I’ve been tagged for another meme by Karen at The Pond, and this time I am supposed to tell you seven facts about myself. Ok, that’s cool - I can handle that.

Here’s how it works:

You have to come up with seven “facts” about yourself and post these rules:

1) Link to the person that tagged you, and post the rules on your blog.
2) Share 7 facts about yourself.
3) Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs. (Or be completely lazy and skip this step.)
4) Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog. (So then you’d have to skip this step, too.)

Seven facts about Lisa:

1. The second finger on my right hand is bent -from writing! LOL! Nail girls get frustrated with me - because, nails are tricky to put on because of it!
2. I have a ginormous collection of angels (books, figurines, etc.) and I almost started a website on them once, and I was going to combine my My Very Own Mail newsletter with it - calling it ‘Angels and Bookworms’. I just loved that - thought it was so cute. Not very ‘niche-smart’ - but, super cute! Ha! That was years ago, before I even knew about niches at all!
3. I also collect trucks - that won’t surprise some of you who hear me carrying on about trucks plenty!
4. I have been to drug rehabilitation twice.
5. I am a major packrat - even with my computer! My doc’s - a mess. My pics - a mess. My email - a mess. Something must be done! hahaha!
6. I have the worst indigestion right now - EVER!!!
7. I have pages and pages of posts that I want to write in a notebook on my desk - I am so behind!!

And now you know seven more things about me! If you’re reading this - TAG! YOU’RE IT!!

Tell us seven things about you, too, please! Pretty please!

Just another Sunday - ya’ll go check out the rest of the Self Portrait’ers right over here: Digicass: Self Portrait Sunday.

So here I am in my ‘messy, you put off your work till the last minute again so you better just get busy - forget about showering - powder your nose and stick on a hat’ - Sunday self!

It’s funny, for one of the company’s that I work for - I have a deadline every two weeks. I know that deadline is every second Monday. I know that. And yet, it never seems to fail that I put it off to the very last minute - every. single. time.

I don’t intend to - I surely do not. I just keep saying, ‘It’s ok, I’ll start on it tomorrow.’ And next darn thing I know - that Monday morning deadline is sneaking up on me.

It’s getting so bad, that even the kids are hollering at me! “Mom! You are always telling us not to put off our assignments until the very last day and here you are doing it!”

Eeeps! Duly noted.

I will meet my next deadline in a timely manner.

I will meet my next deadline in a timely manner.

I will meet my next deadline in a timely manner.

I will meet my next deadline in a timely manner.

I will meet my next deadline in a timely manner.

(Copy and paste sure makes ’sentences’ a lot easier! Hahaha! Don’t tell Mrs. Beasley - or whoever your evil detention teacher was! LOL!)

Now ya’ll get on over to Cass’ place and check out the other Sunday Self Portraits!

My friend, Cass, has a fun weekly meme that I used to always join in on, but, it seems lately (like the last few months), I keep on missing it. Oftentimes, I have even gone so far as to get cleaned up, put on MAKE-UP, made sure I had good lighting, like quoizel lighting, and have actually taken the picture! And then what? Well, I got busy doing stuff with the family, intending to post it in the evenings, and just wound up too tired or got home too late.

So today, on this lovely Friday, I’m going to post some Sunday Self Portraits. So there.

Now, this first one was taken on 8-26-07. You can click the ‘SSP’ graphic and go see all of the other Sunday Self Portraits from that day!

I decided on that Sunday to just take the pic ‘as is’, because , the day before I had gussied up for company that was coming over and for some pics I wanted to take in my cool Switch t-shirt. I was going to post the pic and tell you all about the great new soda called Switch on Saturday - and then on Sunday morning you would have the ‘just me as I am on Sunday morning’ picture. But you can see that my ‘blogging plans’ are not exactly happening as they should lately! (I can definitely see that - I have two pages full of things I want to blog about on my desk staring me down with evil eyes! I feel like I’m in Senior English again with Mrs. Whitley - and way, way behind! Ugh!) The ‘Switch Soda post’ is on the list and forthcoming…

My most currently behind Sunday Self Portrait is from last Sunday, September 2nd. Again, you can click on the graphic and see the lovely portraits of everyone else who participated last weekend.

