The Weeklies ~ Week 33

[tweetmeme] The Weekly Re-cap: I shared pictures of “Mama’s Lil’ Cutie” Isabella.  We learned about those rubber things that hang off the back of cars.  I shared the results of the poll about who you think Brenda will end up with on General Hospital and how thrilled I am that she’s back!!  I shared the recipe for Spicy Shrimp with Pasta that I love!!  I told you about something cool and FREE to do this weekend!!  Lastly I guest blogged over on the TU Biker’s Blog that Michael writes.  I wrote a post about proper riding footwear.

The Weekly Note to Readers: There are BIG changes coming in the next few weeks!!  Stay tuned for the big news 🙂

The Weekly Movie: Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure – I love the movie now just as much as I did back in 1989!  Granted, I’ve been calling everyone Dude for the last couple days – small side-effect of the movie….

The Weekly Downer: I haven’t been getting enough sleep lately and it’s making me cranky.  I really need to try hard to get back onto a normal sleeping schedule….

The Weekly Food: Banana & cubanelle peppers from the garden, home-grown tomatoes & American cheese, turkey sandwiches, Trader Joe’s baked cheese crunchies, and sloppy joes.

The Weekly Amazing Fact: The Brooklyn Bridge was opened for use on May 24, 1883.  On that day 1,800 vehicles and 150,300 people crossed the bridge.

The Weekly Birthdays: Vicki Vosburgh, Tami Bates Carlaw, Leigh Cummings, Tim Hennessey, Sam Lauridsen, and Tracy Kutey Colangione.  I hope you all had wonderful birthdays!!  Leave a comment to tell us what you did to celebrate your birthday!!

The Weekly Activity: We went to The Bronx Zoo and then to The Brooklyn Bridge with Michael’s Photo Group and we had a great time!!

The Weekly new people I’ve found on Twitter: Arbonne Forever, MSF_USA, Sensible Spender, CS_Albany, & Brugo Mug

The Weekly Charity I’m Pimping: LaDorka’s – National Multiple Sclerosis Walk
These women are incredible and walking for a good cause.  Please donate whatever you can.  They have a hefty goal.  Every dollar gets them closer to a cure for MS.

The Weekly Countdown:
Dutchess County Fair: 10 Days
No Destination Poker Run: 14 Days
Labor Day: 23 Days
Breaking Dawn Movie Premier: 461 Days

Change image from: http://vaynermedia.com
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure image from: http://www.horreur.net/fiche.php?nom=Keanu%20Reeves
Birthday Cake image from: http://marinasulaimantaha.blogspot.com/2010/07/colorful-birthday-cake.html
Brooklyn Bridge image from: Michael T. Henry Photography
LaDorka’s inage from: http://main.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR/Challenge/WIGChallengeWalkEvents?pg=team&fr_id=13099&team_id=178556

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The Weeklies ~ Week 28

108 Degrees in the sun on Thursday!

The Weekly Re-cap: I told you about my library – my Quiet Home Away From Home and the 4th of July.  I posted up my 1st poll – about your library use.  I helped a friend interpret her dreams about tornadoes and told you the history behind soap operas.  Last but certainly not least, I continued my interview series with an interview of my Mom 🙂

The Weekly Read: The Everything Blogging Book and Shift Your Habit.

The Weekly Music: EdXeno sang/rapped Vanilla Ice’s –  Ice Ice Baby during karaoke at Elda’s on Lark and it was awesome!

The Weekly Movie: We went to a pre-screened of the movie Cyrus.  It had it’s funny moments for sure, but I think they could have done more with the story to make it more interesting or humorous.  Not awesome but not bad either.
We also watched The Spy Next Door.  I always like Jackie Chan movies 🙂

Lucky

The Weekly Downer: A baby bunny falling into the pool and ending up in the skimmer 😦

The Weekly Good Karma: Michael rescuing the bunny out of the skimmer and us getting to spend and hour or two with ‘Lucky’ before we released him back into the wild.  Click the link – you know you want to!  The bunny was so cute!

The Weekly Interesting Facts: Since we met Lucky why not learn about rabbits 🙂  Rabbit facts found here.

