Blogging Girl

Wanted: a pink case for my daughter’s iPad 2

Blogging Girl — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:16:12 +0000

My daughter has an iPad 2 (it was a Christmas gift from my husband and I), and I’m looking for a better case for it. Specifically, I want something like the Belkin Access Folio Stand (my son has it in black for his iPad 2), but in pink. It has to encase the iPad 2, it has to have a cover, and it has to have a pocket. But finding a pink case/cover/folio/stand/sleeve with all of these attributes has been like hunting for a needle in a haystack. I’m posting here (and on my other blogs) in the hopes of finding a reader that will know of such a case. If you do, please leave a comment, or email (x@jenn.nu) me. Thank you!

Back pain & blogging is a no-go

Blogging Girl — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:10:16 +0000

I must sit stupidly or something, because even with a plush, high-backed desk chair, when I sit at my desktop for a long period of time, my shoulders and neck get stiff. Part of my problem is I tend to lean forward, which when done for a period of time is definitely bad for your back (especially if you’ve ever had spine surgery Houston!). I have a few little travel pillows (those little “roll” ones), as well as some others, so maybe I’ll experiment with those in order to find a more comfortable position for blogging, coding, layout designing, photo processing, etc (yes, I am totally a Jill of all trades).

I see what you’re doing there.

Blogging Girl — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:06:05 +0000

A few weeks ago one of the blogs whose feed I subscribe to (people sometimes ask me which feed reader I use, and honestly, I use Google’s RSS Feed Reader. It’s simple and basic yet very extensive in terms of features and options. And it integrates quite nicely with my browser (Google Chrome), email (Gmail), and cell phone (Android-running T-Mobile MyTouch 4G Slide) – what more could you ask for?) had a post announcing that the blogger decided to change her RSS feed so that it displayed an excerpt, rather than the entire post. She went on to write a post announcing and explaining why she made this decision. Ironically, I couldn’t read it from my feed reader, since, you know, she did the whole full-post-to-excerpt change.

But really, was it necessary to write a blog post explaining to your readers why you changed your blog options so that excerpts (usually the first X amount of characters or words in a post) rather than the entire posts are displayed in a feed reader? You want traffic to your website, duh. There IS no other reason to make that change.

Things I could be doing instead of blogging

Blogging Girl — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:03:33 +0000

Laundry (I’m pretty sure there are enough dark clothes in our triple sorter to warrant running the washer)
Hanging up my son’s new dry-erase board in his bedroom (or on his bedroom door, which he might prefer since that’s where his older sister has hers hanging)
Straightening up our front and back yards – much like people tend to finally cover pools at this time of year, after winter has wreaked most of its havoc
Cuddling my husband
Finally putting together a long-overdue giveaway for titanium rings
Watching TV
Taking pictures
Browsing Flickr

What could you be doing instead of blogging?

Not a mommy blogger.

Blogging Girl — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:57:13 +0000

Please don’t call me a mommy blogger. While it can’t be disputed that I am, in fact, both a blogger and a mother, I can be one without the other. I have been blogging since 1998, and my children weren’t born until 2004 and 2006. While I have continued to blog since their births, I haven’t transformed into a mommy blogger into the sense that I live, eat, and breathe parenthood and being the blessing (and sometimes curse) that is a mother – and my blogs certainly reflect that. While I do babble on about my kids from time to time, they’re not the focus of my blog posts, and with the exception of Mamahood.org, they’re damn well not the center of my blogs themselves.

Here’s the thing: I love my children. Deeply. Devotedly. Intensely. Unconditionally. Forever, and beyond. I can and will do anything for them. Part of the reason I work so hard is so my husband and I can provide them with nice things. But… and here’s the BIG but: I am still my own person. I am still Jenn. I am still a 27 year old woman. It just so happens that I am also a mother. But I am more than a mother – just as I am more than a wife, more than a mere 27 year old woman. I am multi-faceted. ♥ Too many women become mothers and forget this. And that’s just a shame, because ladies, you need to retain your own identity!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Blogging Girl — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:30:27 +0000

♥ ♥ ♥ Happy Valentine’s Day! ♥ ♥ ♥

Happy Valentine’s Day, bloggers! Of course the blogosphere, Facebooksphere, and Twittersphere are exploding with people embracing and hating on Valentine’s Day. Then there are those of us, such as yours truly, that acknowledges Valentine’s Day for what it is, and make plans, but not ultra-special ones. My husband and I are going to lunch, and that’s about it. But honestly, that’s all we need. We love each other every single day, we don’t need a specific day of the year to be set aside in order to show each other that love.

More Pinterest love.

Blogging Girl — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:35:36 +0000

Baked goods, home decor ideas, home storage ideas, stainless steel jewelry, glitter, Hello Kitty stuff for my daughter…you name it, I can find it on Pinterest! Are you following me on Pinterest? If not, you should be! I not only love sharing my pins with others, but I love seeing what others are pinning. So please, add me. If you need an invite to Pinterest, comment here, and I will send you one.

Amanda is my personal celebrity grim reaper

Blogging Girl — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:56:28 +0000

My friend Amanda has alerted me to three a-lister deaths now:

Osama Bin Laden
Steve Jobs
Whitney Houston

What gives, Amanda? I hope you don’t one day alert me of my own death.

In any case, I hope that Steve Jobs and now Whitney Houston (my personal opinion is that drugs led to her early and untimely death, which is really, really sad because it could have been so easily prevented) rest in peace, and I hope that Osama Bin Laden rots in hell.

Oh, Pinterest

Blogging Girl — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:45:47 +0000

Oh, Pinterest. I heart you, but you’re dangerous because it is way too easy for me to wind up wasting crazy amounts of time on your site. All it takes is one result for Christian Louboutin shoes, or glittery nail polish, and that’s it – I’m off like a race horse, searching for things to pin and browsing existing pins and re-pinning pins and sorting my boards and then re-sorting them.

Are you on Pinterest? If so, look me up! I’m kissmykitty. Need an invite? Leave a comment, and I’ll send one to you!

God bless Google

Blogging Girl — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:41:17 +0000

I love Google, and I love having an Android phone that is obviously all about Google. Every single one of my Android phones have made it amazingly simple to find whatever it is I’m looking for, whether it be a must-have shade of nail polish or the going price for a small spa cover.

Google is also handy for finding/confirming my neighbor’s phone number, which I did today instead of walking down to her house (I know, I know, LAZY LAZY JENN. But hey, in my defense, I’m getting over bronchitis, and I still have a broken foot!). I was pretty sure I had her phone number, but I didn’t want to call it unless I was certain, so I did a reverse phone number lookup. It worked like a charm.