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So today is the one year mark of my blog. I've only posted about 30 times in the past year. I'll try to beat that number this next year. Starting today.

My first post on this blog was about my dad. So again here I am posting about him. It's been six years since he passed away, and it feels like just yesterday he was here. You would think that after six years it would get just a bit easier, and it has a little, but I still constantly think of him and what it would be like if he was here. I miss him. But when you take a good look at my family and all that we do, you can see him daily. In our words, actions, passions and loves in life. It's amazing. :)

I like Disneyland ( a lot )

I love Disneyland, and yes I have a annual pass to the park. And with this pass I get email updates all the time. One of these emails promoted the "What will you celebrate?" tour. A tour you say, well of course I had to investigate. It turned out that the tour was coming to the South Town mall. Yes I had to go and see what it was all about and I brought along my sister, brother and niece. It was nothing much but we had a fun time, shopped around, had lunch, got some Mickey head balloons and enjoyed the small part of Disney that came to our part of the world.

BS Fraking G!

One of my very favorite shows is Battlestar Galactica, and it's in it's final season and has only 8 episodes left. I love it. Yes I admit that I might be a little obsessed, and even watched the original series from 1978 to expand my Battlestar knowledge. So as I was obsessing today about who the last Cylon is, do I need a BSG t-shirt, and various other little things that has to do with the show, I remembered these fun pictures from Comic-Con last summer. Breanne, Pat and I went to the San Diego for the con and ran into this amazing life size Cylon. It was so cool! I can't wait for this next July to see what we run into this year. :)

Fraking toasters!

Random

The igloo by my house.

Crazy Eights

Surprise - I'm blogging! :)

My friend Clayton tagged me..... so yes I'm doing it.

8 shows I watch:

1 - Battlestar Galactica

2 - Big Bang Theory

3 - How I Met Your Mother

4 - Chuck

5 - Heroes

6 - Fringe

7 - House

8 - Bones

8 places I like to eat:

1 - My mom's house

2 - Taco Amigo

3 - Kneaders

4 - Cheesecake Factory

5 - Chens

6 - Olive Garden

7 - Chilis

8 - Red Robin

8 things on my wish list

1 - A man/boyfriend/husband

2 - Someone to come home to.

3 - CHILDREN

4 - A home with a garage

5 - To be loved forever

6 - Not be stressed at work

7 - Did I mention kids :)

8 - Not have to work - ever!

8 People I tag:

1 - Lisa

2 - Breanne

3 - Amber

4 - Jd

5 - Chris

6 - Jenn

7 - Billy

8 - Clayton - but he is the one who tagged me :)

Be a Hero. Save a Blog (you could win an iPod or a Cricut)

So, my awesome brother started this company, called Bloggled, to help all us bloggers in the world!! You can back up your blog for free!!! So if you delete something, they can retrieve it for you. If you accidently delete your whole blog (after you have backed it up) they can bring it back to life. You can even turn your blog into a book, without all the extra uploading :)

Anywho, they are having a great contest on Monday December 15th to celebrate the launch of their website! You could win a Cricut or an 16 GB iPod Touch!!! So keep on reading to find out how to enter to win!!! Good luck!!

Have you ever had this experience? You are posting to your blog, click the publish button, and the very next thing you know the screen is blank. So, you click back to your drafts and nothing is there, then you click your published posts and nothing is there. At this point you are starting to think to yourself…oh no, what just happened? As you continue searching your blog admin for information you see that all your uploaded images, videos, files, and everything is gone. Living through this situation would be enough to devastate any blogger. Knowing that years of data about your person, family, or business is gone can be difficult to overcome emotionally, but even more difficult of a problem to solve. If you haven’t backed up your blog recently, or ever, chances are your posts and everything else are gone for good.

This is the kind of situation that led Brent Ramey to the idea of creating Bloggled.com, “and to honestly save anyone in that situation the act of going insane.” Bloggled.com is a blog backup company that is allowing bloggers to backup their blog for free as an introductory product to celebrate their official launch out of beta and as a holiday gift this season. Bloggled is also offering multiple prizes to those who participate in their “Be a Hero, Save a Blog Contest” that is running through the day on Monday, December 15, 2008. Winners can choose from either a 16GB iPod Touch, or a Cricut Personal Electronic Cutter Machine and it’s quite simple to enter. All you have to do is one of the items below, but if you do more you get entered more times into the drawing…but you have to enter by Monday 12/15 to qualify so act fast, or should I say slow so I have a better chance of winning. :)

1. Join Bloggled. Register and sign up for a Bloggled account (http://www.bloggled.com/).
2. Friend or follow Bloggled on one of the following social network profiles:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/bloggled
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Brent-Ramey/1002883214
3. Subscribe to Bloggled’s RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/bloggled.
4. Blog about the Blogger Contest on another blog then notify Bloggled about the new blog post by commenting on their blog.
Anyway, as you can tell from my post here, I have met the criteria and will be hoping I’m drawn as a winner on Monday. You can find the full contest details by visiting www.bloggled.com.

Fun times in October

October was a busy and fun month for me. I made 3 trips to California ( Two for work, one for fun ) Xander and Billy had fun birthday parties and then there was Halloween. Way to much fun packed into 31 days. Here are a few pictures of all the adventures.

Me and two gals from the Minifee, Ca store.

The Indio, Ca store. I think it looks like a big Lego. :)

Jd and Chris on the new Toy Story Mania ride. It's so much fun.

Me and the pumpkin scarecrow at Disneyland. (yes I know where his hand is..... he he he... whoops)

Our last night in Disneyland, so much fun with friends of Jd and Chris. The kids loved me, I had so much fun.

With the Dream Squad, we found them a few days before and won Dream Ears and this time it was Dream Fastpasses. Yay!

Me, Chris and Jd on Soarin.

Having fun on Tower of Terror.

Chicken (Sawyer), Batman (Max), Ash (Xander), Supergirl (Conli) and Belle (Mara) Having fun at the 2nd annual Ramey Halloween Party. I know there are pictures of all the adults that dressed up somewhere out there. I was Cinderella, also there was Gumby, a pretty princess, Little Red Riding hood, a witch, and a oral surgeon assistant. We looked great all dressed up.

Halloween night with Clayton and Paul. We are Lock, Stock, and Barrel from Nightmare before Christmas. I had so much fun. Thanks Clayton for the great idea. :)