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As promised, I have given out the first batch of blogs to the BC Bloggers Participants!

It took me hours to verify the urls plus the title of each blog (next time I would ask participants to leave the title too to save me some time, whew!) but it’s a labor of love for me. I’m really happy so many joined. Kisses and hugs to all of you and for my friends whom I bugged to join because I thought nobody would join at first. LOL!

I hope you add the first batch of blogs as soon as you’re free but don’t wait until Wednesday, okay? It won’t be fair to the others who added yours right away.

For those who still wanted to join but didn’t make it on my deadline watch out because I will be organizing another one in the near future. This one would be for a new set of bloggers. (I don’t advise the others who have joined to join again because you would end up with too many links!)

Okay, I need to get back to work now. Let’s visit our new blog friends after adding, okay?  I’m sure they’ll be delighted to know other BC Bloggers.

See you BC Bloggers!

If you woke up this morning to find a new BC Blogger Badge in your sidebar then don’t panic! No, I didn’t manage to hack into your blog and replace the codes but Kaye did. *evil grin

I commissioned Kaye to make a cool badge for BC Bloggers but I got itchy because I had nothing to do the previous days so I decided to make a temporary badge. When Pehpot found out that new badge came after she had just finishing adding the old badge to eight of her blogs she panicked. She knew I was going to ask her to install the new badge in  all her blogs as well. LOL! So she thought of a solution asap and asked Kaye to do her own little magic (yes, until now I don’t know how she did it) and replace the codes at my photobucket account so it will reflect the new badge instead of the old, ugly one.  So you can breathe easier now, we didn’t hack into your blogs but just changed the code at photobucket instead. Now, you don’t have to suffer having an ugly badge in your sidebar. Thanks to Kaye, BC Bloggers has a new stylish and spanking new badge! Clap, clap, clap!

If you don’t already know, Kaye is gifted in htmls and can make beautiful and gorgeous templates for your blogs. You might want to check her blog and get her services too. She’s also a work-at-home mom like me and she gives all kinds of services – er, blogging services. So let us support work-at-home moms so they can still continue to work at home and take care of their kids at the same time.

P.S. If you are a guy and you have concerns having a girly badge then just leave a comment and I’ll provide you with the code for the old one.

I guess by now you have watched the Super Bowl commercial by Dockers and you want to know where to get free Docker pants. The commercial is really an eye-catcher that’s why people are talking about it. In the commercial guys wearing no pants are walking and singing this one line, “We wear no pants.” They were singing this over and over until the narrator tells them that Dockers is giving away free pants.

If you haven’t seen it then here’s the I Wear No Pants Commercial by Dockers.

It also tells you to go to dockers.com/freepants to get them but I’m telling you ahead that the commercial was not quite honest as the site only gives you a chance to win them for free. Too bad, I really want one for free.

There is a New Facebook Layout. Starting February 2010 Facebook started rolling out its new Home Page Layout to a small number of its users. This is change coincides with Facebook’s 6th anniversary.
Chances are you still haven’t seen the New Facebook Layout in your homepage. So just check out the pics that I got.

What do you think of these changes in Facebook? Do you like them?

If you’re a blogger like me I know you agree when I say it’s hard to find the coolest wordpress templates for your blogs. It’s easy for me to say it now but oh, how I have wasted hours and hours online trying to find the template that’s just right for my blogs.  When at last I found the right one imagine my horror when after installing it I find out there’s an error that I just can’t tweak. When that happens I get so frustrated that I almost cry.

Just yesterday I tried to find a new template for this blog. As usual I wasted hours and hours clicking from one website to the next. This time, I’m successful and I’m so happy I found just the right template. It has got the right color that I love – pink – that brings out the girly side of me and it has the adsense at all the right places. LOL!

If you’re dying to find out where I got the template then just head over here: http://topwpthemes.com. I tell you they have the coolest wordpress templates and I’m sure you’ll find one that’s perfect for your blog.

No, I’m not addicted to Facebook. In fact, I signed up way too late in Facebook. Why you may ask? Well, I go to this site every day – dailymail.co.uk. It’s like an online magazine or some may call it an online tabloid. I have read there a lot of times how people get so addicted at Facebook and how some people even get killed.

There was this particular story that stuck in my mind when a wife changed his relationship status from married to single. When the husband found out he killed his wife. I don’t know if it’s true but I assume it is because they even got his picture. So I thought that Facebook is definitely a no-no for both me and my husband.

Oh no, don’t get me wrong. I don’t think we’ll ever end up that way but that was what Facebook was to me – before.

Now, I super love Facebook! I don’t regret ever signing up. I’m a stay-at-home mom and it’s been great and I have been very thankful to be staying at home but it can get lonely sometimes. I don’t always have anyone to talk to and sometimes I just feel disconnected with the rest of the world and especially my friends.

Facebook changed all of that. It’s different from YM because you just can’t buzz your friends any time you want to talk to them. All of them have jobs and you’ll never know when you’re being an intruder. With Facebook you can say anything you want and anytime you want to. You don’t get a response every time but it feels good to know that at least they know what’s on your mind at the moment or what’s happening to you.  It may be weird especially for you people who are surrounded with your friends or colleagues but for me, it’s definitely a connection.

Still, I know there are dangers with Facebook but I’m glad I have been made aware of those before signing up. Currently, the only game I’m playing is Farmville and I like it though I’m still careful not to overdo things. I have also made Facebook my homepage so that’s the first thing that pops on my screen every morning. I love reading my friends’ status updates which instantly updates me on their lives. It’s not a replacement for actual human interaction but it’s good enough for me.

So how about you? Do you love Facebook?