The Best 80’s Music
Some of you may be thinking… There was no ‘best’ 80’s music, but give the decade a little love… Oversized blazers and stirrup pants weren’t the worst fashion faux pa in history… maybe. Anyway, we all got through it.
My husband and I recently watched the countdown of best songs of the 80’s on VH1… This should not be confused with other VH1 countdowns like:
‘Top Hair Bands’
‘Top Metal Bands’
‘Top Hair Bands that really are Metal Bands’, etc.
Some notes on 80’s music that I jotted down while watching…
Journey- lead singer Steve Perry, to put it nicely, is not attractive, but has such a great voice- it’s nuts…
Don’t you remember: ‘Don’t stop believing’… Just a small time girl…;
A-Ha- one hit wonder ‘Take on me’- I loved that song- and thought that gap-toothed lead singer was so cute- it a unique sort of way.
CYNDI LAUPER– ‘Girls just wanna have fun’
Are you kidding me-
I love this woman!
Erasure!
Madonna- ‘Like a virgin’, as a freshman in an all girls catholic high school, I was almost scared of Madonna, yet intrigued. I remember seeing one of my friends wearing lace tights and thinking,
‘Oh my gosh, she’s pulling this off! It looks good!’
Prince- ‘When doves cry-
Why is this man attractive when he’s 5 feet tall- BECAUSE he can sing sooo well and arrange all the instruments ,etc.
Def Leppard came in at #2 with ‘Pour some sugar on me’
and Bon Jovi came in at #1 with ‘Living on a Prayer’…
Are you kidding me??? These should be flip-flopped! Come on! I love Def Leppard (yes, I’m a closet Def Leppard fan).
And Jon Bon Jovi looks like he spends way too much time on his hair. Done.
What Blogging means to me…
The great people at Mabel’s Labels are going to give away a free trip to BlogHer 09 in Chicago this summer!
Here is some more information about it.
But back to the contest…
Basically ‘Mabel’s Labels’ is asking
‘What have been the rewards and benefits of participating in the blogging community?
I didn’t know what a blog was when I started mine (long story), but in a year I have learned how special it is to share online, to laugh out loud and how supportive women can be. The laughing out loud is usually when reading a parenting story that I have experienced myself- I love the ‘OhMyGosh… I’ve done the same thing’ moment and it’s on a mom blog from across the country. And I love that women bloggers and mom bloggers are awesome, and cool, and funny, and come together to form communities, and that there is no way we can be stereotyped as backbiting divas, like the media likes to do. To share a story, a parenting stumble, and then have someone comment, ‘It’s okay, I’ve been there too,’ is priceless.
And I love that this online community is always here. It takes my friends about 2 months to settle on a date and place for us all to meet up for dinner, and we all live within 10 miles of each other…
The only address you have to worry about on the internet is the one you type in or click on in your feedreader.
On bad days, blogs help as a way to share in humanity.
On good days, blogs make us laugh, and cry, and smile, and nod our heads, and that’s what I love about about this community.
I’m a ‘DC Metro Mommy’ Now
A Happy ‘The-Snow-is-Melting’ Day to everyone!
Just want to let DC area people know about a new website for moms in this area… DC Metro Mommy!
This website is a great resource- with a calendar and events, a book club and… a Blog Village, to which I am now a contributor.
This is not to be confused with DC Metro Moms, that great blog that I’m proud to say I’m a founding member of 
Some Search Engine Help
I have stumbled upon,
no pun intended, a couple of sites that may increase your traffic!
Disclosure: I have yet to do Stumble It, Digg, or del.icio.us, but I am working behind the scenes on my site and working on increasing web traffic.
I found out about these sites over at The Big Piece of Cake, a great mom blog about motherhood, fashion and everything else. I’ve also had the pleasure of meeting Kate in person and she’s great! We sat next to each other at a luncheon sponsored by Giant Food and joked that we must have been invited because they thought that we were both food bloggers… get it: Big Piece of Cake, BananaBlueberry.
Yes, we’re hysterically funny… anyway, the sites that I referred to up above are Condron and Alpha Inventions. Condron is a rolling list of blogs, hey- it’s a blogroll! And Alpha Inventions puts up your blog when you are updating it in order to connect bloggers and commenters in real time… at least that is what I took from their About Page (which is a pretty entertaining rambling, I might add).
Check them out and if you know of similar sites (I spelled ‘similar’ right that time), let me know! And please share your thoughts on Stumble It, Digg, or del.icio.us!
Has ‘Monopoly’ Gone Too Far?
Have you seen any commercials for toys lately? What a stupid, stupid question. Toys ARE CRAZY nowadays. I thank God my son is only 4 and has never heard of a Wii,
and has no interest in video games (because we don’t have any),
and still loves Playdough.
Yesterday I saw a commercial for Monopoly: Electronic Banking Edition.
Are you kidding me? No paper money, just debit cards and calculators and higher rents and higher prices.
No paper money?? The paper money was the thing that was so cool about Monopoly.
I played this game. We all did. They also have a World Version of Monopoly now and a Monopoly Town game that my son and I play (with a talking car, pretty cool, I think he only likes it because the car talks).
