tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9071739747344456782024-03-17T23:01:53.470-04:00Werdyab BlogWerdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.comBlogger367125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-30197557713042629872013-06-14T11:00:00.001-04:002013-06-14T12:48:53.173-04:00Scott® Rocks! (literally)
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Are you a music buff? I am. In fact, for about three years there, I didn't even turn on my television except to watch music documentaries.
I couldn't tell you a thing about who got voted off Survivor, but I could recite every single word from the Justified album by Justin Timberlake. So our Werdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com155tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-65313490832529444632013-05-30T13:29:00.002-04:002013-06-05T09:50:11.175-04:00Welcome to Heaven, Jonathon Ford We said goodbye to a truly amazing dude this week. He was a husband, father, brother, son and friend. He was loved by everyone because of his gentle nature and kind spirit. I called him family and I loved him dearly.
My cousin Stephanie always felt more like a sister than a cousin to me. In fact, we look more alike than me and my sisters do.
I remember when Stephanie first told me aboutWerdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com91tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-43176720034028215982013-05-14T13:52:00.004-04:002013-05-15T14:59:17.388-04:00#21 Don't plagiarize, a.k.a., The day somebody said I caught cancer for marketing purposes In case I haven't beaten this dead horse enough, I wrote a list of 20 Things a Mother Should Tell Her Son, and it's been shared a few times... blah, blah, blah. Are you as sick of hearing about it as I am talking about it? (Rhetorical.)
When it's shared, I know it's impossible or improbable to give me credit, so when that doesn't happen - which is basically every time - I don't sweat it.
I'm noWerdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-13452971855070518592013-05-13T15:51:00.000-04:002013-05-15T10:55:56.517-04:00Welcome to my office... You better redneckognize! Have I told you about my office before?
Well, it's not located in what you'd call "the city". Please allow me to paint you a picture.
A couple of weeks ago, I came back from lunch and almost hit a goat in the parking lot. What in the world?
Then two days later, that same goat was on the front porch of a girl that I graduated with; she lives a few miles away from my office. We made the Werdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-73316110976550222052013-05-13T09:30:00.001-04:002013-05-14T13:16:44.792-04:00Get the Best Deal on your Hotel Wedding Package This is a guest post by Absolute Wedding Cars. Thank you, Stephen, for writing an excellent article.
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package possible that offers you Werdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-11285836800197983772013-05-10T21:00:00.001-04:002013-05-15T15:06:42.067-04:00ZzzQuil helped me Zzzzz
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Are you a good sleeper? I'm not. I really want to sleep, but I just can't stop thinking about stuff. Important stuff like what the weather is like in London.
I consider a good night's sleep like the Easter Bunny or Tooth Fairy. I mean, I've heard of it; I've just never actually seen it myself.
I've triedWerdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-40754400222934028412013-05-01T14:53:00.000-04:002013-05-03T12:39:06.046-04:00Special Olympics I'm proud of my daughter every day, and today is no exception. Bailey missed her middle school orientation to volunteer for Special Olympics. Her dream is to work with special needs children one day.
God bless her and bless all the lives that she will touch with kindness, respect, and love.
Bailey was paired with her good buddy, Matthew. He typically isn't in a wheelchair, but he fell Werdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-53597737360343578912013-04-29T16:11:00.004-04:002013-05-15T12:23:56.725-04:00What do me, Taylor Swift, and a goat have in common?As you might have read here, I took my daughter to the Taylor Swift concert and learned that I'm too old to enjoy concerts anymore.
I asked Bailey to invite her friend, Carlee, because of what happened last time:
"Yay! Taylor Swift tickets!!! But, is anybody going with me?"
Of course somebody's going with you. Me. Duh.
"So, nobody's going with me that's... cool?"
Of course somebody's going Werdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-24806061678033053132013-04-25T04:00:00.001-04:002013-04-25T11:23:41.645-04:00I Oughta Be in Pictures (on the beach) #RatherBeInPCBSweepstakes
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Do you know where I spend a lot of time? Instagram.
