I’m talking to YOU. And you. And you. You too. I see you looking.

If you’re reading this, I’m asking for your help on behalf of Kevin from Always Home and Uncool, his family, and all other families affected by Juvenile Myositis.

You’ve probably never heard of it, but for some families, Juvenile Myositis, an autoimmune disorder in children, is front and center.  This is not happy fun times, you dig?  You can find out more in Kevin’s latest post.  No little ones should go through something like this.  No families should.

Pepsi is giving away a 250K grant and you can vote (see below) to send that money to Cure JM to fund research to help make Juvenile Myositis a memory.

Today is the LAST day to vote, and this proposal has to be in the top 2 to win the grant money.

They’ve *just* slipped to number 3.

More votes are needed.

Luckily, you can help EASILY. And you can vote 3 times, in 3 different ways, right now.

Please vote 3 TIMES today, before midnight EST:

1. Send a text vote: Text 100850 to PEPSI at 73774 (standard text messaging rates apply)
2. Use the Facebook app: http://bit.ly/CureJMonFB
3. Vote directly from the Pepsi website site at http://www.refresheverything.com/makejmamemory

And please share this with anyone you can. Pass it on.

This is easy. It will take so little of your time, yet make such a difference.

Thank you.

BEWB FEST ’10

It’s the most wonderful time of the year – no, not Christmas…

it’s time for BEWB FEST!

We get to enjoy nature’s bountiful chest selection… and raise money to fight breast cancer in the process. A big thanks to @shutterblog for putting a bug in my brain last year about donating ad revenue for good. *ALL* my BH Ad Revenue for July is going to go to Susan G. Komen for the Cure®. This will become an annual tradition for the month that Bewb Fest runs.

Bring page loads to this site this month if you want to drive that number up. And please consider donating directly to Susan G. Komen – many people only think about this in October, but we need to give cancer the finger all year long.

Remember to see the scoop on prizes and check out BF10 Sponsors, button up, and then make your vote count here (below) for your favorite BEWBs/MEWBs of your fellow internet denizens.

Without further ado, I present the BEWBS and then the MEWBs…

Thanks so much to the following BEWB Contestants:

@TalinaN of Harvest of Daily Life
Agentninety9 of Worn Off Novelties
Amber of A Drifting Mind
Angelia of Mommy Needs Meds
Angie of A Whole Lot of Nothing
Beej of The Bean
Bryn of The Unbearable Bearableness
Califmom of Califmom
Chantel of Chantelligence
Chantelle (photo mommy) of photo mommy
Carol / @Cheeky_Geek
Casey of moosh in indy.
Dawn of Kaiser Mommy
Dawn / @pgoodness of Pgoodness
Denise of Musician’s Widow
Diane Bramos / @pilateschik
Elissa of Punk Rock Parents
Habbala of Habbala
Janet Isserlis of there might be cake
Jen of Tropical Fruit
Jenny of Miss Grace’s Disgrace
Karianna of The Karianna Spectrum
Lady Red
Lauren / @laurencarlton of Mommy is Rock ‘n Roll
Lcool
Lyssa / @sixesandseven of Catastrophically Lyssa
Maria Myrback of Boobcast
Malia of Just Malia
Mandi Bone / @princessmama of Mandibone’s Blog
Maria Melee of Mommy Melee
Megan of Kitsch in the Kitchen
Meg @sleepynewmommy of Sleepy New Mommy
MommyNamedApril of April’s Little Family
Mr. Goodwrench’s Lady
Padme
Piper of Piper of Love
SadieCass of Redefining Perfect
Terra of Raising Zoeyjane
Texan Mama of Who Put Me In Charge Of These People???
Tina of Send Chocolate Now
Usedtobeme of Why are you Stalking Me?
Veronica of Veronica Foale
Vicky of Secret Mom Thoughts
Vixen of Vixen’s Den

(list in alphabetical order – does NOT match the order of BEWB photos)

Voting Poll follows these BEWBalicious photos… You can pick up to THREE Pair of BEWBS each time, and you can vote as often as you like* through July 21st.  Come back often, and tell your friends!

Thanks so much to the following MEWB Contestants:

Adam Avitable of Avitable
bender69
CoderBlues
Josh of Raging Dad
Tim of The Inflatable Soapbox

(list is in alphabetical order – does NOT match the order of MEWB photos)

Voting Poll follows the MEWBtastic Chestiness… Pick your favorite MEWBS and you can vote as often as you like* through July 21st.  Come back often, and tell your friends!

