Snoskred - Life in the Country

Welcome back to me! Very relieved to be back at home, I won’t lie to ya’all. It was nice to go away but it is even nicer to return to one’s waterbed and kitties.

A HUGE thank you to Sephy for helping me out here on the blog and posting the pics I emailed to him from my mobile phone which have been coming to you as a surprise over the weekend.

I have not yet logged into my google reader but I am looking forward to going in and catching up with what everyone has been up to.

So, the week in review. I talked about how things are different in the country, I had some adventures in hair dying and a lovely beach walk with photos for ya’all. Over on blogzreview, I reviewed Thailand Gal, one of my favourite blogs, and I invite all readers to submit reviews of blogs they love and enjoy.

One really important post I’d like to draw your attention to, written by Sephy. It’s over on his blog and it is regarding the Assassination scam. These scammers do a lot of really terrible things but this is by far the worst type of scam out there and the most scary for anyone who receives it. Thanks to Sephy posting it, a lot of people have found his blog and know it’s just the scammers trying to get money out of people they know nothing about and there’s no assassination teams watching them. It’s a huge relief for those people who received the email.

If any bloggers reading this could do us a favour and help us educate more people on these scams by linking to that post and perhaps also to my internet safety post part six which talks about those scams, that would be fantastic. In case you missed it, here’s links to Internet safety part one - two - three - four - five - six. I’m going to put this series at the top of the right sidebar for a little bit, to make it easier for people to find.

Blogs added to the sidebar this week -

andhra spicy - lots of great recipes. Also the new blogs for the Australian Blogs Community - DejaMoo - Astronomy Down Under - Invoice Place Blog - Joh Blogs - Nothing’s Too Sacred - The Dead Roo - The Wodonga Online Times

Funny search terms this week -
headache, foggy memo
email shenanigans
plane panti hose
hairy boys
animals diecan’t turn over
home hair dying green
jammed acrylic nail and lifted my real nail
why does sunscreen make acrylic nails sticky? (does it? I didn’t know this)
scary pictures of sharks and people (I know where to find this but it scared me so much I’m not telling)
rob lowe naked (yeah, I wish I knew where to find that too!)

And a lot of Morten Harket queries.. Morten Harket was the number one search term this week.
is morten harket gay? (You’d have to ask him, I’m voting no but he does wear a lot of leather so I can understand the general confusion)
is morten harket married? (He was, yes)
morten harket and his wife
morten harket naked pics (sorry, I don’t have any, if you find them let ME know!)
how tall is morten harket

We’re still averaging 700 unique visitors a week here - that doesn’t count return visits during the week. I am still in the middle of the blogging chicks commenting challenge but didn’t get too much done last week thanks to the trip, so hopefully this week I’ll get busy.

So things are back to normal with me returning home, and you can look forward to some quality blogging this week as well as lovely photos of Ikea purchases and the Sydney Harbor Bridge at night. I’m hoping to write another blog about differences between the country and city this week, as well as something about vertigo and pilots. No, that won’t be as boring as it sounds.

(this blog may contain some language including the F word, just FYI, but I’m mad about this one)

I’d been thinking of making a blog for reviewing other blogs for a while, but one of my favourite bloggers Alyndabear having a nasty blog review experience kicked me into making the blogzreview project a reality.

Anyone can be a part of the team, anyone can submit a review. Ask your readers to write a review for you, because they are the best people to say what they think of your blog. There’s some decent review guidelines there just to keep things nice. These things don’t have to be long, you can just give your reasons why you like a blog. If you have any ideas for improvements that is fine, as long as you give them politely and offer solutions, not just take a shot.

After all, there is NO good reason to treat fellow bloggers like a kick toy, like these so called entertaining ladies with a sarcastic sense of humor. Have a read of some of their reviews. There’s no doubt in my mind those women are flat out bitches with too much time on their hands.

Even worse, they hide the fact that they are going to rip sites apart on their “Who We Are” page. The only thing that suggests to a blogger that they might be nasty is one little line in their how to submit your site page. So a blogger gets there and thinks hey, it would be cool to be reviewed - then the blogger gets the wind knocked out of them with a nasty and evil review. I’m betting that’s how the majority of blogs get submitted to them.

And a quick message to the bitches with time on their hands - you want to snark on celebrities? Fine, no problem. Chances are they’ll never read what you write anyway, and they’ve got a thick enough skin with everything people say about them, it’s not likely to hurt. But you ask bloggers to submit their site for review, and then YOU RIP THEM TO FUCKING SHREDS and you do it supposedly in the name of humor and entertainment. That’s mean spirited, bitchy and downright nasty. Yes, Karma is coming back to bite you in the ass I’m guaranteeing it. You can’t be this mean to people and not have some kind of universal payback looming in the distance.

Who the fuck are you to say things like - “I have to tell you, this blog bored me to fucking tears. It’s so much meaningless…. I don’t know…. drivel” “You and your readers are a bunch of sissy pussies”? Just who do you think you are? Get the fuck off the internet with your nasty ass CRAP. Yes, maybe you can tell, I’m a little annoyed about this one.

I’ll tell you something about being a blogger. It’s not easy. When you blog, you are putting your self out there and anytime one does that there’s a risk that people are going to reject you. Which is quite hurtful to most people, I think - to be rejected in any way at any time. It’s a very brave thing to do. But to take delight in ripping bloggers apart, to *enjoy* it the way you apparently seem to, to BASK in it like that, how cowardly!. People like you are precisely what is wrong with the world today. What are you, in high school? That’s the last time I encountered this kind of bitchy. People have feelings, and you fully enjoy hurting them. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

What I’m looking for in this world are people who look for positives. People who want to change things for the better but do it in a collaborative, collective, useful way. If you’d like to be a part of that effort and you’d like to review some blogs in a pleasant and friendly way, blogzreview is the place for you.