Thursday, 31 December 2009

  • The Beautiful Ones: Xanga

    The XWN (Xanga Web Network)

    in association with

    Myxl Dove Productions

    presents

    "The Beautiful Ones"

    Featured Xanga Blogger for December 31, 2009

    Xanga



    Who Is Xanga?

    1) Current Occupation: Xanga is a website that hosts weblogs, photoblogs, and social networking profiles, created by Marc Ginsburg, Dan Huddle, and John Hiler.  Xanga's origins can be traced back to 1999, when it began as a site for sharing book and music reviews. It now has an estimated 40 million users worldwide. As of December 20, 2009, Alexa Internet ranked Xanga as the 804th most visited site on the Internet. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/xanga.com

    2) Hometown: It is operated by Xanga.com, Inc., based in New York City.

    3) Hobbies: Feeding the addictions of bloggers such as myself.




    Why We Like Xanga

    For almost 10 years Xanga has afforded me the space and opportunity to share my thoughts and experiences, vent my frustrations, connect with amazing people from all over the world, and join the larger discussions affecting our world.  Never once have they censored my voice or dictated what I could or couldn't say. And they've done all this while remaining accessible, personable and genuinely interested in the community of members. I've had the pleasure of corresponding with John and Natalia (TBO #38 btw) on occasion, and I know several people who've visited the corporate office. I love Xanga because it's run by real people with real lives, just like you and me. So cheeers to you XANGA! Here's to making 2010 the best year yet!

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Wednesday, 30 December 2009

Tuesday, 29 December 2009

Monday, 28 December 2009

  • CPQ-Of-The-Day #20 (Completely Pointless Question)

    How old were you when you first learned to whistle?
    (Or are you still unable to pucker and blow?)


  • T'was The Evening Of Christmas (updated with photos)

    I wholeheartedly believe that some of the best stories are born out of unforeseen circumstance and situations that do not go at all as planned. Such was our Christmas this year. Strangely, we didn't open gifts until late in the evening. And here I am to tell the tale as to why...

    As many of you know, I have joint custody of my two oldest boys with my ex-wife. Because of this, the shared schedule can make holidays rather... complicated at times. This particular Christmas my ex had them from Christmas Eve until 10am Christmas morning. I would then have them from 10am on. Now usually she would drop them off at my house in the morning, but she had to work that day (yep, on Christmas). So I made the trip to go get them. Thankfully, we only live about 10 minutes from each other.

    So the plan was to pick up the boys, head back home and open up gifts with all of the children together. But when I got back home, my wife said that she wanted to wait until her parents arrived (they were coming over for an Christmas early dinner) so that they could participate and take pictures. Her parents were supposed to get to our house sometime around noon. We would open gifts at that time and then have early dinner at about 1pm. A good plan IMO. And the kids and Dre did make a gingerbread house that morning while waiting for her parents to arrive.









    Well, they didn't get to our house until about 1:30pm, so no gift opening before dinner. And we didn't eat until about 2pm.



    Even this would've been fine if it weren't for the fact that we were planning to go visit my parents (who live about 5 minutes away) later that afternoon at 4pm. But before that could happen, the little kids needed a nap first. (yes, we keep them on a tight schedule... keeps us sane. lol) So no gift opening after dinner.



    Then it was decided that we didn't want to open gifts right before going to my parents house because it would seem cruel to allow the little kids to open gifts and then tell them they couldn't play with them because we were leaving. So no gift opening after nap time.

    We get to my parents house around 5pm and have another round of eating, playing and general socializing before finally packing up the whole crew and heading back home around 7:30pm. Now this wouldn't have been so bad if it weren't for the fact that the little kids usually go to bed between 7:30pm and 8pm. Then we thought it would be mean if we allowed them to open their gifts and then immediately told them that it was time to go to bed. But at this point, we didn't want to push opening gifts to tomorrow so we just kept them up late and for the first time, had an awesome Christmas night opening gifts at around 8:30pm.

    Yeah, yeah... it's terrible to make kids wait THAT long to open gifts on Christmas. But I assure you there were no complaints (that I heard anyway).


Friday, 25 December 2009

  • Remember Me...

    When you greet your loved ones who've traveled a great distance just to be with you... remember me.

    When you open up that perfect gift from the person you least expected to get it right... remember me.

    When you sit down to the dinner table filled with food prepared with enduring love... remember me.

    When you take time after the meal to reminisce about holidays past... remember me.

    When you finally lay down to rest after one of the most enjoyable holidays you've ever had... remember me.

    I'm the orphan... the woman in the shelter... the man living on the street... the one who experiences each new day no different from the last regardless of if it's a holiday.

    Remember me and say a prayer that one day I might be blessed just like you.

    Merry Christmas


Tuesday, 22 December 2009

  • CPQ-of-the-Day #19 (Completely Pointless Question)

    What's the most non-traditional food (or other item) you've ever eaten during the holidays?

    And by non-traditional, I mean things other than turkey, ham, stuffing, sweet potato pie, etc.)

  • Happy Holidays (the remix) - UPDATED

    Many of you probably know about or heard the holiday song that I wrote for Vanedave's "Gift of Xangans" series. Well, I decided to take it a bit further and do a remix version that mentions individual Xangans by name. So, here's the deal... if you would like your name (real or Xangan) included and sung in the remix, just leave a comment and let me know. It'll be part of my holiday gift to you.

    In the meantime, here are a couple variations of the song I wrote, for your listening pleasure (or ridicule, whatever rocks your boat).




    If you would like an MP3 copy of this song emailed to you, just send me a message with your email address.

    UPDATE: Today is the last day to have your name added. I'll be recording the remix tonight!

Monday, 21 December 2009

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