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… California. Yup, I’m leaving on my li’l vacation soon. Pretty excited about that. I’ll be tweeting from wherever I can find a decent connection. You can follow me here as I jet across the skies. Oh, and I’ll be blogging too from California when I get there, so be sure to come back and find out what I’m up to, okay?

I never expected this but I’m thrilled to receive this award from not just one, but two beautiful blogger friends, Liz Has a Life and What Would Jen Do. Thank you, Liz and Jen, so honored .

And now for 7 things that you may or may not already know about me:

1. I’ve graduated from bathroom singing in my teens to terrorizing my teens with  my singing bawling!

2. There’s nothing more mind-blowing than spicy food!

3. Me and my girls can’t wait to go for another rock concert. Looks like I may have created a monster when we went to see the Backstreet Boys and then the All-American Rejects twice!

4. I look forward to occasions when I get to dress up and go out for a nice dinner.

5. My favorite nail polish colors are blue, green and purple. I’m growing my nails again and I’m going to splash them with color. Soon!

6. Sometimes I wonder if maybe, just maybe, I’m some sort of schizophrenic. I’m a quiet person but I love to talk. Does that make any sense at all?

7. I hate popping pills even when I have a migraine. So no migraine headache relief for me, thanks, just leave me to my misery. I’m stubborn that way!

And now I’m going to pass this award along to these 3 ladies:

1. Living, Loving, Laughing
2. One Day at a Time
3. Once Upon a Mommy

Oh and if you love blogging and would like to challenge yourself to blog for 24 hours straight, here’s your chance to blog for a good cause. It isn’t as hard as you think, in fact, it’s a whole barrel of fun. Me and my daughters are going to give up our beauty sleep again this year to blog for our favorite charities. Blogathon 2010 is on July 31. Come on and join us. You can check out the details and register your blog here from July 1 (I think).

I’ve been so busy I didn’t notice that Blogathon 2010 is rolling up so quickly. This utterly cool event will be on July 31 and it’s 24 hours of pure blogging adrenalin of cranking out one blog post every 30 minutes. If  you’re a blogger and you’re passionate about raising money for your favorite cause and making some cool bloggy friends at the same time, come join us. Check out the details here!

I tell ya, Blogathons are so much fun I’ve been going back year after year. In Blogathon 2008, my first year of participating in this awesome event, I blogged for Doctors Without Borders, an organization that renders medical aid worldwide. In 2009, I blogged for the ASPCA. And this year? Well, thing is I still haven’t thought about which charity to blog for. Got any suggestions?

While everyone in the blogging world is going places (literally), I’m probably the only one still chained to my desk *sobs*. My daytime PC is a desktop with a 24″ monitor in a room with lots of natural lighting.

For some reason, as the day wears on, I wander over to my nighttime PC which is a TouchSmart with everything built into the 24″ monitor, nothing sticking out except those pesky wires. I don’t know why I do that. Maybe I was a nomad in another life .

Yep, both my computers are desktops. So I’m not the most mobile of bloggers but there’s good reason for that. I kinda like to keep my online and offline lives separate, ya know. When I’m out eating or shopping, I want my hands and my mind free. I don’t want to be lugging my entire IT shop of laptop computers, cameras, battery packs and wires all over town, or blogging in the middle of my burger, or tweeting from the toilet! Know what I’m sayin’?

At any rate, even if our mobile internet services were any good (and they’re not, they suck, that’s why I tell them not to waste my time when they try to get me to sign up for any of their rubbishy promos), I’m not some hugely important person that the world needs to know what I’m doing every minute of the day. So yeah, I know, some blogger I am, huh ?

Well, the good week was going so, so good that if you tried visiting my blogs the past couple of days, you’ll have seen a nasty message saying ‘this site has been temporarily suspended’. Sorry about that but really, it isn’t that I did anything naughty to get suspended! Nothing like that !

Truth is Steev got a huge traffic spike on his business site which overloaded our hosting server capacity and brought it crashing down. That can’t be bad, can it? Heck, we’d kill to get traffic like that!! My son’s a genius, what can I say, he’s got my good genes !

On a lighter note, we took a break from pancakes last weekend. We’ve been stuffing ourselves silly with these delish pancakes two weekends in a row. How crazy is that?

Between the 5 of us, we actually manage to gobble up 40+ pancakes of this size in one weekend. Imagine that ! As if that’s not enough, I’ll be running my pancake fulfillment center again this weekend. Promised the kids another pancakes unlimited adventure, woo-hoo!! The recipe is on my food blog if you’re interested.

Speaking of adventures, another major excitement happened last weekend. Watch out for that in my next post.

So all is quiet… after the flurry of activity over the weekend. I’m still trying to catch up on my beauty sleep. Yep, still kinda lazy and sluggish and moving around like a snail .

This blog’s quietened down too after the slew of visitors. But then, it’s usually pretty quiet here and no one comments unless I write a crappy post which isn’t very often as I’m not much of a crapper. I notice that’s the kind of post people like to read *yawn*.

So here I am, the day after Blogathon 2009. Slept like a log. Woke up early. Was planning to go to the gym. Been sitting on my butt for 24 hours straight, what do you think? Had a shower. Jumped into my shorts. Looked in the mirror. Aargh!

Raccoon eyes. Supermodel swagger. Sluggish brain. Hung over. Ooh, that can’t be good!

What was it the Black Eyed Peas kept saying over and over? I got this feeling that tonight’s gonna be a good night, it’s gonna be a g-good good night…

And it WAS. the. best!

Dang, we had such a blast . Can’t wait to do it again.

We made tons of cool friends (love you guys!), pigged out in the middle of the night, giggled like crazy, milked our brains dry and generally behaved like blogging idiots.

And this morning, I woke up to a cool $30 in pledges to the ASPCA. Woo-hoo!

Feeling left out? Want your piece of good karma? There’s still time. I’m leaving the little yellow button on the top of my sidebar till Friday just in case you’re feeling like you wanna make a pledge.

I’ve done all the fun hard work, sacrificed my beauty sleep and now I look like Miss Raccoon Universe, so the rest is up to you. But I promise doing good is intoxicating and gives you an incredible high.