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Blogging is Stupid

Written on March 14, 2008 by Jennifer in blogging, haiku friday

Love/hate relation-
ship with blogging. So many
blogs. So little time.

There are days when I wake up and I’m feeling really jazzed about my blog. Yay! Comments are coming in! Yay! Everyone is writing such AWESOME STUFF! These awesome ladies are helping Lotus! Yay! I LOVE blogging!

Then there are days when I feel completely and utterly overwhelmed. Oh my God I have 20 new commenters whose blogs I haven’t visited. Oh my God, why don’t people like my post today? Why are my numbers so low? 1000+ unread in my Google Reader. Yikes. Blogging is stupid.

I know that there is an expectation of reciprocity in the blogosphere. You comment here, I return the favor. I link you, you leave a comment. You participate in Thursday Thirteen/Wordless Wednesday/Best Shot Monday/ Tackle it Tuesday/Haiku Friday, you’re expected to comment on other’s who are also participating.

Blogging has the power to take over your life if you allow it. I know that I feel an often overwhelming sense of responsibility to everyone in the blogosphere, despite saying that I blog guilt free. I don’t. There are so many of you out there that are so talented and witty, but it’s not possible with only 24 hours in each day to visit each and every person. I’m not certain where the balance lies.

This is what I’d like to know, just out of curiosity…

1. Do you comment only on blogs whose writer(s) return the favor?
2. What makes you comment? What makes you NOT comment?
3. Do you ever feel snubbed by another blogger? (Please don’t name names)
4. How do you feel about replying to comments? Is it absolutely necessary or does it give you the nervous tummy?
5. Do you feel like blogging sometimes gets in the way of your life?

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To play along for Haiku Friday, follow these steps:

1. Write your own haiku on your blog. You can do one or many, all following a theme or just random. What’s a haiku, you ask? Click here.

2. Sign the Mister Linky below with your name and the link to your haiku post (the specific post URL, not your generic blog URL). We will delete your link if it doesn’t go to a haiku. If you need help with this, contact Christina or myself. REMEMBER…ONLY sign Mr. Linky if you have a HAIKU POST.

3. Pick up a Haiku Friday button to display on the post or in your sidebar by clicking the button above.

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Thy Name is Suzie Homemaker and I Must Be Stopped

Written on March 7, 2008 by Jennifer in haiku friday, Happy Homemaking, Pictures

Thy name is Suzie
Homemaker. I bake cookies.
Bring on the butter.

Suzie Homemaker’s logic for baking oatmeal chocolate chip cookies…

1. OATmeal=HEALTHY. Even when the OATmeal is surrounded by butter, sugar, and chocolate chips.

2. There’s no need to add raisins to oatmeal cookies. This would be a healthy overload. The OATmeal is sufficient.

3. Butter is a better, healthier choice than Crisco or margarine. Crisco=lard. Margarine=weird hydrogenated oils. Butter=pure heaven from a cow. Therefore butter=healthy.

4. OATmeal (cookies) can indeed be a part of one day dieting. One must only eat half a cookie at a time. 8 halves of a cookie do not actually equal 4 cookies when you properly do cookie math. Cookie math is very complicated. No time to fully explain here, just trust me.

5. One must entertain the children on these long, cold winter days. What better than a enriching and educational lesson in measuring, mixing, baking, and tasting?

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Tackling the IMPORTANT Issues…Car Carts

Written on February 29, 2008 by Jennifer in Go Fly a Kite, haiku friday, meijer

Meijer has one hitch
Facking car grocery carts
Curse the inventor

Oh you KNOW the carts I’m talking about (buggies to my Southern readers!…how ya’ll doing? Enjoying your warm weather, are you while I’m suffering here in the PERMAFROST?)

It’s bad enough taking two kids grocery shopping. What makes it worse is trying to get a limp-noodle-screaming-banshee into a real cart after he’s seen one of those car carts. It’s an understatement to say that ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE.

I imagine that a very well meaning person (probably a MAN *ahem*) designed a car cart thinking, “THIS is a brilliant idea that will make shopping with kids FUN! and EASY!”

In a word, NO. In two words, FACK NO.

