Category Archive for ‘Social Media’ at Kerry On the Spot

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Blog 365, Type-A Mom and StumbleUpon

I am totally shooting for SEO with that title…

Only 3 more days left of the Blog 365 challenge… I made the decision to join this challenge was called-out by my friend Jen about this time last year… I made a long list of things to write about. The original list would have given me about 40 days of writing.

I think I only made it through half that list. I have gotten so distracted… by great links, new friends, myself, vlogging, search results, Make Me Laugh Mondays (that’s tomorrow - don’t forget to play tomorrow and link to your funny post here!) and my adult-onset ADHD has really intensified! Whoa! Who knew I’d have MORE than enough content to play with. There were days I posted twice. TWICE. It seems that the more I wrote… the more there was to write, to share, to digress from, to twist… I used to enter a day with a mindset of “survival”, I now enter my day with a mindset of “how can I write about what I just experienced?”. Bloggers, I know you know exactly what I mean.

I’ve heard the phrase, “Be nice or I’ll blog about you” (I actually have a shirt with that saying… got it as swag from BlogHer ‘08), but I think it’s more than that — “Be nice to me AND I’ll blog about you”, heck… just “Be, and I’ll blog about you.” I don’t discriminate… be you child, adult, animal or donut. All is fair game in blogs and social media. When a girl needs content, a girl finds content.

I am relieved to be nearly done with this 365 “test”… On the other hand, I kinda want to keep going. On the other hand, I kind of need a break. On the other hand, I still have 4 or 5 awards to hand out… and I think I want the start of 2009 to be all about appreciating my people… my friends who have touched my life and filled it up. I feel like an octopus with all these “other hands” I have right now.

I also want a cookie. But I digress… Continue reading ‘Blog 365, Type-A Mom and StumbleUpon’

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jenny

on December 28, 2008

in 365, Bloggy Bloggy, Social Media and Type-A Mom

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What do I DO all day?

I know you probably find yourself wondering, “What does Kerry DO all day?” I am pretty sure you have nothing better to do than to wonder what I am up to. Because I am in the business *snicker* of serving My Public, I will share with you a few snapshots of my day(s)… literally. These were all taken on my phone as I was out and about… here and there… Oh the excitement.

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Though I am biologically a 36 year old female (a spectacular one at that), I am intellectually a 16 year-old boy… I can’t help but snicker every time I see this:

“Get rid of your ‘junk’”…. heh… heh, heh, heh… Of course, I’ve told you about my adolescent humor before…

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My brother-in-law found a stuffing recipe he wanted to make for Thanksgiving. The recipe called for boiled, peeled chestnuts. It was a Martha Stewart recipe. I used Twitter to document the peeling of the cursed boiled chestnuts:

8:28 p.m. Thanksgiving Eve: Attention fellow domestic godesses: Marta Stewart has a flippin’ STAFF to peel her pounds & pounds of precious chestnuts! *fingers cramping*
8:40 p.m.: I mean, MartHa Stewart. This is absolutely ridiculous.
8:51 p.m.: And now my thumbs are not only nail-less, but also paralyzed.

I sacrificed the sacred use of my opposable thumbs for this measly pile of chestnut shells:

BTW, the stuffing was very yummy… except for the chestnuts.

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I got stuck in the car wash the day before Thanksgiving. I got a little worried, so I turned to Twitter and my iPhone camera to send out an SOS:

I may be trapped in the car wash. I have enough supplies to last me until dinner.

May have to ration my water, tho…

A big “thank you” to my friend Wendy for the pumpkin muffins… I could have DIED!

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Oh the excitement. It’s almost paralyzing, isn’t it…

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jenny

on December 5, 2008

in Delusions of Grandeur, Eats, General and Social Media

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Vlogging on the mind, and self-promotion.

So. I am all a-dither thinking about my new career as a vlogger. But I am a little confused too. Is it a “vlog” if my video is a post on my blog? Or would it be considered a “vost”? Just thinkin’ here.

Meanwhile… I have done a bit of research on vlogging. If I am going to launch into this new world, I want information. I want to do it right, and do it well. I found a delightful young lady on Youtube — LOOinLONDON. I found her vlog on vlogging to be VERY educational. Please watch this video, then you will know the burden we vloggers *ahem*… carry…

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Warning: self-promotion…

Do you love me? Do you? Or do you just like me? Tolerate me? I’m cool with toleration… but if you love me — prove it please prove it. And if you just tolerate me, I’m cool if you pretend you love me, but just this once… I am all about keepin’ it real, unless a prize is at stake — as is the case here…

I’ll only ask you once. Today. Voting ends November 30th. Don’t delay. Act now. All you have to do is click on that pretty little badge, register at DivineCaroline and vote. What do YOU get for your effort? Not sure. Prolly nothing but the internal gratification that you can check “good deed” off your list for today. However, I could win a Visa gift card and a bragger-badge. The money is great (YAY, Mama’s buying Christmas presents!), but the badge is better (YAY, ME!)…

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jenny

on November 20, 2008

in 365, Delusions of Grandeur, General, Go ahead, chime in!, Social Media, The Love and Vlogging

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Blogging (Wordpress), Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Flickr, Picnik, Motherhood & The Witching Hour

Are the search engines putting me at the top after that title or what?! Bring it!

Back in November ‘02 I cooked dinner for my family of 4… Me, the Hubs, a 3 year old boy and a baby girl. Occasionally I would engage in a phone conversation whilst doing my own carnival tricks (a.k.a. “cooking dinner”). Ahhh, but mostly I cooked and survived “the witching hour(s)“ pretty much in desperation solitude. With either a baby or a chubby 3-year-old eye poker on my maternal hip. My evenings pretty much went as follows:

Stir, fix broken toy, stir, apply band aid to owie, chop, help with stubborn puzzle piece, chop, pull son away from firelplace, stir, wipe brow and count to 10– daddy will be home soon… stir, take knife away from son, fill sippy cup, change diaper, coax the potty-trainer, counting to 100… keep big brother from love-smothering baby sister… pray meat didn’t burn beyond repair, look up child’s nose for meat thermometer (because, yeah, it’s not in on the counter where I left it), give into crying (mom, and both kids) — where the H.E. Doublehockeysticks is Daddy!!!, soothe crying baby, open doors and windows, pray fire detectors will turn off soon, 3 year-old unconvinced that he does NOT have to watch mommy on the potty, wipes down counter, more crying/weeping/gnashing of teeth, … orders pizza, counting to 1000…

*que myocardial infarction* CLEAR!!!! *kachunk* “Beep, beep, beep…”

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Published

jenny

on November 18, 2008

in 365, Bloggy Bloggy, Delusions of Grandeur, Family, Friends, General, Mutha' Hood and Social Media

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