Cross Posted at BlogHer

I really wanted to attend the annual BlogHer conference in San Francisco this weekend, but I thought we would be moving, so I didn’t sign up to go.  I did however, register to attend in Second Life.  You may have even noticed the banner ad that I have in the right sidebar on my blog.

I have never been in Second Life (SL), and prior to this, had only read an article about it.  I only joined, so I could hear the speakers that were speaking at BlogHer live, like Lisa Stone.  I joined Thursday night, and after figuring out how to work my avatar, I was able to log in to the conference on Friday. It was wonderful to be able to hear the speakers, and even attend some of the SL sessions they had exclusively for SL attendees. 

I received the invitations and notifications BlogHer in SL events, and on Friday night there was a virtual party.  So I signed in and went.  It was a little funky getting my avatar to dance, but thanks to the BlogHer helper in Second Life, Gidge,  I eventually got grooving.  Here is a picture of my Second Life avatar dancing on Friday night (I’m in the black top, purple skirt, and black boots-& you can click on the pictures to see them larger):

   (Bonus: behind me in the purple shirt and jeans is Amy, or better known as the Crunchy Domestic Goddess)

After the BlogHer party, Gidge invited us to her Second Life house to continue the fun.  She has a beautiful house with a dance floor, pool, and BBQ.  After we danced for awhile, she invited us into her house, to the mud wresting pit, and get this- a knife throwing game.  Just like you see at the circus or magic shows. 

Amy and I were pretty fascinated by all of this, and watched the mud wrestling and a few rounds of the knife throwing.  Eventually, I decided to give the knife throwing a shot, and I have to say, I didn’t do too bad- I missed a few times, but I think I hit the balloons more than the person.  Here is a picture of me throwing knives (thanks to Amy for the picture:)

 (To the right of me in the blue dress is Gidge, and behind us is Amy)

The best part of the party this night was Amy was trying to change her clothes, and ended up in a 3-D box.  She couldn’t figure out how to get it off, so she came to the party with a box on.  It was hilarious and we all had a blast cracking jokes.  She was ‘hip to be square!’  You can read Amy’s version of the party, as well as see pictures of her in her box here. 

There was another party on Saturday night, and after having so much fun the night before, I just had to check it out again.  Besides, how often does a chance like this come up?  So I created a pretty snazzy party dress with red sequenced shoes.  Gidge was the volunteer again, and she offered us a champagne flute that had stars floating out of it.  Pretty cool. 

Again, after the party we went back to Gidge’s house, and danced, and tonight I mud wrestled.  While I don’t have pictures of it, since I was wrestling, it was fun. I won the best out of three in my first match, and then I wrestled the Queen herself-Gidge.  I almost had her in one of the rounds, but she quickly overpowered me.  The best part was, I didn’t even need to take my party dress to the cleaners.  As soon as I got out of the pit, it was clean.  I wish that happened in real life.  Here is a picture of me on the dance floor at the BlogHer party, and at Gadge’s house:

Gidge was so nice and so hospitable.  She invited me back to her house anytime, and even allowed me to set my homebase at her house.  I met a lot of friendly people- the whole thing is kind of surreal- who would have thought you could attend parties and have a blast, over your computer?

I am greatful BlogHer made the conference available to those of us who couldn’t attend, and I know even if I was at the conference in San Francisco, I would not have been throwing knives and mud wrestling.  I wouldn’t have been able to create my own clothes either-for free.  Can’t beat that. :-)

While I had a great time with my first Second Life BlogHer experience, I have already vowed that I am going to the conference in person next year.  I know several other friends who are planning on it too.  If it is any indication how much fun and informative BlogHer is in Second Life, I can’t wait to be there for it in real life-even if I don’t get to mud wrestle and throw knives.   

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Thanks to my friend, Nicole, for posting this video on her blog.  I haven’t had a chance to show it to my boys yet, but she said her boys want to keep watching it over, and over, and just laugh and laugh.  She said it was boy humor, but I actually laughed when I watched it too- not just for boys!  It is really short (only 41 seconds) but it it is not short on a good laugh. 

Be sure to visit Absolutely Bananas for more short and long laughs.  Happy Laughing!

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In honor of the Sex and the City movie, which I got to see on Saturday, I decided to show an unfortunate fashion model falling down.  This has to be pretty close to being “fashion roadkill.”  What makes this even more funny are the anchors…well, you’ll see.  By the way, I loved the movie.  If you haven’t seen it yet, make sure you go.  There were lots of funny scenes in it as well.   Head over to Absolutely Bananas for more funny stuff.  Happy Laughing. 

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My husband showed me this site.  Having worked in the corporate world, I was all to familiar with these “motivational” posters.  One place I worked had at least five of them in the office I worked in.  They always seemed so cheesy and bugged me.  Needless to say, I got a lot of laughs out of these Demotivators.  There are tons more on their site.  Here are some of my favorites, and happy laughing: 

 If we don’t take care of the customer, maybe they will stop bugging us.

 If you’re not a part of the solution, there’s good money to be made in prolonging the problem.

 Sometimes the best solution to morale problems is just to fire all of the unhappy people.

 You aren’t being paid to believe in the power of your dreams.

 Every dark cloud has a silver lining, but lightning kills hundreds of people each year who are trying to find it.

 Leaders are like eagles. We don’t have either of them here.

 None of us are as dumb as all of us.

 A company that will go to the ends of the Earth for its people will find it can hire them for about 10% of the cost of Americans.

