Technorati Challenge Experiment

This is from The Mom with Brownies but I spotted it at Rodney Olsen's Blog.

Technorati Challenge Experiment! It’s pretty basic and straight forward. If you want to join from the beginning to get maximum results, here is your chance! :o)

1. Copy The List Below into a blog post on your blog(s). Don’t forget to comment on Brownie Mom’sOriginal post!

2. Add Your Link(s) To The List on your website.

3. Comment On This Post stating the blog address(es) you want listed so Brownie Mom can update the list to include your link(s).

4. Watch Your Authority Rise!

1. THE MOM WITH BROWNIES

2. Our High School Homeschool

3. THE BIG DOG

4. ARE YOU PART OF THE SERIOUS BLOGGER ADlog?

5. Thoughts From The Front Porch

6. My Opinion Counts

7. The Pond

8. Your Fun Family

9. 1stopmom

10. Juicy Alligator

11. Coupon Queen of Corning

12. Life Of A Star

13. The Life Of A Mom

14. Not Just A Mom Site

15. Red Dahlia in Bloom

16. Lyndonology

17. All Arkie Army

18. The Natural State Hawg

19. Healthy Moms

20. Idiot On A Stick

21. Our 5 Dangerous Boys

22. Red Dahlia in Bloom

23. Sojourner’s Place

24. Sojourner’s Place, 2

25. The Emblem of the Helping Hand

26. Moblog

27. Penny Raine

28. RodneyOlsen.net

29. Harmless Thoughts

More for Non-Sequitur

I know that Non-Sequitur probably won't care about this, but just thought that I would pass this one along as well.

[Additional HT: True Grit]

Fireball

[HT: Challies Dot Com]

Sticky Creations #6 & #7

I can't just sit and listen. I just can't do it. I am 36 years old, and I still need to fidget.

If I don't have anything in my hands, I end up fidgeting with my goatee. I usually get mocked for that, so I try to keep something in my hands to fidget with. Since I am a teacher, one of my favorite things to fidget with is Sticky-Tack.

But I don't just fidget... I create!  Here are my latest sticky creations:

A die:

Gandalf and a Ring Wraith

Notice the little Frodo Baggins in the background.  Son #2 made that one.

Here are some other sticky creations:

#1 Snow Man

#2 Thinking Man

#3 Nativity

#4 Dog

#5 Hi!

Unfashionable

I just saw this great quote on Josh Harris' Blog. I am always tempted to add to the quotes that I find, but I am going to leave this one alone. I just wanted to pass it along.

The great guide of the world is fashion and it's god is respectability--two phantoms at which brave men laugh! How many of you look around on society to know what to do? You watch the general current and then float upon it! You study the popular breeze and shift your sails to suit it. True men do not so! You ask, "Is it fashionable? If it is fashionable, it must be done." Fashion is the law of multitudes, but it is nothing more than the common consent of fools.
Charles Spurgeon from a sermon on Joshua 24:15, delivered on April 18, 1875

[HT: Josh Harris]

Castle Personality Test

I haven't done one of these in a while. Mostly because... well, I'm an adult, but since I hang out with kids all day, I felt motivated to try one. I saw this one on a blog that I read.

The Castle Personality Test

You are scared of new experiences. It's hard for you to break outside of your comfort zone. You like to think that people are impressed by you. You know that you have a lot to offer. You are a very romantic person. You can't help but see the world as it should be. Right now, you feel very trapped in your life. You often feel like there is no way out of your rut. Overall, your life is calm and steady. Not much stirs you, and each day is full of joy. You feel like the fate of the future partially rests in your hands. You believe you need to help make the world a better place.

The Castle Personality Test

Lock-Me-Up

I am at an all-nighter for the school where I teach.

I am sitting here trying to type up a post about this all-nighter, but I keep deleting what I have typed and starting over again.  I can't get the words to sound right, so I am just going to say a couple of things.

First, I came up with this idea because some of my best memories come from all-nighters when I was in High School.  I called the one for this school The Turkey Lock-In because it is right before Thanksgiving (or maybe because these kids are a bunch of turkeys).  I still enjoy these, but I am finding that they take more out of me than they used to.

Well, that is what I was going to say... I wanted to draw this post out a little more, but I'm tired.

Later.