Thursday Thirteen Number 29 Make A Difference

October 3, 2007

I didn’t start out to be a “Charity Blogger,” although my friends Sandee and Jessica The Rock Chick both have dubbed me that. I’m honored that they think so, but I wanted to be sassy and silly and just write about whatever the voices in my head were saying! Then the voices in my head [...]

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Thursday Thirteen Number 28. I Do NOT Feel Guilty

September 26, 2007

Y’all, it’s been said that “Guilt” is my middle name. I do carry a lot of guilt around on my shoulders. I feel awful when I don’t go read my friend’s blogs. If I don’t get a thank you note or a comment answered on time, it makes me feel wretched. Just to cheer myself [...]

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Ripped From The Headlines

September 7, 2007

I was perusing my Denton Record Chronicle while I drank my morning coffee. Some people may prefer their news on the internet or the television, but I am a die-hard fan of the daily newspaper. It’s how I know the important things that are going on in the world. You know, like: what’s happening in [...]

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Thursday Thirteen Number 26. Scattered

September 6, 2007

I can’t concentrate, so this Thursday Thirteen will be all over the map. Usually, I take great pains to put together something silly, but today I’m just going with the flow, because I’m 1. Get cool letters with Spell With Flickr. They were much too large for this page, so I copied them into Adobe [...]

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Thursday Thirteen Number 25. I Just Have to Share

August 30, 2007

Y’all, there are days that I worry about the “monster” I have created. I had spent six months building a readership for this blog. I made many blogging friends and enjoyed visiting them every day. They came faithfully to read the stories that I wrote. I was having a lot of fun with it. Then, [...]

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Thursday Thirteen Number 24. If My Life Was On Videotape

August 23, 2007

When my oldest son was a toddler, I took him to a playground in the local park. There was a “merry-go-round” there; but not the kind with horses on it. It was a large flat circular disc with handles spaced around the edges. Children grabbed the handles and ran in a circle in the sand [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #23—-If I Could Only Find My Glasses

August 16, 2007

I’ve been drinking my coffee trying to muster the oomph to write a Thursday Thirteen, my friends. I love participating in this meme, because you can meet some wonderful bloggers. I’m having a little difficulty writing today. I’m writing this with my husband’s glasses perched on my nose. His eyesight is better than mine, so [...]

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A Hodge Podge

August 14, 2007

This is just a jumble of several things that I needed to get said. I thought it would be an easy post to put together, but there are a lot of links. I’m mostly sending you to some of my favorite people, and I hope you like them, too. Don’t you love that picture? Those [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #22—A Raffle!

August 8, 2007

[If you are not a blogger, this post will not make sense to you. You might prefer to read in my archives. Try this ghost story category or some of my silliness.] Have y’all ever had “success” dangling in front of your eyes like a carrot in front of a work horse? You can almost [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #21—The Name Game

August 2, 2007

“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet…” Does our name affect how we feel about ourselves? Sometimes, parents give their children strange sounding names, and I have to wonder if it changes the course of their lives. I’ve talked before about how Texas Governor [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #20—I’ve Been Meaning To Tell You

July 25, 2007

This was supposed to be the week of our “vacation,” and we were planning a trip to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, which is one of our favorite places to visit. However, by the time we discovered that we really got this week, rooms at The Crescent were booked. We considered other hotels, but we discovered there [...]

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Thursday Thirteen Number 19—I’m Boring, Yes I’m A Square

July 19, 2007

I wasn’t even going to write again until Sunday, because lately I’ve become a one-note wonder. I thought I’d take a break and catch my breath, so I could write about things that would interest all my readers. I felt a little like my friend SusieJ felt a few days ago and I thought powering [...]

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Thursday Thirteen # 15—Don’t You Just Hate It When…

June 20, 2007

For those of you who aren’t bloggers, there is a “tradition” among some of us. On Thursdays, we list “13 things” about ourselves in an attempt to get to know each other better. Usually, I’m not listing personal things. I just list random things that catch my fancy. When I can, I add humor, at [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #12—I Was Just Thinking…

May 30, 2007

1) My Aunt La Verta, bless her heart, kept a matchbook with her all the time. Whenever she was feeling “gassy,” she pulled out a match and lit it. Did she think she was hiding the smell? It didn’t. And, it brought attention to what she had just done. Sorta like tootin’ like a foghorn [...]

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Getting The Most Out Of A Meme

May 24, 2007

If you don’t know what Thursday Thirteen is, it’s a “meme.” If that doesn’t tell you anything, a “meme” is basically a list of questions that gets passed around in the blogosphere. Some of them ask questions like, “What were you doing a year ago?” or “What are your top five favorite songs?” These get [...]

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Thursday Thirteen—The Saga of the Hotel from Hell

May 23, 2007

Folks, I try really hard to get along with the world. I don’t get angry quickly, but when I do it isn’t pretty. I have told y’all that I travel for a living; I settle into my hotel room for a week, and that is my “sanctuary.” There isn’t anything glamorous about travel for work. [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #10—Excuses

May 16, 2007

Y’all, you ain’t even gonna believe this, but today I was gonna create a really excellent Thursday Thirteen. I was thinking about a whole lot of grand ideas. But, instead I found: THIRTEEN EXCUSES WHY I DIDN’T MAKE THE ULTIMATE THURSDAY THIRTEEN: 1) I woke up to find these little critters ALL over my kitchen! [...]

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Thursday Thirteen # 8—My Last Meal Before I Die-et

May 2, 2007

Several years ago, I was down to the lowest weight I had been since I had children. My friends told me that was my “divorce weight.” They were right. As soon as I got married and happy, I got fat and sassy! Well, that’s only partially true; I’ve always been sassy. At the same time, [...]

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Link Love #7

April 27, 2007

Some time back now, I wrote a post challenging people who participated in Thursday Thirteen to share a little “Link Love.” I encouraged people to actually go into archives and read a few posts from bloggers they didn’t know. After all, the stated purpose of the meme is to get to know other bloggers better. [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #7 Symptoms of Blog Addiction

April 25, 2007

There was a time, not so long ago, that if you had shown me the box of chocolates above I would have been drooling all over myself. If there is one thing I love more than bacon (well, almost) it’s chocolate. I was addicted. To get over that, I started playing computer mahjongg. I played [...]

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