What Day Is It?

With the Christmas holidays starting late this year (12/23) and running halfway through January it seems, I keep forgetting which day it is. Especially when we go to Mass on Saturday afternoon instead of Sunday morning. I get all wonky with my days.

I ~think~ today is Sunday. It has to be because today was Sunday Sweets over at CakeWrecks. Isn't that scary? I'm checking the blogroll instead of the calendar to know what day it is?

Anyhow, the New Year Festivities™ are behind us, Christmas dec is taken down - not voluntarily - and there's only one week in the Octave of Christmas left. The ennui that I felt leading up to Christmas has been replaced by a sense of anticipation for what 2011 is going to bring. I've said I'm not making resolutions but rather looking to start a revolution. Because we all want to change the world. I'm not naive enough to think that I can change the world solo.

Can a blogger even change the world? Have I changed your world somehow?

I have to shout out to a few bloggers who have changed my perception of the world:

Joe George at Urban Simplicity
Jane Lebak at Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Jen at Epbot/CakeWrecks

If you were to ask me how these bloggers changed my perception of the world - and let's face it, perception is everything - I would say...

Joe - challenged me to look past the ordinary and slow down and appreciate life in the slow lane. I found his blog looking for a recipe for Ezekiel bread. I stayed for the rest. While I haven't climbed on my recently repaired bicycle yet and used it as an alternate form of transport, I'm really looking forward to it.

Jane - opened my eyes to the world of the supernatural in ways that I'd previously been ignorant of. I've "known" Jane online for almost a decade and she's funny and witty and wise. My world would be a much duller place without Jane in it.

Jen - is "local" to me in the sense that we live in the same metropolitan area. But we've never met in person. Life is like that sometimes. But between the funny that is CakeWrecks and the artsy inspiration that is Epbot, I feel connected somehow. Jen is the kind of person I would TOTALLY hang out with in meat life. Totally.

So, which bloggers have changed your perception of the world or made your world a better place? Leave a comment so I can check them out!

Housekeeping

I'm doing a little housekeeping and I'm going to be moving a lot of posts over to my "other" blog. It's specifically geared to retro life and vintage stuff and so most of my posts about sewing and stuff are headed over there.

This blog will be about the more random stuff happening in my life and my writing and stuff. There's just so much here that I feel it's better for everyone - ME included - if I clear the cobwebs and all and make it all neater. So stay tuned! Good things are happening!

TAG! I'm it!

So this thing keeps circulating the internet... It's like a big honking game of tag. And I've been tagged by Tabris - one of my favorite authors. The rules?

The rules of this meme are simple:
1. Link back to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Share six unimportant things about yourself.
4. Tag six random people at the end of your blog entry.
5. Let the tagged people know, by leaving a comment on their blogs.

So here goes:

Link back? Check!
Posted rules? Check!
Six unimportant things? Presonally, I don't think anything about me is unimportant... But hey...

1. I've owned 7 cars since 1992 while the Prince Consort had only one since 1994 9and we all know what happened to it. They are (in order) 1992 Ford Escort, 1987 Ford Taurus, 1992 Mazda Protege, 1990 Honda Prelude, 1988 Oldmsobile Cutlass, 1998 Ford Mustang convertible, 2002 Pt Cruiser.


2. I LOVE Starbucks skinny lattes. They take me to my happy place.


3. I use Natural Family Planning (NOT the "rhythm" method) to space my 3 kids.


4. I don't drink sodas EXCEPT for Diet Mountain Dew.


5. I once stayed up for 3 straight days without eating anything (stupid college kid trick) after drinking 24 cans of Mountain Dew in one night. I was like Charlie Pace from Lost as he was detoxing off the heroin.


6. I blog but no one in my family knows what my blog name is except for the Prince Consort.

Tag six random people? OK, here they are: Simcha, Chris, Suso, Michelle, Practical Polly, Johnny Virgil and they know who they are! Let the games begin!

Will wonders never cease?

It was with shock and awe (no really) that I opened up my Blogger dashboard today and found - for the first time ever - that my dashboard opened without me needing to input any information. Apparently, Blogger finally fixed the "save my password" glitch. WAHOO!