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Don’t forget to display a button to support BEWB Fest ’10 and help increase the amount to be donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure®.

Please share via your blog, email, Twitter, Facebook and yelling madly on street corners.  If you have a bus, consider shrinkwrapping it with the URL of this post.  No, really.  Come on. Please?

Bottom line:  The more traffic you drive to the site this month, the higher the amount I can donate.

Please note that this now annual Bewb Fest developed independently and with no prior knowledge of Boobiethon, and is not meant to copy, diminish, or devalue the work that is being done there.

*I have placed no restriction on the number of times you can vote. There is a blurb on the Polldaddy website that mentions that you may get a message indicating you are blocked for a time period >> “This is because we have received too many votes from your I.P. address. You will be unblocked again in about 4 hours.” No verbage on how many is too many. So just roll with it, and please don’t complain to me if you hit the wall.

BEWB FEST 09

It’s the moment you’ve been awaiting all year, I just know it.  It’s TIME to vote for the BEST BEWBS/MEWBS of 2009!

Remember to see the scoop on prizes and check out BF09 Sponsors, button up, and then make your vote count here for the best BEWBs/MEWBs of your fellow internet denizens.

Thanks so much to the following BEWB Contestants:

Alison of RN-Mom
Amy@TasteLikeCrazy of Taste Like Crazy
Anissa of Hope4Peyton
Barefoot Foodie of The Barefoot Foodie
Betsey Booms of Betsey Booms
Carie of Our Crooked Tree
Catherine of Her Bad Mother
Dawn of Kaiser Mommy
Deb of DowneastSmurfette
Earth Mommy of Behind the Stall Door
Elissa of Punk Rock Parents
Gina of My Very Last Nerve
Haley-O of Cheaty Monkey
Jenny on the Spot of Jenny on the Spot
Jill’s Charming Two of Charming & Delightful
Just Jinny of A Girl in the Real World
Karen Sugarpants of Karen Sugarpants
Kim of Frog Ponds Rock
Laura of Adventures in Juggling
Linda of Short Pump Preppy
madnessisay of Madness, Madness I Say!
Malia of live .laugh. love.
Maria of Immoral Matriarch
Maria of Mommy Melee
Megan of Undomestic Diva
Mishi of Secret Agent Mama
Miss of Just Miss
Miss Grace of Miss Grace’s Disgrace
Mrs. C-to-Be of Headed in the Right Direction
Mrs. Flinger of Mrs. Flinger, Little Black Dress Edition
Padme
*pixie* of Artist Mother Teacher
Sam (temptingmama) of Temporarily Me Dot Com
Sarahviz of In The Trenches of Mommyhood
SarahInMI of This Mom’s Wired
@sendchocolate of Send Chocolate
Shaboom
@Shash of Diary of a Crazed Mommy
Summer of Wired for Noise
Tena of My Therapy
The Hotfessional of My Life as a Hotfessional
VDog of Room 704
Veronica of Sleepless Nights
Zoeyjane of Mommy is Moody

(list in alphabetical order – does NOT match the order of BEWB photos)

Voting Poll follows these BEWBalicious photos… You can pick up to THREE Pair of BEWBS each time, and you can vote every day through June 30th.

18 is a placeholder, ignore #18. What, you thought I could count properly while looking at all these BEWBS? Please.

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Sarcastic Mom sho ’nuff do love the menfolks, so we have MEWBs as well!

A great big, over-enthusiastic THANK YOU to the following MEWB Contestants:

Artist formerly known as “Make It A Double”
Busy Dad of Busy Dad Blog
Chris Mann of Chris Mann Music
“CrackahMoto”
Josh of Raging Dad

(list is in alphabetical order – does NOT match the order of MEWB photos)

Voting Poll follows the MEWBtastic Chestiness… Pick your favorite MEWBS and vote every day through June 30th!

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Don’t forget to display a button to support BEWB Fest 09 – and remember, you can vote every day!



Please note that this now annual Bewb Fest developed independently and with no prior knowledge of Boobiethon, and is not meant to copy, diminish, or devalue the work that is being done there. Bewb Fest is for fun because I love women and I love bewbies. Note the Boobiethon button on the sidebar and visit them to see what they are about. It’s a great cause. Helping save women’s lives is never a bad idea.

You taste your eyeballs, right?

Because mine taste like a different kind of candy every day. Today they taste like Jolly Ranchers.

What, you think that’s weird? You’re just jealous. You wish your eyeballs were tasty and delicious, like mine.

