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Don’t cry over Spilt Milk – Laugh!

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I guess I’m having a regular Linky Love fest over here today. I figured that while I was spreading the love I should also tell you about Spilt Milk – the blog.

Spilt Milk is written by Tee, a stay at home mom with two boys. Like Lisa, I know Tee from some of the forums that we both frequent.

Tee’s blog is a great site to visit when you want a laugh or when you feel like reading some inspirational stories like the story about the mother of a soldier who’s currently stationed in Iraq and how he wanted his mom to send him some silly string.

Along with humorous posts, funny videos and images you’ll find some mighty cool links such as the ones in one of her recent posts entitled Cool things to do with Google, the virtual pumpkin carving contest, or perhaps the video of the of the guitar player with no arms. I must show that post to my husband!

I really like her post with Balloon Art photos! Now that’s cool.

Poke around her site for a while. I’m sure you’ll find some things that make you laugh. Oh and as you might do with any site that you enjoy – don’t forget to bookmark her site or subscribe so you won’t miss any posts!





My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings

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Hey gang, if you like my daily ramblings you might also enjoy my blogging friend Lisa’s blog My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings. I’ve known Lisa through a blogging forum that we both visit regularly for about a year now. Shame on me for not telling you about her site earlier!

Lisa is a work at home mom of two young children. You’d think that a three year old and a four month old would keep her busy enough, but she makes time to write in My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings as well as her other blog Lisa Reviews several times each day! I know life can be hectic with small children to care for so it’s amazing that she can write as much as she does!

Lisa writes about the events in her life such as preparing for the holidays, taking her little girl to the dentist for the first time, the adventures of potty training, and things like how great it would be to be able to have a virtual makeover before getting your hair cut or making a big change in your appearance.

I think I’ll get to meet Lisa in Las Vegas in November as I believe she’ll be going to the blogging conventions too. Should be fun!

So if you’re looking for a new blog to add to your daily reads check out Lisa’s two sites. I think you’ll like them.

Ok now I’m mad

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We got our passports yesterday.

Unfortunately I didn’t get to see them until my husband came home from work today because he’d met our mailman, a friend, as he walked to work yesterday morning and ended up getting our passports from the mailman on the street.

He then brought our passports to work, left them in the bosses office and couldn’t bring them home last night because he boss left before he did – locking her office door and thus making it impossible for Chris to bring the passports home.

So I get the passports today at about 6:30 pm. What do I see when I open mine up? My place of birth information is listed wrong!

We’re leaving on November 8th! That doesn’t leave much time to get this fixed!

I immediately tried calling the 1-800 number for the passport office and I spoke with one of the Passport officers. I was told I’ll have to go to the main Passport office in Toronto to get this fixed and that yes, they’ll put a rush on it.

But what if it’s not done on time? I was so happy that our passports had arrived and now I’ve got a big problem!

My proper place of birth was written on my passport application, plus they also had a good photocopy of my birth certificate. What the heck are all the registration numbers on official I.D’s for anyway if they don’t check and then double check all this information?

I was told by the passport officer on the phone that the way I’d written my birthplace name it did sort of look like the wrong birthplace that they’d listed. Still … aren’t they also supposed to check the birth certificate? You know – the official documentation? WTF?

This makes me wonder how well they check everything else?

Grrrrrr!

If you could see me right now you’d see steam coming out of my ears! I’m so mad!

Should I go shopping while in Vegas?

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I can’t believe it’s the nineteenth of October already! Our trip to Las Vegas is coming up fast! Two and a half weeks from now we’ll be in that busy city! Good thing our passports arrived yesterday huh?

I know I’m going to be at blogging conventions and I probably won’t have a lot of time to do much other than attend the conventions and perhaps some of the places along the strip where we are staying, but if I can I’d like to do a little shopping.

With our Canadian dollar being higher than the US dollar I might be able to find some fantastic deals.

When I was searching for a hotel for us to stay in I noticed that only about 10 miles away from the strip there’s a big outlet mall. I wonder if any other bloggers that are going to the convention might be interested in a shopping excursion?

I need new clothes! Plus maybe I can get a few Christmas gifts out of the way too? Chris has always liked playing golf, perhaps I could find some Mizuno golf clubs for him at a discount? I’m also still looking for a macro and a telescopic lens for my SLR camera and I’m pretty sure that they are cheaper in the US than they are here in Canada … yeah, maybe I’ll come back with some new toys!

Coming out of hiding

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Some of you know that I’ll be going to a blogging convention in November. I’m going to BlogWorld first and then I’ll be attending P0stieCon.

Some time over the summer I was asked to be part of a panel at P0stiecon. I still don’t really know what this will involve other than I won’t be on stage all by myself.

Well earlier this week one of the folks in charge of P0stiecon got in touch with me and told me that they’d need a photo and a bio for a program pamphlet they were preparing.

Yikes!

A photo?

I’m the one behind the camera – never in front of it! Not to mention the fact that I simply hate having my photo taken.

Well my time ran out and I had to hand in a photo. I still don’t even know if I handed it in, in time or not.

Last night my husband got behind the camera and took a number of photos of me. I mean a lot of photos! I really didn’t like many of them. I haven’t been feeling very well for about two weeks and had in fact been sleeping just before our photo session. My eyes are puffy in a number of the photos. My husband managed to capture me with my eyes closed or my mouth is a strange position a number of times, but if you take enough photos eventually you’ll manage to take a few decent ones.

So I figured since I’ll finally have a chance to meet other bloggers in about three weeks I might as well come out of hiding and give you a little peek.

So here you go. This is me:

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Pleased to me ya!

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