DUOFILIA

I’m back, I’m back! Just needed to peel off as much extraneous stuff in my life as possible for a while. I hope I didn’t lose anyone along the way.

I thought I’d share some of my top links; sites and pages I view or use often.

Blogs:

I look at more than these, so I may have missed yours in here. I have one friend, for instance, who writes a very private blog (I know, it seems like an oxymoron), so I won’t share it here. Neither will I share David’s blog but only because he hasn’t posted since 1979.

6andHolding, aka, A long Way to Go — This is my buddy Fred’s blog. Fred and I are very different in many ways but in other ways we are so alike it’s like we’re twins seperated by, well, you name it — birth, states, years, etc.. I can’t explain it. It just is. He’s one of the best men I know and I consider him my brother. He has (stupid, horrible) leukemia and is going through more than most of us could take, right now. Please support him by your thoughts and prayers and commenting on his blog on occasion. 

Lawbrat: This is Dawn’s blog. She’s a friend that I met from the blogosphere, probably over a year ago now. I don’t even remember how I happened upon her blog orginally. I had my second bout of college at the time (fourth bout, if you count individual colleges/universities, but second if you count degrees. Yes, I have a problem. And it’s not over yet.). But I digress. What I was getting to was that Dawn is in law school, plus she has very similar health problems, plus she’s Christian, plus she has a geek husband and sweet family. Just like me! She mailed me a great book for Christmas – Chicken Soup for the Christian Woman’s Soul – which has been a great inspiration to me. What a sweet person you are, Dawn!

Chai There! Meet Andrea. She is a lovely person with a lovely family and a brand new baby, who might be a pirate some day. Andrea gave birth to this babe at home, as she did her other two daughters, and wrote about the experience in her blog. It’s awesome, so check it out — assuming y’all are not wusses.

James Lileks: I don’t know James, but I enjoy his humor column in the Minnesota Star Tribune, very much. He’s got a smart but goofy sense of humor that reminds me of another great humorist, Dave Barry. Not strictly a blog, not strictly a column, so I guess it fits here.

Vive Le Vegan! Blog by vegan guru and cookbook author Dreena Barton. Great food ideas. I don’t have any of her cookbooks — yet.

Vegan Lunch Box: Jennifer McCann came up with the great idea of photographing the awesome meals she sends with her son to school. She became so popular she got published and has a new book out. She invited me a while ago to speak at the vegetarian group with which she belongs in her area, which I’d love to do when I get that direction one of these days.

I’d better stop there. I have more categories to share, but not for one posting. More later. Really.

The Lord’s blessing to all of you.

 

Three Link Thursday was on leave (just got out of the psychiatric institution, probably) but is back today and it’s feeling feisty.

Today’s link focus for all my geek, geek wannabe and geek don’t-wannabe friends.

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Blending nature with technology (click on the little memory stick. Literally). Cool.

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Blending my nurse nature with technology. Cool.

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PopSci’s The Worst Jobs in Science articles make me happily embrace my job as clinical analyst (which I am besides being an RN). See, I don’t have to follow anyone around to get a urine sample! Oh, wait, I’ve done that. My patients didn’t pee from trees, thankfully. Did I ever tell you about the psych nurse whose patient used to organize his scybala in order of size and then flick them down the hall? Never mind then. (If you look that word up you’ll be sorry.)

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A Three Link Thursday actually posted on Thursday, no way! The world’s gone crazy! No, just me. Ok, yes, the world’s gone crazy, too, but that’s a known.

Anyway. So today is a Random Three Link. Things that caught my eye while surfing this week. Odd things catch my eye, I admit.

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Your baby born without hair? No problem! Personally, I like the question “Want to be a dealer?” No.

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No way. I for one am shocked.

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Honey, my birthday’s coming up. While this steth is way cool, I only want this one to replace the one you ran over with the lawn mower (after certain twin urchins took it outside and left it on the lawn). And, while this is the bomb (note halogen lamp for “true tissue color”), I’ll take this for now.

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Update: If anyone emailed me at my Duofilia address in the past two months, all emails went bye-bye. Sigh. So if it was something important, like your house was on fire a month ago and you needed me to save your goldfish, um, oops. My email is back in order now. Also, if you commented in the past two months and had more than one link in your comment, then it was stuck in moderation until today, so it wasn’t that I was ignoring you, I just didn’t see it until now. Apologies specifically to CBRad!

We have a property with two house, my family lives in one and my parents live in the other. My sister is in between surgeries post car accident, and so she and her son will be moving up to stay with us in about a week. We (mostly David, with big help from Fred) are remodeling one of the garages into an apartment for her.

This would be enough to make even the most stoic of husbands run screaming. David is not one whom I would label ‘stoic,’ but nevertheless, he has made almost no complaint and has put a vast amount of time, not to mention money, into supporting (now three) families. Of course, he may be quietly weeping inside, for all I know. David — you the man. Today’s (or yesterday’s, whatever) link focus is on you.

What I like in a man:

1. Manly, but not macho, nor “special“. You are 100% man, yet your brain has not been pickled by testosterone (estrogen remarks expected and welcome).

2. Funny. You have a bizarre sense of humor, not unlike my own. I think they should study your brain and find out why you are so warped.

3. Intelligent. Ok, you’re very bright, all right. Just because one stupid test says your IQ is higher than mine means nothing. I think they discovered that Bubba the Lobster’s IQ was higher than both of ours, so I wouldn’t boast.

4. Geeky. While I enjoy watching you wield power tools in the garage this past week, and seeing you shoveling dirt and moving rocks in the summer sun the other day was a pleasure, I know that your real spot in life is the position between the chair and the keyboard. Your tan stops at the t-shirt and shorts, and not because you’re a farmer but because you are a geek. You may give us real country people advice on how to prune trees or grow tomatoes, and we point and scoff. But when it comes to RAM, CAD, and ASCII’s, you the man.

5. Looks. You’re babelicious. What’s more to say?

Now, just so that you don’t get a big head, I want to also make it known that you are often obnoxious and annoying. But since you may have gotten part of that from me, I’ll try to keep the complaints to a minimum.

 

Today’s link focus is for a friend who just hasn’t looked her cheerful self lately. Here’s a big hug for you, G.

You are outgoing, aggressive and ambitious — or so it says of those whose favorite color is red. Actually, the part about being optimistic and having a zest for life fits you better! (The rest of color descriptions didn’t fit with other people I know either, but like horoscopes, there’s bound to be something one can make come true, “You will experience weather today!”)

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A problem you may wish you had. Although getting it may just lead you to this.

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Perhaps you are feeling a little like this? I took this photo of us at work, so I don’t know what your issue is.