But guess what? I like you so much I’ll let you lick my eyeballs.
And this is why you should vote for me as Best Eye Candy Blog. Every day even!

Tomorrow, they could taste like Nerds, Smarties, or even Twizzlers.

So vote for me because you love Gobstoppers and Snickers, Sprees, Laffy Taffy, and Blow Pops.

Or because you think this blog is visually appealing?

Or just because you like me.

Help me, Rhonda. (and the rest of you, too, please)

Not that long ago, I told you all that I just didn’t have the mojo to write anymore.

And that was true. In fact, for some time now, I haven’t had the mojo to do a lot of things that I used to do. The only thing I’ve really had mojo for is sleeping.

I could sleep for lifetimes.

And while I was half asleep mentally and emotionally, I asked some fabulous bloggers to step up and provide wonderful content for you – and, oh my, they did! I am humbled and amazed at the response I got from those I asked. In fact, there are still guest posts waiting to be published here. I can’t say thank you enough to these wonderful people.

I made a page containing list of past and future guest posters, if you’d like to look them over.

The thing is, lately, I can feel Ms. Mojo poking back around her old stomping grounds. And as I’m waking up slowly from this coma, I’m feeling like things are just not as they should be around here.

I’ve missed PSBN for months. That makes me sad, and I hate it. My blogging schedule has been here, there, and everywhere.

It’s time for me to exert control over mah blawg again. I want to get things back in order so that you don’t come over here feeling like you were heading to a bake sale but ended up in an S&M Bar.

(But don’t think I didn’t see you grinning at the black leather-clad lady holding the whip. Mm-hm. I saw ya. But I won’t tell. Maybe.)

So, I have a handful of plans to get my groove back and have some fun with you guys again. I’d love to get your feedback.

I do this blogging thing for me, but I do it for you, too. If I didn’t, this would all be in a journal in my nightstand. So let me know what you think.

Please vote on the polls that go along with these questions, and I’d love to have any suggestions/elaborations you’d like to give me in the comments on this post!

PSBN starts back up this coming Monday. Will you post along with me?

The “I Wonder” Series has been dead – should I start it up again?

The BEWB Vote was fun – should we do it again?

Would anyone be intersted in a Bi-Annual Photo Contest with prizes?

I still have guest posts to share with you. But to offer some consistency, I’m thinking of starting a weekly Guest Post Day on Tuesdays called, “Lazy Douche Enablers”

*note: this poll allows you to choose more than one answer. you can also choose “other” and write a comment, but keep it to a few words, or it will get cut off and I won’t be able to see it all

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PS: Thank you so very much to all of you who voted on my question about whether I should try to sell my handmade paper.  The response really overwhelmed me – 95% of you chose one of the options that directs me to sell the paper. So many awesome comments and suggestions, too.  Thanks so much, guys! I will let you all know when the Etsy Shop is up and running with product.

Of all the things I’ve squeezed with my hands…

Something I may not have shared before is that I’ve always been kind of a crafty dork. It’s just been a really long time since I’ve allowed myself the time to let my Inner Crafting Dork free.

I’ve done a bit of everything. *eyebrow wiggle*  Drawing, painting, sculpture, random bead madness, hemp braiding silliness, all kinds of glue gun insanity, etc and etc.  But college, grad-school, real-job, spawning a human being… so many things replaced my crafting time.

But.

I found this awesome tutorial online recently. And within a day, I was making paper.

I.have.been.making.freakin.paper.

And oddly, this makes me feel… powerful. Bills and junk mail cannot defeat me! I churn them and add flower petals and onion skins! And out comes pretty, crinkly paper.

MUAHAHAHAHA.

It’s also been calming. And somehow therapeutic. Something about the process and the outcome makes me feel happy and peaceful.

And usually, I only feel that way after mocking someone or making a crass remark.  So this is landmark.

Before long, it occurred to me that I might be able to sell the product of my creative therapy.  Then those nagging bitches, Doubt and Insecurity, ganged up with the insufferable hag called Self Deprecation and threw a party in my head. (With Tequila.  Those bitches don’t play, yo.)  Suddenly, I’m wondering if anyone would actually buy my paper. I’m wondering if my paper is actually ugly to everyone but me.

The banner at the party in my head says, “You think your paper is so great, but PS: YOU SUCK and so does your paper, ya dumb beesh.”  (It’s a long banner.  I have a big forehead.)

I think the paper I’ve made is pretty… but would anyone really buy it?  This is where I turn to you guys, in all your wisdom and awesomeness. I need your vote below!

