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My Favorite Week of the Summer

...is Discovery Channel's Shark Week. I don't particularly like the ocean, nor am I a very good swimmer. In fact, I have a ridiculous fear of most fish (yes, even goldfish!). But these majestic creatures have always fascinated me. I remember taking out tons of books on sharks from the library when I was a little kid and dreaming of becoming a marine biologist. (Too bad my ineptitude at science — as well as my fear of practically all other fish — stopped that dream short.) I have even made it a goal to go cage diving at least once before I die. (via Twaggies) And yes, Jaws remains one of my all-time favorite movies. :-) Does anyone else get as excited over Shark Week as I do? (Don't...

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Someone is WRONG on the Internet

I have been blogging for over a decade now, and in that time I have certainly received hurtful and/or hateful comments. I have had my share of trolls, personal messages from particularly irate readers, as well as (empty) threats. At first they used to bother me. A lot. But now, I find them quite amusing. Does something that a complete stranger writes on their personal blog bother you so much that you feel the need to continually argue your point? To refresh the page over 90 times in an hour to see if you had gotten a response? (Yes, someone actually did this to me quite a few times.) To link to the offending post in an online forum or social media site to ask for reinforcements? (A...

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Brain Dump

As I rolled out of bed this morning, I almost collapsed to the floor in a ball of agony. "Hello, pregnancy hip pains," I muttered to myself. "Now I remember you!" Hip pains and crotch pains. Hip pains from my hip joints loosening (I was not officially diagnosed with Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction in my last pregnancy, but it was still bad enough that I couldn't exercise for all of my third trimester) and the crotch pain from the increased bloodflow to the pelvic area. If you weren't around the first time I was pregnant, the hip pains feel like my right hip joint is about to pop open with every step or movement. Crotch pains feel like someone's been repeatedly kicking me in the...

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Celebrating 100k+ Visitors with an Amazon Gift Card Giveaway!

Update: the giveaway is now closed. Thank you to everyone who entered! I will post the winners shortly. June 2011 was a big one for this blog. We started the month with a site re-design and I began my efforts to monetize my site. This has also been the biggest month ever in terms of traffic. Back in April, I received a little over 95,000 unique visitors and so had set a short-term goal of 100,000 visitors per month by the summer's end. Well, as of 12:00am this morning, I had received...

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