• A male rabbit is called a buck and a female rabbit is called a doe.
• A rabbit can see behind himself, without turning his head, but has a blind spot in front of his face.
• A rabbit sweats through the pads on its feet.
• Domestic rabbits cannot breed with wild rabbits.
• Rabbits are the most active at dawn and dusk.
• Rabbits can jump to a height of more than 36 inches.
• Rabbits can purr, just like a cat.
• Rabbits cannot vomit.

The Weekly Food: Steak, Portabellas and Zucchini on the grill and Chocolate Zucchini Bread.

The Weekly OMG: I swam in my pool for the first time this week!!  This is the 4th summer I’ve owned my pool!

Yummy Coconut Birthday Cake!

The Weekly Birthdays: Ryan Jones, Erin Carlotto, Jean Languish, and Kevin Mowry.  I hope you all have wonderful birthdays!!  Leave a comment and tell me what you did to celebrate!

The Weekly Activity: Celebrating Independence Day.  Bella & I also made a visit down to see Mom & Dad.  Dad replaced the brake pads on my truck for me.  Michael & I went out with some of the Times Union Bloggers.  We started at the Albany Pump Station and moved on to Elda’s on Lark.  A nice gathering of interesting people 🙂

The Weekly new people I’ve found on Twitter: DanielTosh, Albany_Weather, AlbanyJobs, YNNAlbany, Sue215, HunterMtn, SPAC_2010, and DeFrees.

The Weekly Charity I’m Pimping: LaDorka’s National MS Walk.

Isabella's 1st Birthday

The Weekly Countdown: Isabella’s 3rd Birthday: 16 Days.

The Weekly Hypothetical:  You’re a gossip type – how long do you wait until a person walks out of a room to trash talk them?

The Weekly Not-So-Hypothetical:  What have you been doing to stay cool this week? (It was 108 degrees in the sun here today!!)

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The Weeklies ~ Week 26

The Weekly Re-cap: I told you about Ray’s Helova Deli and showed you Isabella worn out.  We talked about The Worst Father’s Day Gift Ever and Simply The Best Pizza.  Later in the week I told you about my friend who said “Live In The Moment and Don’t Keep Score“, and put out another PSA (Public Service Announcement) about Watching For Motorcycles.

The Weekly Read: The Twitter Job Search Guide – I’m not too far into the book, but I have found a couple good people to follow because of this book so far….

The Weekly Movie: When in Rome – It was kind of cheesy, but still funny.

The Weekly Time Waster: Stressing out about things I have no control over.  I’ve gotten very good at not doing this through the years, but due to my weekly downer – it’s getting to me more….

The Weekly Downer: I still don’t have a job 😦

The Weekly Worst Piece of Crap on TV: Wipeout – I don’t get the point of this show.  Watching people get hurt has never amused me….

The Roses at the martini station were beautiful and the martini was really really good!

The Weekly Food: The food at the Hilton Garden Inn Albany Airport’s Grand Re-opening event was incredible!  The dessert room was a wonderful touch 🙂

The Weekly Amazing Fact: OMG Facts on Twitter points out: “Eleven plus Two” and “Twelve plus One” both equal 13 and both have 13 letters. In fact they both have THE SAME 13 letters.

The Weekly Birthdays: Kristin Millius Finch, Dominick Papandrea, John Paratore, Shannon Moul McManigal, Jaye Kaye VanValkenburg, Karyn Niekrewicz-Green, David Butler, Jamie Dwyer, Jenna Lynn Soto, Stephanie Capone, Alec Gabler, Andrew Badera and Sara Caraway Kowalski.  I hope you all had wonderful birthdays!  Leave me a comment and tell me what you did that was special for your big day 🙂

The Weekly Craft: I haven’t been in a crafting mood and that makes me sad 😦

The Weekly Activity: The job search is in high gear!

LaDorka's Team!

The Weekly Charity I’m Pimping: LaDorka’s – National Multiple Sclerosis Walk
These women are incredible and walking for a good cause.  Please donate whatever you can.  They have a hefty goal.  Every dollar gets them closer to a cure for MS.

The Weekly Countdowns: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (June 30, 2010) 5 more days!!

