a Wal-Mart shopping spree when she goes on her "Tour of America" :-)

4. Jokes @ jDonuts - There is ALWAYS some joke or picture there to make me laugh. He has other blogs too, which I also visit, and he has a lot of good & helpful posts for bloggers.

5. Samples Girl - Who doesn't love getting free stuff? She goes out and hunts for all the freebies online so that I don't have to. Thanks to her, I think I have enough shampoo & tampon samples to last me until 2012. :-)

Go by and visit them and tell them Angelika sent you! :-)

Now I can see what my readers see!

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his may be old news to some of you, but I didn't find out about this until this weekend when I was dropping cards.

Technically Easy had an article about using Browsershots to view your template design and make sure that it's compatible with different browsers & operating systems.

It's really easy. Just go to the site and enter your url. I entered mine, went to the bathroom & when I came back, this was waiting for me:



From this EXTREMELY EASY TO USE site I learned that:

1. I have another reason to hate Internet Explorer. I don't like the way my site shows up there. No idea why it doesn't display correctly, either. And it's not just 6.0 that shows it that way. It's any and all Internet Explorers & Windows combination (that I tried, anyway.)

2. Konqueror 3.5 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (WHAT? Never heard of it.) doesn't show my site at all.

3. Dillo (I first thought it said Dildo & wondered why anyone would name a browser after a sex toy...) is farked up! That's another browser I've never heard of.

But, for the post part, everyone is seeing what I see in the colors & whatnot that I chose. :-)

I'm really happy about that because I can't begin to imagine trying to make my blog compatible with all web browsers & operating systems. Even the people who don't see exactly what I see are seeing it almost the way I want it.

This is just one of those times when I have to breathe and 'let go'. I can't control everything, as much as I might want to.

For those of you using IE, let me encourage you to download Firefox or Opera (I've never used Opera, but it looks like my blog shows up well on it. And that's what this is all about, after all.)

For those of you using Conqueror or Dillo...I don't know what to tell you. So soddy.

Time for a Contest!

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ime for a smile is having a contest. I have already entered.

You can enter in various ways. The easiest, IMO, is commenting on one of the posts. It's easy because I LOVE the blog. No matter what kind of day I'm having, I know that something will make me smile there. :-)

There are so many prizes (and so varied) that I can't even tell you here. Just go enter it yourself. Or don't. Because the fewer people that enter, the better my chances of winning! Muuuuuuuhahahhahahahha. ;-)

Testing out my new Firefox Add-on

Image via WikipediaYesterday, Hugh Laurie was on The Tonight Show. He talked about what he did during the writer's strike (nothing), his new movie "Street Kings" and some other crap.

It wasn't as good as some of the interviews I've seen him give to Jay, but I look forward to his appearance next week on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. I love them both. Hugh always seems more relaxed when he's talking to Craig.

Speaking of Craig, he's hosting the White House Correspondent's Dinner tonight. It's supposed to be on C-Span. It's not on the program guide, but I'm taping C-Span from 8-11pm in hopes of catching it.

Ok.

The new add-on is Zemanta. While you're typing, it finds relevant links & photos for you to include in your post. Then you can click "Apply All" (or whatever) and you don't have to do any of the formatting yourself.



It's all right. I mean, I enjoy not having to look up all the sites and then manually link to them (including target=_blank), but a) I can think of other Hugh Laurie pics I'd rather have & b) I wouldn't send everybody to imdb.com for every fricking link (except the one that's pointing to Wikipedia...)

I can't see using this very often... I suppose we shall see.

OMG! I won 1500 EC credits!

From A Quest for Happiness for their Clever Captions Contest.

Wheeeeeeee!

Thanks. :-)

Blog News - 3/31/08

First, my blog is featured in Blogger's Showroom again! The last time was quite a while ago, before they had the new sidebar sized widgets, so I e-mailed them & got a new feature in response! Wheeeeeeeeeeee!
Go vote for me. Thanks.

Second, one of my JJHF Peeps has joined Entrecard. YAY! Shawna does absolutely GORGEOUS pictures. She already has a button in my sidebar for her photography business, but I'm glad she's joined EC now because she'll get much more exposure. :-)

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Now playing: Ludacris - Girls Gone Wild
via FoxyTunes


My Top Entrecard Droppers for the month of March are:

WORLDWIDE TRAVEL BLOG - 30
WildClips Comedy - 29
Scott's Space - 28
Frank Kanu's Books - 28
Yimto Affiliate Marketing Blog - 28
An Unsuspecting Notebook - 27
I am BM Kia! - 27
Blogging MoRe - 26
Found Shit - 26
Scramories - 26

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Now playing: Missy Elliott - Ching-A-Ling (Feat. Jay-Z) (Remix) (Dirty)
via FoxyTunes


Top Clicks by Widget

Random Musings of a Deranged Soul - 293
Black Tennis Pro's - 246
Monkey Fables And Tales - 163
An Unsuspecting Notebook. - 159
inside a bum's mind - 148
Blogging MoRe - 142
Hash It Out! - 138
Beeker's Words - 130
On The Bricks - 122
Blogsters Guild - 108

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Now playing: Jennifer Lopez - Do It Well ft Ludacris
via FoxyTunes


Best Value by Widget

Honestly Swinging - 0.36
By the Sea - 0.89
Mixed Metaphor.net - 0.92
On The Bricks - 1.30
Luna Tail - 1.33
Getting a Grip on Grace - 2.00
Confessions of an Organized Mess - 2.57
I Wandered - 3.00
Monkey Fables And Tales - 3.12
Black Tennis Pro's - 3.23

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Now playing: Adina Howard - Freak Like Me
via FoxyTunes


I'm going to change my Entrecard. I went HERE to create the face. It's pretty cool. Not the hair choices I'd like but you get what you pay for, right? LOL.

