So it's late and I'm sitting here wanting to blog something but not really sure of what I want to say. Funny thing though, as I got on to see if anyone had commented I found out 1) I have a new follower...YAY!!! Not only do I stalk but I love to be stalked also! Welcome Stacy! No wait, not that you are a stalker but I love to be read 2) I really love all the songs on my playlist. Just in case you didn't know, each song was hand selected by me as a song that truly has significance to me, whether it's that it brings back a memory, I can play it or its just poignant to me. I love LOVE music so this little playlist you hear as you read my blog is actually a little piece of my heart. If you ever want to know what one of the songs mean to me or why it was included, just ask me. Maybe someday I'll just make a list of each one with an explanation. Who knows.

Also, gotta tell you just in case I hadn't announced it to the everyone, my mom's biopsy results came back negative. AMEN! We were concerned she was having a recurrence of breast cancer in a different form (Paget's) but it turns out it is nothing and I cannot even begin to type how very very much I am relieved. It took over two weeks to get the results, with several phone calls from me to the doctors office, to mom, back to the doctors office, to my sisters, to the doctors office, to mom....but we got them.

Ok, I'm off. Quick update for you and a resurrection of the smile list
1. Good music
2. The end of a Monday
3. Connecting with old friends
4. Making new friends
5. Happy children

Private Eye Babe here, reporting on the growing popularity of a previously mentioned phenomenon hitting Blogworld called…The Meme. My initial investigation has turned up some pretty interesting findings. Apparently blogging and meme’s go together like peas and carrots, or Forrest and Jen-nay. From the American Heritage Dictionary: meme (mēm) n. A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. To this point, I, too, am asking what the heck does that have to do with blogging. Let me explain further, friends. That definition apparently does not pertain to the blogging type of meme’s. In Blogworld, a meme is an idea or question that is passed among blogs. Say I post a question/statement regarding how you feel about something. An example would be to refer to my AHA blog below and then ask for any personal experiences, etc. You then share your take on it with others by talking about it on your blog, linking to mine and commenting on my post. I could name it something like ‘Tuesday’s Take’. I think even something like Wordless Wednesday would also be considered somewhat of a meme since I’ve seen it repeated on many other blogs. Not that I started that one, I copied it from someone’s blog, probably Elizabeth’s. So there you have it, folks. The meme has been explained. Private Eye Babe, at your service. I need more to investigate. Gimme ideas.

I would also like to do a little plug here for Jillian Michael’s ‘The 30 Day Shred’. It’s a relatively new workout DVD and HOLY COW is it awesome. I am loving it. Thank you, Sabrina, for suggesting it! I am on my second week and already I feel stronger and healthier. Sam and Lizzie are doing it with me, too. We’ll all be toned and firmed up and tight in no time. I have 2 girls at work that I’ve started on it. They like it as much as I do!


Ahhh…it’s Friday. What would be a good Friday Meme. Maybe I should look up what other folks are Memeing about on Friday. I think I saw one a long time ago so I’ll just do this Friday Four. Four things you cannot live without. Or Four things you think you cannot live without. Mine are as follows:

1. My God
2. My Family
3. My books
4. Mashed potatoes

There you have it. My essentials. Have a wonderful weekend and give me your Friday Four.

Did you know that there is a whole big bloggy world out there? You can do give-aways, you can get paid to blog about stuff (Fish Oil People – I want my money!), you can do these meme things ( I don’t know, I’m still researching and will make a full report once my covert mission is accomplished). I was traipsing around the blogworld and came across all these cool blogs where women do crafty things, moms do extraordinary things with their kids or husbands and then they all blog about and comment on each others crafty extraordinary family things. Is this one of those clicky things like high school? You know. OHMYGAWD Beth, look at Jenna’s new parachute pants! Lets go buy some in every color. LIKE, totally. OR is this just another way for women to reach out to other women to cope/deal/manage/empower their daily lives? I have a few blogs I read daily, or when they are updated and I don’t put them on my blogroll because I’m not sure if they would want me to link to them. I guess I could ask. I haven’t asked yet because I would feel like a cyberstalker. Although with my bloggy blinders coming off, I am thinking this would actually be acceptable behavior for me to comment a random blogger with “Hey, love your blog, can I add you to my blogroll?” Maybe I should. I’ll let you know how that one goes too.

I started thinking I might actually like to get into this click. I was never really a click kind of girl. Ok, fine. I had ONE pair of parachute pants. But I’m not sure my blog is what they are looking for. I mean, mine is for my own personal triumphs, failures, struggles. My own personal stuff. I write about whatever is going through my mind that particular day, or I use it as a soapbox to get out my views on things or just to tell the happenstance viewer about my family. I don’t do crafty, I don’t take my kids to every single opportunity thing happening, I’m not in a mom’s club, never caught the scrapbook bug, not really a big social network kind of gal. So I don’t think I am what they are looking for, let alone my blog. Not that I mind. At all. I’ve never been a conformist and I do NOT intend to start now. I do my own thing and if it’s considered IN, then well, fine. If not, well then fine too. I’m not easily swayed by fads or whatever is vogue.

I’m just amazed, though, by this blogworld that I’ve unknowingly been a part of for four years. Was this hype all going on four years ago? I have no idea. Do I want to delve myself into this all consuming world of network-come-self-journalism? I don’t think so. I will continue to post things about my life or my views or my family or the occasional goose or two. I will continue to read the blogs that interest me. I may be so inclined to add an advertisement or two, please reference the blogaholics anonymous icon in the left margin. But I don’t think I’m that ‘in’ to the rest of it. And it’s ok if you are. I thought Jenna looked awesome in her rainbow suite of parachute pants. I really did. But the swish-swish of conformity clamor just wasn’t my style then and it still isn’t.