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2006 Canadian Blog Awards

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LAST DAY TO VOTE FOR ME!

I uhm, accidentally got this site, Tricia’s Musings, listed as a nominee for BEST CANADIAN BLOG in the 2006 Canadian Blog Awards.

Won’t you please vote for me?

The first round of voting starts NOW – at 12:01 am November 15th and it will go for 7 days ending on Tuesday, November 21st. You may vote once a day if you’d like.

The top 5 finalists in all categories will go on to a final round beginning November 25th. I’ll let you know if I make it to the 2nd round. Of course, I probably won’t without your help so please vote.

All links in this post open in another tab or window- so if your surfing you will not lose your place.





My right had is numb

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I don’t know what I did but since midnight or Sunday night/ early Monday morning the outer part of my right hand has been numb. I’m left handed so you’d think this would have happened to my left hand, but I guess not.

The numbness isn’t as bad now as it was last night but it’s still there.

Do you think maybe I’ve been writing too much lately? Uh yeah, I think I might be. Believe it or not I didn’t write very much today. Honest. I only wrote 8 posts (plus answering email of course). That’s not too bad. Yesterday though, I made a number of back up posts – maybe 20 back up posts plus wrote at least 15 that got posted. No wonder my hand went numb huh?

I’m going to let my hand have a rest now. Hopefully it will it be better later today!

Oh I almost forgot, Neil Crespi wanted me to look at his site – I like this site design for a blogger blog, and the site has potential, but it needs more posts. I’d be happy to help you work on your design if you contact me. You’re about me descriptions pretty interesting.

What’s on your mind

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I was just looking at my site stats on statcounter.com. When I go there I look not only at the last hundred visitors in my log files, but also at the recent search terms that have been used to reach my page. The following search term is what I found this time round:

What if someone says they want to eat you like a tub of ice cream?

>Huh? What did I ever write about that would make someone searching for answers to that very interesting question end up here? Let see? Oh, their search brought them to a post I wrote titled “Why do guys always want to get into my bathing suit?”

Well, that did end up being a very popular post, as it seems to come up in searches several times each week. It’s about a former boyfriend dressing up in my bathing suit – you should read it.

Nowhere in that post do I talk about eating – I mention the word dinner – but not eating, or being eaten! There’s nothing about ice cream there either, but I do talk about a tub, however it’s a Hot Tub. So I guess dinner and tub made my post relevant in their search? Geez it don’t take much does it? Actually the comment section is pretty entertaining for that post and one of the comments talks about ice cream.

What do you say? If someone told you that they wanted to eat you like a tub of ice cream what would you say?

If someones going to search for something like that here we might as well give them an answer. So tell me what you would say. Nothing too vulgar please.

Any Blogroll Experts out there?

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I need help!

Yes I know, you probably already guessed that I need help, but I mean I need assistance in helping some of the people that are signing up for my blogrolls.

I’m managing four different blogrolls that people are welcome to join.

The trouble is- I’m having a problem helping some of the people that are signing up for my blogrolls. Some of the people are using:

  • Free WordPress.com
  • Typepad
  • LiveJournal (I don’t think this one hasn’t come up yet, but I bet it will)
  • Blogger

I think I’ve got the blogger instructions mostly figured out – ie make a post, put the blogroll on that, then link to it in your sidebar. But the others? It seems impossible to put blogroll code on Free WordPress.com. Has anyone done this correctly?

If anyone can help out by sending me some simple easy to understand instructions on how to add the blogroll code to a Typepad, wordpress.com, livejournal and or Blogger blog I’d really appreciate it. What I’d like to do, if and when all of these are figured out is create an “Adding a Blogroll to your blog” FAQ, that in the end will be beneficial to everyone.

Please help?

Busy week buzzing around the Internet

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Thirteen Things about My internet activities this week

1. I’ve been having some fun visiting some of my favorite bloggers this week. Over at Doctor Mom’s I’ve been voting on her idiot of the week postings, and since I’m a regular poster there she’s going to give me a lot on her cul de sac (a permanent space in her side bar) if I’m the top commenter over there this week!

2. I’ve also been hanging out over at Zed’s this week too. Yesterday she had a Canadian day party. Blog parties are a lot of fun. I might have even had the most fun since I was the only Canadian there for the longest time!

3. Then there’s my visits to Pointless Drivel. A few of us seem to compete to be the first person to leave a comment when he puts his latest post up, then we banter back and forth. It’s kind of fun and it’s always interesting to see what Mr. Fab has to say about it when he posts his comments.

4. One of my favorite bloggers Shelli from Shelli’s Sentiments is on a Florida vacation this week. She got to swim with a dolphin on Monday! Lucky girl.

5. Today I spent some time trying to break up a fight that broke out on one of the mailing lists I run – The uromastyx Mailing list. Yeah, the lizard people were fighting! Go figure!

6. I made Mrs. Lifecruisers very special A-Team list! I’m so proud and that bribe I gave her certainly came in handy!

7. I’ve also spent some time in the past week promoting the FOUR blogrolls that I started. Mr. Fab and Mrs. lifecruiser also helped me with this task.

8. I might as well tell you about the blogrolls – since I’m sure you’ll ask about them if I don’t. You would wouldn’t you?

9. One of the blogrolls that I started asks for weekly participation. Anyone who has nice nature photos – be it landscape, garden, garden plants – flowers and greenery – that they are willing to post each Sunday is welcome to join Green Thumb Sunday.

10. The other blogrolls that I started don’t require any participation other than keeping your blog up to date by posting 3 or 4 times a week. One of those blogrolls is for photobloggers and it’s called Fabulous Photoblogs. I’m looking for true photoblogs to join this blogroll.

11. Another blogroll that I run is the I am Canadian blogroll. Other than posting regularly the only other requirement is that you are Canadian, whether you currently live in Canada or not.

12. The last blogroll is a little more specific. I’m looking for bloggers from the Toronto area (the GTA – If you are from the GTA you’ll know what that means) to join the Toronto Bloggers blogroll.

13. I’ve been pretty busy on the internet this week. Leaving comments all over the place and working on my little projects. I need a break!

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