There are versions now of Monopoly incorporating: Disney princesses, SpongeBob and Transformers, just to name a few.
In short: Monopoly is a Monopoly. And that is just fine. It’s ‘old school’, it’s fun, it’s harmless…
Or I thought so until I saw the commercial for ‘faster and higher’ exchanges of credit:
“With Monopoly: Electronic Banking Edition”.
Do we really need to teach 8-year-olds about debit and credit cards and a paperless society?
That’s not rhetorical… I’m asking…
Maybe we do… but I just loved the old Monopoly where getting a $500 bill was SO COOL!
And the money was all different colors
Give a Kid a Car Seat… and Travel Tips from Graco
Everybody needs a site to go to for car seat specs and traveling-with-kids tips.
The great folks at Graco have just launched such a site!
Go to Ready For The Road Ahead to get helpful information on car seats and safety tips.
And while you are there, sign up to join Graco’s car seat club- Ready.Safe.Go!
For every 10 people who sign up (this is free), Graco will donate a new car seat to organizations serving families in need!
C’mon people, spread the love… and a safe car seat for the little ones.
When Do I Bathe?
Do you shower first thing in the morning? I don’t.
Click here to read my blog on DC Metro Moms about finding time to bathe.
It’s a little embarrassing, but I’m already reading in comments that I am not ALONE
The World Premiere of my NEW WORD:
I’m inspired…
I was reading a post on Stimeyland about her everyday use of the word, ‘cromulent’, a ‘made-up’ word from The Simpsons.
This excited me… There are other people who make up words, not just me…
I now have the pluck, nerve, daring, audacity, boldness and grit (I was just familiarizing myself with my own online Dictionary/Thesaurus, since I’m sure my new word will be part of it soon) to share my you my ‘made-up’ word.
So here it is, without further ado, the introduction to the world of my made-up word:
Webster’s, Wikipedia: TAKE NOTICE:
My word is: …Cha.
Some may argue that Cha is just a sound, but it’s a word. I use it every day.
The beauty of Cha is that it means more than one thing. It can mean ‘agreement’ or ‘STRONG disagreement’. It can also mean ‘yes’ or ‘no’, depending on how you are feeling…
Examples:
My husband- “Would you like to join me on a several-mile jog on this cold, chilly morning?”
Me: “Cha.” (followed by silence)
A friend: “Do you want to catch a quick manicure down the street at that cute nail salon?”
Me: “Cha!”
Little Man: “Mommy, can we watch Yo Gabba Gabba?!”
Me: “Um, Cha.”
(By the way, what’s up with that show? It’s crazy.)
So there you have it. Cha.
See how nicely it rolls with the conversation? Cha is perfect.
It’s really more of a ‘place-holder-kind-of-word’,
“Isn’t that a cool painting?”
“Cha!”
“Anyway, so as I was saying…”
Yet also, a very cool ‘affirmation-type-of-word’.
Picture this: It’s a cold evening, our son is peacefully sleeping, I’m in my pajamas and holding a glass of wine, while sitting on the couch with a fire in the fireplace-
My husband: “This is nice.”
Me: ‘Cha-aaaaaaaaaaa.”
It’s a perfectly cromulent word.
DC Metro Moms: The UN-ELECTION PARTY
What do you get when you bring together SUPER COOL MOMS,
a plethora of great food and drink,
no kids,
and even a ride home?
You get the DC METRO MOMS BLOG UN-ELECTION PARTY!
…of course.
What I love about being a DC Metro Mom contributor is exactly why I loved this party-
all us women are totally different,
have different takes on everything,
but yet, we are all concerned mothers, trying our best to do what is right,
learning every day how to be a better mom, while not scarring our children in the process
Our party was at Clyde’s of Tyson’s Corner.
We had fantastic appetizers, great entrees of pasta dishes and cheeses and a delectable dessert selection toward the end of the evening.
The people at Clyde’s couldn’t have been nicer and made the planning of this party…easy.
What was even easier was working with Chevy, the sponsor of this party.
Chevy picked up DC Metro Moms for the party and then ALSO drove us all back to our cars and homes in Chevy Traverses.
I think the candidates and their political parties should…THROW A PARTY, get some wine mixed in,
and see what happens.
I think the result would be wonderful!
Cool moms, cool place, cool transportation, cool conversation:
I can’t wait until the next cool event for DC Metro Moms Blog!
BlogHer DC ReCap
What a fun day! BlogHer DC 2008 is now history, but what a great day it was. I learned A LOT about blogging, saw online friends, and met some awesome new ones.
It’s so cool how everyone has a different story…
It’s more than cool that ‘this blogging thing’ I was just discovering this time last year has evolved into a part of my day and life. This medium is truly the future and it’s great how connected people and moms can be.
It was super cool to listen to Lesley Stahl talk about this blogging future, she’s even started a site, wowowow.com, Women On The Web, with a little help from some friends.
I want to do a shout-out to Andrea from Andrea’s Recipes and Sarah from Sarah and The Goon Squad for their great advice… They were both on panels that I attended yesterday.
The future is now. Just think, 20 years ago, no one had laptops or cell phones. What will the next 20 years bring? It’s exciting.
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