The Blonde Diaries

Hello and welcome to a new week. So far things haven’t been looking too good with an unauthorized credit charge and work being so-so. I’m hoping things start turning around for the week. My weekend was nice though and relaxing so I am ready to start this week off with my Manic Monday Meme post. So here we go!

What is the last song that was stuck in your head and how did you get rid of it? Love Game by Lady GaGa.  I just sang it until I got bored with it.  Luckily that wasn’t too long.

If you had to say what one thing in your life best represents your freedom, what would it be? Tough question.  I tried to peak but seemed like this one created a block for alot of people.  I liked the passport answer but don’t want to steal it.  I thought maybe my car because it gives me the freedom to go wherever I want or need to go.  I also thought Mike because I was able to choose him to spend forever with.

If you were invited to the White House for dinner tonight, what would you wear from your current wardrobe? A black dress and comfortable shoes.

Happy Friday! Today is a lazy day for me as I just have to listen to a webcast at work and then go to a lunch with a small group of coworkers today before I am free to enjoy the weekend. I love lazy days like today. I have a short to-do list for this afternoon – return a few items, gather my dry cleaning, and then write some thank you notes. Maybe I’ll start on dinner before Mike gets back from Dallas. Depends on how lazy I feel like being. I’m still holding out hope he takes me out to watch Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals.

Today’s question on Island Life is -> What’s your favorite thing about Summer?

My favorite part of summer is fun in sun and wearing flip flops all the time!  I hate socks and find them constricting so I look forward to the 10/11 months of summer we have here in Houston LOL.
My question for this week:  Penguins or Red Wings?

I’m hoping for a Penguin win!

I logged in this morning to see a note about upgrading to WordPress 2.8. I didn’t realize a new version of WordPress would be released soon nor did I know what changes or upgrades would be in store once I pushed that button and allowed my software to upgrade automatically. I figure at the end of the day I will need to upgrade so why not just go for it and then read about it later.

Upgrading went as easily as clicking a button with a mouse which is exactly what I did. No issues (no exceptions, waive further review – LOL a little auditor humor) everything seems to be working fine. One thing I did notice that was new is a box on my sidebar for series tags. I wasn’t paying attention earlier when I did my post about Direct TV and put in all of my post tags in the series tag box. I couldn’t figure out why there were no tags for that post until I came back later and saw that there are now 2 boxes for tagging posts. I haven’t figured out what series tags are for but thought I’d give a heads up so you don’t have the same question bugging you later on.

I also just noticed a link on my side bar to install a theme directly through the admin part of my blog. That will be nice because I never remember the address to get to my server. Then once I am finally to my server site, I never remember what user name and password I have used. I don’t have any themes picked out to add but I might have to do a search to find one and test this little feature out.

Have you noticed anything cool with this new version?? Leave me a comment and tell me all about it.

Happy June everyone! I can’t believe we are almost halfway through 2009. Wow does time fly. I had a pretty great weekend that was fun and tiring but I wouldn’t trade it for extra sleep. So here we are ready for another Manic Monday blog post. As always, we are asked 3-4 questions and just have to answer them and share with others. You can play along by leaving comments here or by making your own post on your blog.

Imagine you’re packing a picnic lunch. What would be in your basket? Oooh Oooh!  We did the picnic thing yesterday.  In our basket we had ham and cheese sandwiches, grapes, a peach, pretzels, and water bottles.

If your life were a weather vane, which direction would it be pointing right now? Whipping through the wind in a West-East fashion.  Trying to get from the start to finish on a few projects both professionally and personally and I keep getting thrown back with them.

What’s something that people do in traffic that really annoys you? Cut in front of me with little to no room.  Oh and then going slow.  Grr.

This award acknowledges the values that every blogger shows in his or her effort to transmit cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values every day
The rules to follow are: Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award and his or her blog link.

I received this blog award last week from Kaye at The Road Goes Ever On.  I found Kaye’s blog a month or two ago thanks to some of the memes I participate in weekly.  I think the specific one was Tuesday Teasers but I try to make it a point to stop by her Wordless Wednesday posts each week as well and see what else is going on with her and her blog.  I really enjoy doing my memes because it allows me to find blogs like Kaye’s and provides good reading material each week.   So thank you Kaye for participating in memes and stopping by my blog as well.  I also appreciate the award.

Now pass the award to 10 other blogs that are worthy of this acknowledgment. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.  Make sure to click on the blog’s name to find out more about the blog and see why I love them so much!

1. A Novel Mind ~ Kimberly
2. It’s All About Me ~ Teena in Toronto
3. The Social Frog
4. The Bumbles Blog
5. Janet’s Book Nook ~ Janet
6. The Not-So Blog ~ Bridgette
7. Newlyweds ~ Jenna
   
8. The Hills ~ Leanna
   
9. Always Sunni ~ Marilyn
10. All About Kimberly