This last weekend I spent the majority of my time crying. I miss my family in Dallas so much, and sometimes it just overwhelms me, and this weekend was one of those times. This picture was taken after my Sunday morning cry. I thought I might as well portray the truth and the reality of my life, instead of trying to cover it all up with glitz and glitter. I’m sure it would’ve looked horribly fake, anyway, as I’m not very good at ‘hiding’ my feelings. So under the mascara and the jewelry, you’d have seen something wrong - so I just decided to show it to you. And the funny thing is, I know that is not a flattering picture, I know that - but, still, there is something cute about it. Of course, my mother swears that my ‘beautiful’ second-born child wasn’t really beautiful. My sweet, little red alien boy. God bless his little heart. Did anyone else give birth to an alien? I bet you thought he was beautiful, too, didn’t you? Mean ol’ Grandma! (I’ll have to show you Shawn’s hospital pictures one of these days. You might even back Grandma up!)

You know, I’m happy that I’ve done this. Way behind, way late, and I just don’t care. I am so happy to have done it. I have been meaning to get back into this thing for months and months. There was one Sunday that we were going to the museum, so before we went I took pictures. I just keep doing that, and then not posting. So I’m glad I posted - even if it is Friday!

Who knows - maybe this week, I’ll post my Sunday Self Portrait on Sunday. It could happen.

My sweet friend, Heather, of Home with Heather, tagged me for this meme and I have to say that I really like this one. It is not only fun and interesting, but, helpful to all of us, as well! You just can’t beat that!

It’s very simple. When this is passed on to you, copy the whole thing, skim the list and put a * star beside those that you like. (Check out especially the * starred ones.)

Add the next number (1. 2. 3. 4. 5., etc.) and write your own blogging tip for other bloggers.

Try to make your tip general.

After that, tag 10 other people. Link love some friends!

Just think– if 10 people start this, the 10 people pass it onto another 10 people, you have 100 links already!

1. Look, read, and learn. *****

-http://www.neonscent.com

2. Be, EXCELLENT to each other. *****

-http://www.bushmackel.com/

3. Don’t let money change ya! *****

-http://www.therandomforest.info

4. Always reply to your comments. ******

-http://chattiekat.com

5. Spell check is your friend. ****

- http://thingsbymike.com

6. Be the blog. ***

- http://www.meandmydrum.com/

7. Your readers are your treasure.***

- http://www.brownbaron.com/blog/

8. Learn From The Pros. ***

-http://www.shaunlow.com/

9. Be creative and controversial**

- http://www.ahmadaffzan.com

10. Use Trackbacks as a way to increase content and community.*

- http://www.homewithheather.com

11. Always have ‘Next Page’ or ‘Older Posts’ buttons on your main page. (Or even better, like Heather does….page numbers! I like it, Heather!) *

- http://hippiespelunker.blogspot.com

Now I have to tag ten more awesome bloggers, and I choose:

ONE - Alli

TWO - Amy

THREE - Ang.

FOUR - Cass

FIVE - Colleen

SIX - Deb

SEVEN - DonnaLeigh

EIGHT - Eve

NINE - Jenn

TEN - Julie

Have at it, gals! I can’t wait to read all of your tips!!

My sweet friend, Deb, of Surviving NJ, tagged me for this fun one-word meme. You just have to answer all the following questions, and you can only use one word for the answers.

1. Where is your cell phone? Beside.

2. Relationship? Yes.

3. Your hair? Messy.

4. Work? Trying.

5. Your sister? Sweet.

6. Your favorite thing? Computers.

7. Your dream last night? Nope.

8. Your favorite drink? Soda.

9. Your dream car? Frontier.

10. The room you’re in? Office.

11. Your shoes? Off.

12. Your fears? Money.

13. What do you want to be in 10 years? A-lister.

14. Who did you hang out with this weekend? Computer.

15. What are you not good at? Moderation.

16. Muffin? Chocolate.

17. One of your wish list items? Car.

18. Where you grew up? Dallas.

19. Last thing you did? Computer.

20. What are you wearing? Cozies.

21. What aren’t you wearing? Make-up.

22. Your pet? Puppy.

23. Your computer? Life.

24. Your life? Challenging.

25. Your mood? Edgy.

26. Missing? Burnett’s.

27. What are you thinking about right now? Noise.

28. Your car? Nada.

29. Your kitchen? Small.

30. Your summer? Short.

31. Your favorite color? Yellow.

32. Last time you laughed? Today.

33. Last time you cried? Yesterday.

34. School? Ick.

35. Love? Internet.

Now I have to tag a few peeps to follow suit, and I think I’ll pick:

Jo, over at Tiny Dog Blog

and

Kimberly, over at The Adventures of Super-Mommy and Spit Up Boy

So get to it, ladies!

