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wild goose chase (summary and giveaway)
Most of us will have no idea where we are going most of the time. And I know that is unsettling. But circumstantial uncertainty also goes by another name: Adventure.” –from the introduction
I have one copy of Wild Goose Chase to give away. A drawing will be held Tuesday, September 2 ~ if you would like to be entered to win, please email me with your email address, and Wild Goose Chase in the subject bar.
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EDITED: Again, please send me an email (simplescrapper AT gmail DOT com) rather than leaving a comment on this post. I re-did this post so the people who have already commented are entered into the drawing, but I need everyone else to send me an email. The way I do drawings works much better when done with email addresses in hand rather than scrolling through comments hoping the person whose number was drawn left me a way to contact them……I know most everyone else does drawings through comments, but I have found it works better if people who want to be entered send me an email. Thanks!
graceland
Today Ashley, Attison, Maggie, Tyler and I are going to Graceland. It’s about a two and a half hour drive there, and we’re leaving very early in the morning. So why am I still up at 12:22am, writing a blog post, no less? Mainly because the Ambien hasn’t kicked in yet ~ but also because I haven’t written a blog post in quite a while.
You’re probably wondering who Maggie and Tyler are. Maggie is Ashley’s best childhood friend. They’ve know each other since they were 5. Maggie is here visiting until Wednesday. She’s an extremely talented artist; she’s also the person who took all of those pictures of Ashley I initially had before I met her. Maggie got her camera out tonight and took a few pictures of Attison on her changing table being mesmerized by the Classic Pooh mobile. I’m hoping that over the next few days she will take lots and lots of pictures.
Tyler is a new friend, I guess you could say. His family owns the Mountain Mudd kiosk in the little town where I live. It’s pretty close to my house, so I go there ~ a lot. I’m sort of addicted to vanilla breves. And Tyler makes really good vanilla breves. He’s Ashley and Maggie’s age. He and Ashley were talking one day and she mentioned that she has always wanted to go to Graceland ~ she’s a huge Elvis fan. Tyler said he wanted to go too ~ so Ashley invited him to come along with us! LOL We’re taking off in the Suburban six and a half hours from now. I sure do wish that Ambien would kick in so I could go to bed!
It will be a fun trip. Well, that is as long as Attison doesn’t decide she doesn’t want to be in her car seat. She’s usually really good about going places in the car. She just falls asleep, and doesn’t wake up until after we get home, no matter how many places we stop and go into along the way. As long as Atti is cooperative we should be fine.
all about popularity…..
You know, I’ve been thinking…..
(Hush, Roger ~ I can hear your “Oh brother, here we go” thoughts!)
Last week Sitemeter had a major problem ~ people’s sites/blogs were crashing in IE7 because of some code changes Sitemeter made. And it got me to thinking ~ why do I use a service like Sitemeter, Statcounter or Goggle Analytics? I’ve found myself getting caught up in the “rat race” of being obsessed about how many hits my blog is getting.
In some ways it reminds me of being in high school. Wanting to be one of the popular kids, having lots of friends, and being the center of attention. But I’m a grown up. And this blog for personal reasons, not professional. Does it really matter how many people are reading my blog?
I love to go to Sitemeter and see who’s reading my blog, though. I am fascinated that there are people all over the world who take the time to stop by here and read my thoughts, see my pictures, and even watch the occasional video. I would love to hear from each of you personally.
I took the Sitemeter code down last week but didn’t reinstall it, even though Sitemeter fixed the problem. But to tell the truth I’ve missed popping in to Sitemeter just to see who has been visiting. I haven’t been able to post very much lately, so I just want to say that I do appreciate your persistence in stopping by to check if I’ve written anything new.
I’ve been examining my motives behind having a hit counter here. And after some thought about it, I’ve decided that I’m going to go ahead and reinstall the code for the counter. Not because I want to run the numbers game, or because I’m concerned about how many hits my blog gets each day. I’m reinstalling the code because I love to see where the people who are reading my blog are living. In a strange way, I think that’s a bit like my life. It doesn’t really matter to me how many friends I have ~ I just want the friends I do have to be interesting. And you all are very interesting to me!
