Calling All Wanna Be Bloggers

I'm thinking about having a little get-together for anyone that wants to start their own blog. I am no professional by any means but I do think I could get someone started and thought if any one, a few of you, or hundreds of you (ha ha) wanted to get one started I'd love to help. Please post a comment below (you don't have to have a google/blogger identity to leave a comment, just click name/url under identity) or e-mail me.

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Once I know if anyone is interested we can pick a day and you can just come over with your laptop (or you can use mine), pictures (either loaded on your computer or on a memory card) and yourself and you can start one.

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It really is unbelievably easy (and free) and a great way to keep friends and family near and far updated on what you (or mainly in my case - my girls and my television) are doing.

Christy Needs

I really need to be out the door, running errands but I made the mistake of checking e-mail and blogworld before I left so here I am...laughing at this from Mitzi's site. Go to Google and type in "____________(your name in the blank) needs".

Here are mine and you will probably laugh! I kid you not, these are four from the first page!
1. Christy needs to blog. (I promise this was number one!)
2. Christy needs a new computer. (Well, with all that blogging, two would be better than one)
3. Christy needs an intervention. (For all the blogging?)
4. Christy needs help. (Again, for all the blogging?)

And a couple more interesting things listed (I only looked at the first two pages):
5. Christy is dying (did someone take my blog away?)
6. Christy needs to breed, breed, breed. (No thanks, I think - and hope - this Christy is a dog).
7. Doug Christ(ie) needs to grow a pair.
8. Christy needs to take a picture of her new socks.
9. Christy needs to take a good long look in the mirror (again with the judging about all the blogging).
10. Seriously - a link that takes you to a place that talks about googling "Christy Needs".

Your turn, what do you need?

The Internet is Getting Out of Control...

...and I love it! Do you ever blog about the twitter on facebook at myspace? Probably not but you probably could!

Blogs

I've been blogging for about a year and three months. What originally started as a blog for family and friends to keep caught up with the girls turned into three. I call them all therapy (does that make you my therapist?).

Myspace

I joined the myspace world last summer (I think). But you probably can't find me and I'm not at all active there. I only did it so I could see pictures from my brother's car accident. Seriously, my only friends are Tom and my brother Neal. I don't like myspace because I think it's busy. All those things that go blinky and flashy and that moving animation - stroke inducing. Even if you keep your page all clean and simple, someone might send you something that is blinky and flashy. Am I getting old?

Facebook

Added a few months ago. Similar to myspace but not so busy. Even the "busy" stuff is packaged nicely (okay, I AM getting old!). I am a little active on this so add me as a friend if you are too!

Twitter

Fun. The site describes it as "Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?". It's like "Status" on Facebook but you can also text what you are doing. You also have option to receive texts of what your friends are doing.

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Who says we are all losing contact with each other because we are sitting at our computers? I know a lot more about some of you than I ever would BECAUSE of the computer!

My Own Version of an Awards Ceremony.

Thanks Mitzi for this award! I LOVE reading everyone's blogs so it's hard for me to choose who to pass it along to. I have to break it down into my own subcategories:
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Lifetime Achievement - Lindsay and Mitzi

Both were my inspiration for starting my own blog (mentioned here in my very first post). Who knew that my one blog would turn into three (and be the subject for endless teasing from a certain friend's husband - you know who you are, how about teasing to my face!). They also are so great about leaving comments which I LOVE.

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Best New Blogger - Traci

Seriously - I dropped Kendall off, showed her how to get started and I truly think she had it up and going by the time I got home (about a minute away).

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Congratulations ladies, and feel free to take all the time in the world for your acceptance speeches, I will not cut you off with music!

A YUMMY Giveaway!

I'm giving away a wonderful cookbook! How you ask? Keep reading this post about Touch a Truck and Add Another Place Setting and leave a comment for one entry. If you refer a friend to enter and they mention you sent them you will get another entry (and they will be entered too). The winner will recieve a copy of Add Another Place Setting cookbook. It's as easy as preparing the yummy Baked Spaghetti on page 38!

Please be sure to leave a way for me to contact you if you don't have your comments set up where they leave an e-mail for reply. Comments must be left by Midnight on May 1st. Winner will be announced as soon as I can after that (I'm without internet because of the move so please bear with me!!).

Break out your hard hats and get ready for another great time at Touch a Truck 2009! Kids of all ages can climb, discover and explore vehicles of all types including helicopters, construction vehicles, emergency vehicles, motorcycles and big rigs. Kids can build items with the Home Depot crew or talk with SpongeBob Square Pants and Strike with the Northwest Arkansas Naturals too. Attendees can win great prizes including bicycles, a family campsite set and gift certificates. Touch a Truck is Saturday, May 2, from 10a.m. to 2p.m. at the John Q. Hammons Center in Rogers. Admission is $5/person or $20/family and can be purchased at JuniorLeagueNWA.org, by calling 479.751.7054, or at the gate the day of the event. Proceeds from this event will help fund various projects sponsored by the Junior League of Northwest Arkansas.Need a unique Mother's Day, Wedding, or Graduation gift to show how much you care? I recommend Add Another Place Setting; a quality, award-winning cookbook with more than 200 of the best recipes from the Junior League of Northwest Arkansas. This book tells the story of Northwest Arkansas through full-color, professional photographs, recipes and interesting sidebars.The title (as explained on the back cover) is based on the incredible growth and thriving economy of our area. Our response to this growth is one of timeless Southern tradition and hospitality. When someone comes to the door at dinnertime, we Add Another Place Setting.Cookbooks are available at http://www.juniorleaguenwa.org/ as well as the following fine retail locations:
§ So Inviting, Fiesta Square, Fayetteville
§ Party House, Fayetteville
§ Richard's Meat Market, Fayetteville
§ Barnes & Noble, NW Arkansas Locations
§ Signed, Sealed & Delivered, Rogers
§ Borders Books, Rogers
§ XNA Gift Shop, Bentonville
§ B Larue, Bentonville
§ Occasions, Siloam Springs
§ Smith Drug/The Corner, Gentry
§ Shelby's Gifts, Harrison
§ Betsy's Antiques & Gifts, Fort Smith
§ Inscriptions, Fort Smith
§ Creative Kitchen, Fort Smith
§ Millynn's, Dardanelle
§ Copper Pig, Russellville
§ Catering To You, Little Rock
§ The Full Moon, Little Rock
§ WPR Auxiliary Gift Shop, Little Rock
§ Vintage Cargo, Eureka Springs
§ Slaughter House Gifts, El Dorado
§ Wooden Spoon Restaurant, Gentry
§ Jepson Drug, Siloam Springs
§ Washington Regional Hospital Gift Shop
§ Melody's Choices, Fayetteville§ B&J Jewelers, Pine Bluff

Can Someone Please Like This Sweater Vest?

It was so cute on display in the store. I'm begging for someone else to like it!

Mackenzie and I were doing a little shopping the other day and I saw this and loved it. She, did not. I liked it so much that I showed it online to Peyton because I really wanted one of my girls to like it and wear it. She, also, did not.