Which one do you like better? I think I need to change the background on the second one to a lighter color & the font on the first one to something more easily read, but which face do you like better?




Top or Bottom? 1st or 2nd? Let me know in the comments. Thanks! :-)

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Now playing: Janet Jackson - Feedback
via FoxyTunes

Ultimate Blog Party!

**Sticky Post** Scroll down for newer entries.

Hello fellow Blog Mommas!

I know I'm late. This contest ends in 2 days & 7 minutes, but I'm a procrastinator, what can I say?

If you've never been here before, stay a while & check out my site!

I don't consider myself a "Mommy Blogger" because my site isn't just about my son (Evan), but I do talk about him a lot.

When asked to describe my blog, I always say:

Personal blog by a single mother living in the southern Unites States suffering from Multiple Sclerosis, Insomnia & a Hugh Laurie addiction.

I'm working on the Insomnia. I am enjoying the Hugh Laurie Addiction. I can't do much about the Multiple Sclerosis.

So here I am. Blogging about anything and everything that pops into my sleep deprived mind.

Leave a comment. Or a voice comment. You comment & I follow! :-)

Awww :-(

Snapvine has a Family Guy Blue Harvest skin.

But it's not the blog sized widget.

That SUCKS!




I wonder what happens if I mess with the code?




Bleh! They might try to sue me anyway. Or delete my account for messing with the code.

Not that anyone leaves me messages anymore...*hint hint*

I got a new voice comment!

From Sheila of Black Tennis Pro's.

When I was dropping my Entrecard on her site, I noticed that she had added Snapvine, so I left her a voice comment & she replied.

She has an awesome voice! :-)

You can hear her by listening to my messages (it's the first one after Evan's greeting) or go to her blog & listen to her greeting & the message I left for her.

Then leave me a voice message.

With your phone.

Or your microphone.

Because I'm bored.

And because you love me...

LMFAO!

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Listening to: CeCe Peniston - Finally
via FoxyTunes

Somebody help me!

After trying so long that my bootie is sore, I finally figured out how to add "top commentators" (or whatever) to my sidebar.

But

1. I can't filter my own comments out


2. It's showing comments from people who haven't commented in forever


3. I'd rather be able to link to their websites than to their comments, KWIM?


4. I don't think it's necessary to show the name twice

I used this tutorial.

What do I do now? Any help will be appreciated!

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Listening to: Jennifer Lopez - Do It Well ft Ludacris
via FoxyTunes

Blog Award & Random Stuff

There's a lot that has happened related to my blog the past few days. With my back hurting & all, I haven't really kept up with it.

So, here's what I think happened, LOL.

1. Randi gave me an award.



Wheeeeeeee! Someone who doesn't call me "Too Outspoken", LOL.

Another person gave me the Blogger's Excellence Award (or something), but I can't remember who. (Sorry)

2. I won the first round of the Blogger's Cup at the Get Traffic Blog. So thank you to anyone who voted for me. :-)

3. Bebo Author was my BEST Entrecard Advertiser ever. I got 103 clicks from her blog to mine in ONE DAY! That was awesome. :-)

4. I think it was Claire who gave me 500 Entrecard credits too? I don't know. And I can't find the e-mail that told me about it (and apparently Entrecard doesn't keep up with that kind of stuff...)

5. Getting Gruntled wrote me a really nice recommendation out of the blue:

There's a certain type of insight that only shows up when you get that second-wind during an all-nighter. Angelika has these all the time. Must be the insomnia. That and the appreciation of her son, and for good actors, to boot!

6. Crafter BS also wrote me a recommendation. I have to admit, I don't remember seeing her blog before. (So soddy)

Really cool blog. I'm an insomniac myself. And that Hugh is just tooooo darn cute, and I'm so glad to see his face on your blog!

With posts like this one, though, I will be stopping back often, LOL.

I don't remember what else.

Did I tell you that the Dr. recommended I take the xanax twice a day?

I'm pretty sure that's why my back hurts so bad. Going from 2 hours of sleep a day to 16 (or something) is just too much. So for the past 3 days I only take it at night.

Which is why I haven't been keeping up with my TV show synopses.

I don't even remember what the hell came on in the past 4 or 5 days, LOL.

That is all.

I must go post whore at JJHF or I'll be truncated at the end of the month posting totals...

Vote for me!!!!!!!

Here.

The "Get Traffic Blog" is having a contest. I guess I entered, LOL. (I don't remember half the shit I do at 3 am.)

So vote for me!

Thanks. :-)