All Hail The Reader Opinion!

The paper is handmade from recycled (technically, upcycled) product (old papers, bills, envelopes, etc) and natural plant fibers (blossoms, petals, onion & garlic skins, etc).  The paper edges are “deckled” or unfinished – I could cut them straight, but I feel they’re so much prettier this way.

Here are some photos of the papers I’ve made so far. (I’m planning on making more colors as I go along.)

Poll time:  Will you please vote on whether I should try to sell my handmade paper?

(And don’t worry, you can be totally honest.  I have no way to know who you are when you vote – you have to pay for that feature, and I’m one cheap ass bitch. Seriously, who pays for that crap?)

Just vote on the little thingie below. I don’t know if it will show up in your feed reader, or email subscriber posts, so if you use those services, would you mind clicking over to vote?

Then I’ll know if I can give Doubt, Insecurity, and Self Deprecation the finger and send them packing or if I should just bend over and let them shove that banner up my butt and get it over with.

If you are a highly visual person?  So, so sorry about that. (But not really.)

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EDITED TO ADD:

I had some concern about bleeding of inks on the pages, and some of you guys mentioned it, so I figured there was no time like the present to go ahead and test some sheets.  It was just a small test, but I used a Blue Pentel Rolling Ball Pen and a Black Sharpie on each of 3 pages so far, and was astounded (happily!) that neither bled.  BOOYAH!  There seems to be a good amount of the sizing (added to paper to stop ink bleed when it is manufactured) from the original paper products (bills, flyers, etc) remaining in the end product I’m creating to hinder bleed.  So far, anyway.  Yay!

Vote For Best Chest!

It is time for all of you to choose the next blogger whom The Travelling T-Shirt  should visit.

I asked for BEWBS and boy did I get BEWBS!  (I even got some PECS!)

Thank you so much to these fabulous contestants for sharing their upper torsos with us:

Sleepless Nights
Frog Ponds Rock
Memarie Lane
Growing A Pair
beggar’s shot glass
The Busy Dad Blog
mommycosm
Adam’s Wife’s Weblog
Immoral Matriarch
calicobebop
Special K
Secrets of a Black Heart
Mommy Is Moody
From Here To There
My Therapy
Lilac Colored Glasses
My Life as a Hotfessional
Alex Year Two
Firecracker Mom!
Cyberbones
Draco’s Rose
Knitting Without Needles
Pictures Taken By Me
Welcome to Married Life
shamelessly sassy
Redefining Perfect
Whiskey In My Sippy Cup

 

 

 

Here Are The Contestants (in no particular order!)

 

*fidgeting*

Is it hot in here?

*ahem*

Anyway!   I know it is really, really hard to pick just one photo with so many fine BEWBS (and 2 sets of awesome PECS), so I decided that you can pick up to 3 photos to vote for.

Aren’t I nice?

Find your favorite 3 photos.
Note the numbers in the Upper, Left-hand Corner of photos.
Vote for those 3 numbers.

NOW VOTE!

**Poll is now closed.  Winner was 09.  Runners up – 2nd: 13, 3rd: 23. Congrats, BEWBS!**

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Voting will remain open until 12:01am CST Saturday, June 7th.

 

GOOD LUCK TO ALL THESE FINE BEWBS AND PECS!  “The Rack” is proud to be in your company!

 

Get your Wednesday here, on Thursdays!

So, here at SarcasticMom.com, Sarcastic Mom makes the rules. And if her little boy has his 15 month birthday on Wordless Wednesday, Wednesday isn’t going to be all wordless, and stuff. But I have a Wordless Wednesday picture that was totally inspired via this post by Jamie.

So, I’m making the rules. I’m saying, HEY! It’s (kinda, but not so much, Wordless) Wednesday on Thursday here at SarcasticMom.com! Woo! Another day of humping, I mean a second chance at hump day. Or something.

Welcome to “Our Pile.”

“Honey! Where are there some clean socks for Braden?”

“Check The Pile.”

“Okay!”

See, at least I wash it and dry it.  I’m just not so good at that whole “fold and put away” thing.

That’s why I wear this proudly:

And that’s why you should vote for me:

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PS: Many of you have already voted for me, and I LOVE YOU.  Please allow me to show you how much I love you!  If your link is not already on my sidebar, EMAIL ME (thelotuscarroll@hotmail.com) your URL and the name you want listed, and I’m gonna throw ya up there.

Please don’t make a tired Sarcastic Mom hunt you down….