Posts Tagged ‘intro’

This week, the girls over at GTT are wanting to know what we’d do with a $100 and the power of internet shopping.

Because I like the variety, the price and the whole dealing with only one shipping department thing, I would probably head over to Amazon.com first.

So first, I’d invest in a gallon of Frank’s Red Hot Sauce. ($15) Yeah, slightly odd. But we go through that stuff like water. And there is NOTHING more aggravating than being drunk and wanting a snack, reaching for the Frank’s, and realizing you’re OUT.

So I still have $85. Good.

So I’d pick up the second season of True Blood, for $40. We’re on a free-TV-only plan (no cable or dish! The horrors!) right now, but I miss Sookie. And Bill. Mostly Bill. For the record though? In the books, I lusted fully over Eric. But for the television show, I think the actor (Stephen Moyer) they cast for Bill is more my type, physically.

~swoons~

Anyway, erm, where was I?

Oh yeah, $45 left to spend.

I’m thinking that after that vampire porn picture, I might need to pick up some KY Your’s and Mine lube. ($15)This stuff? Is awesome. Usually I weigh the fun of lube vs. the mess it seems to create. (Don’t tell me it’s never crossed YOUR mind!(please?)) But when the husband grabs this out of the stash? There’s no decision making. It’s game on. Every. Time.

And then I’d go buy Left 4 Dead 2 with my last bit of cash.

Because nothing tops off a night of spicy food, vampire porn and hot sex quite like hunting down zombies from the comfort of your couch.

Love and kisses,

So the topic this week is home projects/improvement, etc.  I’ll admit that I’m not very handy, but when the job needs doing, I can generally figure out a way to get it done. Usually.

AND I have no issue admitting when I’m in way over my head!

Which is good, because, clearly, past owners of my poor house fancied themselves to be Do It Yourself Wonders. I’m not convinced. Now, I’m not sure I can blame EVERYTHING on the last couple that owned the place, because the house is nearing 100 years old now. However, a good chunk of the DIY disasters that we’ve found are fairly recent.

Their projects have included ripping out floors, both on the second story and in the basement

patching over a door,

And installing a bathroom mirror in the half-finished laundry room.

Not pictured would be the live, uncapped wires we found in the basement, the “custom painted” outlet/light switch covers, the tangled mess of copper piping that is our plumbing, and the upside down full-length mirror (with stand!) that was screwed into the wall when we moved in. (I know, odd doesn’t quite cover that one!)

Needless to say, I’m really glad that the husband and the brother-in-law are fairly handy with the tools. Because I’m sure we’ll find more DIY that needs to be Undone!

Are you handy with the DIY home projects? What’s your best, or worst, DIY story? Share it in the comments!

Nearly every blogger out there has experienced writer’s block. Sometimes you have so  many ideas that you can’t get them down on paper(so to speak) fast enough.

Other times, it feels like you’re struggling just to come up with your first sentence.

What I want to know is what you do when you have a bad case of writer’s block. Do you have any tips or tricks to shake loose an idea? Do you simply give yourself permission not to write? How do you handle it?

I want you to go forth and think on it, then share your thoughts in a post, and on Friday, come back and add a direct link to your post.

See you then!

So it’s Friday! Our assignment this week was a brief introduction of you and/or your blog. Bonus points for linking to your favorite posts. And there is still plenty of time to play along! Just write, publish and come back here to link up!

Be sure to check out the other links along the way; this is a great chance to get to know the people you’ll be partying with at BHAH10:)

Dearest friends,

As much as I love to run my mouth (and trust me, I do!), I’m running out of things to tell you about myself. So I’m going to cheat and take the easy way out give you the opportunity to get to know each other! Yay!

This is how it will work, I’m going to give you a question, and a few days to write up a post. You’ll write said post, answer the question, come back here on Friday, and add your link to the Mr. Linky we’ll have set up.

This first question is both an easy one, and a hard one. Easy because you won’t have to write a ton. Hard because it involves self-promotion, and I know that for some of us, that’s anything but easy!

So for our very first question, your job is to Introduce Yourself!

Yes, I really am taking the easy way out! But what I’d like for you to do, is just give a short introduction to yourself and your blog. Tell us what you are about. For bonus points, link us to a few of your favorite posts that you’ve written, either on your site or elsewhere. Remember to come back Friday to add your link, and to check out what other attendees have written!

I’m really looking forward to getting to know you guys before this August. I think it will make BHAH10 just that much more fun!

Lots of love,

I’ve been struggling for over a week to figure out what New! Interesting! thing I could share with you all. I started about a dozen drafts, just to scrap them in the end. Isn’t blogging FUN sometimes?

So instead, I’m going to tell you about my currently very full house. There’s me, and the husband. We have a 4year old daughter(Miss Question) and a 2 year old son(Truck). We also have a 120lb lap dog (or so she likes to think) and a cat who is convinced that he’s a dog. My brother-in-law is also staying with us, for the moment. They all drive me nuts, in a good way. But I’m not going to talk about them right now.

Instead, I’m going to introduce you to someone who has a very special place in my home. He has a name, I just haven’t found out what it is yet. (Mostly because I’m too lazy) I suspect that he is the owner from before us.

We found out, weeks after we bought the place, from our very blunt little old German lady neighbor, that he was a cancer patient, who relapsed, and was told his ticket was up. So, in the words of the little old German lady, “he went and he hunged himself over there, he did.”
But the house is nearly 100 years old, so it could be someone else. (Although for some reason I can’t shake the feeling that it’s a male.)

