Jenny On the Spot: Caffeinated mom, lover of dancing, glitter and glitter.

1. I would like to start this post with a resounding WAH! *pout* The Type-A Mom Conference is this weekend and I’ll give you one guess as to at least one girl that won’t be there…. Ya give? It’s me. Iwillnnotbeattheconferencewaaaaah! I have never been a huge fan of missing out. *stomps off in a huff*
2. I actually feel kind of sorry for Asheville, North Carolina. Just think of all the glitter it will be missing out on… {sigh} But it’s not your fault, North Carolina in the Fall… I blame The Economy. Big bully.
3. I was going to put up a picture of my Pyrex pan that pretty much exploded in my oven, but the pork tenderloin had an inappropriate shape. I decided I wouldn’t make you have to discern whether the meat in that pan was in fact a tenderloin of pork. I make these hard choices because I want to protect your innocence. But if you want me to email you the pic, tell me in your comment. I’ll TOTALLY email you the pic.
4. I wrote a little something about the importance of sleep on Type-A Mom. Ya know, cuz I practice what I preach and whathaveyou.
5. A new school year has begun, and I went ahead and gushed about my kids over at Mom on the Spot. You should click over… If only to crank up my numbers over there, because in the last wholetimeIhavebeenwrtingthere few weeks I have only contributed to .5% of their traffic. That is not famous enough for me.
6. You know I am kidding about the “famous” part of #5, right?
7. I’m kidding about #6 too.
8. I am feeling mildy manic.
9. And also digressive.
10. And don’t expect you click on everything I am linking to. I WANT you to, but I know my lowly place on this here interwebz…
11. This is what my friend and I call Muffin Top Burn Fail. BTW, this is not Me.
12. I could totally post an embarrassing picture of myself right now. ButIwon’t. *sticks out tongue*
13. I updated my “About” page. The old page was making me *yawn*.
14. By the way… YouTube has a lot of creepy viewers… who make creepy comments *delete* Mostly about my braces and my Converse *rocks in a corner*
15. My kids don’t take me seriously when I threaten to rip off their arms and beat them with their own limbs. Am I THAT bad a liar? They laugh at me. Punks.
16. I’m kidding about the “punks” thing above
17. I’m kidding about #16…
18. Twitter has changed the way I do business my friend and I text. #like #weliketotally #hashtag #everything #andifyouarenotonthetwitter #thiswillnot #makeonelickofsensetoyou #truethat
19. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to discriminate agains the unTwittered. #myamends
20. It is 5:53 p.m. and I still don’t know how to answer the question, “What’s for dinner?”
21. If only I could make a blog for dinner…
22. Finally… Office Max and Adopt-A-Classroom have come together to bring you the A Day Made Better Campaign. I have joined 29 other Max Moms to help spread the word! In my original post, in order to nominate a teacher, one had to either create a blog post or create a Whrrl story… but NOW… alls you need to do is write a comment – click here. But, please see the fine print for other detail… Another way to make a difference is to donate directly to A Day Made Better:

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Before I head off into my den of silliness… don’t forget about about the Office Max and Adopt-a-Classroom campaign — A Day Made Better Giveaway. See this post for details on how YOU can win some cash for a teacher of your choice!

Also – join me Tuesday night (9/22) for #gno from 9-11 ET where we will be discussing how to help kids succeed in school with #omx & @adaymadebetter . RSVP to Mom It Forward! I’m going to be joining the panel there!

And – Friday night (9/25) – it’s another Twitter party! #typeamomathome ! Mama in Pajamas (@mamainpajamas) and I will be hosting… you know since we will be at home while the Type-A Mom Conference will be going on in NC *dying inside*, and not in either of our homes, and instead of being completely left out we will be hosting and you will be joining us… and also we will be giving prizes… it’s true *takes a breath*and then I hope to go out and dance and pretend I am at a Type-A Mom cocktail party and not cry because I am here and not there and… please join us there if you are at your “here” and not there. *blinking*

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My beloved searchers… The folks who get to my home here on the interwebz because they typed just the right thing… I stand in awe… of your… your…

*shakes head*

I am not only in awe about how some actually make it here, but…but… who ARE these people? You know, some inquiries makes sense, like (inquiries in italics)…

• Jenny tam tam tambourine – Wellll, I am am a tambourine FORCE!
• dancing is my passion – Can you feel the passion? I felt the whiplash…
• what makes me awesome – Uh… see above? Hello? It’s basic math, people. Tambourine + dancin’ =  me AWESOME.

