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  • So Much To Do, So Little Time

    Yup, that’s an original title, isn’t it? But I seem to be out of originality at the moment. I’ve decided to go for Giant status on Squidoo and need to have a minimum of 50 quality lenses done by the end of June. I have 18 published lenses and that took me two full months to accomplish. I’ve improved my speed at putting out lenses, but I’m afraid quality will suffer if I go to fast. The past couple of days I’ve done a lot of legwork in coming up with some lens topics and I think I have about 8 lenses that are “work in process”.

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  • Please Don’t Call Me Mom

    If you’re a mother, and a loving one at that – is it okay (just every now and then) to wish your kids could suddenly not utter any forms or variations of the word “Mom”? I would still love them and all. But just for an hour, if they could be in the house and not have that word come out of their mouths, I think I’d have to call Guiness and report a new record.

    I think it only becomes bothersome because “Mom” is almost always followed by an action verb and it’s a verb that applies to me. Rarely is it just “Mom, I love you”. It’s attached to a task that I must do. Sign something, settle something, clean up something, go get something, wash something, think of something, find something, fix something.

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  • Nesting

    I feel like I just moved into a new house. I just updated my blog “theme” and that’s no easy task if you have no idea what you’re doing. It still needs work but pretend I’ve just emptied the boxes and haven’t quite got the dishes actually in the cupboards yet. Just take my word for it, this blog looks very different from what it looked like earlier today. Sadly, I put this blog up over a month ago and I still had my default links hanging out for all the world to see. Not that the world has been by to visit. I did have one visitor and he couldn’t even leave a comment because I hadn’t quite figured out how to set those up.

    I think comments are enabled now. I think.

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  • Why Can’t We All Just Hunt for Eggs Today?

    Had it not been for the story about ship Captain Richard Phillips having made his escape today, I would have preferred to miss today’s news. I got caught up in the whole Twitter worm story and the 17 year old boy behind the worm and in my research I went to CNN.   Killings and shootings, drug deals gone wrong and dead children.   A retired priest loses control of his car and kills a parishioner.  How could a day so full of promise contain such tragedy?   The world just doesn’t stop for anything – does it?

  • My Thoughts on Social Bookmarking

    I admit, I love everything internet. I’m absolutely fascinated by the amount of information you can so quickly have at your fingertips. I’m old enough to remember having to physically visit libraries to do any research for homework in college. I did not have the luxury of grabbing handfuls and chunks of information from a device in my own home until I was well into my career. I watch in awe as my five year old moves with lightning speed through his online world on Club Penguin. I blog, I play with HTML, I search, and I seek. But today’s current trends and focus on social bookmarking has me baffled.

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