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This weeks theme is Red, White and Blue:
This is a photo of a Heavenly Blue Delphinium. It’s got more pink/mauve in it than red, but I love this flower and that’s what I’m using this week.
Heavenly Blue
Archives for May 2006
Va Va Voom and a way we go!
As I said recently on my other site I hate this part of the week. I dislike having to say no to so many people who bid to have a spot on my site each week.
I had an amazing 15 bids to choose from today. Just out of curiosity, why do you guys bid on my site? I know it’s not only because of the price. I charge 50 credits but I do work for them by making references to my new renter frequently. Is it because I have half decent stats in my past rentals history? Or because you get permanent links on my site as a bidder and the chosen renter? Just wonderin’.
I had almost decided to pick the new option to accept the first bidder, but I’m a little afraid of that option. I usually like most of the sites that put bids in, but what if the first bidder turned out to be a site I don’t like or that I would have a hard time thinking up things to promote them and get my readers to visit? With the luck I’ve been having this week that’s probably what would have happened.
After much thoughtful deliberation I’ve decided to go with Va Va Voom as my renter this week. I’ve admired her site since I first came across it. I love her writing style, and it turns out that she’s a wonderful artist. All the graphic images on her site have been created by Ms. Va Va Voom herself.
She’s recently discovered that she has a fascination with Big Butts. You should visit her and find out how she came across this recent discovery about herself. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed when you visit her site. It’s lovely to look at and use and her writing style keeps you entertained and interested in reading more.
Amazing site!
I’d really appreciate it if my visitors would take some time to visit a few of the sites that put bids in this week.:
Recommended: Recommends interesting products and software that can be found on the net.
Useless Advice from Useless Men: Ask your question and the Useless Men will answer, often in a humorous way. In the latest post a reader wants to know if it’s better to be Hot and lacking in other areas, or smart and lacking in the Hot department. Check out their answer.
Winged Emotion: A site by a fellow Canadian. This site often has weekly contests, and in fact has one going on right now.
Life is Fresh: Appears to be a new site. This site has some great gardening and herb growing tips.
Long Slow beautiful Dance: She has a great rant about the lady who caused her to get into a car accident the other day. Producer chick also holds contests now and then.
Paranoia and other pleasant things: Check out the recent story about her experience with Pepsi Gold.
Winsome Gunning Art Walk: I enjoy the art work on this site. Such talent. Take some time to go through the pages and view the paintings.
Clusterfook: I enjoy her writing style. This great lady recently did a writing marathon to raise money for cancer research. How can you not admire someone who does something like that?
Musings of a Juggling Mother: Her most recent post talks about the irony of it being the first official Drought Order day in England, yet it’s raining and has been raining for days on end.
My Corner of the Web: Suzannes trying to find some writing ideas so she’s opened up her site to her readers. Ask her some questions and she’ll find the answers and write about them in her latest posts.
The Writer Jerry: I really enjoy Jerry’s writing on this site. Check out his latest post “Potty Mouth” regarding auto-flush toilets.
The thirty year old college idiot: Must be a brave lady! She’s submitted her site to IT2M. I’ve thought about doing that, but I’m not sure I’m that I want to hear their opinion.
One writer’s rambles: The personal blog of an aspiring fiction writer.
Scooter McGavin’s 9th Green: His latest posts are some great articles of popular television shows and new records by musicians.
And that’s all Folks!
Thai Curry Stir Fry
1…. This is such a fantastic dinner I thought I’d give you the recipe.
2…. Start with 1/2 lb boneless skinless chicken breast cut up into small pieces.
3…. Add 1 tbsp Canola oil to a large pan or wok, heat on low until oil is hot and then add the chicken to the pan, stirring occasionally until the meat looks cooked.
4…. Add one can of Thai Green Curry sauce. Most grocery stores seem to carry this these days, just look in the aisle where rice is sold, or where products to make Chinese, Mexican and Indian foods are sold.
5…. The Thai curry sauce is hot, so I often add a half can of Coconut milk to it to tone it down. Works beautifully.
6…. Once the sauce, coconut milk and chicken has simmered on low for 5 minutes I add the rest of the ingredients.
7…. I was lazy this evening. I added two cups of frozen veggies consisting of cauliflower, carrot, broccoli. I also had some pre-chopped frozen peppers and zucchini in the freezer that I added to the mix.
8…. 1 can of sliced water chestnuts
9…. 1 cup snow peas (you know the green pea shells)
10…. Let this mix simmer for another 15 minutes on low heat.
11…. While the above ingredients were cooking I got out another pot and heated water in it. I then added a package of Rice Vermicelli noodles to the water and let the noodles sit in the warm water for 5 minutes to soften up.
12…. When the Thai curry stir fry looks and smells (mmmmm) done (approximately 20 to 25 minutes from the start of cooking) toss in the vermacelli noodles and serve. This curry can also be served over a bed of rice, which is the way we usually have it.
13…. Now I just need someone to feed. It’s almost 8 p.m. and our border hasn’t come home yet. He hasn’t even called to say he would be late. I’m ticked because he does this all the time. I think it’s just rude and disrespectful. Don’t you? My husband won’t be home until after 10 p.m. because he’s working an evening shift. He can, and will, enjoy the meal when he comes home.
