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Who knew I would find the inspiration to sit down and sort through our vacation photos this morning? Well, I did .

And while I was at it, I actually got around to stringing together some of our best memories into a new blog header. See, up there? Like it?

Going from left to right, you see

1. Mickey and Minnie waving to us as they drove around Disneyland in their buggy.

2. A row of quaint little shops in sunny Monterey where we stopped to browse and buy a couple of keychains.

3. The magical Sleeping Beauty’s Castle where me and the girls lingered hoping Prince Charming would swoop in, sweep us off our feet and ride off with us into the sunset. Umm, maybe it’s the Prince’s day off, maybe next time, huh?

4. Aladdin and the Genie, the hottest guys in all of Disney. We watched the Aladdin Musical Spectacular at the Disney California Adventure four freakin’ times, that’s how much we loved the show. Wait for us, Al, we’re definitely coming back!

5. The bestest Japanese food in Las Vegas and we found it at the lower level of Bally’s in a small restaurant called Ichiban.

I’m so stoked I’m going to make more vacation memory blog headers. Soon.

… 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:

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.

day computer

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 .

night computer

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 ?