Aaanywho.
Continue reading ‘They Are At It Again – My Searchers’

I just want to thank you…

A couple of weeks ago I submitted my application in a dream that I might land a gig with Verity Credit Union as their Verity Mom. This gig offers legit pay, a few perks (a laptop, a Flip, and a reason to live) and a tremendous opportunity for my personal professional growth.

I know. I wrote “professional”. Yes, we are all laughing. Jenny + “professional” = Whut the whut?

Continue reading ‘Dear Friends, Thank You!!!’

But first, a video:

Crazy, ehh?

This is a different world for us. For our children. How do we navigate this new social world?

I recently went on a bit of a social media fast. I am still processing what changed for me. Some quick thoughts:

• I feel like I lost ground… in the social media world. I lost some of my grip on the fast moving train, but I don’t feel like I fell off. I am still not back to Twitter like I had been. That could simply be due to the fact that life demands things of me where I simply cannot tend to that area of my interest… of my life.
• I feel like I gained ground. But not much. The laundry was never completely done, the kitchen was never completely cleaned, the kids were never completely satisfied.
• It was not a complete fast. I still had paid gigs to tend to and I simply could not abandon email. Not that I NEED email, but my circle of contacts and friends have come to expect email is as reliable as a phone message. I cannot ignore email.
• I found I missed Facebook. “No kidding” was your first thought, right? I find I missed it for a reason I didn’t expect. I felt left out. Like the kid who was grounded. I felt like I missed out on news and happenings… good news, sad news, writing birthday wishes on walls, jokes, banter… I learned Facebook has become a tool I really rely on to feel connected. That seems obvious, but  this “fast” showed me the extent it has affected my feeling of connectedness.
• Email is still my nemesis.
• It is hard to read all the blogs I desire to read. During this time my passion to try to keep up on other blogs was realized. Now the struggle is finding a system.

But what got me thinking about writing this was a post at Mashable, Facebook Quitters: Find Out When Someone De-Friends You.
Continue reading ‘Personal Thoughts on Using Facebook & Twitter’

It’s true. I am going to give away one of my prized Swine Flu Masks. Yup. No lie.

I have wrestled with whether to let one of my hand/mind created originals go. The struggle is not unlike Picasso might have experienced… We creatives… and our “work”.

However. 

I want to be a resource for My Public. When I heard about the first celebrity fatality of this vicious flu *sniffle* I knew I had no choice. Please, if you have a weak stomach, don’t look. It is quite disturbing:

Thank you, Jill, for sharing this breaking story with me… US…

Friends. I am concerned. I care about you, and that is why I am going to give one of my *clears throat* unique *clears throat* Swine Flu Masks to one of YOU. This has nothing to do with Me. Oh golly… if enough interest is expressed… who knows what I might do. I’m a giver. But there are TWO things at the forefront of my mind as I think about this here Swine Flu and those there masks:

1. Your safety. Your health. I want you to be Swine Flu free. I do. *nods convincingly*
2. Your fashion. I can’t have on of MY Peeps goin’ out in public in a plain mask. No. You have a friend in me. *nods again*

Hithertohencetoforth… this Swine Flue Mask Giveaway!!! Here is how it will work… Decide which mask you would choose were you declared “WINNAH!”. If you have not seen the video, please take a gander and decide which mask is the best fit for you:

Now. Leave a comment here telling me which mask you would like, and why (the “why” part cuz it will feed my ego and my ego has been very, very hungry lately *chompchomp*)… Now. If you would like to increase your odds, you could Twitter a link to this post OR the video above, but if you do, please make sure you add @jennyonthespot in your tweet so I can verify. I will miss it otherwise, and then I won’t be able to add it! You can comment and tweet as much as you want, but since I have remedial math skillz, I will only count one comment and one tweet per person. Am I making sense? *blinks*

Legal: I got the masks over there at the Home Depot. All the pharmacies were sold out. So, not only can you protect yourself from Swine Flu, you can protect yourself from paint fumes and sawdust. Also, I have breathed in all of the masks. But that’s a bonus. Additionally, Lucy may have worn a mask or two as a hat. I checked for lice and we’re good. Lastly… the WINNAH! will also receive a can of glitter! That’s just an extra touch. I am all about extra touching. Um. That came out wrong. Oh, I will close entries at, let’s say noon on Friday… Ready, set….

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I had intended to post about all the hilarity of my children’s hand-made Mother’s Day gifts… until I heard about the dream my sister-in-law had about me. 

