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Memes

Birth story wordle

26 June 2008 How I love the Interwebs

Jody at Raising WEG always finds the coolest things! I first saw the wordle word cloud at her place. I made this one using Lucas’s birth story post. Neat, eh? Click on it to see the full-size version in the Wordle gallery, or to make yer own. Edited to add: that came out so cool [...]

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A fifth of meme

16 June 2008 It IS all about me

Filched from Raising WEG, a meme of fives: What were you doing five years ago? We had just found out that I was pregnant with Simon, and were getting ready to move into this house. I had only been back at work after my maternity leave with Tristan for about five months, and had come [...]

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Smuggler’s Notch special deal just for you

9 June 2008 Away we go

You know I love you, right? And as my mother taught me, “if you love me, buy me things.” Well, I haven’t exactly bought something for you, but I do have some freebies and a great deal to offer, too. First, the great deal. Remember when I told you earlier about how my friends at [...]

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More meme-aliciousness

24 May 2008 Memes

More fun filched from About Miche: Your Thinking is Abstract and Sequential You like to do research and collect lots of information. The more facts you have, the easier it is for you to learn. You need to figure things out for yourself and consider all possibilities. You tend to become an expert in the [...]

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Doing it right

19 May 2008 Memes

Chris over at Smartmouth Mombie tagged me for her most excellent Mother’s Day meme. She said: I think the Moms/Mommies/Mamas in the blogosphere spend more than enough time admitting our shortcomings and not nearly enough time celebrating our strong points. So, I’m suggesting that on Mother’s Day, or the day after, or at least some [...]

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Oh great, something else to obsess over

18 May 2008 Memes

Filched from Suze: Your Score: The True Neurotic You scored 54 anxiety, 53 awkwardness, and 67 neuroticism! Congratulations, you are The True Neurotic, you nail-biting, conflict-avoiding worrier, you. You’re plagued by self-doubt and anxiety, which makes social activity hard–even though you may be well-liked, you feel under a storm of silent criticism. It doesn’t help [...]

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Because the last quiz was so much fun…

23 April 2008 Memes

You know I love my iPod. You know I love memes. You know I love quizzes that compel you to comment. How could I resist an iPod-shuffle-meme-lyric-quiz? Thanks to Alison for this one! The Rules: Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle. Step 2: Post the first line from the first 50 songs that [...]

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I thought for sure I’d be the dash — or, the ellipses…

18 April 2008 Memes

Filched from Toddled Dredge, deep in my unexamined Bloglines account: You Are a Comma You are open minded and extremely optimistic. You enjoy almost all facets of life. You can find the good in almost anything. You keep yourself busy with tons of friends, activities, and interests. You find it hard to turn down an [...]

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The movie quote meme

31 March 2008 Memes

Filched from Alison at Party of 3, the movie quote meme. The rules: * Pick 10 (or so) of your favorite movies. * Find, remember, or look up a quote from each movie. * Post them here for everyone to guess. * Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and [...]

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Thursday Thirteen: Things I’d forgotten about newborns

13 March 2008 Baby days

I’ve seen the Thursday Thirteen meme around forever, and have been meaning to play along. This is another one of those posts I’ve been writing in my head for days and pecking out in stolen moments over the last week or so. Thirteen things I’d forgotten about newborns: How you start hearing phantom cries in [...]

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