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Daily Dose of Search – Vomit

8 Comments / Health and Wellness /

I always find it amusing to see other bloggers talk about the search phrases that are used to find their blogs and am pretty amused when I check mine.  I’ll even admit that I’m so amused that I check mine at least three times a day!  It isn’t about the number of visitors for me, it’s about the creative fashion in which they arrived here.  Some of the visits make sense – things like Denise, Melissa Ferrick and Sudacare Shower Soothers.  But blue vomit?  Who in their right mind searches for the phrase blue vomit? (whoever you are, if you are still searching, could you let me know why you are searching for this?)   And who knew that I’d be number seven on the Netscape search results for that phrase.  As far as I know, TW (the Queen of Vomit), Michelle (the Lady of the Court of Vomit), and E (the Princess of Vomit) have not vomited blue.  But apparently when I said " just out of the blue vomit" that was enough to get me the number three ranking!

What’s even more interesting is that there is a Rate My Vomit site which, you guessed it, encourages visitors to rank barf pictures.  DO NOT CLICK IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE SERIOUS BARF PHOTOS!!!  Even better, there’s a Barf Blog! Unfortunately, it isn’t really a blog (or maybe that’s fortunately – your call).  It’s a link to a Canadian Food Safety Network forum.  Someone ought to tell those Canadians that forums are not blogs. 

I bet nobody comes to your site in search of vomit, much less blue vomit, do they?  I’m special. 

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Daily Dose of Life – Plans Update

9 Comments / 101 Things /

It’s been a month since I created my 101 Things to do in 1001 Days list and I’ve actually stuck with it.  The list is often in the back of my mind when I’m thinking about my day or creating that little "mental to do" list every morning.  Weird.

If you click the link, you’ll see that not much has been completely crossed off but some items have little numbers next to them that indicate progress.  There are other areas where I almost hit the complete goal but didn’t quite make it. 

Take the #40.  We’ve only eaten out or ordered food 4 times, I think.  Pizza, McAllister’s,  food at the Medieval Faire last weekend and an after church visit to the Picadilly once.  That’s a huge change for us.  I mean HUGE.  I could probably scratch that off the list and call it done, but I won’t because I think we can manage a full month at some point in the next 969 days.  Maybe.

Progress has been made on the clean sweep pile, but it’s slow slow going. 

So there’s the update.  Having this list hasn’t killed me and it hasn’t forced me into the bedroom afraid to face the world either.  I think I’ll keep it.  Let’s see what progress I make in February – Anyone care to place a bet as to how I do?  What I can scratch off?  What I can update?

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Clearcut

2006, Books in Bed, GLBT /

I’m going to go on the record with this once more, because it’s been quite some time since I’ve needed to say it. Which is good because I use to have to say it everyday, back when that “curious” board still existed.

Threesomes are a bad idea

There, I said it. Again. Too bad Early, Zan and Reed did not ask my advice before the entered into that madness. But then again, if they had listened to me would Early have learned all of those great lessons? Not that those lessons did a whole lot of good for Zan or for Reed. But hey, one person came out of it bruised and battered but wiser than when he started, right? 1 out of 3, that’s not so bad, right?

I had trouble sticking with this one. Probably because I knew it was going to be a threesome thing and I knew that meant trouble. I wasn’t really in the mood for trouble. So, it took me a full week to read the first 133 pages. Then it took me a full day to read the last 150. Once I resigned myself to the trouble, it wasn’t a bad book. A little predictable (Threesomes are a bad idea, folks) but unusual in the setting and the characters. Though I suppose since we’ve got gay cowboys, gay logging guys shouldn’t feel that unusual should they. Oops, bisexual. Err ummm, polyamorous? Nah, if it had been polyamory it wouldn’t have ended as badly. Or maybe it would have. I don’t know. I don’t generally give advice about polyamorous relationships. Threesomes, I can advise on. Polyamory, not so much.