 The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the lawnmower.

 It’s over, man. Let her go.

And my favorite one:

 If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon.

Be sure to visit Absolutely Bananas to check out the other hilarious Make Me Laugh Monday posts.

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Thanks to my friend, Mary P. for sending this- this really would be one reality TV show I’d watch every week, and I don’t think there would be a winner, unless there was a woman on the show!  Happy Laughing!

THE NEXT SURVIVOR SERIES

Six married men will be dropped on an island with one car and

3 kids each for six weeks.

Each kid will play two sports and either take music or dance classes.

There is no fast food.

Each man must take care of his 3 kids; keep his assigned house clean, correct all homework, and complete science projects, cook, do laundry, and pay a list of ‘pretend’ bills with not enough money.

In addition, each man will have to budget in money for groceries each week.

Each man must remember the birthdays of all their friends and relatives, and send cards out on time–no emailing.

Each man must also take each child to a doctor’s appointment, a dentist appointment and a haircut appointment.

He must make one unscheduled and inconvenient visit per child to the Urgent Care.

He must also make cookies or cupcakes for a social function.

Each man will be responsible for decorating his own assigned house, planting flowers outside and keeping it presentable at all times.

The men will only have access to television when the kids are asleep and all chores are done.

The men must shave their legs, wear makeup daily, adorn himself with jewelry, wear  < STRONG> uncomfortable yet stylish shoes, keep fingernails polished and eyebrows groomed.

During one of the six weeks, the men will have to endure severe abdominal cramps, back aches, and have extreme, unexplained mood swings but never once complain or slow down from other duties.

They must attend weekly school meetings, church, and find time at least once to spend the afternoon at the park or a similar setting.

They will need to read a book to the kids each  night and in the morning, feed them, dress them, brush their teeth and comb their hair by 7:00 am.

A test will be given at the end of the six weeks, and each father will be required to know all of the following information: each child’s birthday, height, weight, shoe size, clothes size and doctor’s name. Also the child’s weight at birth, length, time of birth, and length of labor, each child’s favorite color, middle name, favorite snack, favorite song, favorite drink, favorite toy, biggest fear and what they want to be when they grow up.

The kids vote them off the island based on performance. The last man wins only if…he still has enough energy to be intimate with his spouse at a moment’s notice.

If the last man does win, he can play the game over and over and over again for the next 18-25 years eventually earning the right To be called Mother!

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This video has over 24 million views, but I had never seen it before, and it is so funny and adorable!  The two boys in it, reminded me so much of my two boys for some reason.  :-)   Check out Charlie’s smile at :33.  How cute are these little guys!  Happy Laughing!

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You would have to be living in cave if you haven’t heard about the controversy surrounding Miley Cyrus, regarding her Vanity Fair photo shoot.  Ellen DeGeneres has some thoughts on this controversy.  Happy Laughing! 

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I got tagged by Jen from Daily Mish Mash on four things about me-

Four Jobs I’ve Held

• Floral Designer
• Legal Assistant
• Medical OSHA Consultant
• Bookkeeper

Four Movies I Could Watch Over and Over

• Gone With the Wind (best movie ever!)
• Somewhere in Time (second best movie ever!)
• My Fair Lady
• Summer Magic (old 60’s movie with Hayley Mills- can you tell we had the Disney channel  growing up?)

Four Places I Have Lived

• Albuquerque, NM (born there)
• Boulder, CO
• Estes Park, CO
• Santa Barbara, CA (only for a summer, but I did live there!)

Four TV Shows I Like

• Brothers & Sisters
• What Not to Wear
• Flip This House
• Actually don’t watch TV anymore- can’t think of another show I still like.

Four Favorite Foods

• Pizza
• Salad
• Anything Chocolate
• Wine (does that count as a food?)

Four Places I would Rather Be

• Anyplace tropical (Hawaii, Virgin Islands, Fiji, etc…)
• With my little sister in Seattle
• In a 5 star luxury hotel for at least one night, all by myself to sleep, sleep, and get more sleep, and to eat the little chocolate they put on your pillow
• Austria

Four People I am Tagging

• Laura (from Oraele: she won my Bloggy Giveaway)
• Jungle’s Wife
• Janice (from Mom on the Run)
• A Mom Two Boys

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To read a hilarious post about Oscar, check out Michael’s comments about Oscar at d-listed.

Happy Laughing!

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Thank you to everyone who entered my first ever Bloggy Giveaway.  I loved reading about your families, and all the aunties your families have. I wish I could give everyone a onesie, but since there can only be one winner, I am very happy to announce the winner (as determined by random.org) of the I Love My Aunties onesie is:

LAURA from http://www.oraeley.com/.  Laura said she has five sisters, and her second baby is due soon at the end of May.  Congratulations to Laura, and I’ll be contacting you soon via e-mail.

If you just have to have your own I Love My Aunties onesie, it is available in my on-line store, Little Pumpkin Sweet Pea Designs.   It also comes in pink, and blue. 

Thanks again to everyone for visiting my blog, and please come back and visit again.  I have a very exciting giveaway planned for May- I know you want a hint…it is a fabulous product from an organic skin care company.  Keep checking back for more details. 

Another giveaway that is running right now is the Earth-Mother’s Day Giveaway at Crunchy Domestic Goddess. This is a terrific giveaway and you can win all of the following:

Make sure you head over there, for all the details and your chance to win. 

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