Toni has tagged me!

5 people who will be annoyed you tagged them.

- Manda
- Henny
- Ranee
- Lori
- Crissy

4 things that should go into room 101 and be removed from the face of the earth.

- Temperatures that exceed 85-89ºF
- All of this cat fur. Quick, someone toss me a razor!
- Some of the celebrities that our youth have to look up to.
- Diseases like Cancer, AIDS.. and the like.

3 things people do that make you want to shake them violently.

- My ex-boss’ inability to say “my” or “mine” - it was always “mineses”.
- Drivers who aren’t paying attention to the road because they’re yapping on their cell.
- Parents who do not watch their children.

2 things you find yourself moaning about.

- The heat. I hate being hot. I would rather freeze, thank you.
- Driving. I’ve gotten to the point where I hate doing it.

1 thing the above answers tell you about yourself.

- I have a low tolerance for the heat, most drivers and ignorant people. lol

RULES

- Link to the original meme at freelancecynic.com so people know what it’s all about!
- Be as honest as possible, This is about letting people get to know the real you!
- Try not to insult anyone - unless they really deserve it or are very, very ugly!
- Post these rules at the end of every meme!

It appears there’s a sore loser in the bunch of participants for the caption a childhood photo contest. Seriously, how pathetic? Are you that upset about losing that you send your friends here to comment? Grow up. The contest was meant for FUN. There’s no reason anyone should get their knickers in a bunch over it and if you do, that’s just sad.

Next time, save yourself the time and effort and just not participate because it’s really stupid to enter a contest that’s supposed to be fun and then get pissy if you don’t win.

Edit; To “Les” (nineunknownmen)… Your comment will not be approved but just in response - we’ll have to agree to disagree. I just wonder who you are and why you felt the need to jump out of the woodworks to criticize the decision. It’s a shame people like you go out of your way to be negative over something that’s meant to be FUN.

Back on July 18th, I began a new contest - Caption a childhood photo. The deadline for submissions was July 26th and I must say, there was serious LOL going on! Thank you for the laughs, to everyone who participated.

After going through the submissions, I’ve picked a winner, with the assistance of my husband.

And the winner is…. Drum roll please….

Jade of Sweet-catastrophe.com.

Jade, I will be sending you an email shortly, congratulations!

You may recall from recent entries, that Jo’s been having some back trouble. He’s seen the doctor twice now. He came home early from work yesterday because the pain became so unbearable, that he had to take one of his pills. Of course, after doing so he was unable to operate any equipment and they allowed him to come home. It didn’t count against him because he worked just past half the day. Well, I was just fixing to hop back into bed for a nap when the phone rang. It was Jo. He’s seeing the paramedic where he works, has been given the name of a new MD to see this week and is coming home early. Whatever he was moving today, was heavier than what he normally moves and after almost 2 hours of work, his back is worse off than it was before. He can’t bend over or stretch his arms above his head.

I hate it when he’s sick but especially when he’s down like this. It just seems like nothing makes him comfortable or eases the pain. I hope this new doctor is going to actually do something. Jo said the last one only visited with him for about 2 minutes each time. We should have expected this though, considering this doctor charges people for work excuses and that’s really what it seems like everyone was there for.. except Jo. sigh

I have spent the last week or so doing a lot of blog hopping. In doing so, I’ve found quite a few fabulous blogs that I’ve decided to not only give a little linky love to, but also add to my blogroll!

First, there’s Neptunebaby.com. I absolutely love the layout this site is sporting. It’s one of the cutest I’ve seen in a long, long time! The second the page loaded, I knew it was going straight to my blogroll and that it’d surely become a daily favorite! In a recent entry, Toni writes about starting a new job after 3 months of training! When she mentioned that it was pretty fast paced, it reminded me of when I used to work in the ER - like I commented, it made me think of the nights where I seriously thought I was in two places at once because it would be so dern busy! I think she’ll be able to keep up! Be sure to stop by because this is a great read!

Next we have Krississippi.com. When I read the domain name the first time, I thought “K - i - crooked letter - crooked letter…”, I thought it was such a cute domain name! She recently wrote about the passing of not one, but 3 of the family’s pet fish. It reminded me of when I thought the idea of owning “Beta fish” was a good idea. Sadly, they last about as long as a houseplant does for me (roughly a week). This another great read! Krissi also has a couple of other blogs - mykidney.com.blog where she documents life with kidney disease, dialysis and organ transplant, worldadopt.org where she blogs about the adoption of her son Alek from the Ukraine (I think Ranee is going to love this blog). Adoption is something my husband and I will eventually look to, since we’re unable to have our own children, so this is a fun and inspiring blog for me to read!

Next is Blue-bus. Like me, Stephanie enjoys photography and it shows. I was browsing through her flickr gallery earlier and all I have to say is WOW. She has some of the coolest self portraits. Jealousy is an understatement! She’s definitely got skills. She’s currently involved with the 365days group on flickr, which I really, really miss. She wrote an entry about Summer almost being gone, where she’s talking about sleeping trouble. I feel her pain. I’ve been struggling with the same thing for a few weeks.

Finally, blogsweluv.com, which is a project by my good friend Mike and his good friend Tish. It’s a fabulous project because they share unique blogs with their readers. Maybe you’ll even find your own blog has been “luved”! They’re participating in the 2007 Blogathon!

These are just a few of the recent blogs (there are quite a few more I will blog about tomorrow) I’ve stumbled on and felt I just had to share them with all of you! Be sure to check them all out. They’re all fun, interesting reads.

Why are you still here? Start blog-hopping!