Weekly Event: Join us tomorrow Saturday June 26th 4-7PM at Barista’s Espresso Cafe in Kingston, NY for Michael & Angela’s Photo Gallery Reception.  You can view the event invitation here.

Watch For Motorcycles ~ Look Twice – Save A Life!

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The Weeklies ~ Week 25

The Weekly Re-cap: I made a new friend, and found a couple dresses I liked.  I showed you that I haven’t changed too much through the years, and we talked about uncovering the joy of YOU.  I also told you that I had an awesome day happening.  It ended up being more uneventful than I had hoped, but these things happen….

The Weekly Read: I’ve been reading 101 Ways To Find God’s Purpose For Your Life.  I’ve done 2 blogs about things I’ve read in it so far.  #1 & #2

The Weekly TV: I’ve been watching a show that was on TV a few years ago called The Riches.  It’s about a family of con-artists.  I like it 🙂  It stars Minnie Driver & Eddie Izzard.

The Weekly Movie: Paparazzi – Great movie!  Reminds you that life as a celebrity isn’t always everything it’s cracked up to be….

The Weekly Downer: That the job I interviewed for isn’t going to take a few weeks to make a hiring decision 😦

The Weekly Beverage: Limeade

The Weekly Food: Chicken Helper & more turkey sandwiches

The Weekly Amazing Fact: According to OMG Facts Despite having much longer and more flexible necks, Giraffes have the SAME number of neck vertebrae as humans

The Weekly Birthdays: Daran Overfield (40), Bev Waltz, Eric Hennessey, Reid Emination, Kristen Alison Haley, Todd Arbesfeld, and Crystil Loeper.  Happy Birthday to you all!  I hope you had a wonderful birthday.  Leave me a comment and tell me what you did for your special day.  🙂

The Weekly Activity: SMBTV Happy Hour at Wolff’s Biergarten.

The Weekly new people I’ve found on Twitter: AstroGirl426 and SimpleMealPlan

The Weekly Charity I’m Pimping: LaDorkas – National Multiple Sclerosis Walk
These women are incredible and walking for a good cause.  Please donate whatever you can.  They have a hefty goal.  Every dollar gets them closer to a cure for MS.

Have a great weekend!

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How do you decide what to blog about?

I don’t present myself as a professional blogger.  I don’t pretend to be someone I’m not.  How do the pro’s decide what to write about?  I figured when I started this blog I’d write about random things that go on in my life or things that interest me.  Lately though I don’t feel super interesting.

Over the weekend I finally started that recipe page I spoke of on Friday.  Right now I have 117 members in less than 72 hours so that must mean that people are interested in it correct?  I just wish more people were posting recipes.  Other than Michael and I only 5 others have posted recipes.  I’ll give it some time though.  Weekends are busy for some people.  Other’s need to decide what to post.  I want people to post recipes that they’ve tried and think are good.  I posted the recipe for the lasagna I made this weekend.

I’ve been watching movies over the weekend so I’ll mention them on my “Weeklies” blog which will be posted on Friday.

I have neglected my love of reading lately.  I haven’t read anything since I read The Lost Symbol around Thanksgiving.  If you haven’t already, check out my list on Goodreads.com.  I’m thinking about reading The Lovely Bones so I can have it read before the movie comes out in the theater.

I hope you notice that I usually have links sprinkled throughout my blog.  I might need to search for a different font because I think sometimes it’s tough to tell there are links on the main reading page….

In other news my good friend Kim is starting fundraising for the National MS Walk. Please give what you can.  Last year her team La Dorkas got donations from all 50 states and multiple countries.  They’ve set their goal at $25,000 and I don’t doubt they’ll reach it.  Donate whatever you can.  Every dollar gets them closer to finding a cure.  And be warned, you’re going to hear about the La Dorkas team quite a bit throughout the year, so be prepared.  These women are incredible.  Hopefully I can find an awesome job so I’ll have the cash-flow to donate as much as I want to and hopefully go there to be with them on the walk 🙂  I don’t know how Kim does it.  She’s got MS and she walked the entire 50 miles last year.  I’m perfectly healthy and I doubt I’d be able to walk 50 miles in 3 days….

So back to the original question:  How do you decide what to blog about?

What do you think I should blog about?

What would you like to read about?

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