Tasty Tuesday and A Bunch of Blog Hopping!

So I’ve spent a large portion of my morning visiting other blogger sites and checking out a lot of new and cool ideas on blogging. In doing so I ran across a lot of cool blogs that I hadn’t had time to visit and so I’m glad I decided to blog hop today!  

One think I cannot emphases enough or stress the importance that blog hopping can do for your blog readership and relationship building is! Of course you can join blog hopping sites and hope within the community but I like to think outside the box, though please don’t get me wrong, I am part of a few wonderful blog hopping group, one of my favorite is FTLOB’s. In fact today is Tasty Tuesday over there so I will be posting a yummy recipe below this entry. Being a member of FTLOB’s has really allowed me the opportunity to meet some other great blogger and build some great relationships with those bloggers so not only is blog hopping good, so is joining blog hopping sites! There are tons, just go out and look around a bit!

Now back to blog hopping; this morning between emails, phone calls and a meeting or two, I was able to do some long needed blog hopping around blog land. Believe me, you can get lost in there if you aren’t paying attention! There are literally thousands and thousands of blogs; you just need to shift through the bad to get to the good!

                                                                                   

So after all my digging, I found some really great blogs that I want to share with you all! Check out these links below!

http://www.elleandblair.com/cat/fashion

http://www.nicolerichie.com/

http://www.jazzimcg.com/blog/

http://www.lifestylelemonaid.com/

Then go take a look at my yummy recipe for Tuesday’s FTLOB blog hop! 

Caramel Apple Pie A La Mode Bites: 

For the recipe, visit: The Nifty Foodie

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Official What's In vs. What's Out Hot List:

So I’ve decided to do an official City Girl Chronicles short list of what’s in and what’s out.

What’s IN:

Men shopaholics: long gone are the days of the lady shopaholic because more and more man have outrageous shoe collections just like we do.  So ladies don’t expect to see your men venting in front of the T. V. yelling for a cold beer, nope now he’ll be standing in the dressing room line along side you with an arm full of skinny jeans and dress pants.  

Gucci Guilty perfume: Seriously I just rubbed some of this on my wrist from a sample in my Cosmo magazine and I’m officially declaring sweet scent as IN!

Calling up mama: Yes, calling your mother more than once a week or a day for that matter is totally on the cool radar so go ahead and dial those digits!

                 What’s OUT:

That old “Opposites Attract” theory: Remember a few years ago when all those celebrities were getting engaged but the relationship only seemed to last a few weeks and then it was on to the next? Well those poor souls were hooking up with opposites that they hope they could eventually change and after a few more dates and conversations they realized that picking out a ring on date 3 was probably a bad, bad idea. Now days people want more in a relationship so their looking for a partner who already has more in common with them from the start and it seems to be making relationships last longer.

Black fingernail polish: Seriously not cool! Do I really have to say anything more? Well, unless your into Goth but otherwise go for the lighter color!

Being enemies or even “frienemies” with anyone: Life’ short so instead try to live, love and laugh, you'll find it takes way less energy than hating someone!

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Wordless Wednesday..

Thought this was funny and had to post it!

Truths of Monday:

Today I'm posting two truths, one personal the other universal:

Truth #1: Personal Truth

Truth #2: Universal Truth

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My Mama Said...

Today's post is simple:  We all have bad days but we can't let them get the best of us! Smile and press on and remember:

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As The Events Unfolded...

In the spirit of today’s blog hop over at FTLOB’s I have decide to post this mouth watering picture for you to enjoy! 

mini grill cheese and tomato soup cups

On another note, I must admit that I went home last night and sat down and actually wrote some more of my novel! Now before you all start cheering me on, I have to say the whole event is not nearly as glamorous as it may sound.  I hit some road blocks long before I even started to write, here are the details:

I went home and realized that I needed to run out and pick up a few things at Best Buy and Barns & Noble so I get to Best Buy and they don’t have what I need (wonderful!)  but tell me I can drive to their other location 20 minutes away (in rush hour traffic mind you!)  Ggrrrr…. Reluctantly I go, get what I need and head home but of course get stuck in traffic an hour later, I’m finally home!

 

Arrive at home, start to make dinner and see that my dog has decided to roll around in the mud so now she needs a bath! Have not eaten dinner and am starving but have to give her a bath!! UGGH, I’m gritting my teeth by now… 45 minutes later she’s all cleaned up and I’m a mess, have to take a shower, then eat dinner and can call my husband who is out of town on business for the week. Then head over to my computer to start writing. By now it’s 7:45pm and I’m totally exhausted but I write and am SO happy I did!

There you have it; all wrapped up and topped with a shiny ribbon! 



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My Ah-Hah Moment has arrived...

I have been stalling all day to write this entry but I’m refueled and ready to go! I got a big dose of inspiration today from a co-worker of mine who really seemed put the whole “working on my book” thing into perspective for me with a few simple words. Instead of looking at it as “working” on my book my co-worker suggest that I stop looking at it like its work because it’s suppose to be my passion so I should be happy to do it and really I am... Maybe I had been thinking of writing my book in terms of working on a term paper or something so I kept putting it off.  But with this new way of thinking will really do wonders for me and give me a boost! I’m going home tonight and knocking out some pages! Sometimes it really does take an outside perspective to give you a new outlook on things!

On another note, I got my home office up and ready this weekend so I really have no reason not to write. My husband bought me a shiny new flat screen monitor and helped me hook everything up! I kinda need to put my books away though. I love to read and so I have tons of books everywhere, let me repeat that, EVERYWHERE! We have a small library in our entertainment room on the first level of our house but all the bookshelves are full as the ones on the additional bookshelf in our home office, hall closet and the shelves on my desk so there are all these books randomly stacked up around my desk and I seriously need to clean that mess up!

So close but so far away...

But here’s what not going to happen, I’m not going to go home and clean up the books and then find an excuse not to write so I will go home, write then put the books away and if I don’t get around to putting the books away, then I won’t care because at least I would have written something! I feel like I’m in my “Ah-hah” moment when I finally realize something really important in life! I know, I such a nerd!

So you’re all my witnesses, I vow to write tonight and finish chapter 1 at the very least... The only thing I’m doing by not writing is standing in my own way, there are enough people out there trying to get in my way, so I don’t need to do it to myself!






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