Mr. Nibbles Died Without a Name

Posted on September 29, 2014 by cordeliasmom2012

Wouldn’t you know I would come across a Freshly Pressed post that is not boring, thereby making a liar out of my recent post, “Always a Bridesmaid … ” This one actually deserves the Freshly Pressed designation. Please enjoy it with me.

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October Only

Posted on September 29, 2014 by cordeliasmom2012

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COMING IN OCTOBER

  • PC guest post – October 2, 2014
  • Northern lights – October 9, 2014
  • Shades of [?] – October 16, 2014
  • Snarks ‘R Us – October 23, 2014
  • The purloined post – October 30, 2014

Be sure to adjust your schedule to allow time to read me each week!

Also, be sure to sign up for the email notifications so you don’t miss any unscheduled posts.

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Cordelia’s Mom reserves the right to modify the above schedule, or to insert additional posts.

And don’t forget CORDELIA’S MOM’S WORDS OF PSEUDO-WISDOM – and puppy post updates- which can only be found on my Facebook page

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From Bridesmaid to Maid-of-Honor

Posted on September 27, 2014 by cordeliasmom2012

freshly-bakedI am very proud to announce that Melissa Zelniker Presser (of Real Christianity) has bestowed upon me the very prestigious Freshly Baked award.

The Freshly Baked award is granted with love by non-Freshly Pressed bloggers to other deserving non-Freshly Pressed bloggers.  We know who the real bloggers are, and we are happy to spread the word to the entire blogosphere of such excellence.

I don’t believe there is any prohibition against being Freshly Pressed while displaying the Freshly Baked badge – it would be a real shame if I were Freshly Pressed (say tomorrow) and then had to delete my Freshly Baked badge (it looks so pretty in the Awards slideshow; check it out).  It will be so exciting to see both badges on my blog (but I’ll have to make a decision as to which one should be more prominent, and right now I’m leaning towards Freshly Baked).

Although there are no conditions for accepting the Freshy Baked award, I would like to nominate a  few other bloggers.  I read and love numerous blogs, many of whose writers have, in fact, been Freshly Pressed, but there are a few non-Freshly Pressed bloggers I would like to acknowledge today:

♥  My good friend, Oliver C. Damon – Chronicle of a Wayward Son, because he lets me hijack his blog whenever I need to confess the errors of my blogging ways.

♥  Ollie’s Mommy – The Life of a Non-Wife, because nothing says love like being someone’s mommy, and doing it right.

♥  Teela Hart – TeelaHart.com – a strong woman dealing with her own life situation, but nonetheless doing whatever she can to help others. Teela is currently on sabbatical and may not read this post for  awhile, but I want to send lots of love her way.  We’re all with you, Teela.

♥  Paul Curran – my esteemed guest poster who does not yet have a blog of his own.  Paul, you are already collecting award badges toward the day you open up your own blog – meanwhile, you may share mine.

To display the award badge on your own blog, simply click on the image at the head of this post and copy it over, but please link back to Melissa’s post (http://workforthecausenottheapplause.com/2014/09/26/freshly-baked-not-a-subsidiary-of-freshly-pressed/)

PS:  Just to be sure, I checked the Freshly Pressed tab prior to publishing this post – still not on there, and still boring.

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Always a Bridesmaid …

Posted on September 26, 2014 by cordeliasmom2012

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I must say that I am pleased that WordPress has moved the Freshly Pressed tab to the sidebar of the Reader page.

It used to annoy the hell out of me when I’d open my Reader and find all those Freshly Pressed posts written by other bloggers.  My thoughts typically ran along these lines:

♦ *sigh*  Missed me AGAIN!

♦  B-O-R-I-N-G!

♦  Honestly – I can write way better than that!

♦  Who the hell picks these things anyway?

♦  Who needs Freshly Pressed, when I’ve already been Harshly Pressed!

Now that the Freshly Pressed tab is on the sidebar, I find myself totally ignoring it.  Most days, I even forget it’s there.  When I do check it these days, my normal reaction is something like:

♦  Crap – still missed me, and the ones they picked are boring.

♦  Oh well.  Let’s see who OM reblogged today – at least his picks are entertaining.

After more than a year, I have learned to accept the fact that I’m unlikely to meet whatever requirements there are for selection by the Freshly Pressed committee (if there is one).  My posts are entertaining, amusing, and sometimes heart-rending, but never, ever boring.  Obviously, not what Freshly Pressed is all about, judging by the posts presented there (with a few exceptions – the committee sometimes has off days when they actually pick good posts!).

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Now that I’ve had my say, and probably pissed off the Freshly Pressed committee, thereby assuring they’ll totally ignore me forever on (like they always have), I have an addendum to my most recent Spam-Bam Thank You Ma’am post.

This spam comment came in after this month’s edition of Spam-Bam and is too funny (and possibly too time-sensitive) to wait until next month:

COMMENT:

MurderInvestigate“An impressive share! I’ve just forwarded this onto a coworker who was conducting a litle research on this.

And he in fact ordered me breakfast due to the fact that I stumbled upon it for him… lol. So allow me to reword this…. Thank YOU for the meal!!
But yeah, tnanx for spending the timme to talk about this matter here on your web site.”

RESPONSE:

Considering that you wrote this on my “[Maybe] I’m Going to Kill You“ post, I would be real careful about that breakfast your co-worker is offering you, especially if he/she delivers it personally.  Someone “conducting a litle research” on the subject definitely makes me nervous.  If you suddenly drop out of the spammer lineup, I’ll know why.

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Thanks for reading, everyone!  Lots of great posts coming up in October, so y’all come back now, ya hear?

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