Thanks to my son, Shawn, for this one:

And a couple of links I want to remember:
http://www.onlive.com/
http://www.mova.com/
http://onlivefans.com/onlive/
http://onlivefans.com/index.php
http://twitter.com/OnliveFans_com

I won the coolest contest recently! I won a whole bunch of BluFrog Energy Drink and a ton of BluFrog schwag! Have I ever told you? I love schwag! I’m a sucker for it! Big time!

I met this super cool dude on Twitter named John Raser – or @johnraser. John is a professional competitive golfer. (Not sure I said that right, but, I know he’s pro and I know he still competes) Anyway – his blog is awesome – it’s called Go Speed Raser! Man, that brings back memories – my brother, David, absofreakinlutely loved that darned show!

John also represents a cool new energy drink company, BluFrog. And he decided to have a Friday the 13th Twitter BluFrog contest – and I won!

Thank you so much, John!! We are loving our BluFrog – we are definitely ‘Feeling the Frog’!!!

Ted Murphy, CEO of IZEA, is one cool guy. And he’s also a funny guy and I just know he’s got to make one damn fine uncle, because, he’s always making kids laugh with all of his antics! And now, he has gone so far as to ‘become’ Flat Stanley! Or he’s become Waldo – or you could even say Carmen Sandiego! Whatever the deal is, Ted is traveling the world – and this time he’s doing it without any of those airport hassles he’s always telling us about!

See, Ted wanted to have a photo gallery on his blog of all of his readers that he’s met. Only, that would not really represent all of the readers of his blog – so he decided to just send himself to us – and that way he could have pictures with all of us! Ted’s been excited seeing all of the places that he’s ‘been’. It’s been pretty darn funny!

And when Ted came here, to Northeast Alabama, he decided he’d like to go to band class with some local sixth graders, my Sammie-girl included!

The first picture is Sammie in the car – practicing “The Ted”. Oh no, you can’t just do “The Ted”! It’s a very specialized technique that takes some practice! Ha!

The other two pictures are of Sammie and one of her best buds, Lacy – and you can see that Ted just decided to come flying right out of their instruments! He was a high C out of the Sammie’s trumpet and a low B out of Lacy’s trombone! Yessir, yessir, let it be known – Ted Murphy makes his own music! Ha!

I love this little guy!!!! Rock it, kiddo!

Juke Box Hero

Ok, so you guys know I just had a birthday, right? Wherein I told you how bomb diggitylicious my kids are? So, I turned 39. Thirty-nine years old. That’s me. Yep. 39. That’s my number. And the funny thing is, I really don’t mind it a bit. I was sort of afraid to say it out loud – and cringed when my brother said it – he was the first one to say the number out loud in direct reference to little ‘ol me. But you know what? When I said it out loud – you know what happened? The same exact thing that happened to me when I turned 27. I discovered that I like the number. I like the age. I like what I think it says about me. Does it really say any of those things I’m thinking it says about me? Who knows – probably not. But I like the way it sounds. So that’s cool.

So where I’m going with all of this hullaballoo – and how we get to my ‘Ultimate Wimpiness’ – is that for some time now I knew I would have a ‘Turning 40′ goal. In fact, I knew the year I turned 30. One of my best friends at the time, a super duper cool chick named Debbie, just happened to be ten years older than I. And she had a ‘Turning 40′ goal. And I just thought that was a really cool thing to do. Her goal was to run a mile, as she had been very busy with child-rearing and homeschooling and had not been running in quite some time. She made it – ahead of time, and ran longer than a mile. I was so proud of her and so uber impressed.

And at that time, I decided that my goal would be….

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My kids so rock! They are so awesome! I’m not biased or anything, I swear! Frealz! They made this treehugger SO HAPPY this morning! It’s my birthday today – yes, my 27th – and they bought me the most – no, the MOST perfect gifts!!! Wow – they just rock! Totally.

They know me, they listen to me, they understand me. They may turn their hormonal noses up at me, they may laugh at my ‘different’ ways, they may sometimes mock me. But under all that teenage angsty goofiness – they are hearing my messages loud and clear. What I’m about, what I believe, what I want for them – and the world. *cue high, prissy voice*

“I wish for world peace.”

Yes, that’s me – Miss America. Bwahahahahahahaha! Not. even. close. But I am out there, eccentric, and foofy. No, not foofy. Who knows – I am what I am – whatever that is. And it seems that my kids ‘get it’. Cool.

So check it out, lemme tell ya all the cool stuff they got for me.

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