I just love looking at everybody's photos. And it's the only place where I can take a selfie of me eating spaghetti and it's considered "art".
But do you know where I'd rather spend a lot of time? Panama City Beach.
That one's sort of self-explanatory. The Werdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-78141767617609788452013-04-23T12:30:00.000-04:002013-05-20T16:55:23.221-04:00How Taylor Swift Showed Me That I'm Getting OldLast week, I went to my third Taylor Swift concert because my daughter is a huge fan or so I say.
Look, I'll admit it, I love T-Swizzle. I love that she's a young girl with a mature soul who writes her own songs about real life experiences.
You know that song she wrote about a breakup she went through? My favorite.
Looking around the arena, it was obvious that Taylor Swift somehow appeals to Werdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-63643786824190917482013-04-22T15:36:00.003-04:002013-04-23T10:28:32.224-04:00Reese Witherspoon Arrested for Disorderly Conduct On Friday, Reese Witherspoon and husband, James Toth, were arrested for disorderly conduct and DUI, respectfully, right here in my own backyard. Way to show 'em how we do it in the ATL!
Toth was swerving, so a Georgia State Trooper pulled him over. While he was participating in a field sobriety test, Witherspoon shouted from her silver Ford Fusion, "You're not a real police officer!" Werdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-69816113063360994702013-04-19T14:18:00.003-04:002013-04-19T14:34:10.890-04:00Dove's Real Beauty Ad Campaign: The B SideYou know how vinyl records had an A-side and a B-side?
The A-side was the song you wanted to buy. The B-side was a song you'd never heard of. For example, if you bought "Go Your Own Way" by Fleetwood Mac, you could flip the record over and hear the B-side track: "I Can't Believe Stevie Cheated On Me With That Sasquatch Lookin' Dude, Mick Fleetwood." (Not an actual song written by Werdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-44879915308532237582013-04-16T19:46:00.001-04:002013-04-17T08:51:14.839-04:00Dove's Real Beauty Ad Campaign: You Are More Beautiful Than You Think
Do strangers see us more accurately than we see ourselves?
According to a new beauty campaign by Dove, the answer is yes, and the proof comes in the form of FBI forensic sketches.
On Monday, Dove posted a powerful three-minute YouTube video reminding us that we are more beautiful than we think. The response has been overwhelming.
Seven women of different ages, shapes, sizes, and backgroundsWerdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-72798123391630070692013-04-16T05:00:00.001-04:002013-04-16T14:10:36.536-04:00Simply Right is simply right
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Do you know how to catch baby fever faster than anything? Get your baby-makin' organs cut out. It's true. I was completely content with two children until I found out that I had cancer and couldn't have any more kids; then I started goo-goo'ing and gah-gah'ing over babies so much that I almost landed a guest Werdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-18791019126358463902013-04-11T17:01:00.001-04:002013-04-16T19:51:24.605-04:00The Parking Spot
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Do you know who has really good luck finding parking spots? My husband. In fact, he gets the first parking spot so often that we started calling it "The Hohenbery". Now if only I could figure out a way to translate his good luck with parking spots into winning lottery numbers... hmmm, I've got to work on that one.
But Werdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-56122298809160235852013-04-09T12:53:00.001-04:002013-04-09T15:50:38.045-04:00Dear Dairy, I love you. I miss you. (Call me)It's very un-writer of me to cut to the chase like this, and you probably haven't figured this out yet, but I do have a penchant for drama (ahem), but this time, I'm going to make an exception: All my GI biopsies were benign.
BOOM. Can I get a whoop, whoop?!
I go back to my oncologist for more biopsies in May, but I'm kind of enjoying this "benign" roll that I'm on.
I wasn't too Werdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-10164245448425172982013-04-08T18:00:00.001-04:002013-04-16T19:51:46.630-04:00Dollar General and Mars: A Winning Combination
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When you hear the word "Mars", what do you think about?
