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• Makes-Me-Smile Monday, carnivals, giveaway

  Free Publicity For Your Blog and a New Kind of Carnival

  04.23.08 | Permalink | 31 Comments

  I hope you diehard bloggers aren’t suffering massive finger fatigue from the Bloggy Giveaways Carnival. Or, if you are, I hope you at least win millions of good things. I don’t know if anyone will notice my little link here at the tail end, but what I’m offering is completely priceless: Free Publicity For Life [...]

• Family, Makes-Me-Smile Monday, carnivals, giveaway

  Makes-Me-Smile Monday: Some Kind of Wonderful

  04.06.08 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  There are no secrets in my family. Well, there might be one or two, but I have no idea what they are. We talk about everything, especially meaty things some people consider indelicate, like politics and religion and sex and marriage and how do you enjoy raising your kids when they whine all the time? [...]

• Makes-Me-Smile Monday, blogging, carnivals, giveaway

  A Giveaway, A Giveaway! My Kingdom for a Giveaway!

  04.03.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Or, as the Freakonomists would say, some schwag. Monday, April 7th marks the second edition of the Makes-Me-Smile Monday Carnival this time around. While I was very happy with the quality of the participants last time, the quantity left something to be desired, and, as I said to my higher-minded friend Melinda, sometimes I admit [...]

• carnivals, recipes

  Even better than brownies

  04.02.08 | Permalink | 23 Comments

  I know, I know, I’m afraid for my eternal salvation too. You just shouldn’t go around saying blasphemous things, however cool you think you want to be. But, it’s true. I cannot deny that I have found something even better than Duncan Hines bulk brownie mix: Homemade Oreos. Not those nasty “homemade” things that involve [...]

• blogging, carnivals

  I’m Jane, and I’m neither a size 2 nor 18-years old

  03.29.08 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  First, I want to tell you that I have, after seven long years and much tedious clicking of links and inputting of my personal data, visited all those wonderful bloggers who commented on my Ultimate Blog Party post. At times I got discouraged had to take a potty break, but I tarried forth, because I [...]

• blogging, carnivals

  Makes-Me-Smile Monday: the Thinkin’ Bloggers Carnival

  03.26.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I started hosting the MMSM carnival about a year ago, and then stopped six months ago when we moved across the country. I miss the interaction and the focused/directed writing of the carnival, though not the mindless terror of fearing that, this Monday, no one might participate. I enjoy the Rocks in My Dryer WFMW [...]

• carnivals, fight the frump

  Embrace the Frump, I always say, UPDATED

  03.14.08 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  Fun as it is to abbreviate the Fight the Frump carnival as F the F, I can’t in all good conscience aspire to fighting the frump. I’m much more inclined to embrace the frump, and after much soul-searching perusal of others’ F the F posts, I’ve figured out why. Specifically, this post by The Queen [...]

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