My wonderful blogging friend, Marcus - of My Thoughts, tagged me for this new meme that got started by the folks over at JohnCow.com. This new meme will help us all build up our subscriber base, and help our rankings. My new little blog here could certainly do with some of that! So to get in on it, here is all you have to do:

#Start copy here#

The idea is simple: You want readers and you want link backs too because that’s all us bloggers want, it’s more precious than milk for some

So how does it work?

Simple! You just copy the list down below on your blog, hence creating link backs for your blogging friends and then click the RSS feed link to subscribe to all of them. Then you add yourself and up to 5 other bloggers and their feeds to the list before you publish it on your own blog. Show your friends some link love

Just imagine if just 10 people would do this and then 10 more after them. That would get your blog 100 extra link backs and 100 extra feed subscribers!

The Original List:

• Subscribe to JohnCowdotCom
• Subscribe to BobmeetsWorld
• Subscribe to LifeisRisky
• Subscribe to TheKingKongBlog
• Subscribe to My New Hustle
• Subscribe to GadgetTastic
• Subscribe to Life of Browie
• Subscribe to Disregard Me
• Subscribe to Everybody Go To
• Subscribe to Brian Vaughan
• Subscribe to Fuery
• Subscribe to Sam Breadstone
• Subscribe to TheInternetExperiment
• Subscribe to BloggingFingers
• Subscribe to Confessions of a Housewife
• Subscribe to HomeBizBlogger
• Subscribe to OneMansGoal
• Subscribe to There’sABlogInMySoup
• Subscribe to Bloggers R Us
• Subscribe to My Thoughts
• Subscribe to WordpressReworked
• Subscribe to TechTraction
• Subscribe to Footprints on the Moon
• Subscribe to Bucket O Bulletz
• Subscribe to Simple Kind of Life
• Subscribe to Whatever I Feel Like
• Subscribe to Hippie Spelunker
• Subscribe to Scale Whore

EXTENDED LIST

• Subscribe to Gadget Girl Accessories
• Subscribe to Ami-chan.net
• Subscribe to Whatever I Feel Like
• Subscribe to Devilish Southern Belle
• Subscribe to The Sassy Southerner

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And once you’ve participated, you can head back over to JohnCow.com and let them know, and they will add you to the original list on their site!  Coolness!

Or at least so says The Sassy Southerner, who just this morning awarded me with this:

She had the nicest things to say about me! Thank you so much, sweet lady! I truly appreciate it!

I have definitely met some super cool chics while blogging! So I think I’ll tag five of my cool blogging buddies as ROCKIN’ GIRL BLOGGERS!

Colleen - I have learned so much from her and she’s darn funny, too!

Kumiko - She hasn’t even been blogging that long, but, I’ve learned so much from her, too! I think she must be on her puter 24/7 learning so she can teach us!!

Retta - She made my header, and then expanded on that thought, and made my theme. She definitely rocks!!

Ami-chan - She is one of my awesome Punkymom friends, and a blogging friend! I like it when ‘my worlds’ collide like that!

Belle - Now how’s this for a collision?? She is an awesome Punkymom friend, a blogging friend, and she lives near me, too! Totally cool!

If you’ve been tagged, just grab the Rockin’ Girl Bloggers badge and tag five more powerful woman bloggers you know. Pay it forward and the phenomenon will keep on going and going. If you’re either a guy or your name isn’t on this list, it doesn’t mean you can’t participate. Just grab the badge and tell a girl blogger out there that she rocks!!
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I thought you might want to see what I woke up to today! LOL! I have recently discovered that it is quite comical to have short hair - because when you wake up in the morning - you never know what you’re going to find!

Go HERE to see how to play along with us, and go HERE to see all of today’s pics!!

This is my first time to participate in the Question of the Week for WAHM’s. This week’s question is: