Carrie Bartkowiak v. 5.0

Okay, I’ve finally given in and gotten a MySpace page. Ugh.
Don’t laugh… I only did it because folks kept trying to send me to their photo albums there and it kept telling me “you have to be logged in to see that!”. Grr. Anyhow, since it’s such a popular fad, maybe it’ll help me get back in touch with a few old friends. If you’ve got a MySpace page, come on over and add me.
Carrie’s MySpace profile
One thing I still can’t wrap my head around is why all these people I don’t know keep sending me add requests. Is it just a big competition to see who can have the most “friends”? Sorry, but I want my actual friends to be in my friends list. Evidently these folks haven’t learned that the secret to friendship is quality, not quantity.

Update on the boys and the school situation… Kelsey decided to come back home and homeschool. Brendon’s still there, he’s having fun even if he’s not really learning anything. From an educational standpoint, it’s a severe waste of time. 10 hours of his weekdays spent doing nothing but “socializing” (as the public-school supporters love to call ’sitting at a desk not talking and doing worksheets’); but from a little-boy standpoint he’s made a lot of friends and is enjoying his time. So, meh. Let him have fun. He’s said maybe he’ll just finish out the year and then come home and homeschool next year. We’ll see next summer how he’s doing and make a decision then. I’m just glad Kelsey came home. Going to school did have one positive effect… he doesn’t give me a bunch of guff when I tell him it’s time to do his work. He truly *knows* what the alternative is now.

The kids are looking forward to Halloween. Speaking of which, we’ve got a pumpkin to carve. Talk to ya later.

What do you think? I wanna know! Please leave a comment :)
All comments get link love here... I got rid of nofollow!

Just a note for my friends and family who stop by from time to time and leave a comment:
it won’t show up immediately.

See, thanks to the lovely spammers out there who like to run scripts that post to millions of blogs at a time and leave their spam links in the comments section, I’ve had to set my comments to “moderated”.

So, go ahead and post a comment… I’ll see it and make it show up the next time I drop in to write something.

What do you think? I wanna know! Please leave a comment :)
All comments get link love here... I got rid of nofollow!

I’ve Never Had A Blogday

A friend of mine recently celebrated her blog’s 1yr anniversary. She got some of us webmasters to make up fansigns for her to post on the blog and generally made a big, fun deal out of her “blogday” (blog birthday).

Which made me realize, I’ve never had a blogday. Hmph. *sniffle*

Even though the archives on this particular version of the site don’t go back too far (blame many many server moves, incompetent hosts without backups, and typical female “I’m bored with this. I’m gonna change it” mood swings), I’ve actually had this site up since September 21st, 2000.
6 freaking years!
And not one blogday.

My other site, Raven’s Perch, has been up even longer. Even though I haven’t really ever blogged there, it’s more a computer-technical-geekoid site, it’s never had a birthday either. It’s been up since August 5th, 1998. 8 years!

What does all of this mean?
Well, one… that I am a total internet addict. Sigh.
Two… I decided to finally update the Perch and turn it into a blog.

So there ya go. Celebrate a belated blogday by creating another blog. I am such a glutton for punishment.

What do you think? I wanna know! Please leave a comment :)
All comments get link love here... I got rid of nofollow!