LOL @ LOLSaints

LOLSaints makes me laugh so often. Some of my favorites from the past week or two.

LOLSaints

Most of the internet is acquainted with LOLCats. But this is a new blog dedicated to LOLSaints. I hope the Dominican Sisters at my school don't see me posting this.

Lovely Award

Esther and Christine both gave me the Lovely Award. Sorry to both of you for not putting it up here immediately. I tend to put things away for later in the day and that becomes a week.

“These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.”

The hard thing is always coming up with just a few to give these to and also people who didn't do this a couple weeks ago.

1. Athanasius contra mundum at 50 Days After
2. Derek at Derek's World
3. Nun at NunoftheAbove
4. FloridaWife at Awaiting in Joyful Hope
5. Suzanne at Suzanne's Sisterly Sharings
6. Droopy Brains
7. Lounge Daddy
8. Scott at Sober Nuggets

Advent Wreath

Curt Jester has his advent wreath up again this year. Visit his blog for the code to add it to your blog.

I'm Cool

Suzanne from Suzanne's Sisterly Sharings awarded me this



The rules for this award are:

1. Pick ten people and pass this award to them.
2. Then contact them and let them know that you have chosen them and their blog for the award.
3. Also link back to the person who gave you the award.

Here goes my 10, the bad thing is usually by the time I get an award everyone I read already has it. LOL.

50 Days After (even though Athanasius contra mundum is currently deployed it is one of my favorite blogs)

Domestic Vocation

Medical Male

Lounge Daddy (even though he's away too)

A Catholic Mom in Hawaii

Suzie's Table

Awaiting in Joyful Hope

Catholic Cartoon Blog

Catholic Homeschooled Teens

This Is My Life

Droopy Brains

An online friend of mine recently set up a blog called Droopy Brains. She and her three children have been diagnosed with Chiari and her blog is all about the disease, research, and lobbying about the disease. Go check it out.

Adopt a Blogger

Athanasius contra mundum has had the great idea of adopting a fellow Catholic blogger, praying for them, commenting on their entries and so on. I think this is a great idea. If you'd like to join in and adopt a blog, place a comment here, and don't forget to mention it on your own blog.

he's actually chosen me as his adopted blog/blogger, which I think rocks since I always need lots of extra prayers. I'm adopting his blog back, its one of my favorites and he always has lots of interesting posts.

Congrats!

Congrats to Florida Wife and her husband on the birth of Raffaele. I'm so happy for them.

Blogger Award and 8 Things About Me

Esther named my blog as one of the 5 blogs for her Blogger Reflection Award.

1. Sunny of Faith and Country has to be my first choice. Like I mentioned once before, she was one of my first blog friends. What I admire about her blog is that she is a young Catholic who loves God and Country. She is a sensitive and kind blogger and her blogging inspires as I hope it inspires young Catholic everywhere.

Now I'm tasked with coming up with 5 who I would like to honor as well. But as usual I'm sort of a cheater so I'm going to add a few more, but I'm going to pair them up so it looks like I only have 5. Too bad I can't just list all the blogs I read, since I've learned so much from all of them.

1. & 2. Esther of A Catholic Mom in Hawaii and Christine of Ramblings of a Catholic Soccer Mom. I know both Esther and Christine from a yahoo group (Catholic Republicans) and they were the ones that really got me into blogging.

3. & 4. Derek of Derek's Word and Lounge Daddy of Lounge Daddy Chronicles. I know both of these nice fellows from message boards (have we noticed that I spend a lot of time online?). Derek from Discussion Forums and Lounge Daddy from Phatmass. They're both going back to school and I just graduated and am looking to go back so I feel like I've learned a lot from both of them, both on their blogs and on the respective message boards.

5. & 6. Ma Beck of WardWideWeb and PhatCatholic from PhatCatholic Apologetics. I love Ma Beck's blog, she's pro-life, Catholic (traditional Catholic too - St. John Cantius woot), and from Chicago, what more could I ask for from a blog? Phatcatholic's blog is incredibly informative. I'm always learning so much on their, and I just love the way its designed.

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CGC of Ruminations of a Christian Conservative Geek and Friends tagged me for a 8 Things About Me Meme so here are 8 things about me.

1. I have this French board on my wall, and its become the catch-all for all the stuff I like to save. I'm too afraid to go through it all so it just keeps collecting and collecting and collecting.



2. I have a small statue of St. Michael the Archangel that I keep on the top of my monitor, an icon of him in front of my one speaker, and a glow in the dark statue-esque (ok I don't even know what to call it) of Mary holding baby Jesus on my desk. Among there are some other little things among the junk, but those are some of the nicer pieces.

3. I love anything having to do with the beach and water. I'm a complete sucker for anything related to them.

4. I finally bought a pro-account on flickr so I can upload all the photos I want, instead of being limited to 200.

5. Almost any movie with Jason Statham, Bruce Willis or begins with Rush Hour and I'm there.

6. Somehow I ended up with a mini-collection of Pius XII medals. I have 9. You can find almost anything on ebay.

7. I have 4 calendars 3 of them haven't been changed since June and one I never even put up.

8. I'm a big fan of Babylon 5. The new movie came out a few days ago and I just can't wait to get my hands on it. I get paid on Friday so after that I might order it.

Congrats!

Congrats to Lounge Daddy on the birth of his new Lounge Baby!