You want to know what she dreamed? Here, I’ll give you a list to choose from:

1. I made it to Broadway, landing the lead in Wicked.
2. I beat Elle McPherson in a modeling contest. 
3. I won a hot dog eating contest. 
4. I won a row of cake eating contest.
5. My family had to have an intervention to re-socialize me because I was spending too much time online.

If you picked #4, you very well could have been right. But you’re not. It was #5. 

*blinking*

Oh dear. It would appear it appears to my family I Have been chatting online with hot babes all day. Every day. Lucky. Me. SRSLY. I don’t see it. Really. No. Really.

The dream… Continue reading ‘Make Me Laugh Monday – She Had a Dream’

Are YOU wearing a mask to help lower your risk of contracting the newest ultra-bug… The Swine Flu? Are you?

It’s hard isn’t it. Putting on a mask… Not only are they uncomfortable, but they aren’t very cute either. I have yet to see one eye a mask brings out the color of. It’s true. Ponder that. 

This has REALLY bothered me. But it bothers me no more. I have designed and created – with mine own 2 hands – 10 (yes you heard me)… TEN unique and may I say DESIRABLE Swine Flu mask designs. I decided the best way to share them with you would be via vlog…

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A little bit of this: An insider look… this Jenny on drugs blogging:

Sure… it LOOKS like I’m thinking, but… prolly not so much. 

A little bit of that: My son… He’s 9 and I have no idea how I became the mother of a nine year boy. I have been in “baby/toddler/preschooler” mode  since he was born and at 4 years old, my daughter Lucy still has me in the thick of battle. But I am finding I really need to shift gears. My son is 9 and is not so much the ultra-dependent little person he once was. NOW, girls are flirting with him. Oy:

… I took my daughter to play practice this afternoon. (GO Kitsap Children’s Musical Theater!!!) Olivia wandered in while I stayed in the car with my 4 year old daughter and 9 year old son. Within minutes I felt as if my hawt little minivan was a bloody carcass being circled by hungry sharks…. No, it was worse! A gaggle of giggling elementary girls circled my van when they discovered my son was safe inside. 

You can read the entire expose’ at my Mom on the Spot blog over there at the Kitsap Sun…
Continue reading ‘A little bit of this, a little bit of that…’

 It’s Make Me Laugh Monday. Anything funny out there? If you have something funny to share, please do! Just leave your name and URL to your specific funny post in the Mr. Linky at the bottom of this post. In your post, feel free to use the MMLM image you see here. Please link back to this post so we can keep the linky love alive and keep the circle of laughter rollin’! If you have a video or audio clip that is more for the grown-up folk, please give a courteous “heads-up” for those who might need to plug small ears…

Twitter, anyone? No? well, how about Flutter??? Could be the next big “thing” in social media. Ya think?

Continue reading ‘Make Me Laugh Monday’

All ya’ll. Who’s on Twitter? You on the Twitter? If ya are… am I following you? Are you following me? If not — we need to hook-up, yo!.

If you are not “on” Twitter…. uh…. Why the heck not? Is is because you feel like this guy does?

Twitter kind-of rocks my world. I mean with hashtags such as #tequila, #nothot and #pimpmytweet… how can a girl like me not fall head-over-heels? What? You don’t know what a hashtag is? Oh, baby. You need to hop on the train of 140 character conversation, and also get your hashtag(s) on. 

You want to know who rocked my world the other day? Jenn from Momma on the Rocks — a.k.a @mommy_grrl over there on the Twitter. Not following her? I suggest you do. Do it now. She might pimp your tweet. Were this a tweet about @mommy_grrl, I’d add: #rockmyworld! 

You don’t know what #pimpmytweet means? When someone pimps another tweeters twitter id (say that fast 3 times), one takes a photo of a drawing/written/typed version of someone else’s Twitter ID,  and then uploads, shares and tags it. 

@mommy_grrl TOTALLY PIMPED MY TWEET IN A MOST EXCEPTIONAL WAY. You don’t even know. But you will, because I am going to show you! Get ready. Maybe wear sunglasses because the level of pure-bright-friggin-awesome is potentially blinding:

Jenn… will you marry me? I think after others see this, you are going to receive A LOT of marriage proposals. But I get first dibs, right??? 

I do eat cake by the row. I’ve blogged about it. I even started a group on Facebook for girls like me. You should join. This cake with my Twitter ID… for get the perfect anniversary present, boys. My friend Jenn has romanced me to my core… I mean cake… Twitter… can you feel my heart pounding???

It’s our turn now, fellow Tweeters. I gotsta get mah creative on and get to pimpin’. Who’s in? 

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