Christine is an Avenger of Sexiness. Her Superpower is helping Hot Mamas grow their Confidence by rediscovering their Beauty. She lives in the Heights in Houston, Texas, works as a boudoir photographer, and writes about running a Business of Awesome. In her spare time, she loves to knit, especially when she travels. She & her husband Mike have a food blog at Spoon & Knife.
Remember cutting out paper snowflakes when you were in school? I love snowflakes – matter of fact, my Christmas tree always ends up with a ton of snowflake ornaments – I can’t get enough of them. So I’ve now made countless “paper snowflakes” online, thanks to Make-a-Flake Wheeee! What fun! [mad props to Kristin]
For your amusement and laughter: Mom Finds Out About Blog. Thank goodness the day my Mom found mine wasn’t quite that traumatic!
I’ve met a number of people participating in the Urban Tribes Virtual Book Tour in person – mainly at SXSW. They are all wonderful and amazing people, and genuinely really nice. Even still – my heart skips a beat when I see my name on Matt Haughey’s site. He is the latest stop on the Virtual Book Tour. Matt goes more in to how Urban Tribes exist in the blogosphere, another spin on the whole thing.
In case you missed them earlier in the week, the tour also stopped at James McNally’s Consolation Champs, Geoffrey Long’s Inkblots Magazine, Shannon Okey’s Bitter-Girl (one of the few Boston bloggers I haven’t met!), and tomorrow the tour will wrap up at Heather Champ’s hchamp. It’s been really interesting to see everyone’s feedback and opinion on the book.
It is about freakin’ time! One of my all time favorite movies EVER is Woo and they are FINALLY releasing it on DVD! Yes, Woo. Woooooo! I laugh to the point of tears every time I watch this movie. Matter of fact, even though I am weak and sick and puny feeling, I just unpacked two boxes of video tapes just to find my copy because I want to watch it tonight. I need a good laugh, and I know that Woo can give it to me. They have put almost every movie out on DVD – why do I have to wait until January 2004 for Woo? *sigh* For now, the video will have to do. But I can’t wait to own it on DVD!
Do you ever have one of those movies that you and your friends quote all the lines from? Chelsey made me watch this movie a few years ago (probably back in 1998), and even now we quote everything. Crayola, Purina, the orange pleather jumpsuit, “Call me on 9-1-1, I’ll get it” – even the amusing sound that the car alarm makes when they leave the club. Seriously, if you haven’t seen this movie – I promise, you’re missing a good one! Wooooooooo! *snapping motion in the air*
Jason went camping this weekend with the Boy Scouts, and I was looking forward to some down time. Get together with the Friday Gaggle of Friends, take my bike for a nice long ride today (just 5 months until the MS 150!) and maybe even head in to downtown to take some pictures.
Instead I woke up yesterday with an incredibly sore throat, and today the sore throat is gone but I can’t breath and my ears are all crackly every time I swallow. Thankfully, Mike was kind enough to go to the store for me to get me some medicine, and some down time seems to be helping – but damn it! I had things I wanted to do this weekend! Being sick sucks, you know?
Oh, and if you’re waiting on me for access to the post below – soon, I promise. I had friends to take care of last night and it was much more important then being online.
Ugh. I think it’s time to go back to bed…
I use the “Restricted Posts” feature on my blog so rarely, I have to remind everyone of this whenever I do: I restrict posts to keep them out of Google and away from people at work. So if you work with me, I probably won’t grant you access. If you are ANYONE else, I probably will grant you access. If you leave a comment on my blog at any time, I will probably grant you access. If I haven’t granted you access yet, just ask. I always get e-mails where people say they don’t want to pry into my private life, or they were afraid to ask before or stuff like that. Really, it’s ok. I *want* you to ask.
Oh, and I mentioned comments there. Feel free to comment liberally. If you want to comment on every single post I write – feel free to do so. If you want to disagree with me, go right ahead. If you want to question me about what I wrote, I’m open to that too. Anything goes in my comments. (Well, no outright flame wars. Those normally don’t happen here anyways – you guys really are all so well behaved!)
Jennifer and I were talking the other day, and I brought up a comment discussion we had had before. Unless I am speed surfing and really don’t have time to comment (unfortunately a lot lately), I will comment all over the place. I comment all the time. I love to leave comments. Speed surfing frustrates me because of the lack of time. I feel like you are talking to me through your blog – and I like to talk back. It’s sort of like saying, “I’m listening…” But the issue came up about the flip side of blogging – what you do when you read something traumatic? Someone’s grandmother passed away, someone’s uncle has cancer, someone’s dog was hit by a car. Do you comment?
I normally do. If you told me in person about anything like that, I would respond – and so I do the same on blogs. In many ways, for me, blogs are my “Urban Tribe”. It helps that I have met so many bloggers in person across the country, and that we have a great blog community here in Houston. The discussion actually started with Jenn because … well, this is going to sound really cheesy and I know it … because I posted about Jason breaking his arm and some people that I would have expected to say something, anything – said nothing. Add to the fact that Tuesday was a bad day (as you can read about in the restricted access post after I give you access), and I was just being whiney. She talked me down off the proverbial ledge and all was good in the end, but for awhile – it bugged me. I can’t deny it.
So, back to the point of the post – I want to know that you are out there. I want to know what you think, how you feel. Even if you don’t have a blog at all – that’s ok. I know there are many people that read blogs even though they don’t have one – I think that’s mighty cool.
Oh! And as an added perk – if you leave comments on my site, you will be listed in my sidebar with my cool little most recent commenter script that Ste (who has returned to blogging! Yeah!) wrote for me. It’s like a whole win-win situation!
There you have it. My open invitation to request access to restricted posts and leave comments all over the place. You’re always welcome here…