Is it 6th grade Science class and learning about the solar system? I know! I'm so old school that I still think Pluto is a planet, too.
Or, is it the book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus when you finally realized that no matter how coveniently the Werdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-25052679708785441102013-04-04T10:00:00.000-04:002013-04-05T09:49:14.444-04:00I may not look like Cinderella, but I had a fairytale weddingSix years ago today, about this time of morning, Brian proposed while we were on vacation in Destin, Florida.
Bailey was so proud when she presented the ring to me. I still remember her tiny, six-year-old hands holding that suede ring box. She was facing me, but her eyes were cut toward Brian, waiting for him to say the words, "Will you marry me?" Then, like she'd been rehearsing her Werdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-721174774467119932013-04-03T08:18:00.000-04:002013-04-03T16:15:45.652-04:00Why I Love Blogging/ Why I Hate Blogging My good buddy Kirsten over at I Still Hate Pickles invited me to join her Blog Hop today (thanks, girl!). Be sure to stop by her blog and check out her books, too. Oh, and if you're a writer, please join the Blog Hop fun! We saved you a seat, honey.
Kirsten asked us to write about writing... what it means to be a writer, why it's sometimes hard to 'fess up to being a writer, or how writing Werdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-74267495654602539942013-03-29T11:02:00.002-04:002013-03-29T11:03:27.702-04:00Good FridayI'm feeling very blessed and humbled today by the sacrifice that Christ made for me 2,000 years before I was even born. If there's anything that I've learned in the past year, it's that my faith and my relationship with Christ are what make everything else make sense.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but haveWerdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-90196662811006793652013-03-28T09:45:00.000-04:002013-03-28T13:06:32.551-04:0010 things I learned from having a colonoscopy
1. What goes in must come out (if you know what I mean). So think twice before you have that last 8,000 calorie meal because it won't be nearly as enjoyable the second time around.
2. Vodka, rum and Chardonnay are not included on the clear liquid diet list. Believe me, I checked.
3. The prep solution is the nastiest stuff that I've ever tasted. My advice: Think of it like the Werdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-42249781734224027182013-03-25T20:00:00.001-04:002013-04-16T19:53:33.023-04:00Get your organize on with Rubbermaid!
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Are you the sentimental type? I am. I would keep every tissue that my kids every blew their noses in if I could get away with it. (Dumb health code)
But I'm also a neat freak. I love for everything to be clean and tidy. And those two things do not go together like peas and carrots if you know what I Werdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-75216788707047534652013-03-25T12:29:00.001-04:002013-03-25T14:19:23.049-04:00Tests this week to rule out more cancer. Fun, fun.Just in case you thought my TMI was a thing of the past, welcome to this post. Have a seat, honey! Can I get you something? Coffee? Tea? Banana split?
To bring you up to speed: I feel a gazillion times better than I did. Maybe even a gazillion and one.
I'm not sure if I had just gotten used to torture or what, but that second surgery was easy-breezy. I didn't have much pain and my recovery wentWerdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-23395424229746287872013-03-21T12:58:00.002-04:002013-03-21T19:20:06.284-04:00What do softball and Vanilla Ice have in common? On this episode of How I Embarrass My Children, I would like to take you on a little trip to my daughter's softball game.
And by the way, I'm so glad you're here! Usually it's just me sitting by myself on an uncomfortable bleacher and freezing my butt off while browsing through Facebook on my iPhone. Hanging out with you will be great! But hey, would you mind picking up Starbucks on Werdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907173974734445678.post-690844531659496342013-03-21T03:00:00.001-04:002013-04-22T09:40:01.022-04:00Cooper Tire: My Every Day Road Trip Contest
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Who doesn't love a good road trip? They're awesome, right?!
I love road trips, and not because my husband is trapped in the car with me for hours and has no way to escape from my detailed stories about middle school cheerleading. Well, not only because of that.
It's because road trips are fun! It's nice to get away for a Werdyab Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17421590913167974022noreply@blogger.com0