Thanks once again to our host Larry D. at Acts of the Apostasy, who makes Tuesday everything it should be and then some.
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Catholic Blog Day. What I had planned to do today (actually, yesterday, but let’s not quibble) was empty out my inbox of the 10,000 fabulous links kind people have sent my way lately. You will have to wait. Only the very most last-minute one makes it today: The first Catholic Blog Day is tomorrow, Ash Wednesday. The topic is penance. Remember that you can use your scheduling super powers to post ahead of time, if you are planning to fast from blogging for some portion of the next 40ish days.
Hey, listen, how about we just make Tuesday a post-your-link-in-Jen’s-combox day? Would that be so bad? No. You would love it. One link per comment so you don’t fall through the automated trap door into the Spam Dungeon, where I never ever look anymore, because, ick, lots of spiders.
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The Festival of Cleaning is not my favorite thing. Let’s just say that Lent is going to hit very, very hard around the castle. Should I do like I did a different year and also give up yelling at the kids? I think yes. I mean, every time I go to confession I resolve to give it up, so I guess Lent would be that time, right?
[Re-cap for the un-initiated: This year our family is going to Clean Up After Ourselves for Lent. Reminder for the familiar-with-fitzes: Try not to laugh so loud. You’re shaking the internet.]
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This book looks really cool. Now I want to read it.
Also: Registration deadline for the [free!] Online Catholic Writers Conference is Feb. 29th. That’s both for registering as a participant and/or as a presenter. If you are newly-registering, it takes a couple days for the final approval to go through, so don’t panic at the wait. You should sign up now, because you probably will not hate the whole entire thing, but the only way to be sure is to register and then go look when the time comes and see. FYI it is for everyone of all skill and experience levels.
Oh and hey, in fixing 50% of the typos in take #3.5, I was reminded that Tollefsen fans should note the new article up at Public Discourse, “Mandates and Bad Law“.
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The spiders reminds me of a true story, which if I’ve told you before you are going to hush and not spoil it for the people who want to read the second half next week:
When we first built the green castle, that summer Ev would not play in her little kitchen in the basement. She kept telling us, “I’m afraid of the bad spiders,” and she wouldn’t go into it. Eventually we got around to investigating. And then we were glad she’d held her ground on refusing to associate with the bad spiders, because it turned out they were . . .
Catholic Blog Day looks intriguing – I may participate in that.
You should! Hard to resist the first theme, too. Think of all the ways you could pile on the penances for your readers . . .
1. Share a link in Jen’s combox —-> http://pinterest.com/
You don’t how fun and somewhat useful it is until you try it… look for me 😀
Temptress. Every week you have a new hobby (or, old hobby) for me. I’m going to shut my eyes and ears. But other people, go look!
It’s a really neat site… and the kids might have fun on it too. You make a folders or “boards” and you “pin” photos to it… and the photo can be linked to useful things like blogs for recipes, sewing projects, crafty things, etc. Or you can pin pics for “this would look cool in my backyard/patio/house”
There is also people who do boards called “Books to read” and you can do book reviews by pinning the pic of the book (you can could even link it your blog in some cases or other websites) and make short comments to your pin 😉
Yes, I see. You are a bad bad person, Sandra. I am swearing off new hobbies. I am.
If you can’t click my first link then at least click this one (it’s screams girlie so you could probably make your readers click on it for future blog posts hehe)
http://elegance-of-fashion.blogspot.com/2011/09/period-drama-week-tag-part-1.html
Okay that’s just not fair. Period clothing. Yes, I had to look at that one. I’m going to have to take it out Larry D., definitely. The man-bloggers need penance, I feel sure. And it involves things that happen on ETV, definitely.