Do you ever spend an entire day wearing makeup and hanging out with a man who is not your husband, while your son mistakenly calls him Daddy?…
Blogging
Friends
I saw this today and thought of Blackbird. She was the first blogger with real live human non-immediate-family-member readers who linked to my site. We were tight for awhile but like blogging friends tend to do (Except of course me and you. We will be BBFFs ALWAYS), we kind of drifted apart.
I check in on her sometimes and this reminder gave me a good laugh at the grocery store. I still gotta get me one of those bad boys. There are much tackier things I could do this Christmas and things I could spend $150 on that would be much more likely to blow away in a strong wind, I’m sure.
Scroll to the bottom of this post for the story behind the giant snow globe.
Do you have any blog friends you’ve drifted away from but would like to give a shout out to? Leave their URL in the comments section.
Me and Mermaids – We’re Lonely
So, I’ve moved to Fridays at Parenting.com and I miss you over there. Please join me today as I share the ways Laylee and I have been enlightened by our viewing of Disney’s nautical adventure.
Financial advice? Keys to a happy marriage? Learning to love schoolyard bullies. It’s all there. Have a read and share what you’ve learned.
Rachelle Moves Up Two Categories
In a stunning comeback, leaping two categories from Tragic Excuses straight up to the Hall of Fame, Rachelle has now been added to the Tattoo Parlor as part of her official coming out party…
She took a bunch of drugs.
Feel free to head on over and congratulate her.
Kathryn’s Weekend BlogHer Tattoo Parlor
I “borrowed” a handful of washable tattoos from the mommybloggers at BlogHer this summer and mailed them out to about 30 of you. These 30 swore by blood oath to send me pictures of themselves wearing said tatts. Here are the results.
The Hall of Fame
(Aiyaiyai! Check out these hot mamas!)…
One Year Ago Yesterday
I clicked “post” for the first time over at daringyoungmom.blogspot.com. In honor of that momentous occasion, I will publish this post one year and one day later and the stars will align and the 8 remaining planets will hum peacefully in their orbits. It was 2:01pm August 30th and I wrote about milk.
The following is a list of some memorable posts from each of my 12 months of blogging:…
BlogHer — Not a Social Club
Why did I go to BlogHer?
Here’s part of the essay I wrote to the mommybloggers, applying for their scholarship, without which I would not have been able to attend:…
Meta and Mumps
Meta – Sorry about the confusion with new comments. I set things up so that the first time you make a comment, I have to approve it. That should keep the spammers out since I will never approve them and regular commenters will only have to be moderated once.
Mumps – If, like me, you laugh out loud when you read The Daily Mumps, you may just feel an inward chuckle with my mad photo-captioning skills over at Parenting.com today.
An Evil Genius… minus the “evil”
The Daniel, he is a mastermind. Sometimes his genius frightens me. I design my blog. I rejoice. I change the wrong semicolon in the code. I weep. Daniel whips out his little black box (he calls it a “command” “prompt”) and VOILA! A new home for Daring Young Mom.
He has spent hours and hours of work and I have spent hours and hours of play making this all possible. I know there are still weird bugs and things that have to be tweaked.
Please let me know if you have problems with anything on the site. I am mostly responsible for the code and I know nothing about code. He has spent scads of time cleaning up my messes and he’d love more to clean up, so give him a challenge. I dare you.
Is it slow to load? (Please don’t respond to this if you’re still using your grandma’s 386 with 16MB of memory. I love you but cannot accommodate you on this site. Let me know and I’ll send you a plain text email of my posts.)
Do things go wonky in your weird-open-source-Macish-save-the-world-from-software-monopolies browser? (I would like to try to accommodate you. Feel the love man and pass the tie-dyed onesies.)
Do you think my floating head is too pretentious now on its framed cushion of velveteen fabric?
How can I better serve you on this blog? Need a new shoe-lace or just a hug? Please, let me know your wants and needs and I will try to address them expeditiously.
Red? There is No Red!
There is no orange or purple either.
Dark pink?
Yes.
Orangy Pink?
Yes.
Purplish pink?
Also affirmative.
Laylee wanted you to know that.
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I just wrote what I like to think is my last post about BlogHer… for this week… and it’s being hosted over at the Mommybloggers’ site. They were nice enough to hand out (read this: attack people and brand them with) custom-made washable tatts at ye olde conference.
For those of you who were unable to attend, I accidentally grabbed about 30 of them from the table the last night (I swear they said something about “take as many as you’d like”)
If you’d like one of these fabulous tattoos, email me your address, tell me which one you want, swear a blood oath that you’ll email me a picture of yourself wearing it, and I’ll mail you a tattoo as a service to the town, courtesy of the Mommybloggers.
Then I’ll post a gallery of all the tattoees with links to your blogs.
***I’ll let you know when they’re gone***