If you’re interested in a love triangle/sex triangle (M, M, F) with some interesting people (Though it would have been nice if Zan and Reed had been given more depth but what can you ask for in a book this short?) then Clearcut is your book. If you’re not into it, well I can’t blame you, because threesomes are trouble!

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Daily Dose of Health – BlogHer

8 Comments / Community Chest, Health and Wellness /

BlogHer has landed!  That’s right folks, the coolest network of women has launched.   This is one of the best things I’ve had the honor of being involved in – EVER.  Involved in?  Yes that’s right, I am not just attending the BlogHer Con, I. AM. INVOLVED! 

Yours truly has the honor and privilege of being one of three contributing editors for the BlogHer Health & Wellness topic.  Go me!  And go mipmup and Amanda too.

I hope you’ll stop by the BlogHer network and click into the blogs and the blogrolls.  And women bloggers, yea you, please add your blog to the blogher blogroll.  The more women we have visible the less likely we’ll be to hear the dumb phrase "where are the women bloggers"!  . 

If you know of a great health & wellness blog written by a woman please bring it to my attention, I’d be happy to visit and give her blog a mention in my BlogHer blog.

Gosh I’m lucky – I guess that Tarot Card on Saturday was right, wasn’t it?

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Daily Dose of Denise – Tarot

3 Comments / Day to Day, Memes and Quizzes, Personality /

You Are The Star


You represent the ultimate in truth and purity.
Insightful and illuminating, you provide guidance for others.
You also demonstrate unselfish, unconditional love.
You posses many spiritual gifts, including the ability to heal.

Your fortune:

Your future is looking brighter by the day.
The near future will be a time of both hope and healing.
Luck is about to come your way, perhaps the best luck you have ever seen.
Life is about to get a lot easier and much better!




Does this mean my washing machine will be working in the morning?


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Daily Dose of Lessons – Laundry

3 Comments / Day to Day, Pet Peeves /

I have learned a valuable lesson. Very valuable. Before you rant about the vast amount of laundry, be aware that the appliances are listening.



The washing machine is unhappy. It tries to agitate, it does not succeed. It won’t even try to spin. It is successful, however, at making a really horrible noise when attempting the agitation and ignoring the plea to spin.


I miss my washing machine. There is laundry to be done and I want to do it. Right now. Please washing machine. Forgive me for complaining. Forgive me for complaining and not taking the time to sing your praises. Pretty please, let me do laundry!


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Daily Dose of Frustration – Phone Books

4 Comments / Day to Day, Pet Peeves /

I’m sick of telephone books.  There’s another one laying at the end of our driveway right now.  The first one of the new year but it certainly won’t be the last.  I threw away two during the last clean sweep weekend.  There’s one under our bed. One in the office on top of the scanner.  One in Michelle’s room.  One on the library cart in the office.  One inside of the little cabinet in the office.  Did I mention I threw two away during the last clean sweep weekend? 

Enough already!

I don’t live in some big metropolis that requires 3 volumes for the yellow pages and 3 volumes for the white pages.  Heck, I don’t even need a phone book for the most part – unless the electricity or the internet is out, it’s faster and easier to just look at one of the yellow page services online.

Couldn’t we have a "do not deliver" list for phone books like the "do not call" list for telephone spammers?  I DON’T NEED ANOTHER PHONE BOOK!  Really I don’t. Now if someone would deliver cigarettes and coffee, that’s a delivery I could use. 

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Daily Dose of Queer – Sex

GLBT /

Darn, I didn’t even have time to rant about UF’s nice new domestic partner benefits clause that forced you to swear you are in a “non-platonic relationship” with your domestic partner. Now they’ve withdrawn that requirement. HMPH. That’s what I get for having so many children and so much work to do that I don’t have time to make fun of Gators when they deserve it. Darn Darn Darn.


Well at least now we can consider the benefit options – we couldn’t before since we’re not only too busy to blog about this issue, we’re also too busy to actually HAVE sex.

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