Well, maybe my roomie Noi will enjoy this meal with me. She has her own Thursday Thirteen up now too, so go see her!
New Domain – Cheap? Contest
I need some suggestions. Contest involved!
I want to get a new domain but I don’t know which company to buy one from. I bought my last two directly from my hosting company, but they charged me close to $15 per domain. I’m pretty sure I can get a new domain or two for a little less.
Any ideas?
I can’t use Go-Daddy either. My hosting company has some kind of problem with Go- Daddy domains. I think they don’t transfer properly from one host to another.
I want to move all of my bl0gs over to one domain. Which will mean moving Tricia’s Musings and perhaps Odd Planet over to the new site. I’m not even sure what I’m going to do with Odd Planet. I was thinking about re-designing it, but I think I’ll hold off and possibly move it first.
Does anyone have a suggestion for a good domain name? Something easy to remember, and not too long?
Now here’s the contest part:
1. Give me some suggestions on where I can purchase a domain for a low price. If I decide to go with the company that you suggest I’ll give that person 250 BL0GEXPLOSION or BL0GMAD credits. If the company is suggested more than once I may only give credits out to the first person to suggest that company.
2. Name the Domain
Suggest a short but memorable domain name. If I decide to use it (and can secure it!) I’ll give the winner 1000 BL0GEXPLOSION or BL0GMAD credits.
3. I may choose to go with a designer, especially if I move Odd Planet. It desperately needs a re-design. I like WordPress so the two new sites and likely Odd Planet will be WordPress sites. If I decide to be too lazy to do it myself I might get a designer to help me out. Suggest a designer that does wordpress sites (not too expensive, we might be talking three sites here!) and I’ll give the winner 500 BL0GEXPLOSION or BL0GMAD credits if I go with a designer.
Cold as Ice
I just heard the ice cream truck go by blaring it’s loud monkey circus music, well that’s what it reminds me of anyway. I think the guy must be high on something. It’s freezing here! 9 C or for those on the other side of the border that’s 48.2 F. Yep, I want an ice-cream when it’s this cold. Not! Brrrr!
I’ve been freezing all weekend. I’ve been hanging out in an ice hockey arena though so that’s probably why. Chris’ brother came up from Chicago with his youngest son for a spring hockey tournament, so I’ve been hanging out and partying with a bunch of Americans all weekend.
Considering how cold it’s been here I should have gone to Florida and hung out at Mr. Dribble uh Drivels Fabulous Karaoke party. Sounds like it was a blast and heck it’s warm there!
Why would they hold a tournament on our long weekend? Don’t they know this is the big camping weekend in Canada? The May 24? Victoria Day? Did my nephew’s Pee Wee team win the tournament? No. He did play very well though, scored almost all the goals for his team, but then he’s half Canadian so it’s in his blood.
Friday night we staying in a hotel that’s attached to the airport. I have no idea why it’s important to tell you that the hotel was attached to the airport but I did, so whatever. It was surprisingly quiet considering … well our room wasn’t, but the hotel with all the air traffic flying overhead was.
We shared a room with Chris’ brother T and kept the people on either side of our room awake all night. Sorry to anyone that was next door to us … and oh, thank you for your very polite note of complaint. I can’t believe someone would write such a polite note, and compliment my husband on his guitar playing, even though this poor person had to get up early to work. I did try to get the guys to settle down a bit around 3 a.m. but they weren’t listening to me. We finally crashed around 5:30 a.m.
My nephews second game of the tournament was at 8:30 a.m. T and I didn’t make it … we just couldn’t get up, but my husband managed to go and watch them lose. It seems that my nephew only won the games I watched – Friday nights and Saturday afternoons. I guess I should have gone to Sunday’s game huh? Maybe they would have won the tournament.
All the in-laws were staying in the hotel too. By late Saturday night I’d had enough and wanted to go home to sleep in my own bed. Besides, T out did himself Friday night and early Saturday morning. He fell asleep in the van after his son’s second game on Saturday while we were traveling to this wonderful steak house that he really wanted to eat at. He’d been longing for a big juicy steak. We ended up leaving him in the van while we went in to eat the delicious food. We did get him something to eat, we aren’t that cruel, but after he ate he fell asleep again on the floor in his parents hotel room. Did I say he’d been drinking all day without eating anything up until the time we got back to the hotel? No, well he was. That’s when Chris and I decided to leave. We were afraid that if T did wake up he’d want to party again and while that might be fun he did have to drive all the way back to Chicago the next day after his son’s last game.
Sunday was another brief out-law day, and then home to relax in my own house. The out-laws are just nuts. I’ll tell you about them some time, probably when they do something stupid meaning it won’t be in the too far distant future.
If I ever warm up we might go and watch the fireworks this evening. There’s usually a spectacular display at Ontario place or Ashbridges Bay on Victoria day. Or I suppose we could take our chances and walk to the park down the street. There are always some fools out their with their own fireworks. Of course you have to be alert when you’re watching amature fireworks displays because they go off sideways and usually directly into the crowd as often as they go up in the air.
Maybe we will do the park thing. Running around avoiding misfired fire works is not only good exercise but it will also keep me warm.
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