Some Much Needed Blog-Keeping

You know how my house is almost always completely spotless? Well, I'm not so diligent about keeping up with my blogging life. I know, that's a shocker. But I am quite the blogging slacker. I am.

Right now I have to redeem myself and do a little "blogkeeping" as I am now referring to it.

First off, this week has been without Tuesday's regular installment of "Confessions of a Three-Year-Old" pretty much because there is no three-year-old around here this week. (If you didn't know already, see I Have My Self all to My Self, and dude, read this blog more often.) So, this week there are no three-year-old confessions.

Also, I have been meaning to tell you about the great new look at Mommyranks.com for quite some time. The site is not entirely new, but the design is definitely new. It is super user friendly and it looks great. For those of you who don't know about Mommyranks.com, it is a site where you can post some of your best posts, other people can vote for them, and it really helps generate traffic to your site. Now, the site obviously only works if everyone does their part to vote and visit the sites of others, so do your part to spread bloggy love and bloggy karma will most definitely lend you a hand. Lauren, the lady behind Mommyranks.com, is a sweet gal (did I just say that, what am I, my grandmother?) and she is determined to get your best posts noticed.

With that said, I must now move on to tagging. I have been tagged, and I must confess that I have been "it" for quite some time now. I won't tell you exactly just how long because it's embarrassing, but just know that it's been awhile.

Sweet Dore over at DoresDiaries tagged me to list seven random or weird things about myself. Then wonderful Jeannie over at Jeannie's Happy World tagged me as well. So I have been doubly "it."

I never know who to tag, so this is an open tag. Everyone who reads this has to list on their blog seven random or weird things about themselves, that is, if you have a blog. If you don't have a blog, well then I guess you don't need to do anything.

So, here are some random (or weird) facts about me...

1. Despite my obsessive-compulsive cleaning habits, I'd have 10 pets if I could. I'm thinking about getting a pot-bellied pig next.

I don't know, Gertie might try to eat it alive.

2.I love really disturbing movies. It gives my husband the creeps, but I love movies that really leave me feeling disturbed. Like "The Hours," or "Girl Interrupted," or "Cloverfield" is another good one. "Memento" is another disturbing movie, but not one that I recommend because of language. It was one that I watched in college, before I laid the smack down on movies with drug use, language and nudity. Now I won't watch anything that has anything to do with drugs, bad language or nudity.

Another movie that's good, not exactly disturbing, but just super-weird, is "The Royal Tenenbaums." That movie is so weird but it is hilarious. Needless to say, everyone else around here thought it was just weird, not hilarious.

3. I am a control freak. All I can say is, I have issues, and I am working on them.

4. I love musty smells. Don't ask me why, I have no idea, but I love musty smells, like in my parents' basement. I could sniff around in the basement all day long.

5. I will one day backpack Europe. And I suppose now that I have the little monkey, I can imagine what'll be in my backpack - a three-year-old.

6. I still have a fear of the dark. Sometimes I sleep with Kaydn Rye's night-light.

7. I must have some kind of weird dsylexia. I often write my bs as ds. I don't know what's up with that, but Kaydn Rye kind of has the same thing. Maybe it's a genetic defect that has passed down through the generations of my Norwegian ancestors.

Now that you know all kinds of weird facts about me, it is time for an award acceptance.

Tara at Feels Like Home, who is super fun by the way, bestowed upon me the wonderful and great Scribbler Award!



I'm almost speechless. Almost. Don't worry, I will still give my Academy Awards-style acceptance speech.

First off, I'd like to thank God for giving me the ability to type. Then I'd like to thank my crazy family for supplying me with so much stuff to write about. And lastly, I'd like to thank all my fans for making this possible.

I must confess though, I hate the whole "bestowing the award" part of award acceptance. I just feel weird. I don't know. The rules are that you're supposed to bestow the award to five people, that you must link to the person who gave it to you and post the rules for the recipients. But I think I'm going to break the rules a bit. For superior scribbling I am lavishing this award on Joanne at One So Blessed because I like her scribbling. Life just seems wonderful when I'm at her blog. And that's it.

You know, I often wonder how the whole blog award concept got started. I suppose one day somebody probably wanted to show off their blog friends with a little badge for their blog, and from there, bam, everybody in the world had a blog award.

And Like Tara, I too have way more blog friends than I have "real" friends! Not that I don't have any real friends in my real life, but From a Desperate Housewife is definitely more popular than the housewife.

So that's it, that was the equivalent of doing the laundry, taking out the trash and swiffing the floors in my blog world.




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