So, personally, I call him Charles. Mostly, Charles is a quiet guy, just hangs around the place. He used to hang out by the television set a lot, but since I set the bookshelves up in the living room, he’s been spending a lot of time over there. Or, I think so anyway. The cat and the dog went from staring at the wall above the (turned off) television, to staring at the space just next to the bookshelf. And of course, the downstairs bedroom, which is just off of the living room.

The downstairs bedroom is a strange room. But safe. We slept in it for nearly a year. But it’s always a good 10 degrees (Fahrenheit) colder than the rest of the house. When we moved in, it was early spring (which is still cold in Wisconsin), and I just assumed it was poor insulation. But the difference is still there in the summer. Now that my brother-in-law is sleeping in there, he claims to have been woken up by something disturbing him.

However, with two attention-whore pets in the house, I’m not convinced it was Charles who woke him!

The one thing, the only thing, that Charles does that drives me batty is resetting my thermostat. It’s like living with my father. At first we had an old thermostat, one of those dial ones? So when we kept discovering that it was winding up at set at 60, instead of 68, we assumed it was a bad spring. So we replaced it with a digital thermostat.

Yeah. I still get up some mornings to a freezing cold house.

But I figure that if that’s the worst I have to put up with, then Charles is welcome to stay. At least I don’t have to wash *his* dirty socks.

Do you have any ghost stories to share? Do you believe the paranormal is a bunch of hooey? Let me know in the comments!

Lu had a wonderful intro on Monday that let us peek into her clean and organized brain.
Unfortunately for you guys, that means it’s MY turn to introduce myself, and let you peek inside my head. I’m sorry.

Summer is coming up. The season of swimsuits, shorts and bare feet. I dread this season.

Not because I realize I will probably have to shave above the knees to wear shorts. And not because I’ve had two kids and feel compelled to buy the swimsuit for insecure women like me, with built-in tummy control panel for Extra! Slimming! effect.
Not because it’s hot and humid, and pants will quickly become optional around our house.

No, it’s because no one thinks twice about my sock issues during the winter.

During the winter, it’s COMPLETELY normal to walk around with socks on constantly. I mean, I live in Wisconsin, for chrissakes. It’s cold up here. Even wearing them to bed doesn’t get me that much attention.

But when it’s ninety degrees (Fahrenheit) and humid out, people look at you funny. It’s not like I’m wearing them with sandals (even I won’t cross some lines), but I constantly have socks on.

I won’t go outside barefoot, not even to hang the laundry.
I hate going to the beach, because then there’s sand in my socks.
I have really nice carpeting in my living room. Thick and soft and squishy. Truly luxurious in every way.

And the feel of it against my bare feet drives me bonkers.

A good night of sleep can be ruined by a lack of clean socks (I change them before bed, because who wants all the ick from running around all day in their bed?? I also change them in the AM after a shower. And I’m not sure why I feel the need to be all, “See? I’m crazy, but not icky!” for you guys…). The feel of the sheets and blankets against my naked feet is too disruptive.

But it’s all good, because I recently found out that socks can help both men and women reach for the stars in bed, and who doesn’t enjoy a good orgasm?

To summarize what we’ve learned today: The key to a good sex life is to take your pants off, and put your socks on. And that sort of behavior is encouraged at my house.

You’re. Welcome.

Since I shared such a weird quirk, AND an important sex life improving tip, I’d really like to hear from you. What’s your strange habit? Leave it in the comments!:)

Hello and welcome!
We’re gearing up for BlogHer@Home 2010, and wanted to introduce ourselves and give you a little heads up on what’s going on around here.

Some of you may have participated in BHAH09. You might remember that this shindig was dreamed up by Jenn and Nic last year, when they realized they weren’t the only ones disappointed they were unable to go to the official BlogHer conference. So they whipped up an at-home party for all of us, complete with video chats, link exchanges and give-aways. And they did a stellar job, especially given the short time frame they had to pull it all off!

In fact, it was so much fun, that we decided we need to do it again this year!
Now, Jenn won’t be able to join us, because she saved her pennies and snatched her ticket to BlogHer’10 up right away. But we’ll forgive her this time, especially since she did such an awesome job re-designing the site, and is graciously providing technical support for BHAH10!

This year, I (@thepsychobabble) and @masmom are co-hosting the event. You can check out our bios, and learn a little more about us over in the About section.

We already have some awesome prizes lined up.  But we’re always looking for more sponsors! If you’re interested in purchasing some ad space, or providing a prize (or both!), contact us, on twitter at @blogherathome, or email us (info AT blogherathome DOT com) for more details.

We  also have big plans for the chat sessions and posts this year. You know how if you go to a conference, you’ll have panels on certain subjects? We’d like to do that here, too, for you guys via posts, vlogs and chats. But we need some ideas. So start thinking about what it is you want to talk about, and who you want to hear from, this year at BHAH10, because we’ll be asking for those suggestions soon!

We really enjoyed the video chat last year, but found that too many people on camera really slowed things down. Especially for those with less-than-high-speed access! So this year, the plan is to ask for volunteers, and have you do a little on-camera audition. If you’re interested in being on camera this August, and participating in the chat sessions, let us know!

We’re really looking forward to this event, and seeing our old friends, and meeting new ones. So get ready, mark your calendar, and grab a button to put on your site, to let others know where you’ll be this August 6^th and 7^th!

And don’t forget to subscribe, or check in often, as we’ll be posting things and updates from now until the big weekend!

Until next time,
Jen ThePsychobabble