Firstly they are impossible to steer. Displays, other customers, food on shelves, ANYTHING AT ALL in the store is likely to be creamed by a rogue, out of control car cart. Secondly, they aren’t even a full size basket, so once you’ve put one kid in the seat and the other in the basket part, you now have room to buy lipstick and a greeting card. Lipstick and a greeting card WON’T FEED THE FAMILY.

So to conclude this tirade, I think we should write our congressmen about the very important issue of eradicating car carts from grocery stores across the nation. Sure we have other “important” issues like baseball players doing steroids and a Presidential election, but SURELY our congressmen would see the necessity of legislation banning car carts.

Who’s with me?

*crickets chirping*

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You Have Reached This Post in Error

Written on February 22, 2008 by Jennifer in haiku friday

Sorry to be missing out on all the fun of Haiku Friday!

Go see Christina to sign Mr. Linky and check out all of the fantastic haiku!

Later peeps.

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Standard Operating Procedures

Written on February 15, 2008 by Jennifer in haiku friday, Happy Homemaking, Quirky Me

I am curious
Dishwasher, laundry, TeePee
How do you do it?

(Sorry I think that haiku qualifies as the LAMEST one ever!) (Do I get a trophy for how terrible it is?)

I have some very pressing questions I’d like to ask. You know me, always tackling those controversial issues head on. Or not.

This is what I want to know…

1. When you load the dishwasher with silverware, do you put them in so that the handles go up or down?

For me, I prefer the handles to be up. This way when I go to unload the dishwasher, I’m not touching the part of the utensil that you eat off of, therefore it’s more sanitary. And me being a food safety freak, this makes it the RIGHT way.

As if one controversial issue wasn’t enough for today, here’s another one…

2. When doing laundry, do you start the water and add the detergent before or after you put the clothes in?

I put the clothes in THEN I start the water and add the detergent. It’s how I’ve always done it, even when it drove my roommate in college berserk when she saw how I did laundry. This is probably not the right way, and I haven’t ever read a washing machine’s owner manual to find out the proper procedure since I DO have a life.

And last, but certainly not least…something you could get really pissed about (pun intended)…

3. Toilet paper…over or under??

I could be tinkling at Oprah Winfrey herself’s house and if the toilet paper was coming from the underside of the roll, I’d be compelled to flip the roll around to fix it and make it RIGHT. Toilet paper MUST be dispensed over the roll.

*Clap, clap* Settle down now everyone. Settle down. Don’t everyone talk at once, there is a space for each of you to leave your dissenting opinions in the comments section.

No cat fights or name calling. Keep it clean, please.

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Goodnight Little Girl

Written on February 8, 2008 by Jennifer in haiku friday, playing along

Calm, quiet, just us
I hold you close and feed you
In my arms, you sleep

Eyes close, mouth agape
Relaxed, your arm slowly falls
Goodnight little girl

I place you in bed,
ever so gently. You stir,
but your thumb soothes you

The time I look forward to most each day is when I put Ella to bed. It’s the only time of the day that is free of distractions and noise. It’s the only time of the day that Ella will calmly eat. She is quickly losing interest in breastfeeding during the day, as I think she’s afraid she’ll miss out on the very exciting world around her. But at night, she nurses hungrily at first, then slowly drifts off to sleep.

Tate and I look in on her each night before we go to be ourselves. Seeing her lying on her side, soundly sleeping makes my heart lurch each and every time.

Just in case this is my last baby, I’m soaking her up.

To play along for Haiku Friday, follow these steps:

1. Write your own haiku on your blog. You can do one or many, all following a theme or just random. What’s a haiku, you ask? Click here.

3. Pick up a Haiku Friday button to display on the post or in your sidebar by clicking the button above.

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Dream Home

Written on February 1, 2008 by Jennifer in haiku friday, Indiana, Pictures

Ten homes weren’t “the one.”
Too colorful or too cracked
Where was Suzanne Whang?

Cue the music, folks
After the duds, we found “it”
Beautiful dream home

We close in three weeks!
I’m beside myself with joy!
Bring on the shopping!

**Sorry if you got this in your reader twice today, I had to delete the first one because it got all hoinked up and looked all screwy after I edited it.

To play along for Haiku Friday, follow these steps:

1. Write your own haiku on your blog. You can do one or many, all following a theme or just random. What’s a haiku, you ask? Click here.

3. Pick up a Haiku Friday button to display on the post or in your sidebar by clicking the button above.

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