30 things I vow to do this summer

30 things I vow to do this summer

so many things to do this summer
1. Kick Cancer’s Ass!
2. Get lots of sleep
3. Eat my veggies every day
4. Become habitual about exercise
5. Get really, really good at yoga – like sexy, awesome good
6. Catch up on all those thank you cards I need to send out
7. Rearrange the furniture in the nursery
8. Write more
9. Find ways to fit a little Joy into even the crappy days
10. Play
11. Dance
12. Sing (sorry if you happen to be within earshot)
13. Giggle
14. Snuggle with my baby
15. Get caught up on all the movie watching I’ve missed the past few years
16. Read a book for fun
17. Work the kinks out of my blog
18. Write fiction
19. Get a massage, maybe several
20. Pay the late fee at the library so I can check out more books
21. Blog more
22. Increase my blog readership
23. Learn to focus on what I can control and let go of what I can’t
24. Play
25. Spend as much time with my little girl as I can
26. Tickle my daughter more
27. Snuggle with my husband
28. Go on as many adventures as we can
29. Laugh
30. Do the best I can to make sure my breast cancer doesn’t interrupt my baby’s childhood.

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30 things I vow to do this summer

Bleeding Espresso makes it to finalist round in the 2009 Bloggies

My friend Michelle of Bleeding Espresso has made it to the finalist round for the 2009 Bloggies in the Best European Blog category.

Michelle Fabio, an American writer and attorney leaves the Anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania for her family’s ancestral village in Calabria, Italy, falls in love, gets two dogs, writes to her heart’s content and begins bleeding espresso. No, really.

Bleeding Espresso is one of my favorite blogs with wonderful recipes, beautiful photography and great articles that give us a taste of Italy, a taste of America, and anything else that sets her heart on fire. Stop by her blog and then stop by the bloggies and give her a vote.

 

30 things I vow to do this summer

Google Search Terms

Every once in a while a visit to Google Analytics will provide some data that I’m not quite sure how to process

Here’s a sample of search terms that turned up for CoffeeJitters:

  • how to get rid of coffee jitters (ahem, seriously people!)
  • shooting dad
  • did you lose something
  • its business night
  • happy hour
  • left over cake
  • what happened to la dolce vita
  • pictures of fat brides (ouch!)
  • seattle rutabaga

Some of these make sense. Some of these, I’ve decided I don’t really want to figure them out.

Has Google Analytics (or Woopra or whatever other tool you use) turned up search terms that blew your mind?

 

I’m not Blogger’s biggest fan right now

I’m not Blogger’s biggest fan right now

I’ve reverted back to my old format. I changed to the new format on Saturday night/Sunday morning and for some reason, suddenly today, blogger decided to freak out and it could no longer read my code. My blog has been down for most of the day.

Oh yes I know there are bigger, faster, sexier blog services out there, and someday I expect I’ll have me a bigger, faster, sexier blog, with tassels and a bell. But those things take resources like time, money, and know-how and at the moment I seem to be strapped for all three.

so instead, I give you this pretty picture I took on Sunday afternoon.