Samantha!
We ended up not choosing any of the suggested blog names (although I did quite enjoy them!) None of them felt right, so we’re continuing to consider our options. Samantha won in a random drawing
Sam, since you’re local, the prize options are a little more open than they would be otherwise. Let me know if there’s something in particular you’re interested in. 🙂 I’ll make sure I blog the finished result, with pictures.
Sorry, folks. I was out of commission there for a while, and I’ve been desperately trying to get caught up with life.
Rand and I will have to confer on the blog name possibilities. I will make an effort to do that this weekend. If we don’t choose one, I will draw a random winner on Monday, May 18. (Oh, and if there’s anyone out there who still wants to participate, let me know. I could probably be persuaded to accept some late entries.)
I have lots of things to say, and very little energy/motivation to say them. So on that note…onward to Friday!
That’s how I feel right now.
I woke up yesterday with a scratchy throat. I woke up this morning feeling mildly icky, but not icky enough to warrant staying home. I’ve been consuming liquids like a madwoman all day.
Since sometime this afternoon, I’ve been sneezy/sniffly with a bit of a headache. I did have a slightly high temperature a while ago, but I think it’s gone now. I’m pretty sure we’re dealing with a run-of-the-mill cold and not ZOMGswinefluPANIC!!! (If I call in sick to work, by the way, I’m supposed to report whether or not I have “flu-like symptoms”)
I did somewhat prepare for the possibility of being out tomorrow…right now, I’m thinking it would probably be a good idea to stay home and rest and not continue to infect people.
Yeah. Anyway.
Don’t forget to enter my name that blog! contest. 🙂
Thanks to those of you who have entered my Name that Blog! contest.
I’ve decided to extend the entry deadline until the end of this week–midnight on May 8th. I’ve also decided that in the event that we don’t choose any of the entries, I will select a random winner from all the participants.
Please leave entries on the original post, linked above. Thanks!
*UPDATE*
deadline extended to this Friday, May 8
As you may recall (or may have noticed), I’ve been having a bit of a blog identity crisis for a while now.
I’m not closing up shop, but I do have a new blog project in mind…something that I hope will get my blogging juices flowing again. Rand and I have been talking for quite some time about starting a pop culture/entertainment blog. We’ve got lots of ideas. What we lack, however, is a name.
I am notoriously terrible at naming/titling things.
So I am turning to you, dear readers. Can you help me name this new blog? If you provide us with a name we like, I’ll send you a prize!
Here are my options for prizes:
1. I just discovered that I have an extra copy of On Writing
2. If that doesn’t do it for you, how about baked goods? I have a few options of things I think will mail well, which I will offer the winner.
That’s it! Contest starts now, and ends…let’s say May 4. 😀
The farewell post that I nearly forgot…
It’s been fun. Really. I’d like to thank Mike over at Royal Toybox for doing this again, everyone who participated, and everyone who bothers to read what I blather on about here on a regular basis.
I’ve been at this blogging thing for a while now…since the fall of 2003, to be exact…and the blog has seen me through a lot. I’ve connected to some amazing people and got my face in the newspaper on more than one occasion because of it. I’m grateful for that.
The way I blog and the things I blog about have changed, for sure, but I’m okay with that. I definitely don’t post as frequently as I used to, and I’m okay with that too.
Anyway…see ya around, BufBloPoFoers. It’s been real. 😉
I’m avoiding doing real work, so I went theme browsing. I want to do some more playing around (including adding a custom header image), but in the meantime, what do you think?
Oh, and WordPress just made my life a whole lot easier by giving me the ability to automatically update my WordPress installation with the click of a button. Hurrah for technology. 😉
So yeah, it’s been pretty quiet around here…between the craziness of before Christmas, during Christmas, post-Christmas traveling and getting back to school, there just hasn’t been a lot of free time. And what little I’ve had, I’ve mostly spent vegging out on the couch.
I’m starting to settle back into my daily routine here…although it hasn’t been easy…and one of these days I’ll sit down to tell some tales of our travels. (I don’t know what my problem is, but I can’t seem to focus for long enough to write a proper blog entry these days. As it is, I’ve already revisited this post three times, not even two paragraphs in. Sigh.)
I’m very happy to see the weekend looming on the horizon. I’m realizing that it’s been a while since we had a full week of school, and today just dragged. The kids are goofy, and I’m exhausted.
In other news, I stepped on a scale over Christmas break, and I was appropriately horrified. I am the heaviest I’ve ever been. So this Monday, I joined up with my school’s “Biggest Loser” contest…not because I have any delusions about winning, but because it will keep me honest. I have to weigh in every Monday, and if I gain, I have to pay. I’ve been trying to be better about what and how much I’m eating and drinking this week. Next step–exercise. I want to feel like I need to join a gym, because I will never, ever exercise outside in the winter. (in addition to hating being cold and wet, I’m mildly asthmatic. Breathing the cold air=wheezing.) And when I’m at home, well, it’s way too easy to get sucked into other stuff. I dread this. There’s a BAC for Women close by, which is probably my best option…but I hate them for their hard selling and relentless phone calls. Also, I hate that I can’t go to their website and find out how much a membership is. I have to go there and listen to a sales person yammer at me, and I don’t want to do it. There is also a Planet Fitness nearby which has the advantages of being very reasonably priced and gives me the ability to sign up online. However, Planet Fitness is equipment-only…no classes. I like classes. So, what to do? (Suggestions welcome)
And that’s it for me. (ooh, goody! a whole post completed!) Happy-almost-weekend!
Not talking about my actual house, but about the blog…I want to change my template, but the thought of actually changing my template makes me want to die inside. I was thinking perhaps an exchange could be made…help with template in exchange for, oh, I dunno, cookies maybe?
I very seriously considered hopping to wordpress.com, until I discovered that eringoblog.wordpress.com is taken. By someone who is not using it. Meh.
I also need to clean up my sidebar. Let me know if I’ve got you linked and the link is broken or out-of-date, and I will be sure to fix it.
Thanks!
In other news, I am so far behind on so many things…I’m certainly going to enjoy my day off tomorrow! Hey, maybe I’ll even write an actual blog post with actual content. Later!
A full week ago (plus a couple of days…) I received my Blogging-by-Mail package from Holly, and it is pretty awesome. Seen in the photo–a calligraphy quill (that I have yet to take out of the package), a hazelnut candle, whole nutmeg, chocolate gingerbread cookies, and a spice grater (for the nutmeg, of course!). Not seen in the photo is a very nice jar that the cookies came in. The cookie recipe is in the post I linked to above.
I love participating in this event, and I want to thank my dear friend Stephanie for doing such a great job of coordinating it!
You can read about the package I sent to Natalie here. (I owe her some recipes, which I’ve promised to post here…soon, I swear!)