I’ve seen numerous Best Ofs lists floating around. It’s kind of a tradition for a new year. Unfortunately usually these Best Ofs are very self promotery. So I wanna play it different. Share a few Best Of from 2009 that are not yours (and maybe 1 that is in the spirit of being good at self promotion in small doses.) I’ll share my faves soon. I’m thinkin’ categories to include: blog post, photos, twitter lists, all around blog. Have any additional ideas? *feel free to steal this for your blog – as long as you link back 
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Yes, it’s Christmas and yes I am on a rant! Before I go there let me just say, today was lots of fun, just got back to our hotel room. For those of you don’t follow me on twitter – I’m in Kentucky (long way from TX home) with the fam. We are staying in a fun little hotel not too far from the house where all the festivities are.
So, I just got back and decided to turn on good ‘ol tweetdeck to see if there were any fun Gen Y posts I may have missed today. And to my excitement someone had tweeted a link to Gen Y: When You Wake Up Unemployed. (more…)
I know this sounds a bit silly, but I really love the Facebook Flair app. Mine is filled with fun quotes and pictures. So here’s the knowledge that my facebook flair has to offer to you:
- no regrets, just lessons learned
- seriously?!
- Have a Nice Day
- if you believe in it, then stand for it
- Good friends don’t let you do stupid things … alone
- Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. – Picasso
- Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass … it’s about learning to dance in the rain
- An Apple a day keeps windows away
- What makes you different makes you beautiful
- To draw you must close your eyes and sing. – Picasso
- Everything will be okay in the end. If It’s not okay, it’s not the end.
- Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted. – John Lennon
- I believe in music like some people belive in fairy tales
- Artists are sexy
- Hug Harder. Laugh Louder. Smile Bigger. Love Longer.
- Life isn’t about finding youself. Life is about creating yourself.
- Believe
- We’re adults. When did that happen? And how do we make it stop?
- laughter (n): when a smile has an orgasm
This is what my flair can tell you about me:
- I’m adorkable
- I’m a brown eyed girl
- I love sushi
- My alarm clock and I are NOT friends.
- I shower naked.
- I’m blogging this.
When there is no time for major league blogging there is always mini blogging. Some call it micro blogging but I like to call it mini blogging because really it’s just me reposting randomness I’ve round around the web.
My mini blogging consists of twitter and tumblr.
Here’s the randomess I’ve found recently:
Check out & subscribe/follow to my tumblr to keep being informed of the randomness that I find in the great world wide web. PS send me fun stuff you find or comment on here.
Haaaapppppppyyyyy blogiversary to me [insert awful singing voices here]. April 20th was my 1 year blogiversary!
What I learned through my first year of blogging …
- It’s quite complicated to write an introduction to something that you’ve never done but I think this first year has turned out pretty close to what I planned – What is GenPink?
- For me comments make me feel like I’m in a popularity contest at school. I love it when I have a lot of comments on my posts. My first high commented post was Top 5 ways to entertain yourself when you are bored [at work]
- The more I blogged the more blogs I began reading and the more things I wanted to share with my readers. That’s how I first started deciding to do occasional roundup of fun things I liked around the web.
- Since the internet is such a vast sea of information it’s very cool when you are connected or compared to some of the big names. My first experience with this was being apart of The W List: Outstanding Women Bloggers and then came The Twenty Something Bloggers (20SB) network.
- After being linked with other bloggers I decided I wanted to have bloggers join my blog. I started having various guest bloggers in September and have continued this through the Twenty Something Advice series and then in March with The ABCs of Gen Y
- I learned that I loved it when other people blog about me. It’s fun to have 5 minutes of internet fame.
- I also learned that mini-blogging and twittering can be a fun edition to blogging.
- Something interesting I discovered is sometimes it’s the short posts that ask a great question spark more conversation that the more in-depth posts.
- With blogging as in life it’s fun to receive awards.
and last but not least … the blogging world has taught me that people love give-aways so
How do you enter? That’s fairly simple, just go leave a comment on any of my posts from the last year. I will keep track of all of the commenters from now until May 1 and I will announce the winner Friday, May 2. Linking to this post from your blog will get you another entry into the pot and linking to any of my previous posts/series will also get you a chance. So you have a possibility of being entered 3 times.
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