Velveteen Mind

Men may kiss your bunny but women will save it!

Guest Post by Erin from Expecting Executive.

Hi there! 

I am one of those people who love corny phrases.  You know expressions like I'm busier than a one armed grave digger or She's a sandwich short of a picnic.  But one of my favorite saying is;  Men will kiss your ass but women will save it.  It's a phrase that seems resonate well here.  Or, more appropriately, men may kiss your bunny but women will save it.

As a blog squatter, I might be an unfamiliar voice to Velveteen Mind's amazing readers.  Me?  Well, I am a pretty dry, pragmatic writer over at the ExpectingExecutive blog.  When I post, it is always my intent to try and provide practical, level-headed information, support, reassurance or compassion that might help women manage their everyday life's details.   

I worry, often, about the amount of stress, concern, fear and loneliness that women are accepting, creating and facing in their everyday lives.  The titles, tags, expectations, criticisms and judgments women make and accept on a daily basis can become overwhelming.  When overwhelming sets in, many women will make their way to the blogosphere to search for answers, look for support, make new friends and find inspiration.  It is my hope that these world weary women find wonderful blogs like Megan's Velveteen Mind where they might visit, recharge and make a new friend.    

On the flip side of my worry is my delight when women join together to support, care and appreciate one another.  For most women, it requires great strength and  courage to ask for help.  However, those moments of strength and bravery are often rewarded with expected and often unexpected support and assistance.  People like to be needed.  When you reach out, in sincerity, to your collective friends, relatives, neighbors, coworkers and even in your e-community and ask for help, the chances are quite good that you will find many around you who were just waiting to be asked. 

So, as the ThanksChrisHanKwanEve approaches, I might suggest you take moment to help yourself.  Take some time to jot down all of the many activities, tasks and chores that await you in preparing for the holiday season.  Then, try to identify some of the areas where you might be able to use a little bit of help during this holiday season.  Lastly, be brave and strong and ask for it! 

'Cause like my sainted mother always said; you can wish in one hand and shit in another and see which ones fills up first.  Don't wish you had help, ask for it.

And, Megan, you have my help anytime you need it!

Be well - and thank you for the opportunity to help save the bunny,

Erin

ExpectingExecutive

Helping You Manage Life's Details

Vote Fussy in '07!

I'm thrilled to be the first to keep the bunny from meeting such an unfortunate demise! OK, guest squatters, you're up next. I have set the bar way low for y'all. No where to go but up.

I'm here, shamelessly, for votes.  What?  You haven't been hit by my brilliant marketing campaign yet?  Sheesh!

My little blog, Fussypants, is a finalist for Best New Blog. One of my 5 readers must have been a judge.

Oh, you want to go vote? Sure, go ahead, I'll wait.

~whistles, twiddles thumbs.~

My desperate call for votes all began with the help of my homeboy, The Donald.

(I could so win in Worst-Photoshopped-Blog category!)

I offered up some eye candy!

I went to the ends of the earth to find more votes.

Jack Bauer made threatening calls on behalf of Fussypants.

I explained that it will not be pretty if I lose!

 

So, how is my little blog doing in the polls?

It ain't pretty, y'all. I have a whopping 5% of the vote. I am now in the Dennis Kucinich Bracket.

Where did I leave my tin-foil hat, anyway?

All in all, Friends of Fussy, it has been a great week. A little bit of traffic and I saved the bunny!

NaBloPoMo is Beyond Me. Guest Mini-Bloggers, anyone?

See that badge?  The one up there that has been taunting me on other people's sites, promising to be so much fun and make me uber-popular?  I finally caved.

Except this time, I know there is no way in hell I'll be able to do it.  You see, the rules for National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) more or less state that you just have to post every day for the month of November.  That's it. 

So simple, I'll surely be able to screw it up.

We all know there is no way I can post every single friggin' day for a month.  Not to mention that I'm going to New York City in a couple of weeks.  Aaaaaawwwwww, yeah, suckas!   Without the kids.  Or the husband.  I am magic! 

But I digress... into every mother's dream...

Damn that cat.  Okay, I'm back.

Here's where you come in: 

Want to play NaBloPoMo
but don't think you can keep up, either? 
You can play here!

Since there is no way I can do the every. day. post. ridiculousness, but still want to play, I figure this is a great way to drag my Squatters out for even more exposure.  More than I could probably ever give them on my own.

More importantly, I wanted to take advantage of the ultra-cool randomizer widget that takes you to a random NaBloMoFo participant with every click.  I linked that cat seal above to the randomizer, so if you click it, you'll go to a random GoBloMeMoFo blog.  It's fun.  You'll find so many new people, it's ridiculous.  And they'll find you.

I'm looking for anyone and everyone that wants to guest blog this month, even if that means just writing one tiny paragraph.  That's it.  Hell, you can just write one paragraph pimping your blog.  Link back to yourself ten times for all I care.  Just write something.

• Any length.  One paragraph?  One novel?  Fine by me.
• Any content.  Promote yourself.  Slap your mother.  Just post it here.
• Any blogger.  Really.  Just no spam.  Be reasonable, otherwise I will just ignore you.
• Don't have a blog?  Fine.  As long as you can write relatively coherently, I'll take you.
• Can't write relatively coherently?  Um, just post a picture and write a caption.  In English.  Hell, or not. 
• Any time, people.  Any time.  It's the 4th and I have already had to fake a post for the 2nd (Go back and read that one, it was hilarious!  Leave a comment, too, because fake-posting it after-the-fact made me look like a no-comment-getting loser.)
• Already playing on your own blog?  Cross-post a good one.  I don't care.

I'm still going to keep blogging just as I normally do, but my posts will be interspersed with those of my bad-ass readers.    In fact, for everyone that guest posts for me this month and helps my GoBloMeMoFo post-a-day lofty goals, you will receive this incredibly rare, one-of-a-kind, made especially for me (seriously, it really was) Bad-Ass Nice award!   

Aaaaaannnnd, I'm going to make a page just for my NaBloPoMo posts, so you'll always have a special spot in my sidebar for people to find you. 

All this for the low low price of a minimum of one paragraph or even one picture with a clever caption.  Sound good?  Fun?  Lame?  Well, just do it, anyway.

Leave a comment or email me.  I'm ready when you are!

Let's bleed this mutha dry!